Game Models for Cyber-Physical Infrastructures

Dear Colleagues,

Contemporary information technology infrastructures are becoming increasingly complex, interconnected and employ a strongly growing variety of different assets and (electronic) gadgets. This trend towards the Internet of things creates new challenges and opportunities on both sides, for the defender and the attacker, which are largely unexplored so far. The power of game theory to model complex interactions between entities with conflicting interests has long been recognized for security, but game theoretic approaches to the complex domain of advanced persistent threats are still rare. The special issue therefore calls for work on modeling and complex multi-stage attacks, that can involve cyber-attacks, physical intrusion, as well as combinations and variations thereof. Accurate models are, therefore, expectedly as heterogeneous, and combining different models to describe the complex circumstances that make infrastructures vulnerable is a demanding challenge.

The Special Issue is also open to receiving regular submissions that discuss a relevant topic.

Dr. Stefan Rass
Dr. Quanyan Zhu
Guest Editors

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