This paper examines conflicts in which performance is measured by the players' success or
failure in multiple component conflicts, commonly termed “battlefields”. In multi-battlefield …

This article examines the influence of focality in Colonel Blotto games with a lottery contest
success function (CSF), where the equilibrium is unique and in pure strategies. We …

It is commonly accepted in the literature that, when facing with a strategic terrorist, the
government can be better off by manipulating the terrorist's target selection with exposing …

We analyze the strategic allocation of resources across two contests as in the canonical
Colonel Blotto game. In the games we study, two players simultaneously allocate their forces …

We consider a stochastic version of the well-known Blotto game, called the gladiator game.
In this zero-sum allocation game two teams of gladiators engage in a sequence of one-on …

We consider a path guarding problem in dynamic Defender-Attacker Blotto games (dDAB),
where a team of robots must defend a path in a graph against adversarial agents. Multi-robot …

How to strategically allocate resources against opponents is a central component in
adversarial decision-making. Moreover, informational asymmetries often exist between …

We study collective action under adverse incentives: each member of the group has a given
budget ('use-it-or-lose-it') that is private information and can be used for contributions to …

We study a general scenario of simultaneous contests that allocate prizes based on equal
sharing: each contest awards its prize to all players who satisfy some contest-specific …

The General Lotto game is a popular variant of the famous Colonel Blotto game, in which
two opposing players allocate limited resources over many battlefields. In this paper, we …