Letter to the Editor—An Optimal Strategy for a Whereabouts Search
- 1 February 1968
- journal article
- Published by Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) in Operations Research
- Vol. 16 (1) , 209-211
- https://doi.org/10.1287/opre.16.1.209
Abstract
It is required to maximize the probability of knowing the whereabouts of an object as the result of a search. Before the search the object was equally likely to be located in one of n areas. The conditional probability of detection with a single search in an area is constant. If n searches are allowed it is shown that the optimal strategy is to partition the searches so as to miss one area.Keywords
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