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Title: Optimal Allocation of Resources for Defense of Simple
Series and Parallel Systems from Determined Adversaries
Authors: Vicki
M. Bier and Vinod Abhichandani,
The
University of Wisconsin
Date: January 2003
Status: working paper
Managing the risks posed by an intelligent and adaptable adversary is different
from many other types of risk management. Thus, risk management in
this context is a problem of game theory rather than decision theory.
In other words, the defender wishes to choose the optimal strategy for
defending against an optimal attack, and vice versa. In this paper,
we apply game theory to help in characterizing optimal defensive strategies
against intentional attacks. The results yield useful insights.
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