Rendezvous search on the line with limited resources: Maximizing the probability of meeting

Operations Research

Volumn 47, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 849-861

  Alpern, Steve ^a   Beck, Anatole ^b  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPTIMIZATION; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; PROBLEM SOLVING; RESOURCE ALLOCATION;

RENDEZVOUS SEARCH PROBLEMS;

GAME THEORY;

EID: 0033315889     PISSN: 0030364X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/opre.47.6.849     Document Type: Article

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