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Optimizing the Configuration of Sensor Networks to Detect Intruders

Brown, Nathanael J.; Jones, Katherine A.; Nozick, Linda K.; Xu, Ningxiong X.

This paper focuses on optimizing the selection and configuration of detection technologies to protect a target of interest. The ability of an intruder to simply reach the target is assumed to be sufficient to consider the security system a failure. To address this problem, we develop a game theoretic model of the strategic interactions between the system owner and a knowledgeable intruder. A decomposition-based exact method is used to solve the resultant model.