This web-page is dedicated to the game theory application to problems of terrorism. Terrorism modelling is a recent direction of the research. So far there is no unique approach to modelling of terrorists behaviour. Here you can get acquainted with organizations and researchers known for their contribution to the development of terrorism modelling. The most frequent models are also mentioned.

Risk Management Solutions is the world's leading provider of products and services for the quantification and management of catastrophe risks. The company was founded at Stanford University in 1988 and grew rapidly in the 1990s offering technology and services for the management of insurance catastrophe risk associated with natural perils such as earthquakes, hurricanes, and windstorms. Today, RMS is also the leader in risk modeling for man-made disasters associated with acts of terrorism.

Dr. Gordon Woo is a senior risk consultant at RMS and the principal architect of RMS Terrorism Risk Probabilistic Model. He supposes that frequency and severity of terrorists attacks depend crucially on organizational structure. To minimize detection by counter-terrorist forces, advantage may be taken by terrorists of alternative forms of network architecture. The constraints of this network architecture will influence the relative likelihood scenarios favored by terrorist organizations. Finally, Woo reckons that any probabilistic framework for quantifying terrorism risk will ultimately have to involve a measure of expert judgement. To learn more about Gordon Woo and RMS you can visit RMS Official Web-site. Where you can also download articles and publications.

For more than 50 years, the RAND Corporation has pursued its nonprofit mission by conducting research on important and complicated problems. Initially, RAND (the name of which was derived from a contraction of the term research and development) focused on issues of national security. Eventually, RAND expanded its intellectual reserves to offer insight into other areas, such as business, education health, law, and science. For over 30 years, RAND has been a world leader in terrorism research and analysis. As a public service, RAND disseminates all unclassified research as printed documents or online. You can view all Terrorism and Homeland Security Publications available online

Another famous researcher is professor Todd Sandler. He is interested in application of game theory and microeconomics to issues in international relations. In a series of innovative papers since 1983 , he applied theoretic and empirical methods to the study of international terrorism. You can visit Todd Sandler's homepage, where you can learn more about his current teaching and researches and download his articles.

As for the others game theory models in terrorism, one must say that Prisoner's Dilemma is the most frequently used one but with some modifications. One of the most important problems in such models is that often terrorists' behaviour is not rational.

The list of available papers.