Contents:Front Cover; Theory of Optimal Search; Copyright Page; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Objectives; The Problem of Optimal Search; Example; Outline of Chapters; Chapter I. Search Model; 1.1. The Target Distribution; 1.2. Detection; 1.3. Basic Search Problem; Notes; Chapter II. Uniformly Optimal Search Plans; 2.1. Optimization by the Use of Lagrange Multipliers; 2.2. Uniformly Optimal Search Plans for Regular Detection Functions; 2.3. Optimal Search with Uncertain Sweep Width; 2.4. Uniformly Optimal Search Plans for the General Case; Notes
Chapter III. Properties of Optimal Search Plans3.1. An Interpretation of Lagrange Multipliers; 3.2. Maximum Probability Search; 3.3. Incremental Optimization; 3.4. Multiple Constraints; Notes; Chapter IV. Search with Discrete Effort; 4.1. Model for Search with Discrete Effort; 4.2. Uniformly Optimal Search Plans; 4.3. Minimizing Expected Cost to Find the Target; 4.4. Optimal Whereabouts Search; Notes; Chapter V. Optimal Search and Stop; 5.1. Optimal Search and Stop with Discrete Effort; 5.2. Optimal Search and Stop with Continuous Effort; Notes
Chapter VI. Search in the Presence of False Targets6.1. False-Target Models; 6.2. Criterion for Optimality; 6.3. Optimal Nonadaptive Plans; 6.4. Optimization Theorems; 6.5. Examples; 6.6. Semiadaptive Plans; Notes; Chapter VII. Approximation of Optimal Plans; 7.1. Approximations That Are Optimal in a Restricted Class; 7.2. Incremental Approximations; Notes; Chapter VIII. Conditionally Deterministic Target Motion; 8.1. Description of Search Problem; 8.2. Uniformly Optimal Plans When the Target Motion is Factorable; 8.3. Optimal Plans within ?(m1, 8, K)
8.4. Necessary and Sufficient Conditions for t-Optimal Search PlansNotes; Chapter IX. Markovian Target Motion; 9.1. Two-Cell Discrete-Time Markovian Motion; 9.2. Two-Cell Continuous-Time Markovian Motion; 9.3. Continuous-Time Markovian Motion in Euclidean N-Space; Notes; Appendix A: Reference Theorems; Appendix B: Necessary Conditions for Constrained Optimization of Separable Functionals; B.1. Necessary Conditions for the Discrete Space J; B.2. Necessary Conditions for the Continuous Space X; Notes; References; Author Index; Subject Index; Notation Index