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Inspection games with local and global allocation bounds

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  • Yael Deutsch
  • Boaz Golany
  • Noam Goldberg
  • Uriel G. Rothblum

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This article discusses a two‐player noncooperative nonzero‐sum inspection game. There are multiple sites that are subject to potential inspection by the first player (an inspector). The second player (potentially a violator) has to choose a vector of violation probabilities over the sites, so that the sum of these probabilities do not exceed one. An efficient method is introduced to compute all Nash equilibria parametrically in the amount of resource that is available to the inspector. Sensitivity analysis reveals nonmonotonicity of the equilibrium utility of the inspector, considered as a function of the amount of resource that is available to it; a phenomenon which is a variant of the well‐known Braess paradox. © 2013 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Naval Research Logistics, 2013

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  • Yael Deutsch & Boaz Golany & Noam Goldberg & Uriel G. Rothblum, 2013. "Inspection games with local and global allocation bounds," Naval Research Logistics (NRL), John Wiley & Sons, vol. 60(2), pages 125-140, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:wly:navres:v:60:y:2013:i:2:p:125-140
    DOI: 10.1002/nav.21524
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    1. Deutsch, Yael & Golany, Boaz & Rothblum, Uriel G., 2011. "Determining all Nash equilibria in a (bi-linear) inspection game," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 215(2), pages 422-430, December.
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    1. Bernhard von Stengel, 2016. "Recursive Inspection Games," Mathematics of Operations Research, INFORMS, vol. 41(3), pages 935-952, August.
    2. Noam Goldberg, 2017. "Non‐zero‐sum nonlinear network path interdiction with an application to inspection in terror networks," Naval Research Logistics (NRL), John Wiley & Sons, vol. 64(2), pages 139-153, March.
    3. Deutsch, Yael & Goldberg, Noam & Perlman, Yael, 2019. "Incorporating monitoring technology and on-site inspections into an n-person inspection game," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 274(2), pages 627-637.
    4. Yael Deutsch & Boaz Golany, 2016. "Multiple agents finitely repeated inspection game with dismissals," Annals of Operations Research, Springer, vol. 237(1), pages 7-26, February.
    5. Deutsch, Yael, 2021. "A polynomial-time method to compute all Nash equilibria solutions of a general two-person inspection game," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 288(3), pages 1036-1052.

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