Cops on the dots in a mathematical model of urban crime and police response

Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems - Series B

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 1479-1506

  Zipkin, Joseph R ^a   Short, Martin B ^b   Bertozzi, Andrea L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Crime modeling; Free boundary problem; Optimal control; Reaction diffusion equations

Indexed keywords

EID: 84902154251     PISSN: 15313492     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3934/dcdsb.2014.19.1479     Document Type: Conference Paper

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