Search Procedures in the Presence of False Contacts

Abstract

A part of the theory of search in the presence of false contacts was formulated and developed. Some properties of searches, such as additivity and compatibility, that play a central role in the theory of search, were studies. The expected-time problem was formulated for the case in which false contacts are generated by real objects, and a method of solution was found when the number of false targets is known to be finite with a known distribution. Two problems involving moving targets, without the complication of false contacts, were formulated and solved.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 1974
Accession Number
AD0787462

Entities

People

  • James M. Dobbie

Organizations

  • Arthur D. Little

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Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acoustic Propagation
  • Applied Mathematics
  • Classification
  • Contracts
  • Detection
  • False Signals
  • False Targets
  • Massachusetts
  • Mathematics
  • Military Research
  • Moving Targets
  • Operations Research
  • Optimization
  • Probability
  • Search Theory
  • Targets
  • United States

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  • Calculus or Mathematical Analysis
  • Mathematics or Statistics
  • Operations Research