Title : 
Idempotent method for deception games
         
        
        
            Author_Institution : 
Dept. of Mech. & Aero. Eng., Univ. of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
         
        
        
            fDate : 
June 29 2011-July 1 2011
         
        
        
        
            Abstract : 
In recent years, idempotent methods (specifically, max-plus methods) have been developed for solution of nonlinear control problems. We extend the applicability of idempotent methods to deterministic dynamic games through usage of the min-max distributive property. However, this induces a very high curse-of-complexity. A representation of the space of max-plus hypo-convex functions as a min-max linear space is used to obtain a result which may be used to attenuate this complexity growth. We apply this approach in a game of deception, where one player is searching for certain objects, while the other player may employ deception to hinder that search. The problem is formulated as a dynamic game, where the state space is a max-plus probability simplex.
         
        
            Keywords : 
game theory; nonlinear control systems; deception games; idempotent method; maxplus hypoconvex functions; maxplus methods; minmax distributive property; minmax linear space; nonlinear control problems; Aerodynamics; Aerospace electronics; Algebra; Complexity theory; Convex functions; Games; Sensors;
         
        
        
        
            Conference_Titel : 
American Control Conference (ACC), 2011
         
        
            Conference_Location : 
San Francisco, CA
         
        
        
            Print_ISBN : 
978-1-4577-0080-4
         
        
        
            DOI : 
10.1109/ACC.2011.5990870