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Showing 1 to 20 of 58 for “"Game-theoretic Model"”.
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A game-theoretic model for repeated helicopter allocation between two squads
… become players in a two-person non-zero-sum game. We find the Nash Equilibrium of this game, and use numerical examples to illustrate the benefit of the token system.
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Threat Assessment for Multistage Cyber Attacks in Smart Grid Communication Networks
… investigates an application-oriented stochastic game-theoretic cyber threat assessment framework, which is strongly related to the information security risk management process as standardized in ISO/IEC 27005. The proposed cyber threat assessment framework seeks to address the specific challenges …
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The role of fiscal policy in inertially inflated Argentina
… price instability. This dissertation provides a game-theoretic model of the social conflict theory of inflation and creates cyclical indices of fiscal stance for developing countries suffering from inertial inflation.
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Supply chain transparency and social responsibility : investigating consumer and firm perspectives
… Using incentivized laboratory experiments and a game-theoretic model, in this thesis we study how improved transparency about social responsibility practices in the supply chain can positively impact companies' interactions with both consumers and suppliers. In the first part of this thesis, we …
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Rational secret sharing
… to bridge the fields of Cryptography and Game Theory in order to create more robust protocols that allow for a variety of player types. A keystone functionality used in cryptography is Secret Sharing. While there are several well known, efficient protocols that implement Secret Sharing in …
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Competition and congestion in the National Aviation System : multi-agent, multi-stakeholder approaches for evaluation and mitigation
… framework using data fusion and discrete choice modeling' for generating disaggregate passenger travel data. We characterize the impacts of airline network structures, schedules and operational decisions on passenger delays. We propose a parametric game-theoretic model consistent with the most …
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Strategic deferment: A study of the rogue state, status quo state relationship with a focus on the United States and North Korea
… In the first half of this paper, I present a game-theoretic model that demonstrates the differences between how a rogue state acts with and without nuclear weapons. The second half of this paper is a case study focusing on North Korea, examining how North Korea fits into the model. My analysis …
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Weak states, human rights violations, and the outbreak of civil war.
… The theory is illustrated and formalized in a game-theoretic model and then tested empirically, building on earlier work by Fearon and Laitin (2003a) and Sambanis (2004). The results show that repression is highly significant in both statistical and substantive terms. According to one model, …
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Analysis of the United States pediatric immunization market: A game theoretic approach
… particular interest. This dissertation applies game theory and operations research techniques to analyze the pricing strategies in the United States Pediatric vaccine market. The market is studied from four different aspects. First, integer programming is applied to analyze pricing strategies …
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Buyout prices in online auctions
… in nearly one fourth of them. We formulate a game-theoretic model featuring time-sensitive bidders with independent private valuations and Poisson arrivals but endogenous bidding times in order to answer the following questions: How should buyout prices be set in order to maximize the seller's …
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Essays on airport and airway congestion
… problem. We study this effect by developing a game theoretic model of airline behavior.
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The impact of strategic investment on success of capital-intensive ventures
… industries. Using a bi-variate probit model, this thesis shows that startups backed by corporate venture capital are more likely to be acquired or go public, and that the likelihood of an exit event increases as capital-intensity of the industry magnifies, as measured by the level of …
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Essays in Revenue Management and Dynamic Pricing
… The First topic involves building a mathematical model to analyze the competition between many retailers who can change the price of their respective products in real time. I develop a game-theoretic model for the dynamic price competition where each retailer's objective is to maximize its own …
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Domestic Politics and Conflict Among Rivals: Domestic Incentives for Conflict or Cooperation
This thesis develops a game theoretic model of how the foreign policy preferences of the executive and the government in the legislature interact over the electoral cycle to affect democratic leaders' foreign policy choices and the foreign policy choices of their rivals. When the foreign policy …
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Potential games and competitive scheduling in wireless networks
This thesis studies a game theoretic model for scheduling transmissions among multiple self-interested users in a wireless network with fading. Our model involves a finite number of mobile users transmitting to a common base station under time-varying channel conditions. A distinguishing feature of …
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Word of mouth and marketing : influencing and learning from consumer conversations
… word of mouth transmitted online. We develop a game theoretic model where an incumbent and an entrant that are differentiated in quality compete for the same online market segment. The consumers are uncertain about the entrant's quality, whereas the firms know the value of their products. The …
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Market design opportunities for an evolving power system
… and load-serving entities. First, we develop a game-theoretic model to investigate energy producer strategy in electricity markets with high levels of uncertain renewable energy. We show that increased geographic dispersion of renewable generators can reduce market power and increase social …
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Quantifying the Impact of Defensive Cybersecurity Effort Against Advanced Persistent Threats For Industrial Control Systems
… an actual attack occurs. Utilizing elements of game theory, this project explores strategic defense tactics for countering cybersecurity threats within Industrial Control Systems (ICS) by modeling the offensive and defense interactions between ICS organizations and Advanced Persistent Threats …
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Leveraging Information Sharing for Satellite Navigation and Coordination
… satellites. Our final contribution lies in a game-theoretic model of operator behavior in non-cooperative settings. Space is a competitive environment, and willingness to collaborate is mixed. As a result, we use game theory to obtain strategies to determine maneuvering and timing.
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