In this article, we review the literature which proposes attacker-defender games to protect
against strategic adversarial threats. More specifically, we follow the systematic literature …

Police patrol is an effective crime prevention tool and boosts public confidence in urban
security. Many interesting decision making problems appear in route design, resource …

To strengthen border patrol measures, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are gradually used
in many countries to detect illegal entries on borders. However, how to efficiently deploy …

An approach based on game theory is proposed to schedule security patrolling for a
pipeline system. The method proposes numbers of patrolling paths according to the risk of …

Crime is responsible for major financial losses and serious harm to the well-being of
individuals, and, hence, a crucial task of police operations is effective patrolling. Yet, in …

In this work we formulate a Stackelberg Security Game that coordinates resources in a
border patrol problem. In this security domain, resources from different precincts have to be …

The sea crossing from Libya to Italy is one of the world's most dangerous and politically
contentious migration routes, and yet over half a million people have attempted the crossing …

Chemical clusters can be attractive targets for terrorism, due to the extreme importance of
them as well as due to the existence of dangerous materials. Patrolling is scheduled for …

We define and study the following two-player game on a graph G. Let k∈ N⁎. A set of k
guards is occupying some vertices of G while one spy is standing at some node. At each …

On a given network, a Patroller and Attacker play the following win–lose game: The Patroller
adopts a periodic walk on the network while the Attacker chooses a node and two …