| Article ID: | iaor19931359 |
| Country: | United Kingdom |
| Volume: | 43 |
| Issue: | 6 |
| Start Page Number: | 637 |
| End Page Number: | 639 |
| Publication Date: | Jun 1992 |
| Journal: | Journal of the Operational Research Society |
| Authors: | Thomas L.C. |
| Keywords: | lagrange multipliers |
If two searchers are searching for a stationary target and wish to minimize the expected time until both searchers and the lost target are reunited, there is a trade off between searching for the target and checking back to see if the other searcher has already found the target. This note solves a non-linear optimization problem to find the optimal search strategy for this problem.