Starting with the analysis of arms control and disarmament problems in the sixties,
inspection games have evolved into a special area of game theory with specific theoretical …

Publisher Summary This chapter discusses the game theory models of peace and war.
Game theory's relevance to peace and war was controversial from the start. The debate has …

In 1989 the first edition of this book set out Gittins' pioneering index solution to the multi-
armed bandit problem and his subsequent investigation of a wide of sequential resource …

Search Theory is one of the original disciplines within the field of Operations Research. It
deals with the problem faced by a Searcher who wishes to minimize the time required to find …

Fibroblast growth factors (FGFs) play important roles during fetal and embryonic
development. FGF-2 (basic FGF, bFGF) is widely expressed in the embryo and has been …

Examines in detail the factors that affect archaeological detectability in surveys whose
methods range from visual to remote sensing in land, underwater, and intertidal zones …

Originally published in 1987, this title is about theory construction in psychology. Where
theories come from, as opposed to how they become established, was almost a no-man's …

In response to the Mumbai attacks of 2008, the Mumbai police have started to schedule a
limited number of inspection checkpoints on the road network throughout the city. Algorithms …

Searching for a goal is a central and extensively studied problem in computer science. In
classical searching problems, the cost of a search function is simply the number of queries …

The author considers the problem faced by two people who are placed randomly in a known
search region and move about at unit speed to find each other in the least expected time …