Overview
- Introduces intelligent agents in systems where congestion plays a role, and safety and security are at stake
- Provides improved tools to handle congestion when additionally ensuring safety/security against various threats
- Considers safety or security when applying game theory to a broad definition of congestion which includes all kinds of flows; e.g. road traffic, people, data, information, water, electricity, organisms
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Springer Series in Reliability Engineering (RELIABILITY)
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
Maximizing reader insights into the roles of intelligent agents in networks, air traffic and emergency departments, this volume focuses on congestion in systems where safety and security are at stake, devoting special attention to applying game theoretic analysis of congestion to: protocols in wired and wireless networks; power generation, air transportation and emergency department overcrowding.
Reviewing exhaustively the key recent research into the interactions between game theory, excessive crowding, and safety and security elements, this book establishes a new research angle by illustrating linkages between the different research approaches and serves to lay the foundations for subsequent analysis.
Congestion (excessive crowding) is defined in this work as all kinds of flows; e.g., road/sea/air traffic, people, data, information, water, electricity, and organisms. Analysing systems where congestion occurs – which may be in parallel, series, interlinked, or interdependent, with flows one way or both ways – this book puts forward new congestion models, breaking new ground by introducing game theory and safety/security into proceedings.
Addressing the multiple actors who may hold different concerns regarding system reliability; e.g. one or several terrorists, a government, various local or regional government agencies, or others with stakes for or against system reliability, this book describes how governments and authorities may have the tools to handle congestion, but that these tools need to be improved whilst additionally ensuring safety and security against various threats.
This game-theoretic analysis sets this two volume book apart from the current congestion literature and ensures that the work will be of use to postgraduates, researchers, 3rd/4th-year undergraduates, policy makers, and practitioners.
Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Game Theoretic Analysis of Congestion, Safety and Security
Book Subtitle: Networks, Air Traffic and Emergency Departments
Editors: Kjell Hausken, Jun Zhuang
Series Title: Springer Series in Reliability Engineering
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-13009-5
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-13008-8Published: 15 January 2015
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-36632-6Published: 24 September 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-13009-5Published: 31 December 2014
Series ISSN: 1614-7839
Series E-ISSN: 2196-999X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 310
Number of Illustrations: 56 b/w illustrations, 28 illustrations in colour
Topics: Quality Control, Reliability, Safety and Risk, Systems and Data Security, Game Theory, Economics, Social and Behav. Sciences, Complexity