This book systematically studies how game theory can be used to improve
security in chemical industrial areas, capturing the intelligent
interactions between security managers and potential adversaries. The
recent unfortunate terrorist attacks on critical infrastructures show
that adversaries are intelligent and strategic. Game theoretic models
have been extensively used in some domains to model these strategic
adversaries. However, there is a lack of such advanced models to be
employed by chemical security managers.
In this book, game theoretic models for protecting chemical plants as
well as clusters are proposed. Different equilibrium concepts are
explored, with user-friendly explanation of how to reflect them to
realistic cases. Based on efficient analysis of the properties of
security issues in chemical plants/clusters, models in this book are
capable to support resources allocations, cost-effectiveness analysis,
cooperation incentives and alike.