“…Due to the presence of time lags in the dynamics of most real systems, delay differential equations (DDE) have become basic instruments in the mathematical modelling of a wide range of problems in science and engineering, such as in population biology, physiology, epidemiology, economics, and control problems (see, e.g., [1][2][3][4][5], and references therein), and special methods have been developed to compute numerical solutions for DDE [6]. In the case of differential problems without delay, exact schemes have been defined for different particular problems, and the use of nonstandard finite difference (NSFD) numerical schemes has gained increasing interest in the last years [7][8][9].…”