Letter to the Editor—An Optimal Strategy for a Whereabouts Search

Keith P. Tognetti
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Keith P. Tognetti: Department of the Navy, Canberra, Australia

Operations Research, 1968, vol. 16, issue 1, 209-211

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.

Date: 1968
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