• 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 ...
    • Choosing what to protect when attacker resources and asset valuations are uncertain 

      Hausken, Kjell (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2014-07)
      The situation has been modelled where the attacker’s resources are unknown to the defender. Protecting assets presupposes that the defender has some information on the attacker’s resource capabilities. An attacker targets ...
    • Defending against a stockpiling terrorist 

      Hausken, Kjell; Zhuang, Jun (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2011)
      A government defends against a terrorist who attacks repeatedly and stockpiles its resources over time. The government defends an asset and attacks the terrorist’s resources. The terrorist defends its resources and attacks ...
    • Exchange, raiding, and the shadow of the future 

      Hausken, Kjell (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2008-04)
      A two-period exchange model is developed where production decisions in the first period determine the amount of resources available in the second period. Each agent allocates resources to defend its production and attack ...
    • 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 ...
    • Protection vs. separation in parallel non-homogeneous systems 

      Hausken, Kjell; Levitin, Gregory (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2009)
      The article considers strategic defense and attack of a system consisting of N functionally identical parallel elements of n types distinguished by element’s performance. The elements can be separated in order to reduce ...
    • Shield versus sword resource distribution in K-round duels 

      Hausken, Kjell; Levitin, Gregory (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2010-06)
      The paper considers optimal resource distribution between offense and defense in a duel. In each round of the duel two actors exchange attacks distributing the offense resources equally across K rounds. The offense ...
    • Whether to attack growing assets and enterprises today or tomorrow 

      Hausken, Kjell (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2010)
      An asset possessed by a defender grows from the first to the second period and is attacked in both periods. With large growth, there is no attack in the first period. Conflict is eliminated. The attacker postpones the ...