Loe Schlicher

Time-dependent Stackelberg Protection Location Games

  • Lotte van Aken
  • Loe Schlicher
    • Categories Applications - OR and Management Sciences, Game Theory Tags , ,

    We study a Stackelberg game in which a government positions rapid response teams and thereafter a terrorist attacks a location on a line segment. We assume the damage associated to such an attack to be time dependent. We show that there exists a subgame perfect Nash equilibrium that balances the possible damage on all intervals … Read more

    Scheduling Bodyguards

  • Loe Schlicher
    • Categories Game Theory Tags , ,

    Security agencies throughout the world use bodyguards to protect government officials and public figures. In this paper, we consider a two-person zero-sum game between a defender who allocates such bodyguards to protect several targets and an attacker who chooses one target to attack. Because the number of feasible bodyguard allocations grows quickly as either the … Read more

    Cooperative locker locations games

  • Fabio Mercurio
  • Loe Schlicher
  • S.U.K Rohmer
  • Tom Van Woensel
    • Categories Applications - OR and Management Sciences, Game Theory, Other Topics Tags , ,

    More and more people are ordering products online, having their parcels delivered to their homes. This leads to more congestion, which negatively impacts the environment as well as public health and safety. To reduce these negative impacts, carriers can use parcel lockers to consolidate and serve their customers. The implementation of a locker network can, … Read more