Simulation Method for Determining the Strategy For The Anti-Epidemic Control of Selected Objects

The article describes the process of determining the strategy of anti-epidemic control of objects during an epidemic of foodborne diseases. Food retailers are then registered. The sanitary services have a constantly updated list of objects from which contaminated food could come. These facilities must be inspected by sanitary inspectors. The number of objects can be relatively large, so there is a need to establish a strategy for carrying out the control of selected objects. This must be done in the shortest possible time to determine the sources of spreading the disease as quickly as possible. Such a problem for epidemics of foodborne diseases is not considered in the literature. The article presents a mathematical model of the problem for determining the strategy of anti-epidemic control of objects. The problem of optimizing the control of objects has been formulated. Also described is a genetic algorithm for determining the strategy of object control in order to minimize the execution time of the determined strategy. The results of simulation experiments allow for the determination of qualitative and quantitative characteristics for carrying out exercises for sanitary inspectors for hypothetical outbreaks of foodborne diseases in relation to the anti-epidemic strategy of facility control.