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When actors in a social network interact, it usually means they have some general goal towards which they are collaborating. This could be a research collaboration in a company or a foursome planning a golf game. We call such groups…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-02-17 Mark K. Goldberg , Mykola Hayvanovych , Malik Magdon-Ismail , William A. Wallace

This paper introduces a new attack on recent messaging systems that protect communication metadata. The main observation is that if an adversary manages to compromise a user's friend, it can use this compromised friend to learn information…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-10-25 Sebastian Angel , David Lazar , Ioanna Tzialla

As AI agents are increasingly adopted to collaborate on complex objectives, ensuring the security of autonomous multi-agent systems becomes crucial. We develop simulations of agents collaborating on shared objectives to study these security…

This paper introduces a multi-round interaction problem with privacy constraints between two agents that observe correlated data. The agents alternately share data with one another for a total of K rounds such that each agent initiates…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-10-04 Bahman Moraffah , Lalitha Sankar

The significance of the DDoS problem and the increased occurrence, sophistication and strength of attacks has led to the dawn of numerous prevention mechanisms. Each proposed prevention mechanism has some unique advantages and disadvantages…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2012-08-20 B. B. Gupta , R. C. Joshi , Manoj Misra

A major limitation of open P2P networks is the lack of strong identities. This allows any agent to attack the system by creating multiple false personas, thereby disrupting the overlay network's connectivity and sabotaging its operation. In…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-10-15 Saar Tochner , Aviv Zohar

Multi-agent systems composed of large generative models are rapidly moving from laboratory prototypes to real-world deployments, where they jointly plan, negotiate, and allocate shared resources to solve complex tasks. While such systems…

Currently the Dempster-Shafer based algorithm and Uniform Random Probability based algorithm are the preferred method of resolving security games, in which defenders are able to identify attackers and only strategy remained ambiguous.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2015-08-11 Hossein Khani , Mohsen Afsharchi

Distributed optimization finds applications in large-scale machine learning, data processing and classification over multi-agent networks. In real-world scenarios, the communication network of agents may encounter latency that may affect…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-06 Mohammadreza Doostmohammadian , Narahari Kasagatta Ramesh , Alireza Aghasi

In this paper, we propose a protocol that preserves (statistical) privacy of agents' costs in peer-to-peer distributed optimization against a passive adversary that corrupts certain number of agents in the network. The proposed protocol…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2019-05-03 Nirupam Gupta , Nikhil Chopra

In multiplayer games with sequential decision-making, self-interested players form dynamic coalitions to achieve most-preferred temporal goals beyond their individual capabilities. We introduce a novel procedure to synthesize strategies…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-01-31 A. Kaan Ata Yilmaz , Abhishek Kulkarni , Ufuk Topcu

Safe multi-agent coordination in uncertain environments can benefit from learning constraints from other agents. Implicitly communicating safety constraints through actions is a promising approach, allowing agents to coordinate and maintain…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-06 Minh Nguyen , Jingqi Li , Gechen Qu , Claire J. Tomlin

Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attacks are usually launched through the $botnet$, an "army" of compromised nodes hidden in the network. Inferential tools for DDoS mitigation should accordingly enable an early and reliable…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-09-12 Vincenzo Matta , Mario Di Mauro , Maurizio Longo

Stochastic multi-agent systems are a central modeling framework for autonomous controllers, communication protocols, and cyber-physical infrastructures. In many such systems, however, transition probabilities are only estimated from data…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Raphaël Berthon , Joost-Pieter Katoen , Munyque Mittelmann , Aniello Murano

This paper is concerned with the problem of controlling a system of constrained dynamic subsystems in a way that balances the performance degradation of decentralized control with the practical cost of centralized control. We propose a…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-29 Pablo R Baldivieso-Monasterios , Paul A Trodden

Learning to cooperate with friends and compete with foes is a key component of multi-agent reinforcement learning. Typically to do so, one requires access to either a model of or interaction with the other agent(s). Here we show how to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-01-03 DJ Strouse , Max Kleiman-Weiner , Josh Tenenbaum , Matt Botvinick , David Schwab

Consensus and cluster forming of multiagent systems in the face of jamming attacks along with reactive recovery actions by a defender are discussed. The attacker is capable to disable some of the edges of the network with the objective to…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-27 Yurid Nugraha , Ahmet Cetinkaya , Tomohisa Hayakawa , Hideaki Ishii , Quanyan Zhu

Motivated by applications where privacy is important, we consider planning problems for robots acting in the presence of an observer. We first formulate and then solve planning problems subject to stipulations on the information divulged…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-07-19 Yulin Zhang , Dylan A. Shell , Jason M. O'Kane

The formal study of coalition formation in multi-agent systems is typically realized in the framework of hedonic games, which originate from economic theory. The main focus of this branch of research has been on the existence and the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-11-18 Felix Brandt , Martin Bullinger , Anaëlle Wilczynski

An Artificial Intelligence (AI) agent is a software entity that autonomously performs tasks or makes decisions based on pre-defined objectives and data inputs. AI agents, capable of perceiving user inputs, reasoning and planning tasks, and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Zehang Deng , Yongjian Guo , Changzhou Han , Wanlun Ma , Junwu Xiong , Sheng Wen , Yang Xiang