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SIGACT News Online Algorithms Column 3 Marek Chrobak Department of Computer Science University of California, Riverside marek@cs.ucr.edu A Princess Swimming in the Fog Looking for a Monster Cow The summer arrived early in Riverside this year. It ™s only late April, still early in the morning, but it ™s already above 80◦ F outside, and it ™s supposed to reach 100◦ F later this afternoon. Oh well. A good day to retreat to the local co €ee house, ll my mug with freedom roast, and catch up on reading, with soothing bossa nova playing in the background. The book I ™ve been reading through lately is œThe Theory of Search Games and Rendezvous  by Steve Alpern and Shmuel Gal [1]. It ™s actually two books for the price of one, with the rst part covering search games, and the second one rendezvous problems. Search theory is an area of operations research devoted to problems of designing optimal search trajectories. In a generic problem in search theory we are given some metric search space and two players, one called a hider H and the other a seeker S. Initially, H is placed randomly in the space according to

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A princess swimming in the fog looking for a monster cow

Chrobak, Marek
ACM SIGACT News , Volume 35 (2)
Association for Computing Machinery – Jun 1, 2004

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