A new epidemic modeling approach: Multi-regions discrete-time model with travel-blocking vicinity optimal control strategy

First, we devise in this paper, a multi-regions discrete-time model which describes the spatial-temporal spread of an epidemic which starts from one region and enters to regions which are connected with their neighbors by any kind of anthropological movement. We suppose homogeneous Susceptible-Infec...

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Main Authors: Omar Zakary, Mostafa Rachik, Ilias Elmouki
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: KeAi Communications Co., Ltd. 2017-08-01
Series:Infectious Disease Modelling
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2468042716300409