Optimal Control for Mathematical Models of Cancer Therapies An Application of Geometric Methods /

• Main Authors: Schättler, Heinz (Author), Ledzewicz, Urszula (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2015.
• Series: Interdisciplinary Applied Mathematics, 42
• Subjects: Mathematics.; Cancer research.; Geometry.; Calculus of variations.; Control engineering.; Calculus of Variations and Optimal Control; Optimization.; Control.; Cancer Research.

This book presents applications of geometric optimal control to real life biomedical problems with an emphasis on cancer treatments. A number of mathematical models for both classical and novel cancer treatments are presented as optimal control problems with the goal of constructing optimal protocol...