Mohammad Sharif Ullah, Md Shahidul Islam, Jin Wang
{"title":"MODELING AND SIMULATING CHOLERA TRANSMISSION DYNAMICS WITH EVOLUTIONARY GAME THEORY.","authors":"Mohammad Sharif Ullah, Md Shahidul Islam, Jin Wang","doi":"10.3934/naco.2026006","DOIUrl":"10.3934/naco.2026006","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Cholera, a highly debilitating gastrointestinal disease caused by the bacteria <i>Vibrio cholerae</i>, continues to be a significant public health issue in many countries and regions around the globe. Conventional epidemiological models often fail to adequately account for the strategic connections between individuals and how these interactions influence disease spread. This paper examines cholera dynamics using evolutionary game theory and proposes a novel paradigm for analyzing the impact of human behavior and strategic decision-making on cholera transmission. The model incorporates the evolutionary stability of the tactics people employ, such as vaccination, hygiene practices, and disease treatment, while accounting for diverse environmental and social variables. Results have been obtained on the factors that either encourage or impede the spread of cholera using analytical and numerical methods, underscoring the need to implement behavioral interventions alongside medical and infrastructural measures. The findings offer novel insights into public health strategies for controlling cholera outbreaks and promoting community resilience to infectious diseases.</p>","PeriodicalId":44957,"journal":{"name":"Numerical Algebra Control and Optimization","volume":"18 ","pages":"208-244"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2026-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13480426/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148799237","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A novel machine-learning based optimization: identifying new treatment regimens for tuberculosis.","authors":"Maral Budak, Pariksheet Nanda, Denise Kirschner","doi":"10.3934/naco.2025025","DOIUrl":"10.3934/naco.2025025","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Identifying optimization in a system from any discipline requires identifying ways to either maximize or minimize objectives of interest-or even trade-offs between these choices where goals must be balanced. Traditionally, optimal control theory has been used specifically for applications that are represented by ordinary differential equations. Here, we introduce a new approach to optimization that can be applied not only to ordinary differential-equation based systems, but importantly to other more complex models, such as agent-based model systems. To this end, we create a novel machine learning optimization pipeline that uses a Kriging-based surrogate model to predict objective functions. We use a Pareto optimization algorithm to identify regimens that maximize improvement to the predicted optimal set and then rank these findings. As an example, we apply this to a model system that captures drug treatment of hosts during infection with <i>Mycobacterium tuberculosis.</i> Typically for treatment of tuberculosis, a multiple drug regimen is used where four antibiotics are administered for a lengthy time frame of 6-9 months. We apply our new method to optimize treatment in the face of many choices for drugs, combinations and dosages and link for the first time with rankings to the optimized set of outcomes.</p>","PeriodicalId":44957,"journal":{"name":"Numerical Algebra Control and Optimization","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2025-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12637175/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145589124","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Quasi Strongly $ E $-preinvexity and its relationships with non-linear programming","authors":"Akhlad Iqbal, Askar Hussain","doi":"10.3934/naco.2023010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3934/naco.2023010","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we extend the class of strongly $E$-preinvex and strongly $E$-invex functions to quasi strongly $E$-preinvex, quasi strongly $E$-invex and pseudo strongly $E$-invex functions. Some nontrivial suitable examples have been constructed in support of our definitions. Several interesting properties and relationships of these functions are discussed. Furthermore, to show the application of our results, we consider a nonlinear programming problem and show that the local minimum point is also a strictly global minimum.","PeriodicalId":44957,"journal":{"name":"Numerical Algebra Control and Optimization","volume":"25 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2023-01-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77226755","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Mean-field type quadratic BSDEs","authors":"Hélène Hibon, Ying Hu, Shanjian Tang","doi":"10.3934/naco.2022009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3934/naco.2022009","url":null,"abstract":"<p style='text-indent:20px;'>In this paper, we give several new results on solvability of a quadratic BSDE whose generator depends also on the mean of both variables. First, we consider such a BSDE using John-Nirenberg's inequality for BMO martingales to estimate its contribution to the evolution of the first unknown variable. Then we consider the BSDE having an additive expected value of a quadratic generator in addition to the usual quadratic one. In this case, we use a deterministic shift transformation to the first unknown variable, when the usual quadratic generator depends neither on the first variable nor its mean. The general case can be treated by a fixed point argument.","PeriodicalId":44957,"journal":{"name":"Numerical Algebra Control and Optimization","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136092720","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abd El-Monem A. Megahed, Ebrahim A. Youness, Hebatallah K. Arafat
{"title":"Optimization method in counter terrorism: min-max zero-sum differential game approach","authors":"Abd El-Monem A. Megahed, Ebrahim A. Youness, Hebatallah K. Arafat","doi":"10.3934/naco.2022013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3934/naco.2022013","url":null,"abstract":"One of the most critical problems facing governments at present is terrorism. Most recent studies are striving to find an optimal solution to this problem that threatens the security and stability of people. To combat terrorism, government uses various means, such as improving education quality, providing labor opportunities, seeking social justice, creating religious awareness, and building security arrangements. This study aims to evaluate the optimum strategy for both government and terrorist organization using a min-max zero-sum differential game approach. In addition, it analyses the dynamics of the government's activities separately and explain the impact of the government's counter-terror measures on the activity and strength of international terror organization.","PeriodicalId":44957,"journal":{"name":"Numerical Algebra Control and Optimization","volume":"323 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136296833","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Going forward & backward with Jin Ma","authors":"P. Protter","doi":"10.3934/naco.2023005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3934/naco.2023005","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44957,"journal":{"name":"Numerical Algebra Control and Optimization","volume":"7 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78381824","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Variations of orthonormal basis matrices of subspaces","authors":"Zhongming Teng, Ren-Cang Li","doi":"10.3934/naco.2023021","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3934/naco.2023021","url":null,"abstract":"An orthonormal basis matrix $ X $ of a subspace $ {mathcal X} $ is known not to be unique, unless there are some kinds of normalization requirements. One of them is to require that $ X^{ text{T}}D $ is positive semi-definite, where $ D $ is a constant matrix of apt size. It is a natural one in multi-view subspace learning models in which $ X $ serves as a projection matrix and is determined by a maximization problem over the Stiefel manifold whose objective function contains and increases with $ text{tr}(X^{ text{T}}D) $. This paper is concerned with bounding the change in orthonormal basis matrix $ X $ as subspace $ {mathcal X} $ varies under the requirement that $ X^{ text{T}}D $ stays positive semi-definite. The results are useful in convergence analysis of the NEPv approach (nonlinear eigenvalue problem with eigenvector dependency) to solve the maximization problem.","PeriodicalId":44957,"journal":{"name":"Numerical Algebra Control and Optimization","volume":"37 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135440832","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Convergence analysis of multiple-sets split equality common fixed point problem with applications","authors":"N. Gupta, L. Jolaoso, Ashish Nandal, R. Chugh","doi":"10.3934/naco.2023012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3934/naco.2023012","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44957,"journal":{"name":"Numerical Algebra Control and Optimization","volume":"32 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82710392","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A brief discussion about a predator-prey model including disease in predators with the delay effect","authors":"Debashis Das, Sarbani Chakraborty","doi":"10.3934/naco.2023018","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3934/naco.2023018","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44957,"journal":{"name":"Numerical Algebra Control and Optimization","volume":"33 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85566248","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}