The theory of search games and rendezvous /

The Theory of Search Games and Rendezvous widens the dimensions to the classical problem with the addition of an independent player of equal status to the searcher, who cares about being found or not being found. These multiple motives of searcher and hider are analytically and mathematically consid...

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Main Author:	Alpern, Steve, 1948-
Corporate Author:	SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors:	Gal, Shmuel (Mathematician)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Boston : Kluwer Academic Publishers, [2003]
Series:	International series in operations research & management science ; 55.
Subjects:	Search theory. Game theory. Economic Theory. Calculus of Variations and Optimal Control. Optimization. Probability Theory and Stochastic Processes. Game Theory, Economics, Social and Behav. Sciences. Operations Research/Decision Theory. Décision, Théorie de la. Jeux, Théorie des. SCIENCE > System Theory. TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Operations Research. Electronic books.
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Summary:	The Theory of Search Games and Rendezvous widens the dimensions to the classical problem with the addition of an independent player of equal status to the searcher, who cares about being found or not being found. These multiple motives of searcher and hider are analytically and mathematically considered in the book's two foci: Search Games (Book I) and Rendezvous Theory (Book II). Shmuel Gal's work on Search Games (Gal, 1980) stimulated considerable research in a variety of fields including Computer Science, Engineering, Biology, and Economics. Steve Alpern's original formulation of the rendezvous search problem in 1976 and his formalization of the continuous version (Alpern, 1995) have led to much research in rendezvous theory in the past few years. New material is covered in both Search Games (Book I) and Rendezvous Theory (Book II). The book examines a whole variety of new configurations of theory and problems that arise from these two aspects of the analysis - resulting in a penetrating state-of-the-art treatment of this highly useful mathematical, analytical tool.
Item Description:	Electronic resource.
Physical Description:	1 online resource (xiv, 319 pages) : illustrations.
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-315) and index.
ISBN:	0306482126 (electronic bk.) 9780306482120 (electronic bk.)