Optimal Search for Moving Targets
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- Synopsis
- Thisbook begins with a review of basic results in optimal search for a stationarytarget. 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 multipletargets and multiple searchers with realistic operational constraints on searchmovement. These results assume that the target does not react to the search. Inthe final chapter there is a brief overview of mostly military problems wherethe target tries to avoid being found as well as rescue or rendezvous problemswhere the target and the searcher cooperate. Larry Stone wrote his definitive book Theory of Optimal Search in1975, dealing almost exclusively with the stationary target search problem. Since then the theory has advanced to encompass search for targets that moveeven as the search proceeds, and computers have developed sufficient capabilityto employ the improved theory. In this book, Stone joins Royset and Washburn todocument and explain this expanded theory of search. The problem of how tosearch for moving targets arises every day in military, rescue, lawenforcement, and border patrol operations.
- Copyright:
- 2016
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- ISBN-13:
- 9783319268996
- Publisher:
- Springer International Publishing, Cham
- Date of Addition:
- 10/18/16
- Copyrighted By:
- Springer
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Nonfiction, Mathematics and Statistics
- Submitted By:
- Bookshare Staff
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.
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