Optimal vaccination strategies for an SEIR model of infectious diseases with logistic growth

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Thäter, Markus ; Chudej, Kurt ; Pesch, Hans Josef:
Optimal vaccination strategies for an SEIR model of infectious diseases with logistic growth.
In: Mathematical Biosciences and Engineering. Vol. 15 (2018) Issue 2 . - pp. 485-505.
ISSN 1551-0018
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3934/mbe.2018022

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In this paper an improved SEIR model for an infectious disease is presented which includes logistic growth for the total population. The aim is to develop optimal vaccination strategies against the spread of a generic disease. These vaccination strategies arise from the study of optimal control problems with various kinds of constraints including mixed control-state and state constraints. After presenting the new model and implementing the optimal control problems by means of a first-discretize-then-optimize method, numerical results for six scenarios are discussed and compared to an analytical optimal control law based on Pontrygin's minimum principle that allows to verify these results as approximations of candidate optimal solutions.

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Item Type:	Article in a journal
Refereed:	Yes
Keywords:	SEIR model; logistic growth; infectious diseases; optimal control; vaccination strategy; verification of numerical results
Subject classification:	49K15, 49M25, 90C90, 92D30, 34A34
Institutions of the University:	Faculties Faculties > Faculty of Mathematics, Physics und Computer Science Faculties > Faculty of Mathematics, Physics und Computer Science > Department of Mathematics Faculties > Faculty of Mathematics, Physics und Computer Science > Department of Mathematics > Former Professors Faculties > Faculty of Mathematics, Physics und Computer Science > Department of Mathematics > Chair Scientific Computing Faculties > Faculty of Mathematics, Physics und Computer Science > Department of Mathematics > Former Professors > Chair Mathematics in Engineering Sciences - Univ.-Prof. Dr. Hans-Josef Pesch Faculties > Faculty of Mathematics, Physics und Computer Science > Department of Mathematics > Chair Scientific Computing > Chair Scientific Computing - Univ.-Prof. Dr. Mario Bebendorf Research Institutions Research Institutions > Central research institutes Research Institutions > Central research institutes > Bayreuth Research Center for Modeling and Simulation - MODUS
Result of work at the UBT:	Yes
DDC Subjects:	500 Science > 510 Mathematics 600 Technology, medicine, applied sciences > 610 Medicine and health
Date Deposited:	19 Jun 2017 08:26
Last Modified:	08 Aug 2023 09:33
URI:	https://eref.uni-bayreuth.de/id/eprint/37967