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Figure 7.1: Susceptible and infectious individuals for different cost functions J1 and J2

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NUMERICAL RESULTS AND DISCUSSION

Our numerical results were obtained and confirmed following different approaches.

The first approach consisted in using IPOPT [53] and the algebraic modeling language

AMPL [7].

In a second approach, we used the PROPT Matlab Optimal Control Software [52].

The results were coincident and are easily confirmed by the ones obtained using an itera-

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Figure 7.2: Susceptible and infectious mosquitos for different cost functions J1 and J2

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