A Study on Model-based Optimization of Vaccination Strategies against Epidemic Virus Spread

Zonglin Liu, Muhammed Omayrat, Olaf Stursberg

2021

Abstract

This paper aims at applying optimal control to investigate different vaccination strategies against the epidemic spread of viral diseases. Background of the study is the situation in the first half of 2021, when many countries started their vaccination procedures against the COVID-19 disease, but suffered from shortages of vaccines, such that the efficient distribution of the available amount of vaccine turned out to be crucial to mitigate the pandemic. The paper first suggests an extended version of a known model of virus spread in order include the vaccination process. Based on this model, the formulation and solution of optimization problems is used to determine how available vaccine should be distributed over different age-groups of the population to minimize virus spread. Effectiveness of the obtained strategies compared to standard ones is demonstrated in simulations.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Liu Z., Omayrat M. and Stursberg O. (2021). A Study on Model-based Optimization of Vaccination Strategies against Epidemic Virus Spread. In Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics - Volume 1: ICINCO, ISBN 978-989-758-522-7, pages 630-637. DOI: 10.5220/0010604006300637

in Bibtex Style

@conference{icinco21,
author={Zonglin Liu and Muhammed Omayrat and Olaf Stursberg},
title={A Study on Model-based Optimization of Vaccination Strategies against Epidemic Virus Spread},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics - Volume 1: ICINCO,},
year={2021},
pages={630-637},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0010604006300637},
isbn={978-989-758-522-7},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics - Volume 1: ICINCO,
TI - A Study on Model-based Optimization of Vaccination Strategies against Epidemic Virus Spread
SN - 978-989-758-522-7
AU - Liu Z.
AU - Omayrat M.
AU - Stursberg O.
PY - 2021
SP - 630
EP - 637
DO - 10.5220/0010604006300637