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We study the security of large-scale cyber-physical systems (CPS) consisting of multiple interdependent subsystems, each managed by a different defender. Defenders invest their security budgets with the goal of thwarting the spread of cyber…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-04-09 Mustafa Abdallah , Daniel Woods , Parinaz Naghizadeh , Issa Khalil , Timothy Cason , Shreyas Sundaram , Saurabh Bagchi

The results of a learning process depend on the input data. There are cases in which an adversary can strategically tamper with the input data to affect the outcome of the learning process. While some datasets are difficult to attack, many…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-04-02 Eitan Farchi , Onn Shehory , Guy Barash

Green Security Games (GSGs) have been successfully used in the protection of valuable resources such as fisheries, forests and wildlife. While real-world deployment involves both resource allocation and subsequent coordinated patrolling…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2021-06-09 Aravind Venugopal , Elizabeth Bondi , Harshavardhan Kamarthi , Keval Dholakia , Balaraman Ravindran , Milind Tambe

We consider the problem of efficiently learning to play single-leader multi-follower Stackelberg games when the leader lacks knowledge of the lower-level game. Such games arise in hierarchical decision-making problems involving…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-11 Anna Maddux , Marko Maljkovic , Nikolas Geroliminis , Maryam Kamgarpour

A system relying on the collective behavior of decision-makers can be vulnerable to a variety of adversarial attacks. How well can a system operator protect performance in the face of these risks? We frame this question in the context of…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-23 Keith Paarporn , Mahnoosh Alizadeh , Jason R. Marden

We study Stackelberg games where a principal repeatedly interacts with a non-myopic long-lived agent, without knowing the agent's payoff function. Although learning in Stackelberg games is well-understood when the agent is myopic, dealing…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-05-29 Nika Haghtalab , Thodoris Lykouris , Sloan Nietert , Alexander Wei

In this paper, an incentive proactive cache mechanism in cache-enabled small cell networks (SCNs) is proposed, in order to motivate the content providers (CPs) to participate in the caching procedure. A network composed of a single mobile…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-09-12 Fei Shen , Kenza Hamidouche , Ejder Baştuğ , Mérouane Debbah

We consider a two-player zero-sum network routing game in which a router wants to maximize the amount of legitimate traffic that flows from a given source node to a destination node and an attacker wants to block as much legitimate traffic…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2020-03-13 David Grimsman , Joao P Hespanha , Jason R Marden

In this paper, the problem of energy trading between smart grid prosumers, who can simultaneously consume and produce energy, and a grid power company is studied. The problem is formulated as a single-leader, multiple-follower Stackelberg…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2017-09-19 Georges El Rahi , S. Rasoul Etesami , Walid Saad , Narayan Mandayam , H. Vincent Poor

In this work, a novel Stackelberg game theoretic framework is proposed for trading energy bidirectionally between the demand-response (DR) aggregator and the prosumers. This formulation allows for flexible energy arbitrage and additional…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Styliani I. Kampezidou , Justin Romberg , Kyriakos G. Vamvoudakis , Dimitri N. Mavris

In stochastic games with incomplete information, the uncertainty is evoked by the lack of knowledge about a player's own and the other players' types, i.e. the utility function and the policy space, and also the inherent stochasticity of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-21 Hannes Eriksson , Debabrota Basu , Mina Alibeigi , Christos Dimitrakakis

An ever-important issue is protecting infrastructure and other valuable targets from a range of threats from vandalism to theft to piracy to terrorism. The "defender" can rarely afford the needed resources for a 100% protection. Thus, the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2017-06-20 Soheil Behnezhad , Mahsa Derakhshan , MohammadTaghi Hajiaghayi , Aleksandrs Slivkins

We present a method to automatically find security strategies for the use case of intrusion prevention. Following this method, we model the interaction between an attacker and a defender as a Markov game and let attack and defense…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-23 Kim Hammar , Rolf Stadler

Designing optimal interdependent networks is important for the robustness and efficiency of national critical infrastructures. Here, we establish a two-person game-theoretic model in which two network designers choose to maximize the global…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-02-26 Juntao Chen , Quanyan Zhu

Recent work on decision making and planning for autonomous driving has made use of game theoretic methods to model interaction between agents. We demonstrate that methods based on the Stackelberg game formulation of this problem are…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-03-11 Jack Geary , Subramanian Ramamoorthy , Henry Gouk

In this work, we introduce a game-theoretic model that assesses the cyber-security risk of cloud networks and informs security experts on the optimal security strategies. Our approach combines game theory, combinatorial optimization, and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-04-17 Gabriele Dragotto , Amine Boukhtouta , Andrea Lodi , Mehdi Taobane

Choosing a hard-to-guess secret is a prerequisite in many security applications. Whether it is a password for user authentication or a secret key for a cryptographic primitive, picking it requires the user to trade-off usability costs with…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2015-05-12 MHR Khouzani , Piotr Mardziel , Carlos Cid , Mudhakar Srivatsa

The use of machine learning (ML) has become increasingly prevalent in various domains, highlighting the importance of understanding and ensuring its safety. One pressing concern is the vulnerability of ML applications to model stealing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Ganghua Wang , Yuhong Yang , Jie Ding

The increasing prevalence of security attacks on software-intensive systems calls for new, effective methods for detecting and responding to these attacks. As one promising approach, game theory provides analytical tools for modeling the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-12-15 Mingyue Zhang , Nianyu Li , Sridhar Adepu , Eunsuk Kang , Zhi Jin

Deception is a crucial tool in the cyberdefence repertoire, enabling defenders to leverage their informational advantage to reduce the likelihood of successful attacks. One way deception can be employed is through obscuring, or masking,…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Junlin Wu , Charles Kamhoua , Murat Kantarcioglu , Yevgeniy Vorobeychik