Accession Number:
ADA009862
Title:
Optimal Detection Search
Descriptive Note:
Technical rept.
Corporate Author:
CARNEGIE-MELLON UNIV PITTSBURGH PA DEPT OF STATISTICS
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Report Date:
1975-03-01
Pagination or Media Count:
35.0
Abstract:
This paper considers and unifies two search problems which have been extensively discussed. A class of sequential problems is proposed that includes both. A theorem is proved, under arbitrary partial ordering constraints, characterizing a strategy to minimize the expected cost of a successful search. The main tool is a set of functional equations in strategy space.
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Subject Categories:
- Operations Research