Scientists at the University of Murcia specialists in game theory have made a study on the possibilities of obtaining the maximum profit that has a "spy" that gathers information and sells it to competing organizations.
The study, published in the journal "European Journal of Operational Research", examines the work of this "spy", which is confidential information for their clients, "who sells it, getting each of them a different payment, which determines the order of priority for him. "
The researchers also note that "in turn, counter-intelligence services seek to avoid these leaks, which will get invalidating any of the items of information."
In this paper, by Naomi teachers Zoro, Zoro and María José Procopio Fernandez studied search problems that meet certain characteristics and can be modeled as two-person games, where the gain is equal to a loss otherwise.
Source: Universidad de Murcia