Article ID: | iaor20101573 |
Volume: | 144 |
Issue: | 3 |
Start Page Number: | 533 |
End Page Number: | 555 |
Publication Date: | Mar 2010 |
Journal: | Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications |
Authors: | Baptiste P, Della Croce F, Grosso A, T'kindt V |
The question of how best to prosecute the ‘war on terror’ leads to strategic interaction in an intertemporal setting. We consider a nonzero sum differential game between a government and a terrorist organisation. Due to the state-separability of the game we are able to determine Nash and Stackelberg solutions in analytic form. Their comparison as well as the sensitivity analysis deliver interesting insight into the design of efficient measures to combat terror.