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Note: Two rendezvous search problems on the line

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A new upper bound is obtained for the two‐person symmetric rendezvous value on the real line when the distribution function of their initial distance apart is bounded. A second result shows that if three players are placed randomly on adjacent integers on the real line facing in random directions and able to move at a speed of at most 1, then they can ensure a three‐way meeting time of at most 7/2; the fact that 7/2 is a best possible result follows from work already in the literature. © 1999 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Naval Research Logistics 46: 335–340, 1999

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  • Vic Baston, 1999. "Note: Two rendezvous search problems on the line," Naval Research Logistics (NRL), John Wiley & Sons, vol. 46(3), pages 335-340, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:wly:navres:v:46:y:1999:i:3:p:335-340
    DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1520-6750(199904)46:33.0.CO;2-Q
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    1. Wei Shi Lim & Steve Alpern & Anatole Beck, 1997. "Rendezvous Search on the Line with More Than Two Players," Operations Research, INFORMS, vol. 45(3), pages 357-364, June.
    2. Alpern, Steve & Beck, Anatole, 1997. "Rendezvous search on the line with bounded resources: expected time minimization," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 101(3), pages 588-597, September.
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