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Total optimality of incrementally optimal allocations

✍ Scribed by Lawrence D. Stone

Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
1973
Tongue
English
Weight
607 KB
Volume
20
Category
Article
ISSN
0894-069X

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✦ Synopsis

Abstract

This paper considers the problem of finding optimal solutions to a class of separable constrained extremal problems involving nonlinear functionals. The results are proved for rather general situations, but they may be easily stated for the case of search for a stationary object whose a priori location distribution is given by a density function on R, a subset of Euclidean n‐space. The functional to be optimized in this case is the probability of detection and the constraint is on the amount of effort to be used

Suppose that a search of the above type is conducted in such a manner as to produce the maximum increase in probability of detection for each increment of effort added to the search. Then under very weak assumptions, it is proven that this search will produce an optimal allocation of the total effort involved. Under some additional assumptions, it is shown that any amount of search effort may be allocated in an optimal fashion.

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