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Game Theory for Security

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Game theory provides a mature mathematical foundation for making security decisions in a principled manner. Security games help formalizing security problems and decisions using quantitative models. The resulting analytical frameworks lead to better allocation of limited resources and result in more informed responses to security problems in complex systems and organizations. The game-theoretic approach to security is applicable to a wide variety of systems and critical infrastructures such as electricity, water, financial services, and communication networks.

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    Tansu Alpcan

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Alpcan, T. (2013). Game Theory for Security. In: Baillieul, J., Samad, T. (eds) Encyclopedia of Systems and Control. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-5102-9_37-1

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