Optimal Control of a Birth and Death Epidemic Process

DOI10.1287/opre.29.5.971zbMath0478.92014OpenAlexW2124102642WikidataQ45275923 ScholiaQ45275923MaRDI QIDQ3936552

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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