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Algorithmic methods for investigating equilibria in epidemic modeling. (English) Zbl 1120.92034
Summary: The calculation of threshold conditions for models of infectious diseases is of central importance for developing vaccination policies. These models are often coupled systems of ordinary differential equations, in which case the computation of threshold conditions can be reduced to the question of stability of the disease-free equilibrium. This paper shows how computing threshold conditions for such models can be done fully algorithmically using quantifier elimination for real closed fields and related simplification methods for quantifier-free formulas. Using efficient quantifier elimination techniques for special cases that have been developed by Weispfenning and others, we can also compute whether there are ranges of parameters for which sub-threshold endemic equilibria exist.

##### MSC:
 92D30 Epidemiology 68U99 Computing methodologies and applications 03C10 Quantifier elimination, model completeness, and related topics
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