Title: Risks People Take and Games People Play

Author(s): Peter Bernard Ladkin

Publication Event: Proceedings of the Twenty-third Safety-Critical Systems Symposium, Bristol, UK

Publication Date: 2015-01-26

Resource URL: https://scsc.uk/r841.pdf

Abstract:

In July 2014, a commercial transport aircraft, Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, in cruise flight over Ukraine, had its flight abruptly terminated through “impacts from a large number of high-energy objects from outside the aircraft”, The suspicion is that it was shot down. Three other commercial aircraft on international flights were in the same control sector at the time; other airlines had chosen to avoid the area. I argue that the kind of risk analysis one must perform to assess such possible security threats cannot be of the IEC 61508 type. I propose Meta-Game Theoretic Analysis, MGTA.