On the inspection game

✍ Scribed by Thomas S. Ferguson; Costis Melolidakis

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1998
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 58 KB
• Volume: 45
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0894-069X
• DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1520-6750(199804)45:3<327::aid-nav6>3.0.co;2-9

✦ Synopsis

The Inspection Game is a multistage game between a customs inspector and a smuggler, first studied by Melvin Dresher and Michael Maschler in the 1960s. An extension allowing the smuggler to act more than once, treated by Sakaguchi in a special case, is solved. Also, a more natural version of Sakaguchi's problem is solved in the special case where the smuggler may act at each stage.