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Pursuit and evasion conflicts represent challenging problems with important applications in aerospace and robotics. In pursuit-evasion problems, synthesis of intelligent actions must consider the adversary's potential strategies.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-03-12 Isaac E. Weintraub , Meir Pachter , Eloy Garcia

A model of strategy formulation is used to study how an adaptive attacker learns to overcome a moving target cyber defense. The attacker-defender interaction is modeled as a game in which a defender deploys a temporal platform migration…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2014-08-19 M. L. Winterrose , K. M. Carter , N. Wagner , W. W. Streilein

This work considers a multiplayer reach-avoid game between two adversarial teams in a general convex domain which consists of a target region and a play region. The evasion team, initially lying in the play region, aims to send as many its…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-10-22 Rui Yan , Zongying Shi , Yisheng Zhong

Advanced persistent threats (APT) combine a variety of different attack forms ranging from social engineering to technical exploits. The diversity and usual stealthiness of APT turns them into a central problem of contemporary practical…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-05-03 Stefan Rass , Sandra König , Stefan Schauer

A defender dispatches patrollers to circumambulate a perimeter to guard against potential attacks. The defender decides on the time points to dispatch patrollers and each patroller's direction and speed, as long as the long-run rate…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-11-10 Kyle Y Lin

This paper considers the blocking or football pursuit-evasion differential game. Two pursuers cooperate and try to capture the ball carrying evader as far as possible from the goal line. The evader wishes to be as close as possible to the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-06-09 Eloy Garcia , David W. Casbeer , Meir Pachter

A multiplayer reach-avoid game is a differential game between an attacking team with NA attackers and a defending team with ND defenders playing on a compact domain with obstacles. The attacking team aims to send M of the NA attackers to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-11-03 Mo Chen , Zhengyuan Zhou , Claire J. Tomlin

A fundamental task in mobile robotics is to keep an agent under surveillance using an autonomous robotic platform equipped with a sensing device. Using differential game theory, we study a particular setup of the previous problem. A…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-09-16 Rodrigo Saavedra , Ubaldo Ruiz

In the prior literature on multi-agent area defense games, the assignments of the defenders to the attackers are done based on a cost metric associated only with the interception of the attackers. In contrast to that, this paper presents an…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-24 Vishnu S. Chipade , Xinyi Wang , Dimitra Panagou

This work studies a dynamic, adversarial resource allocation problem in environments modeled as graphs. A blue team of defender robots are deployed in the environment to protect the nodes from a red team of attacker robots. We formulate the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-21 Daigo Shishika , Yue Guan , Michael Dorothy , Vijay Kumar

The pursuit-evasion game is studied for two adversarial active agents, modelled as a deterministic self-steering pursuer and a stochastic, cognitive evader. The pursuer chases the evader by reorienting its propulsion direction with limited…

Biological Physics · Physics 2026-05-29 Segun Goh , Dennis Haustein , Gerhard Gompper

This paper investigates a reach-avoid game between two players with damped double integrator dynamics. An optimal state-feedback strategy is derived using a differential game framework combined with geometric analysis. To facilitate the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-20 Mengxin Lyu , Ruiliang Deng , Zongying Shi , Yisheng Zhong

This paper considers a reach-avoid differential game in three-dimensional space with four equal-speed players. A plane divides the game space into a play subspace and a goal subspace. The evader aims at entering the goal subspace while…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-04-08 Rui Yan , Zongying Shi , Yisheng Zhong

This paper studies a 3D multiplayer reach-avoid differential game with a goal region and a play region. Multiple pursuers defend the goal region by consecutively capturing multiple evaders in the play region. The players have heterogeneous…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-02-17 Rui Yan , Xiaoming Duan , Zongying Shi , Yisheng Zhong , Francesco Bullo

Several moving target defenses (MTDs) to counter adversarial ML attacks have been proposed in recent years. MTDs claim to increase the difficulty for the attacker in conducting attacks by regularly changing certain elements of the defense,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-22 Aqib Rashid , Jose Such

As large language models grow increasingly capable, concerns about their safe deployment have intensified. While numerous alignment strategies aim to restrict harmful behavior, these defenses can still be circumvented through carefully…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Xinbo Wu , Huan Zhang , Abhishek Umrawal , Lav R. Varshney

In this paper we investigate a differential game in which countably many dynamical objects pursue a single one. All the players perform simple motions. The duration of the game is fixed. The controls of a group of pursuers are subject to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-10-10 Mehdi Salimi , Gafurjan Ibragimov , Stefan Siegmund , Somayeh Sharifi

Anomaly detection is a method for discovering unusual and suspicious behavior. In many real-world scenarios, the examined events can be directly linked to the actions of an adversary, such as attacks on computer networks or frauds in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-23 Olga Petrova , Karel Durkota , Galina Alperovich , Karel Horak , Michal Najman , Branislav Bosansky , Viliam Lisy

This article presents a solution to intercept an agile drone by another agile drone carrying a catching net. We formulate the interception as a Competitive Reinforcement Learning problem, where the interceptor and the target drone are…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Timothée Gavin , Simon Lacroix , Murat Bronz

This paper considers a subspace guarding game in high-dimensional space which consists of a play subspace and a target subspace. Two faster defenders cooperate to protect the target subspace by capturing an attacker which strives to enter…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2019-11-19 Rui Yan , Zongying Shi , Yisheng Zhong