Published in:Jülich : Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH Zentralbibliothek, Verlag, Schriften des Forschungszentrums Jülich. Reihe Schlüsseltechnologien / Key Technologies 220, VIII, 455 S. (2020).
Language:
English
ISBN:
978-3-95806-475-1
ISSN:
1866-1807
Origination:
University thesis:
Footnote:
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Description:
Having worked for so many years in the field of modelling inspections, in particular in inspections over time, we felt a need for writing a monograph on this subject for basically two reasons. In the last thirty years a large number of game theoretical models have been developed and analysed, which describe similar or related inspection problems. As a consequence it has become increasingly difficult to maintain an overview on what exists already, how these models are related to each other and where possible gaps might exist. More than that are in many cases the assumptions for these models not documented very well, to say the least, which means that in particular for practitioners, who wants to use the results of the analyses of these models, it is very difficult to decide whether or not they describe their inspection problems and procedures properly. This monograph tries to solve these two kinds of problems. Most of the inspection models presented here, but not all of them, have been published already elsewhere, sometimes in conference proceedings, sometimes as PhD dissertations or just as technical reports which means, not easily accessible. Also, as indicated above, underlying assumptions were not complete or lacking at all, and references to related work was missing. But of course there are also publications in which assumptions, analyses and results are so carefully described that we simply, with due reference, used their wording. Beyond the collection of published inspection models over time we present $\textit{nine}$ new inspection models which close obvious gaps and - this we consider most important - we structure the material: We develop a hierarchy of assumptions for all models, and we describe equivalences, relations and differences between game theoretical models and their solutions. When talking about mathematical models, the question of their applicability will be raised immediately. Without discussing this issue here in detail - this will be done in the main text - it should be answered already ...