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The eternal vertex cover problem is a variant of the classical vertex cover problem where a set of guards on the vertices have to be dynamically reconfigured from one vertex cover to another in every round of an attacker-defender game. The…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2019-05-01 Jasine Babu , L. Sunil Chandran , Mathew Francis , Veena Prabhakaran , Deepak Rajendraprasad , J. Nandini Warrier

Online computation is a concept to model uncertainty where not all information on a problem instance is known in advance. An online algorithm receives requests which reveal the instance piecewise and has to respond with irrevocable…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2023-11-28 Janosch Fuchs , Christoph Grüne , Tom Janßen

Stealthy attacks are a major cyber-security threat. In practice, both attackers and defenders have resource constraints that could limit their capabilities. Hence, to develop robust defense strategies, a promising approach is to utilize…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2019-10-22 Ming Zhang , Zizhan Zheng , Ness B. Shroff

It has been demonstrated that adversarial graphs, i.e., graphs with imperceptible perturbations, can cause deep graph models to fail on classification tasks. In this work, we extend the concept of adversarial graphs to the community…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-15 Yifan Niu , Aochuan Chen , Tingyang Xu , Jia Li

Network interdiction problems are combinatorial optimization problems involving two players: one aims to solve an optimization problem on a network, while the other seeks to modify the network to thwart the first player's objectives. Such…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Lei Zhang , Zhiqian Chen , Chang-Tien Lu , Liang Zhao

Recent studies have shown that Graph Convolutional Networks (GCNs) are vulnerable to adversarial attacks on the graph structure. Although multiple works have been proposed to improve their robustness against such structural adversarial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-14 Liang Chen , Jintang Li , Qibiao Peng , Yang Liu , Zibin Zheng , Carl Yang

Interdicting a criminal with limited police resources is a challenging task as the criminal changes location over time. The size of the large transportation network further adds to the difficulty of this scenario. To tackle this issue, we…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Sukanya Samanta , Kei Kimura , Makoto Yokoo , Palash Dey

Eternal vertex cover is the following two-player game between a defender and an attacker on a graph. Initially, the defender positions k guards on k vertices of the graph; the game then proceeds in turns between the defender and the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-04-08 Tiziana Calamoneri , Federico Corò , Giacomo Paesani

Graph convolutional networks (GCNs) are currently the most promising paradigm for dealing with graph-structure data, while recent studies have also shown that GCNs are vulnerable to adversarial attacks. Thus developing GCN models that are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-17 Jincheng Huang , Lun Du , Xu Chen , Qiang Fu , Shi Han , Dongmei Zhang

Capacitated network bargaining games are popular combinatorial games that involve the structure of matchings in graphs. We show that it is always possible to stabilize unit-weight instances of this problem (that is, ensure that they admit a…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2024-09-05 Laura Sanità , Lucy Verberk

In this paper, we study the average case complexity of the Unique Games problem. We propose a natural semi-random model, in which a unique game instance is generated in several steps. First an adversary selects a completely satisfiable…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2011-04-20 Alexandra Kolla , Konstantin Makarychev , Yury Makarychev

We consider the problem of finding decentralized strategies for multi-agent perimeter defense games. In this work, we design a graph neural network-based learning framework to learn a mapping from defenders' local perceptions and the…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2022-11-04 Elijah S. Lee , Lifeng Zhou , Alejandro Ribeiro , Vijay Kumar

In this paper, we first consider a pinning node selection and control gain co-design problem for complex networks. A necessary and sufficient condition for the synchronization of the pinning controlled networks at a homogeneous state is…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-09-04 Yuzhe Li , Dawei Shi , Tongwen Chen

We address a problem of area protection in graph-based scenarios with multiple agents. The problem consists of two adversarial teams of agents that move in an undirected graph shared by both teams. Agents are placed in vertices of the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-08-25 Marika Ivanová , Pavel Surynek

Deep learning models for graphs, especially Graph Convolutional Networks (GCNs), have achieved remarkable performance in the task of semi-supervised node classification. However, recent studies show that GCNs suffer from adversarial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-14 Haoxi Zhan , Xiaobing Pei

The spread of an infection, a contagion, meme, emotion, message and various other spreadable objects have been discussed in several works. Burning and firefighting have been discussed in particular on static graphs. Graph burning simulates…

Physics and Society · Physics 2023-11-17 Arya Tanmay Gupta

We study a variant of the Cops and Robbers game on graphs in which the robbers damage the visited vertices, aiming to maximize the number of damaged vertices. For that game with one cop against $s$ robbers a conjecture was made by Carlson,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-09-16 Miloš Stojaković , Lasse Wulf

We consider a patrolling game on a graph recently introduced by Alpern et al. (2011) where the Patroller wins if he is at the attacked node while the attack is taking place. This paper studies the periodic patrolling game in the case that…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-05-31 Steve Alpern , Thomas Lidbetter , Katerina Papadaki

Multi-layer graphs consist of several graphs (layers) over the same vertex set. They are motivated by real-world problems where entities (vertices) are associated via multiple types of relationships (edges in different layers). We chart the…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2019-10-23 Robert Bredereck , Christian Komusiewicz , Stefan Kratsch , Hendrik Molter , Rolf Niedermeier , Manuel Sorge

We study a patrolling game played on a network $Q$, considered as a metric space. The Attacker chooses a point of $Q$ (not necessarily a node) to attack during a chosen time interval of fixed duration. The Patroller chooses a unit speed…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2022-09-16 Steve Alpern , Thuy Bui , Thomas Lidbetter , Katerina Papadaki