On minimum expected search time for a multiplicative random search problem
by Mohamed Abd Allah El-Hadidy; Mohamed Abd El-Hady Kassem
International Journal of Operational Research (IJOR), Vol. 29, No. 2, 2017

Abstract: In this paper, we obtain the minimum expected search time for a multiplicative random search problem from a viewpoint of computational optimisation. The target is drifting in one of m-disjoint bounded regions. Each region has a one searcher. We get a probabilistic multi-objective nonlinear fractional programming problem and we focus on a new method for solving it to obtain the minimum expected search time for detecting the target. An illustrative example has been given to demonstrate the applicability of this method.

Online publication date: Fri, 28-Apr-2017

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