Optimal control of an SIR model with changing behavior through an education campaign

An SIR type model is expanded to include the use of education or information given to the public as a control to manage a disease outbreak when effective treatments or vaccines are not readily available or too costly to be widely used. The information causes a change in behavior resulting in t...

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Main Authors: Hem Raj Joshi, Suzanne Lenhart, Sanjukta Hota, Folashade Agusto
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Texas State University 2015-02-01
Series:Electronic Journal of Differential Equations
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Online Access:http://ejde.math.txstate.edu/Volumes/2015/50/abstr.html