Inspired by recent terrorist attacks on cereal production fields in Iraq, we introduce and study two types of Stackelberg games. In these games, the leader wants to maximize its (e.g., cereal), while follower tries destroy this as much possible. first model, can protect spreading his resources over multiple regions. second also decide allocate some extra protection For both are interested a fol...

We propose that a leadership identity is coconstructed in organizations when individuals claim and grant leader and follower identities in their social interactions. Through this claiming-granting process, individuals internalize an identity as leader or follower, and those identities become relationally recognized through reciprocal role adoption and collectively endorsed within the organizati...

Abstract The paper presents a methodology for analyzing the stability of formations of interconnected vehicles that are based on leader-follower relations. The methodology exploits input-to-state stability properties of basic leader-follower interconnections and builds on the propagation of these properties throughout the network to establish global stability bounds. This is formalized using th...

This aim of this paper is to provide the immune particle swarm optimization (IPSO) algorithm for solving single-leader–multi-follower game (SLMFG). Through cooperating with (PSO) and an memory mechanism, IPSO designed. Furthermore, we define efficient Nash equilibrium from perspective mathematical economics, which maximizes social welfare further refines number equilibria. In end, numerical exp...

It is now widely accepted that in many situations where classifiers are deployed, adversaries deliberately manipulate data in order to reduce the classifier’s accuracy. The most prominent example is email spam, where spammers routinely modify emails to get past classifier-based spam filters. In this paper we begin by modeling the interaction between the adversary and the data miner as a finite ...

The Urban Rail Transit (URT) has been one of the major trip modes in cities worldwide. As the passengers arrive at variable rates in different time slots, e.g., rush and non-rush hours, the departure frequency at a site directly relates to perceived service quality of passengers; the high departure frequency, however, incurs more operation cost to URT. Therefore, a tradeoff between the interest...

This paper is concerned with rigid formations of mobile autonomous agents using a leader-follower structure. A formation is a group of agents moving in real 2or 3dimensional space. A formation is called rigid if the distance between each pair of agents does not change over time under ideal conditions. Sensing/communication links between agents are used to maintain a rigid formation. Two agents ...

Previous research indicated that leader moral identity (MI; i.e., leaders' self-definition in terms of moral attributes) predicts to what extent followers perceive their leader as ethical (i.e., demonstrating and promoting ethical conduct in the organization). Leadership, however, is a relational process that involves leaders and followers. Building on this understanding, we hypothesized that f...

We propose a game-theoretic model in which one national-brand manufacturer, acting as a leader, maximizes her own profit and one retailer, selling the national brand and her private label and acting as a follower, maximizes her category profit. We characterize the resulting Stackelberg equilibrium in terms of the amount of shelf space allocated to these brands as well as their prices. The resul...

In some urban transit systems, passengers are legally required to purchase tickets before entering but are not physically forced to do so. Instead, patrol units move about through the transit system, inspecting tickets of passengers, who face fines for fare evasion. This setting yields the problem of computing optimal patrol strategies satisfying certain temporal and spacial constraints, to det...