Optimal control in epidemiology

O Sharomi, T Malik - Annals of Operations Research, 2017 - Springer
Mathematical modelling of infectious diseases has shown that combinations of isolation,
quarantine, vaccine and treatment are often necessary in order to eliminate most infectious …

Model predictive control to mitigate the COVID-19 outbreak in a multi-region scenario

R Carli, G Cavone, N Epicoco, P Scarabaggio… - Annual Reviews in …, 2020 - Elsevier
The COVID-19 outbreak is deeply influencing the global social and economic framework,
due to restrictive measures adopted worldwide by governments to counteract the pandemic …

Mathematical modelling, simulation, and optimal control of the 2014 Ebola outbreak in West Africa

A Rachah, DFM Torres - Discrete dynamics in nature and …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
The Ebola virus is currently one of the most virulent pathogens for humans. The latest major
outbreak occurred in Guinea, Sierra Leone, and Liberia in 2014. With the aim of …

Optimal control strategies for the transmission risk of COVID-19

L Lemecha Obsu, S Feyissa Balcha - Journal of biological …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
In this paper, we apply optimal control theory to a novel coronavirus (COVID-19)
transmission model given by a system of non-linear ordinary differential equations. Optimal …

Mathematical modeling and optimal control of SARS-CoV-2 and tuberculosis co-infection: a case study of Indonesia

H Rwezaura, ML Diagne, A Omame… - Modeling Earth Systems …, 2022 - Springer
A new mathematical model incorporating epidemiological features of the co-dynamics of
tuberculosis (TB) and SARS-CoV-2 is analyzed. Local asymptotic stability of the disease …

Sensitivity analysis in a dengue epidemiological model

HS Rodrigues, MTT Monteiro… - Conference papers in …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Epidemiological models may give some basic guidelines for public health practitioners,
allowing the analysis of issues that can influence the strategies to prevent and fight a …

[HTML][HTML] An epidemic model for cholera with optimal control treatment

AP Lemos-Paiao, CJ Silva, DFM Torres - Journal of Computational and …, 2017 - Elsevier
We propose a mathematical model for cholera with treatment through quarantine. The model
is shown to be both epidemiologically and mathematically well posed. In particular, we …

[HTML][HTML] Optimal control analysis of a tuberculosis model

D Gao, N Huang - Applied Mathematical Modelling, 2018 - Elsevier
In this paper, we extend the model of Liu and Zhang (Math Comput Model 54: 836-845,
2011) by incorporating three control terms and apply optimal control theory to the resulting …

A TB-HIV/AIDS coinfection model and optimal control treatment

CJ Silva, DFM Torres - arxiv preprint arxiv:1501.03322, 2015 - arxiv.org
We propose a population model for TB-HIV/AIDS coinfection transmission dynamics, which
considers antiretroviral therapy for HIV infection and treatments for latent and active …

Dynamics and optimal control of Ebola transmission

A Rachah, DFM Torres - Mathematics in Computer Science, 2016 - Springer
A major Ebola outbreak occurs in West Africa since March 2014, being the deadliest
epidemic in history. As an infectious disease epidemiology, Ebola is the most lethal and is …