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A Functional Equation of Tail-balance for Continuous Signals in the Condorcet Jury Theorem
Steve Alpern, Bo Chen, Adam J. Ostaszewski
Consider an odd-sized jury, which determines a majority verdict between two equiprobable states of Nature. If each juror independently receives a binary signal identifying the corr…
Search and Delivery Man Problems: When Are Depth-First Paths Optimal?
Steve Alpern, Thomas Lidbetter
Let h be a probability measure on the nodes and arcs of a network Q, viewed either as the location of a hidden object to be found or as the continuous distribution of customers rec…
The Uniformed Patroller Game
Steve Alpern, Stamatios Katsikas
In the recently introduced network patrolling game, an Attacker carries out an attack on a node of her choice, for a given number m of consecutive periods. The parameter m indicate…
The Uniformed Patroller Game
Steve Alpern, Paul Chleboun, Stamatios Katsikas
Patrolling Games were introduced by Alpern, Morton and Papadaki (2011) to model the adversarial problem where a mobile Patroller can thwart an attack at some location only by visit…
A Game Model of Search and Pursuit
Steve Alpern, Viciano Lee
Shmuel Gal and Jerome Casas have recently introduced a game theoretic model that combines search and pursuit by a predator for a prey animal. The prey (hider) can hide in a finite…
A Short Solution to the Many-Player Silent Duel with Arbitrary Consolation Prize
Steve Alpern, J. V. Howard
The classical constant-sum 'silent duel' game had two antagonistic marksmen walking towards each other. A more friendly formulation has two equally skilled marksmen approaching tar…