Numerical optimal control for HIV prevention with dynamic budget allocation
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چکیده
This article is about numerical control of HIV propagation. The contribution of the article is threefold: first, a novel model of HIV propagation is proposed; second, the methods from numerical optimal control are successfully applied to the developed model to compute optimal control profiles; finally, the computed results are applied to the real problem yielding important and practically relevant results.
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عنوان ژورنال:
- Mathematical medicine and biology : a journal of the IMA
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تاریخ انتشار 2017