scholarly journals Modeling and Control of the Public Opinion: An Agree-Disagree Opinion Model

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 ◽  
pp. 1-15
Author(s):  
Sara Bidah ◽  
Omar Zakary ◽  
Mostafa Rachik
Keyword(s):  
Optimal Control ◽  
Control Problem ◽  
Initial Conditions ◽  
Control Strategies ◽  
Rank Correlation ◽  
Latin Hypercube Sampling ◽  
Optimal Controls ◽  
Modeling And Control ◽  
Partial Rank Correlation ◽  
Objective Functional

In this paper, we aim to investigate optimal control to a new mathematical model that describes agree-disagree opinions during polls, which we presented and analyzed in Bidah et al., 2020. We first present the model and recall its different compartments. We formulate the optimal control problem by supplementing our model with a objective functional. Optimal control strategies are proposed to reduce the number of disagreeing people and the cost of interventions. We prove the existence of solutions to the control problem, we employ Pontryagin’s maximum principle to find the necessary conditions for the existence of the optimal controls, and Runge–Kutta forward-backward sweep numerical approximation method is used to solve the optimal control system, and we perform numerical simulations using various initial conditions and parameters to investigate several scenarios. Finally, a global sensitivity analysis is carried out based on the partial rank correlation coefficient method and the Latin hypercube sampling to study the influence of various parameters on the objective functional and to identify the most influential parameters.

scholarly journals Optimal Control Strategies of HFMD in Wenzhou, China

Complexity ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 ◽  
pp. 1-15
Author(s):  
Zuqin Ding ◽  
Yong Li ◽  
Yongli Cai ◽  
Yueping Dong ◽  
Weiming Wang
Keyword(s):  
Optimal Control ◽  
Reproduction Number ◽  
Control Strategies ◽  
Rank Correlation ◽  
Foot And Mouth Disease ◽  
Latin Hypercube Sampling ◽  
Chi Square ◽  
Course Of Disease ◽  
Contact Rates ◽  
Partial Rank Correlation

In this paper, we investigate the dynamics and optimal control strategies of a modified hand, foot, and mouth disease (HFMD) model incorporating the EV-A71 vaccination in Wenzhou, China, analytically and numerically. We define the basic reproduction number R0 and show that it can be used to determine whether HFMD becomes extinct or not. Based on the monthly reported HFMD cases in Wenzhou for 76 months, we estimate the parameters in the dynamic model by using the method of minimum chi-square fitting, conduct the sensitivity analysis to investigate the influence of each uncertain parameter on R0 with the methods of Latin hypercube sampling and partial rank correlation coefficient, and find that the EV-A71 vaccination does not lead to the extinction of HFMD, but slightly reduces the incidence of HFMD. In order to control the spread of HFMD in Wenzhou, we need to increase the rate of EV-A71 vaccination, decrease the contact rates, and shorten the course of disease.

scholarly journals Optimal Control against the Human Papillomavirus: Protection versus Eradication of the Infection

2019 ◽  
Vol 2019 ◽  
pp. 1-13 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fernando Saldaña ◽  
Andrei Korobeinikov ◽  
Ignacio Barradas
Keyword(s):  
Optimal Control ◽  
Human Papillomavirus ◽  
Control Problem ◽  
Initial Conditions ◽  
Fixed Time ◽  
Hpv Infection ◽  
Control Problems ◽  
Time Interval ◽  
Optimal Controls ◽  
Total Prevalence

We investigate the optimal vaccination and screening strategies to minimize human papillomavirus (HPV) associated morbidity and the interventions cost. We propose a two-sex compartmental model of HPV-infection with time-dependent controls (vaccination of adolescents, adults, and screening) which can act simultaneously. We formulate optimal control problems complementing our model with two different objective functionals. The first functional corresponds to the protection of the vulnerable group and the control problem consists of minimizing the cumulative level of infected females over a fixed time interval. The second functional aims to eliminate the infection, and, thus, the control problem consists of minimizing the total prevalence at the end of the time interval. We prove the existence of solutions for the control problems, characterize the optimal controls, and carry out numerical simulations using various initial conditions. The results and properties and drawbacks of the model are discussed.

scholarly journals Optimal control problem for a tuberculosis model with multiple infectious compartments and time delays

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 75-91
Author(s):  
Mohamed Elhia ◽  
Omar Balatif ◽  
Lahoucine Boujallal ◽  
Mostafa Rachik
Keyword(s):  
Optimal Control ◽  
Optimal Control Problem ◽  
Control Problem ◽  
Time Delays ◽  
Control Strategies ◽  
Multiple Time ◽  
Optimal Controls ◽  
Loss To Follow Up ◽  
Tuberculosis Model

In this paper, we formulate an optimal control problem based on a tuberculosis model with multiple infectious compartments and time delays. In order to have a more realistic model that allows highlighting the role of detection, loss to follow-up and treatment in TB transmission, we propose an extension of the classical SEIR model by dividing infectious patients in the compartment (I) into three categories: undiagnosed infected (I), diagnosed patients who are under treatment (T) and diagnosed patients who are lost to follow-up (L). We incorporate in our model delays representing the incubation period and the time needed for treatment. We also introduce three control variables in our delayed system which represent prevention, detection and the efforts that prevent the failure of treatment. The purpose of our control strategies is to minimize the number of infected individuals and the cost of intervention. The existence of the optimal controls is investigated, and a characterization of the three controls is given using the Pontryagin's maximum principle with delays. To solve numerically the optimality system with delays, we present an adapted iterative method based on the iterative Forward-Backward Sweep Method (FBSM). Numerical simulations performed using Matlab are also provided. They indicate that the prevention control is the most effective one. To the best of our knowledge, it is the first work to apply optimal control theory to a TB model which considers infectious patients diagnosis, loss to follow-up phenomenon and multiple time delays.

scholarly journals On linear-quadratic optimal control of implicit difference equations

2018 ◽  
Vol 36 (3) ◽  
pp. 779-833
Author(s):  
Daniel Bankmann ◽  
Matthias Voigt
Keyword(s):  
Optimal Control ◽  
Optimal Control Problem ◽  
Control Problem ◽  
Difference Equations ◽  
Matrix Pencil ◽  
Spectral Structure ◽  
Optimal Controls ◽  
Linear Quadratic ◽  
Linear Quadratic Optimal Control ◽  
Quadratic Optimal Control

Abstract In this work we investigate explicit and implicit difference equations and the corresponding infinite time horizon linear-quadratic optimal control problem. We derive conditions for feasibility of the optimal control problem as well as existence and uniqueness of optimal controls under certain weaker assumptions compared to the standard approaches in the literature which are using algebraic Riccati equations. To this end, we introduce and analyse a discrete-time Lur’e equation and a corresponding Kalman–Yakubovich–Popov (KYP) inequality. We show that solvability of the KYP inequality can be characterized via the spectral structure of a certain palindromic matrix pencil. The deflating subspaces of this pencil are finally used to construct solutions of the Lur’e equation. The results of this work are transferred from the continuous-time case. However, many additional technical difficulties arise in this context.

scholarly journals Optimal Control of HIV/AIDS in the Workplace in the Presence of Careless Individuals

2014 ◽  
Vol 2014 ◽  
pp. 1-19 ◽  
Author(s):  
Baba Seidu ◽  
Oluwole D. Makinde
Keyword(s):  
Optimal Control ◽  
Optimal Control Problem ◽  
Control Problem ◽  
Control Strategies ◽  
Nonlinear Dynamical System ◽  
Basic Reproductive Number ◽  
Reproductive Number ◽  
Nonlinear Dynamical ◽  
Basic Model ◽  
Hiv Aids

A nonlinear dynamical system is proposed and qualitatively analyzed to study the dynamics of HIV/AIDS in the workplace. The disease-free equilibrium point of the model is shown to be locally asymptotically stable if the basic reproductive number,R0, is less than unity and the model is shown to exhibit a unique endemic equilibrium when the basic reproductive number is greater than unity. It is shown that, in the absence of recruitment of infectives, the disease is eradicated whenR0<1, whiles the disease is shown to persist in the presence of recruitment of infected persons. The basic model is extended to include control efforts aimed at reducing infection, irresponsibility, and nonproductivity at the workplace. This leads to an optimal control problem which is qualitatively analyzed using Pontryagin’s Maximum Principle (PMP). Numerical simulation of the resulting optimal control problem is carried out to gain quantitative insights into the implications of the model. The simulation reveals that a multifaceted approach to the fight against the disease is more effective than single control strategies.

Sparse Optimal Control of the Schlögl and FitzHugh–Nagumo Systems

2013 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 415-442 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eduardo Casas ◽  
Christopher Ryll ◽  
Fredi Tröltzsch
Keyword(s):  
Optimal Control ◽  
Necessary Optimality Conditions ◽  
Reaction Diffusion ◽  
Reaction Diffusion Equations ◽  
Optimal Controls ◽  
Wave Fronts ◽  
First Order ◽  
Schlögl Model ◽  
Sparse Optimal Control ◽  
Objective Functional

Abstract. We investigate the problem of sparse optimal controls for the so-called Schlögl model and the FitzHugh–Nagumo system. In these reaction–diffusion equations, traveling wave fronts occur that can be controlled in different ways. The L1-norm of the distributed control is included in the objective functional so that optimal controls exhibit effects of sparsity. We prove the differentiability of the control-to-state mapping for both dynamical systems, show the well-posedness of the optimal control problems and derive first-order necessary optimality conditions. Based on them, the sparsity of optimal controls is shown. The theory is illustrated by various numerical examples, where wave fronts or spiral waves are controlled in a desired way.

scholarly journals Optimal Control Strategies in an Alcoholism Model

2014 ◽  
Vol 2014 ◽  
pp. 1-18 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xun-Yang Wang ◽  
Hai-Feng Huo ◽  
Qing-Kai Kong ◽  
Wei-Xuan Shi
Keyword(s):  
Mathematical Model ◽  
Optimal Control ◽  
Maximum Principle ◽  
Numerical Simulations ◽  
Control Strategies ◽  
Pontryagin’S Maximum Principle ◽  
Social Phenomenon ◽  
Pontryagin's Maximum Principle ◽  
Existence And Stability ◽  
Objective Functional

This paper presents a deterministic SATQ-type mathematical model (including susceptible, alcoholism, treating, and quitting compartments) for the spread of alcoholism with two control strategies to gain insights into this increasingly concerned about health and social phenomenon. Some properties of the solutions to the model including positivity, existence and stability are analyzed. The optimal control strategies are derived by proposing an objective functional and using Pontryagin’s Maximum Principle. Numerical simulations are also conducted in the analytic results.

Optimal feedback control of stochastic McShane differential systems

1974 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 302-309 ◽  
Author(s):  
N. U. Ahmed ◽  
K. L. Teo
Keyword(s):  
Optimal Control ◽  
Optimal Control Problem ◽  
Control Problem ◽  
Necessary Conditions ◽  
Parabolic Type ◽  
Optimal Feedback Control ◽  
Distributed Parameter ◽  
Optimal Controls ◽  
Necessary Conditions For Optimality ◽  
Reduced Problem

In this paper, the optimal control problem of system described by stochastic McShane differential equations is considered. It is shown that this problem can be reduced to an equivalent optimal control problem of distributed parameter systems of parabolic type with controls appearing in the coefficients of the differential operator. Further, to this reduced problem, necessary conditions for optimality and an existence theorem for optimal controls are given.

Optimal Vaccination of an Endemic Model with Variable Infectivity and Infinite Delay

2013 ◽  
Vol 68 (10-11) ◽  
pp. 677-685 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gul Zaman ◽  
Yasuhisa Saito ◽  
Madad Khan
Keyword(s):  
Optimal Control ◽  
Control Problem ◽  
Control Function ◽  
Control Strategies ◽  
Infinite Delay ◽  
Nonlinear Differential Equations ◽  
Infected Individual ◽  
Vaccination Schedule ◽  
Disease Evolution ◽  
Spread Of Infection

In this work, we consider a nonlinear SEIR (susceptible, exposed, infectious, and removed) endemic model, which describes the dynamics of the interaction between susceptible and infected individuals in a population. The model represents the disease evolution through a system of nonlinear differential equations with variable infectivity which determines that the infectivity of an infected individual may not be constant during the time after infection. To control the spread of infection and to find a vaccination schedule for an endemic situation, we use optimal control strategies which reduce the susceptible, exposed, and infected individuals and increase the total number of recovered individuals. In order to do this, we introduce the optimal control problem with a suitable control function using an objective functional. We first show the existence of an optimal control for the control problem and then derive the optimality system. Finally the numerical simulations of the model is identified to fit realistic measurement which shows the effectiveness of the model.

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