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From Sabotage Games to Border Protection

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Sabotage games on a graph involve Runner who wants to travel between two given vertices and Blocker who aims to prevent Runner from arriving at his destination by destroying edges. This paper introduces and studies several generalizations of sabotage games. First, it completely characterizes games with multiple destinations on weighted trees for both local and global cutting rules of arbitrary capacity, using an algorithmic labeling procedure. Second, it introduces the transformation procedure that associates a weighted tree with any weighted graph. The procedure allows complete characterization of games on weighted graphs for local cutting rules of arbitrary capacity and provides sufficient conditions for Blocker to win for global cutting rules. The applications of sabotage games to the issue of border security are discussed.

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  • Kvasov, Dmitriy, 2015. "From Sabotage Games to Border Protection," CEI Working Paper Series 2015-2, Center for Economic Institutions, Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University.
    • Handle: RePEc:hit:hitcei:2015-2
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    Keywords

    sabotage games; games on graphs; dynamic graph reliability; network interdiction; border security;
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    JEL classification:

    • C72 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Game Theory and Bargaining Theory - - - Noncooperative Games
    • C73 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Game Theory and Bargaining Theory - - - Stochastic and Dynamic Games; Evolutionary Games
    • D85 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Network Formation

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