Optimal Control of a Birth and Death Epidemic Process

DOI10.1287/OPRE.29.5.971MaRDI QIDQ3936552zbMATH OpenOpenAlexDBLPWikidataFDO

Authors Claude Lefèvre

Publication date 1981

Published in Operations Research (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1287/opre.29.5.971

zbMATH Keywords

medical careclosed populationcontinuous-time Markov decision modelcontrol of rumoroptimal quarantine

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of branching processes (60J85) Population dynamics (general) (92D25) Optimal stochastic control (93E20)

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(13)

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• A survey of recent results on continuous-time Markov decision processes (with comments and rejoinder)
• Discrete-time switching control in random walks
• Computational methods for birth-death processes
• Nonzero-sum games for continuous-time Markov chains with unbounded discounted payoffs
• Intervention to maximise the probability of epidemic fade-out
• Continuous-time controlled Markov chains.
• Stochastic control of an epidemic process
• Reciprocal spreading and debunking processes of online misinformation: a new rumor spreading-debunking model with a case study
• Continuous-Time Markov Decision Processes with Unbounded Transition and Discounted-Reward Rates
• Generalized Markov models of infectious disease spread: a novel framework for developing dynamic health policies
• Uniform ergodicity of continuous-time controlled Markov chains: a survey and new results

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