| Article ID: | iaor1989517 |
| Country: | United States |
| Volume: | 36 |
| Issue: | 5 |
| Start Page Number: | 577 |
| End Page Number: | 596 |
| Publication Date: | Oct 1989 |
| Journal: | Naval Research Logistics |
| Authors: | Moskowitz Ira, Simmen Jeff |
This article addresses a basic problem in search theory concerning the future distribution of a target’s location. Given an initial distribution of a target’s location and a distribution for its constant velocity, what will its future distribution be? Asymptotics are used to obtain closed-form solutions to that question. The authors also extend and generalize certain results from the classic search theory text by Koopman.