Optimal search for moving targets [electronic resource] / Lawrence D. Stone, Johannes O. Royset and Alan R. Washburn.
Stone, Lawrence D., author.; Royset, Johannes O., author.; Washburn, Alan R., author.
2016
HD30.4
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Title Optimal search for moving targets [electronic resource] / Lawrence D. Stone, Johannes O. Royset and Alan R. Washburn.
Author Stone, Lawrence D., author.
ISBN 9783319268996 (electronic book)
3319268996 (electronic book)
9783319268972
331926897X
Published Cham : Springer, 2016.
Language English
Description 1 online resource.
Call Number HD30.4
Dewey Decimal Classification 658.5/7
Summary This book begins with a review of basic results in optimal search for a stationary target. It then develops the theory of optimal search for a moving target, providing algorithms for computing optimal plans and examples of their use. Next it develops methods for computing optimal search plans involving multiple targets and multiple searchers with realistic operational constraints on search movement. These results assume that the target does not react to the search. In the final chapter there is a brief overview of mostly military problems where the target tries to avoid being found as well as rescue or rendezvous problems where the target and the searcher cooperate. Larry Stone wrote his definitive book Theory of Optimal Search in 1975, dealing almost exclusively with the stationary target search problem. Since then the theory has advanced to encompass search for targets that move even as the search proceeds, and computers have developed sufficient capability to employ the improved theory. In this book, Stone joins Royset and Washburn to document and explain this expanded theory of search. The problem of how to search for moving targets arises every day in military, rescue, law enforcement, and border patrol operations.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
Access Note Access limited to authorized users.
Source of Description Online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed April 18, 2016).
Added Author Royset, Johannes O., author.
Washburn, Alan R., author.
Series International series in operations research & management science ; v. 237.
Available in Other Form Royset, Johannes O.. Optimal Search for Moving Targets
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Introduction
Search for a Stationary Target
Search for a Moving Target in Discrete Space and Time
Path-Constrained Search in Discrete Time and Space
Search for Moving Targets in Continuous Space
Constrained Search in Continuous Time and Space
Search Games. .

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