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On Searching for Events of Limited Duration

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  • Arnold Barnett

    (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts)

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Given a set of events, an observer wishes to detect as many of these as possible. The events arise at several discrete points according to independent Poisson processes, and the lifetimes of individual occurrences are independent and identically distributed random variables. The specific problem is: given that the observer can only visit one point per unit time, in what sequence should he make his visits so as to maximize the steady-state fraction of events he detects? We obtain some results about the optimal search policy and find the best policy precisely in some circumstances.

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  • Arnold Barnett, 1976. "On Searching for Events of Limited Duration," Operations Research, INFORMS, vol. 24(3), pages 438-451, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:inm:oropre:v:24:y:1976:i:3:p:438-451
    DOI: 10.1287/opre.24.3.438
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    1. Stanley J. Benkoski & Michael G. Monticino & James R. Weisinger, 1991. "A survey of the search theory literature," Naval Research Logistics (NRL), John Wiley & Sons, vol. 38(4), pages 469-494, August.

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