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An Optimal Branch-and-Bound Procedure for the Constrained Path, Moving Target Search Problem

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  • James N. Eagle

    (Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California)

  • James R. Yee

    (University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California)

Abstract

A searcher and target move among a finite set of cells C = 1, 2, …, N in discrete time. At the beginning of each time period, one cell is searched. If the target is in the selected cell j , it is detected with probability q j . If the target is not in the cell searched, it cannot be detected during the current time period. After each search, a target in cell j moves to cell k with probability p jk . The target transition matrix, P = [ p jk ] is known to the searcher. The searcher's path is constrained in that if the searcher is currently in cell j , the next search cell must be selected from a set of neighboring cells C j . The object of the search is to minimize the probability of not detecting the target in T searches.

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  • James N. Eagle & James R. Yee, 1990. "An Optimal Branch-and-Bound Procedure for the Constrained Path, Moving Target Search Problem," Operations Research, INFORMS, vol. 38(1), pages 110-114, February.
    • Handle: RePEc:inm:oropre:v:38:y:1990:i:1:p:110-114
    DOI: 10.1287/opre.38.1.110
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