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This paper studies a system security problem in the context of observability based on a two-person noncooperative infinitely repeated game. Both the attacker and the defender have means to modify the dimension of the unobservable subspace,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-06-11 Yueyue Xu , Panpan Zhou , Lin Wang , Zhixin Liu , Xiaoming Hu

A model of strategy formulation is used to study how an adaptive attacker learns to overcome a moving target cyber defense. The attacker-defender interaction is modeled as a game in which a defender deploys a temporal platform migration…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2014-08-19 M. L. Winterrose , K. M. Carter , N. Wagner , W. W. Streilein

This work studies a dynamic, adversarial resource allocation problem in environments modeled as graphs. A blue team of defender robots are deployed in the environment to protect the nodes from a red team of attacker robots. We formulate the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-21 Daigo Shishika , Yue Guan , Michael Dorothy , Vijay Kumar

We study the m-eternal domination problem from the perspective of the attacker. For many graph classes, the minimum required number of guards to defend eternally is known. By definition, if the defender has less than the required number of…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2022-04-07 Václav Blažej , Jan Matyáš Křišťan , Tomáš Valla

In this work, we model Moving Target Defence (MTD) as a partially observable stochastic game between an attacker and a defender. The attacker tries to compromise the system through probing actions, while the defender minimizes the risk by…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Mandar Datar , Yann Dujardin

In this paper, we study a Target-Attacker-Defender (TAD) differential game involving one attacker, one target and multiple defenders. We consider two variations where (a) the attacker and the target have unlimited observation range and the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-16 Sharad Kumar Singh , Puduru Viswanadha Reddy

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

Can deception exist in differential games? We provide a case study for a Turret-Attacker differential game, where two Attackers seek to score points by reaching a target region while a Turret tries to minimize the score by aligning itself…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-14 Daigo Shishika , Alexander Von Moll , Dipankar Maity , Michael Dorothy

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

Adversarial Patrolling games form a subclass of Security games where a Defender moves between locations, guarding vulnerable targets. The main algorithmic problem is constructing a strategy for the Defender that minimizes the worst damage…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Vojtěch Kůr , Vít Musil , Vojtěch Řehák

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

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

Pursuit-evasion scenarios appear widely in robotics, security domains, and many other real-world situations. We focus on two-player pursuit-evasion games with concurrent moves, infinite horizon, and discounted rewards. We assume that the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2016-08-05 Karel Horák , Branislav Bošanský

We study deception in adversarial graph traversal, where a mobile agent seeks to reach a goal with minimum cost while an adversary alters edge costs to increase the total traversal cost. Unlike prior works that assume fixed…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-25 Violetta Rostobaya , James Berneburg , Daigo Shishika

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

This paper investigates a pursuit-evasion problem involving three agents: a pursuer, an evader, and a defender. Cooperative guidance laws are developed for the evader-defender team that guarantee interception of the pursuer by the defender…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-16 Saurabh Kumar , Shashi Ranjan Kumar , Abhinav Sinha

We explore a scenario involving two sites and a sequential game between a defender and an attacker, where the defender is responsible for securing the sites while the attacker aims to attack them. Each site holds a loss value for the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-08-05 Md Reya Shad Azim , Mustafa Abdallah

Moving target defense (MTD) is a proactive defense approach that aims to thwart attacks by continuously changing the attack surface of a system (e.g., changing host or network configurations), thereby increasing the adversary's uncertainty…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-08-21 Taha Eghtesad , Yevgeniy Vorobeychik , Aron Laszka

Attempts at predatory capture may provoke a defensive response that reduces the very value of the predated resource. We provide a game-theoretic analysis of simultaneous-move, two-player Attacker-Defender games that model such interactions.…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2023-05-18 Zsombor Z. Méder , Carsten K. W. de Dreu , Jörg Gross

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