Optimal pest control through catastrophes

DOI10.2307/3214392zbMath0688.60069OpenAlexW2321201445MaRDI QIDQ4207460

Andris Abakuks, Epaminondas G. Kyriakidis

Publication date: 1989

Published in: Journal of Applied Probability (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.2307/3214392

zbMATH Keywords

Markovian decision processstationary policiespest populationimmigration-birth process

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Branching processes (Galton-Watson, birth-and-death, etc.) (60J80)

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