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- From: tallis@starbase.mitre.org (Hans Tallis)
- Subject: Help me find Don & Melanie
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- Organization: The MITRE Corporation
- Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1993 00:17:47 GMT
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- This is a description of a problem for which I need an efficient solution
- algorithm. Any ideas or hints, please mail to tallis@mitre.org. Thanks,
- --Hans
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- Don and Melanie
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- Don and Melanie, desiring a quiet wedding, need to get from their hotel to the
- chapel without being detected. The paparazzi, sharing one car and housed away
- from the hotel, know that Don and Melanie will take one of N routes from the
- hotel to the chapel. They must plan a route that will quickly intercept each
- of the N routes before Don and Melanie have any chance of getting to the chapel
- successfully. Since the paparazzi know how fast Don and Mel can drive, they
- can predict where the quarry would be at any time along a given route. How do
- they plan their intercept strategy?
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