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Applications of artificial intelligence for wildlife protection have focused on learning models of poacher behavior based on historical patterns. However, poachers' behaviors are described not only by their historical preferences, but also…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2020-06-23 Lily Xu , Andrew Perrault , Andrew Plumptre , Margaret Driciru , Fred Wanyama , Aggrey Rwetsiba , Milind Tambe

We describe a multi-agent perimeter defense game played on a cylinder. A team of n slow-moving defenders must prevent a single fast-moving attacker from crossing the boundary of a defensive perimeter. We describe the conditions necessary…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Michael Otte , Roderich Groß

The perimeter defense game has received interest in recent years as a variant of the pursuit-evasion game. A number of previous works have solved this game to obtain the optimal strategies for defender and intruder, but the derived theory…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-09-08 Elijah S. Lee , Daigo Shishika , Giuseppe Loianno , Vijay Kumar

This paper studies a variant of multi-player reach-avoid game played between intruders and defenders. The intruder team tries to score by sending as many intruders as possible to the target area, while the defender team tries to minimize…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-04 Daigo Shishika , Vijay Kumar

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

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

We introduce and study coverage games - a novel framework for multi-agent planning in settings in which a system operates several agents but does not have full control on them, or interacts with an environment that consists of several…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Orna Kupferman , Noam Shenwald

A gambler moves between the vertices $1, \ldots, n$ of a graph using the probability distribution $p_{1}, \ldots, p_{n}$. Multiple cops pursue the gambler on the graph, only being able to move between adjacent vertices. We investigate the…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2016-10-11 Jesse Geneson

We propose a decentralized solution for a pursuit-evasion game involving a heterogeneous group of rational (selfish) pursuers and a single evader based on the framework of potential games. In the proposed game, the evader aims to delay (or,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-19 Yoonjae Lee , Efstathios Bakolas

Patrolling consists of scheduling perpetual movements of a collection of mobile robots, so that each point of the environment is regularly revisited by any robot in the collection. In previous research, it was assumed that all points of the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-10-03 Huda Chuangpishit , Jurek Czyzowicz , Leszek Gasieniec , Konstantinos Georgiou , Tomasz Jurdzinski , Evangelos Kranakis

Effective game-theoretic modeling of defender-attacker behavior is becoming increasingly important. In many domains, the defender functions not only as a player but also the designer of the game's payoff structure. We study Stackelberg…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2018-05-23 Zheyuan Ryan Shi , Ziye Tang , Long Tran-Thanh , Rohit Singh , Fei Fang

We introduce a pursuit game played between a team of a sensor and an attacker and a mobile target in the unbounded Euclidean plane. The target is faster than the sensor, but slower than the attacker. The sensor's objective is to keep the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-09 Prajakta Surve , Shaunak D. Bopardikar , Alexander Von Moll , Isaac Weintraub , David W. Casbeer

Simulating hostile attacks of physical autonomous systems can be a useful tool to examine their robustness to attack and inform vulnerability-aware design. In this work, we examine this through the lens of multi-robot patrol, by presenting…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-16 James C. Ward , Alex Bott , Connor York , Edmund R. Hunt

We consider a variant of the target defense problem where a single defender is tasked to capture a sequence of incoming intruders. Both the defender and the intruders have non-holonomic dynamics. The intruders' objective is to breach the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-18 Arman Pourghorban , Dipankar Maity

Shmuel Gal and Jerome Casas have recently introduced a game theoretic model that combines search and pursuit by a predator for a prey animal. The prey (hider) can hide in a finite number of locations. The predator (searcher) can inspect any…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2019-12-10 Steve Alpern , Viciano Lee

This paper proposes a new perspective on the conventional planar target tracking problem. One evader and one pursuer are considered in the dynamics. In the planar tracking, pursuer has the ability to measure the position and the velocity…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-01-10 Nan Yu , Chifu Yang , Miao Li

We present solutions to a continuous patrolling game played on network. In this zero-sum game, an Attacker chooses a time and place to attack a network for a fixed amount of time. A Patroller patrols the network with the aim of intercepting…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-01-31 Thuy Bui , Thomas Lidbetter

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

The guarding game is a game in which several cops try to guard a region in a (directed or undirected) graph against Robber. Robber and the cops are placed on the vertices of the graph; they take turns in moving to adjacent vertices (or…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2013-11-15 R. Samal , T. Valla

We study two-player security games which can be viewed as sequences of nonzero-sum matrix games played by an Attacker and a Defender. The evolution of the game is based on a stochastic fictitious play process. Players do not have access to…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2010-03-16 Kien C. Nguyen , Tansu Alpcan , Tamer Basar