Reasons for secrecy and deception in homeland-security resource allocation.

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Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, University at Buffalo, the State University of New York, NY 14260, USA.

Published: December 2010

In this article, we explore reasons that a defender might prefer secrecy or deception about her defensive resource allocations, rather than disclosure, in a homeland-security context. Our observations not only summarize and synthesize the results of existing game-theoretic work, but also provide intuitions about promising future research directions.

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