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Alpern, Steve, Shmuel Gal. 2003. The Theory of Search Games and Rendezvous.

Publication: Interfaces
Publication Date: 01-MAY-04 		Format: Online - approximately 1125 words
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Alpern, Steve, Shmuel Gal. 2003. The Theory of Search Games and Rendezvous.(Search game)(Book Review)

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ALPERN, STEVE, SHMUEL GAL. 2003. The Theory of Search Games and Rendezvous. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, The Netherlands. 319 pp. $130.00.

The child's game of hide and seek must be universal across all cultures, and the mathematician's version of the search game holds a similar universal appeal. Two players compete: the hider wants to stay hidden for as long as possible while the searcher tries to find the hider as quickly as possible. What strategies should they use? The simplest formulation is as a two-person zero-sum game (with value given by the time the searcher takes to find the hider). The optimal strategies for the two players will depend on the region in which they can move, the starting positions, the speed of movement possible, and how close the searcher must be to the hider to find her. This book gives a masterful survey of search games.

To get a sense of these problems, it is helpful to look at an example. Suppose that the search game...

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