The Vocabulary For Differential Games

Some readers may be applications oriented. They expect the theory of differential games to provide them with tools that will enable them to model and analyze real life problems in a simple and meaningful way. The motivation of R. Isaacs [Isa75], for example, in formulating the Homicidal Chauffeur game was to use it as a simplified model for a nontrivial case of air-combat where a slow maneuverable airplane is pursued by a faster but less maneuverable aircraft.