Solving Defender-Attacker-Defender Models for Infrastructure Defense

Abstract

This paper (a) describes a defender-attacker-defender sequential game model (DAD) to plan defenses for an infrastructure system that will enhance that system's resilience against attacks by an intelligent adversary, (b) describes a realistic formulation of DAD for defending a transportation network, (c) develops a decomposition algorithm for solving this instance of DAD and others, and (d) demonstrates the solution of a small transportation-network example. A DAD model generally evaluates system operation through the solution of an optimization model, and the decomposition algorithm developed here requires only that this system-operation model be continuous and convex. For example, our transportation-network example incorporates a congestion model with a (convex) nonlinear objective function and linear constraints.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 2011
Accession Number
ADA582412

Entities

People

  • David L. Alderson
  • Gerald G. Jerry Brown
  • R. Kevin Wood
  • W. M. Carlyle

Organizations

  • Naval Postgraduate School

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Cyber
  • Engineered Resilient Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Algorithms
  • Congestion
  • Decomposition
  • Department Of Homeland Security
  • Electric Power
  • Flow Network
  • Graphs
  • Infrastructure
  • Operations Research
  • Resilience
  • Risk
  • Risk Analysis
  • Security
  • Sequential Games
  • Transportation
  • Travel Time
  • Vulnerability

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

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