| Article ID: | iaor200954126 |
| Country: | United States |
| Volume: | 32 |
| Issue: | 3 |
| Start Page Number: | 589 |
| End Page Number: | 593 |
| Publication Date: | Aug 2007 |
| Journal: | Mathematics of Operations Research |
| Authors: | Sethuraman Jay, Tsitsiklis John N |
| Keywords: | search |
We consider a generalization of the model of stochastic search in an out–forest, introduced and studied by E. V. Denardo, U. G. Rothblum, L. Van der Heyden (2004). We provide a simpler proof of the optimality of index–based policies.