Passive versus aggressive strategies: A game theoretic analysis of military and immune defense

IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Part A:Systems and Humans

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 583-588

  Bewick, Sharon ^a   Zhang, Mingjun ^a   Hamel, William ^a  

^a University of Tennessee   (United States)

Author keywords

Differential game theory; immune system; military counterterrorist initiatives; modeling; simulation

Indexed keywords

DIFFERENTIAL GAME THEORY; IMMUNE SYSTEM; MILITARY COUNTERTERRORIST INITIATIVES; MODELING; SIMULATION;

BIOLOGICAL SYSTEMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMMUNOLOGY;

GAME THEORY;

EID: 79955475468     PISSN: 10834427     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSMCA.2010.2087748     Document Type: Article

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