Defense against an opportunistic challenger: theory and experiments

DOI10.1016/J.EJOR.2014.10.009MaRDI QIDQ2630102zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Cary A. Deck, Joshua Foster, Hongwei Song

Publication date 25 July 2016

Published in European Journal of Operational Research (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejor.2014.10.009

zbMATH Keywords

contestsdefense alliancesexperimentsgame theorypsychology of decisions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Experimental studies (91A90) Auctions, bargaining, bidding and selling, and other market models (91B26)

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• Defense and attack of performance-sharing common bus systems
• Defending Against Opportunistic Criminals: New Game-Theoretic Frameworks and Algorithms
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• Brothers in arms -- an experiment on the alliance puzzle
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• A contest model of balancing
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