• Active vs. passive defense against a strategic attacker 

      Hausken, Kjell; Levitin, Gregory (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2011)
      The article analyzes how a defender determines a balance between protecting an object (passive defense) and striking preventively against an attacker seeking to destroy the object (active defense). The attacker analogously ...
    • Game theoretic analysis of two-period-dependent degraded multistate reliability systems 

      Hausken, Kjell (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2011)
      A system of two components is analyzed as a two-period game. After period 1 the system can be fully operational, in two states of intermediate degradation, or fail. Analogously to changing failure rates in dependent systems ...
    • On the impossibility of deterrence in sequential Colonel Blotto games 

      Hausken, Kjell (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2012-06)
      A sequential Colonel Blotto and rent seeking game with fixed and variable resources is analyzed. With fixed resources, which is the assumption in Colonel Blotto games, we show for the common ratio form contest success ...