Overview
- The first book to apply game-theoretic models and reliability theory to defending infrastructure against intelligent attacks
- Demonstrates attack-defense models that avoid the mathematical quagmire of full game-theoretic modeling
- Applicable to all infrastructure arenas – networked infrastructures such as oil pipelines or electric grids; built infrastructures such as buildings and stadiums; information infrastructures such as flight control or civil defense; and production, processing and distribution supply chains
Part of the book series: International Series in Operations Research & Management Science (ISOR, volume 128)
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
Game Theoretic Risk Analysis of Security Threats introduces reliability and risk analysis in the face of threats by intelligent agents. More specifically, game-theoretic models are developed for identifying optimal and/or equilibrium defense and attack strategies in systems of varying degrees of complexity. The book covers applications to networks, including problems in both telecommunications and transportation. However, the book’s primary focus is to integrate game theory and reliability methodologies into a set of techniques to predict, detect, diminish, and stop intentional attacks at targets that vary in complexity. In this book, Bier and Azaiez highlight work by researchers who combine reliability and risk analysis with game theory methods to create a set of functional tools that can be used to offset intentional, intelligent threats (including threats of terrorism and war). These tools will help to address problems of global security and facilitate more cost-effective defensive investments.
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“This book is a collection of several articles on the analysis of defending infrastructure against terrorism attacks by means of game theory and reliability theory. … well written and it can be useful for researchers in this field. It not only provides the state-of-the-art review of attack–defend models but also describes the algorithms in detail.” (J. Li, Journal of the Operational Research Society, Vol. 61 (12), 2010)Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Game Theoretic Risk Analysis of Security Threats
Editors: Vicki M. M. Bier, M. Naceur Azaiez
Series Title: International Series in Operations Research & Management Science
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-87767-9
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag US 2009
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-387-87766-2Published: 04 December 2008
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4419-4688-1Published: 14 December 2011
eBook ISBN: 978-0-387-87767-9Published: 20 October 2008
Series ISSN: 0884-8289
Series E-ISSN: 2214-7934
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VI, 242
Topics: Quality Control, Reliability, Safety and Risk, Game Theory, Economics, Social and Behav. Sciences, Applications of Mathematics, Industrial and Production Engineering, Operations Research/Decision Theory, Manufacturing, Machines, Tools, Processes