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This paper investigates a partial-information pursuit evasion game in which the Pursuer has a limited-range sensor to detect the Evader. Given a fixed final time, we derive the optimal evasion strategy for the Evader to maximize its…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-24 Dipankar Maity , Alexander Von Moll , Daigo Shishika , Michael Dorothy

Attack detection is usually approached as a classification problem. However, standard classification tools often perform poorly because an adaptive attacker can shape his attacks in response to the algorithm. This has led to the recent…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2017-06-26 Lemonia Dritsoula , Patrick Loiseau , John Musacchio

We present a novel algorithm for game-theoretic trajectory planning, tailored for settings in which agents can only observe one another in specific regions of the state space. Such problems arise naturally in the context of multi-robot…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Kushagra Gupta , David Fridovich-Keil

Autonomous vehicles interacting with other traffic participants heavily rely on the perception and prediction of other agents' behaviors to plan safe trajectories. However, as occlusions limit the vehicle's perception ability, reasoning…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-08-04 Zixu Zhang , Jaime F. Fisac

This paper addresses a continuous-time risk-minimizing two-player zero-sum stochastic differential game (SDG), in which each player aims to minimize its probability of failure. Failure occurs in the event when the state of the game enters…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-08-23 Apurva Patil , Yujing Zhou , David Fridovich-Keil , Takashi Tanaka

In this paper we consider an infinite horizon zero-sum differential game where the dynamics of each player and the running cost are also depending on the evolution of some discrete (switching) variables. In particular, such switching…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-03-05 Fabio Bagagiolo , Rosario Maggistro , Marta Zoppello

This paper studies a class of approach-evasion differential games, in which one player aims to steer the state of a dynamic system to the given target set in minimum time, while avoiding some set of disallowed states, and the other player…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-10-01 Erich Mueller , Minghui Zhu , Sertac Karaman , Emilio Frazzoli

We consider a variant of the hide-and-seek game in which a seeker inspects multiple hiding locations to find multiple items hidden by a hider. Each hiding location has a maximum hiding capacity and a probability of detecting its hidden…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-06-26 Bastián Bahamondes , Mathieu Dahan

In this paper we study the nonzero-sum Dynkin game in continuous time which is a two player non-cooperative game on stopping times. We show that it has a Nash equilibrium point for general stochastic processes. As an application, we…

Pricing of Securities · Quantitative Finance 2008-12-10 Said Hamadene , Jianfeng Zhang

Pursuit-evasion games are ubiquitous in nature and in an artificial world. In nature, pursuer(s) and evader(s) are intelligent agents that can learn from experience, and dynamics (i.e., Newtonian or Lagrangian) is vital for the pursuer and…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-06 Hao Xiong , Huanhui Cao , Lin Zhang , Wenjie Lu

We develop an analytical Stackelberg game framework for optimal resource allocation in a sequential attacker--defender setting with a finite set of assets and probabilistic attacks. The defender commits to a mixed protection strategy, after…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-22 Azhar Iqbal , James M. Chappell , Derek Abbott

We consider a Markov decision process (MDP) in which actions prescribed by the controller are executed by a separate actuator, which may behave adversarially. At each time step, the controller selects and transmits an action to the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-01-29 Edoardo David Santi , Gongpu Chen , Deniz Gündüz , Asaf Cohen

In adversarial settings, a mobile agent may strategically plan its motion to influence an opponent's inference about its intended goal. We study deceptive path planning in a scenario where a mobile agent aims to reach a privately selected…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-19 Violetta Rostobaya , Yue Guan , James Berneburg , Daigo Shishika

Pursuit-Evasion Games (in discrete time) are stochastic games with nonnegative daily payoffs, with the final payoff being the cumulative sum of payoffs during the game. We show that such games admit a value even in the presence of…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-08-21 Ori Gurel-Gurevich

This paper presents cooperative target defense guidance strategies using nonlinear model predictive control (NMPC) framework for a target-attacker-defender (TAD) game. The TAD game consists of an attacker and a cooperative target-defender…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-27 Amith Manoharan , P. B. Sujit

We study a two-player zero-sum game in which the row player aims to maximize their payoff against a competing column player, under an unknown payoff matrix estimated through bandit feedback. We propose three algorithms based on the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-20 Elif Yılmaz , Christos Dimitrakakis

In this paper, the known deterministic linear-quadratic Stackelberg game is revisited, whose open-loop Stackelberg solution actually possesses the nature of time inconsistency. To handle this time inconsistency, {a two-tier game framework…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-03-09 Yuan-Hua Ni , Liping Liu , Xinzhen Zhang

We consider a zero-sum stochastic differential controller-and-stopper game in which the state process is a controlled diffusion evolving in a multi-dimensional Euclidean space. In this game, the controller affects both the drift and the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-01-15 Erhan Bayraktar , Yu-Jui Huang

We study a class of zero-sum stochastic games between a stopper and a singular-controller, previously considered in [Bovo and De Angelis (2025)]. The underlying singularly-controlled dynamics takes values in…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-06-25 Andrea Bovo , Alessandro Milazzo

This paper considers the problem of two-player zero-sum stochastic differential game with both players adopting impulse controls in finite horizon under rather weak assumptions on the cost functions ($c$ and $\chi$ not decreasing in time).…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-09-26 Brahim El Asri , Sehail Mazid