CONTINUOUS-TIME SEARCH MODEL WITH IMPROVEMENTS OF DETECTION RATES
Teruhisa Nakai · Journal of the Operations Research Society of Japan · 1987
We consider a continuous-time search model for a stationary object in which a searcher allocates a limited time not only to search the object but also to improve detection rates. The objective is to maximize the probability that the searcher detcts the object by a given time T. We show that there is an optimal policy which indicates us to improve detection rates until a certain time T_1(