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

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  • Keith P. Tognetti

    (Department of the Navy, Canberra, Australia)

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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.

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  • Keith P. Tognetti, 1968. "Letter to the Editor—An Optimal Strategy for a Whereabouts Search," Operations Research, INFORMS, vol. 16(1), pages 209-211, February.
    • Handle: RePEc:inm:oropre:v:16:y:1968:i:1:p:209-211
    DOI: 10.1287/opre.16.1.209
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    1. Joseph B. Kadane, 2015. "Optimal discrete search with technological choice," Mathematical Methods of Operations Research, Springer;Gesellschaft für Operations Research (GOR);Nederlands Genootschap voor Besliskunde (NGB), vol. 81(3), pages 317-336, June.
    2. Yan Xia & Rajan Batta & Rakesh Nagi, 2017. "Controlling a Fleet of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles to Collect Uncertain Information in a Threat Environment," Operations Research, INFORMS, vol. 65(3), pages 674-692, June.

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