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Imagine a search-and-rescue situation in which it is known that a lost party in a mountain can survive no longer than T units of time in the environment. If the searcher finds the party in some subarea up to T, the rescue can be effected immediately. If the party is not found until T, the rescue effort is assigned to some subarea; really it is a bet. The rescue will be successful if the lost party is in fact in the subarea. In analyzing this and similar situations, we will consider the following search model.
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Iida, K. (1992). Optimal Whereabouts Search Plan Minimizing the Expected Risk. In: Studies on the Optimal Search Plan. Lecture Notes in Statistics, vol 70. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-2876-9_4
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