Game Models for Cyber-Physical Infrastructures, 2nd Edition

Dear Colleagues,

Critical infrastructures (CIs) provide a multitude of vital services to communities. The protection of CIs has become more important than ever, and the protection of supply chains and complex networks of mutually dependent actors calls for an equally diverse and multidimensional variety of models and mechanisms. These models for crisis management and resilience range from new methods of threat modeling and -intelligence, serious games for disaster preparation, to gamification for self-enforcing security and resilience. These models often use artificial intelligence-assisted security and mechanisms to protect the AI itself, bug-bounty programs, formal methods, resilient distributed ledger systems, and cryptography (e.g., cryptocurrencies) amongst others.

This Special Issue invites contributions from the intersection of game theory and cybersecurity, improving existing or proposing new approaches to establish a systemic view and protection of CIs against large-scale attackers. The work can comprise, but is not limited to, systematic identification of vulnerabilities and risks, control theory for the protection against cascading effects of damage events, heterogeneous game models to cover complex attack patterns like advanced persistent threats, models of bounded rationality to describe human error and protections against this, real-life case studies and lessons learned. In addition, we welcome work on the adversarial use of AI, trustworthy AI and strategic online learning, as well as multi-criteria strategic decision-making and mechanism design for security and useable security.

Dr. Stefan Rass
Dr. Sandra König
Dr. Stefan Schauer
Guest Editors

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