Article ID: | iaor2003221 |
Country: | United States |
Volume: | 49 |
Issue: | 3 |
Start Page Number: | 244 |
End Page Number: | 255 |
Publication Date: | Apr 2002 |
Journal: | Naval Research Logistics |
Authors: | Alpern Steve, Lim Wei Shi |
Keywords: | game theory |
This paper considers a three-person rendezvous problem on the line which was introduced earlier by the authors. Three agents are placed at three consecutive integer value points on the real line, say 1, 2, and 3. Each agent is randomly faced towards the right or left. Agents are blind and have a maximum speed of 1. Their common aim is to gather at a common location as quickly as possible. The main result is the proof that a strategy given by V. Baston is the