Game theory for security: Key algorithmic principles, deployed systems, lessons learned

2012 50th Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing, Allerton 2012

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 1822-1829

  Tambe, Milind ^a   Jain, Manish ^a   Pita, James Adam ^a   Jiang, Albert Xin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN STACKELBERG GAMES; BOUNDED RATIONALITY; COMPUTATIONAL GAME THEORIES; DEPLOYED SYSTEMS; LARGE-SCALE PROBLEM; MULTIPLE APPLICATIONS; RESEARCH CHALLENGES; SECURITY DOMAINS;

ALGORITHMS; COMMUNICATION; RESEARCH;

GAME THEORY;

EID: 84875722548     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/Allerton.2012.6483443     Document Type: Conference Paper

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