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Search Games

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Abstract

This article surveys the area of search games with immobile and mobile hider. The search space is either a graph, a bounded domain or an unbounded set. The search process is presented as a two-player zero-sum game between the searcher and the hider. The searcher moves along a continuous trajectory and the cost function is the time needed to find the hider. An overview is presented with emphasis on general results concerning minimax search trajectories and optimal search strategies.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationWiley Encyclopedia of Operations Research and Management Science
Publisherwiley
Pages1-8
Number of pages8
ISBN (Electronic)9780470400531
ISBN (Print)9780470400630
DOIs
StatePublished - 1 Jan 2010

Bibliographical note

Publisher Copyright:
© 2010 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. All rights reserved.

Keywords

  • Chinese postman tour
  • cow path problem
  • doubling
  • linear search problem
  • minimax trajectory
  • optimal strategy
  • princess and monster game
  • search game
  • star search
  • swimming-in-a-fog problem

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • General Arts and Humanities
  • General Business, Management and Accounting

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