Acid – a despicable and offensive weapon

A Combined Offensive/Defensive Network Model

Most literature on network modeling takes a functional perspective. That is, it models the network based on the needs the network must serve. As information assurance has risen as a functional need, the network models have added the need for a protective stance. In almost all instances, such a stance has been defined in terms of firewalls. As cyberspace becomes the next sphere of warfare, we mu...

human, weapon and war

the history of mankind is intertwined with war. what distinguishes man from other creatures is his ability to dominate and capture the nature; he accomplishes this though using his rationale and making tools which set the ground for production and accumulation of capital. to protect his benefits and accomplish his desire for dominance, man creates weapons which become more developed parallel to...

A mighty weapon: steam sterilization.

Partitioning a graph into offensive k-alliances

A defensive k-alliance in a graph is a set S of vertices with the property that every vertex in S has at least k more neighbors in S than it has outside of S. A defensive k-alliance S is called global if it forms a dominating set. In this paper we study the problem of partitioning the vertex set of a graph into (global) defensive k-alliances. The (global) defensive k-alliance partition number o...

Offensive alliances in graphs

A set S is an offensive alliance if for every vertex v in its boundary N(S)−S it holds that the majority of vertices in v’s closed neighbourhood are in S. The offensive alliance number is the minimum cardinality of an offensive alliance. In this paper we explore the bounds on the offensive alliance and the strong offensive alliance numbers (where a strict majority is required). In particular, w...