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This paper proposes a game-theoretic method to address the problem of optimal detector placement in a networked control system under cyber-attacks. The networked control system is composed of interconnected agents where each agent is…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-05 Anh Tung Nguyen , Sribalaji C. Anand , André M. H. Teixeira , Alexander Medvedev

We study a wireless jamming problem consisting of the competition between a legitimate receiver and a jammer, as a zero-sum game where the value to maximize/minimize is the channel capacity at the receiver's side. Most of the approaches…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Giovanni Perin , Leonardo Badia

Network games provide a powerful framework for modeling agent interactions in networked systems, where players are represented by nodes in a graph and their payoffs depend on the actions taken by their neighbors. Extending the framework of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-17 Constantin Ickstadt , Thorsten Theobald , Elias Tsigaridas , Antonios Varvitsiotis

This paper considers a game-theoretic formulation of the covert communications problem with finite blocklength, where the transmitter (Alice) can randomly vary her transmit power in different blocks, while the warden (Willie) can randomly…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-05-28 Alex S. Leong , Daniel E. Quevedo , Subhrakanti Dey

The behaviour of multi-agent learning in competitive settings is often considered under the restrictive assumption of a zero-sum game. Only under this strict requirement is the behaviour of learning well understood; beyond this, learning…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-07-27 Aamal Hussain , Francesco Belardinelli , Georgios Piliouras

Dominating sets in graphs are often used to model some monitoring of the graph: guards are posted on the vertices of the dominating set, and they can thus react to attacks occurring on the unguarded vertices by moving there (yielding a new…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Guillaume Bagan , Nicolas Bousquet , Nacim Oijid , Théo Pierron

This paper considers a 2-player strategic game for network routing under link disruptions. Player 1 (defender) routes flow through a network to maximize her value of effective flow while facing transportation costs. Player 2 (attacker)…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2016-04-19 Mathieu Dahan , Saurabh Amin

Smart grids are vulnerable to cyber-attacks. This paper proposes a game-theoretic approach to evaluate the variations caused by an attacker on the power measurements. Adversaries can gain financial benefits through the manipulation of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-08 Kian Hamedani , Lingjia Liu , Jithin Jagannath , Yang , Yi

The domination game is played on a graph G. Vertices are chosen, one at a time, by two players Dominator and Staller. Each chosen vertex must enlarge the set of vertices of G dominated to that point in the game. Both players use an optimal…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-03-14 Bostjan Bresar , Sandi Klavzar , Douglas F. Rall

We consider a class of pursuit-evasion problems where an evader enters a directed acyclic graph and attempts to reach one of the terminal nodes. A pursuer enters the graph at a later time and attempts to capture the evader before it reaches…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-09-14 Shreyas Sundaram , Krishnamoorthy Kalyanam , David W. Casbeer

We study a generalized binary search problem on the line and general trees. On the line (e.g., a sorted array), binary search finds a target node in $O(\log n)$ queries in the worst case, where $n$ is the number of nodes. In situations with…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-06-19 Agustín Caracci , Christoph Dürr , José Verschae

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

We introduce a new non-zero-sum game of optimal stopping with asymmetric exercise opportunities. Given a stochastic process modelling the value of an asset, one player observes and can act on the process continuously, while the other player…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-05-16 José Luis Pérez , Neofytos Rodosthenous , Kazutoshi Yamazaki

We formulate a resource-planning game between an attacker and a defender of a network control system. We consider the network to be operating in closed-loop with a linear quadratic regulator (LQR). We construct a general-sum, two-player,…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-10-02 Pratishtha Shukla , Aranya Chakrabortty , Alexandra Duel-Hallen

Surveillance-Evasion (SE) games form an important class of adversarial trajectory-planning problems. We consider time-dependent SE games, in which an Evader is trying to reach its target while minimizing the cumulative exposure to a moving…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-09-09 Elliot Cartee , Lexiao Lai , Qianli Song , Alexander Vladimirsky

Operating vehicles in adversarial environments require non-conventional planning techniques. A two-player, zero-sum non-cooperative game is introduced, which is solved via a linear program. An extension is proposed to construct networks…

Robotics · Computer Science 2012-08-29 Emmanuel Boidot , Eric Feron

Admissibility has been studied for games of infinite duration with Boolean objectives. We extend here this study to games of infinite duration with quantitative objectives. First, we show that, un- der the assumption that optimal worst-case…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2016-11-29 Romain Brenguier , Guillermo A. Pérez , Jean-François Raskin , Ocan Sankur

We consider an attacker-operator game for monitoring a large-scale network that is comprised on components that differ in their criticality levels. In this zero-sum game, the operator seeks to position a limited number of sensors to monitor…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2019-03-19 Jezdimir Milosevic , Mathieu Dahan , Saurabh Amin , Henrik Sandberg

Zero forcing is a combinatorial game played on a graph where the goal is to start with all vertices unfilled and to change them to filled at minimal cost. In the original variation of the game there were two options. Namely, to fill any one…

Stochastic patrol routing is known to be advantageous in adversarial settings; however, the optimal choice of stochastic routing strategy is dependent on a model of the adversary. We adopt a worst-case omniscient adversary model from the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-10 Yohan John , Gilberto Diaz-Garcia , Xiaoming Duan , Jason R. Marden , Francesco Bullo