Article ID: | iaor2017649 |
Volume: | 64 |
Issue: | 6 |
Start Page Number: | 1256 |
End Page Number: | 1269 |
Publication Date: | Dec 2016 |
Journal: | Operations Research |
Authors: | Alpern Steve, Morton Alec, Papadaki Katerina, Lidbetter Thomas |
Keywords: | networks, security |
Patrolling games were recently introduced to model the problem of protecting the nodes of a network from an attack. Time is discrete and in each time unit the Patroller can stay at the same node or move to an adjacent node. The Attacker chooses when to attack and which node to attack and needs