Justified Modeling Frameworks and Novel Interpretations of Ecological and Epidemiological Systems
Author: Bapan Ghosh
Publisher: Frontiers Media SA
Published: 2024-01-12
Total Pages: 151
ISBN-13: 2832540147
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Lotka-Volterra and the Kermack-McKendrick models are well celebrated and widely recognized in the field of ecology and epidemiology. Several modified ordinary differential equation models have been proposed over the last many decades to rationalize complex biological phenomena. In the current century, researchers have paid much attention to developing new modeling frameworks with delay differential equations, difference equations, fractional order systems, stochastic differential equations, etc. No doubt, these models have emerged many new bifurcations theory and methods which have equally contributed to the advances of Mathematics and interdisciplinary research. It is argued that these new modeling frameworks perform more effectively in analyzing and interpreting results compared to the conventional modeling frameworks with ordinary differential equations. However, implications of emerged bifurcations from new modeling approaches are often less interpreted from a biological viewpoint. Even, there is also a lack of understanding of how a fractional order model, for instance, displays a more realistic scenario to analyze a biological process. Therefore, a more serious justification is essential while modeling any biological event.
