Dynamic Games and Applications - Call for Papers
Special Issue on Advances on Pursuit and Evasion Games and Applications
Lead Guest Editor:
Massimiliano Ferrara, Department of Law, Economics and Human Sciences, Decisions_LAB, University “Mediterranea” of Reggio Calabria, Italy & ICRIOS, Bocconi University, Milan, Italy massimiliano.ferrara@unirc.it (this opens in a new tab)
Guest Editors:
Gafurjan Ibragimov, Institute of Mathematics of the Academy of Science of Uzbekistan, Tashkent city, Uzbekistan, ibragimov.math@gmail.com (this opens in a new tab)
Shravan Luckraz, University of Nottingham Ningbo China, Zhejiang, China, (this opens in a new tab)shravan.luckraz@nottingham.edu.cn (this opens in a new tab)
Bruno Antonio Pansera, Department of Law, Economics and Human Sciences, Decisions_LAB, University “Mediterranea” of Reggio Calabria, Italy, bruno.pansera@unirc.it (this opens in a new tab)
The problem of “The lion and The Man” was first proposed by Rado in 1925 and solved by Besicovitch. Following Besicovitch’s work, many variants and generalizations of this game have been studied in the literature. It is the subsequent breakthrough by Isaacs, who proposed the Homicidal Chauffeur game, that is well-known in the differential game community. To celebrate the forthcoming 100th anniversary of the Lion and the Man problem, we would like to propose a special issue of Dynamic Games and Applications, dedicated to pursuit-evasion games and its applications in sciences and engineering.
Pursuit-evasion problems can take different forms and have been studied in a wide range of areas of Mathematics (e.g. dynamical systems, partial differential equations, topology, optimal control theory, graph theory and several others). The solutions to these problems can offer a general mathematical framework that formalizes the modelling and analysis of conflict with the aim of developing important applications in different areas such as surveillance, navigation, analysis of biological behaviors, combat operations, aerospace, robotic engineering and theoretical computer science.
This special issue is aimed at bringing together different approaches from various fields of Mathematics to model and solve new pursuit-evasion problems and/or to develop novel applications of existing results. It will also consider survey articles of exceptional merit.
Topics include but are not limited to the following:
- Control theory and theory of the pursuit
- Pursuit-Evasion differential games with unbounded controls
- Linear pursuit games
- Stochastic pursuit-evasion diffrential games
- Evolutionary pursuit-evasion games
- Applications of pursuit-evasion differential games to biology, computer science, economics, engineering, management science, operations research and political science
- Pursuit-Evasion games in missile combats, aerospace engineering and robotics
- Zero-sum differential games
- Pursuit-Evasion differential games with incomplete information
- The game of cops and robbers
- Pursuit-Evasion games on topological spaces
- Pursuit and evasion differential games on graphs
- Pursuit and evasion differential games in Hilbert spaces
- Discrete pursuit and evasion games.
Submission deadline: December 15, 2024
Publication date: December 2025
Earlier submission is encouraged, and papers will appear online following acceptance in advance of the production of the full special issue. Papers requiring several major revision rounds will be redirected to regular issues. Each manuscript will be peer-reviewed according to the editorial policy of Dynamic Games and Applications.
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- (this opens in a new tab)submit your manuscript choose the Special Issue (this opens in a new tab)
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