Overview
- The first book focusing on search and rendezvous that will appeal to the computer science, mathematics and biology communities as well as non-experts
- Most chapters include case studies or surveys
- Includes a chapter on mobility in governed social networks
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Search games and rendezvous problems have received growing attention in computer science within the past few years. Rendezvous problems emerge naturally, for instance, to optimize performance and convergence of mobile robots. This gives a new algorithmic point of view to the theory. Furthermore, modern topics such as the spreading of gossip or disease in social networks have lead to new challenging problems in search and rendezvous.
Search Theory: A Game Theoretic Perspective introduces the first integrated approach to Search and Rendezvous from the perspectives of biologists, computer scientists and mathematicians. This contributed volume covers a wide range of topics including rendezvous problems and solutions, rendezvous on graphs, search games on biology, mobility in governed social networks, search and security, and more. Most chapters also include case studies or a survey, in addition to a chapter on the future direction of Search and Rendezvous research.
This book targets researchers and practitioners working in computer science, mathematics and biology as a reference book. Advanced level students focused on these fields will also find this book valuable as a secondary text book or reference.
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Table of contents (18 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Geometric Games
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Front Matter
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Search in Biology
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Front Matter
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Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Search Theory
Book Subtitle: A Game Theoretic Perspective
Editors: Steve Alpern, Robbert Fokkink, Leszek Gąsieniec, Roy Lindelauf, V.S. Subrahmanian
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-6825-7
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
eBook Packages: Computer Science, Computer Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 2013
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4614-6824-0Published: 04 May 2013
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4939-0067-1Published: 17 June 2015
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4614-6825-7Published: 08 July 2014
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 303
Topics: Math Applications in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Game Theory, Economics, Social and Behav. Sciences, Mathematical and Computational Biology, Mathematics in the Humanities and Social Sciences