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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 cyberphysical systems and critical infrastructures such as electrical power systems, financial services, transportation, data centers, and communication networks.

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  1. Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia

    Tansu Alpcan

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  1. Electrical and Computer Engineering, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA

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  2. Automation and Control Solutions, Honeywell, Golden Valley, MN, USA

    Tariq Samad

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  1. Coordinated Science Laboratory and Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA

    Tamer BaÅŸar

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Alpcan, T. (2019). 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_37-2

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    Game Theory for Security
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    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-5102-9_37-2

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