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This article considers a two-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 2019-01-23 Mathieu Dahan , Saurabh Amin

We focus on adversarial patrolling games on arbitrary graphs, where the Defender can control a mobile resource, the targets are alarmed by an alarm system, and the Attacker can observe the actions of the mobile resource of the Defender and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-06-20 Giuseppe De Nittis , Nicola Gatti

Shortest path network interdiction is a combinatorial optimization problem on an activity network arising in a number of important security-related applications. It is classically formulated as a bilevel maximin problem representing an…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2010-09-06 Alexander Gutfraind , Aric A. Hagberg , David Izraelevitz , Feng Pan

Let $G(V,E)$ be a directed graph with $n$ vertices and $m$ edges. The edges $E$ of $G$ are divided into two types: $E_F$ and $E_P$. Each edge of $E_F$ has a fixed price. The edges of $E_P$ are the priceable edges and their price is not…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2012-07-11 Sergio Cabello

Given a graph, the shortest-path problem requires finding a sequence of edges with minimum cumulative length that connects a source vertex to a target vertex. We consider a variant of this classical problem in which the position of each…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2024-05-10 Tobia Marcucci , Jack Umenberger , Pablo A. Parrilo , Russ Tedrake

Link prediction is one of the fundamental problems in social network analysis. A common set of techniques for link prediction rely on similarity metrics which use the topology of the observed subnetwork to quantify the likelihood of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-09-05 Kai Zhou , Tomasz P. Michalak , Yevgeniy Vorobeychik

Among the several topological properties of complex networks, the shortest path represents a particularly important characteristic because of its potential impact not only on other topological properties, but mainly for its influence on…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-03-30 Guilherme S. Domingues , Cesar H. Comin , Luciano da F. Costa

In modern transportation networks, adversaries can manipulate routing algorithms using false data injection attacks, such as simulating heavy traffic with multiple devices running crowdsourced navigation applications, to mislead vehicles…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Taha Eghtesad , Yevgeniy Vorobeychik , Aron Laszka

The shortest path problem is among the most fundamental combinatorial optimization problems to answer reachability queries. It is hard to deter-mine which vertices or edges are visited during shortest path traversals. In this paper, we…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2014-12-30 Waqas Nawaz , Kifayat Ullah Khan , Young-Koo Lee

Attack paths are the potential chain of malicious activities an attacker performs to compromise network assets and acquire privileges through exploiting network vulnerabilities. Attack path analysis helps organizations to identify…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-11-30 Houssem Jmal , Firas Ben Hmida , Nardine Basta , Muhammad Ikram , Mohamed Ali Kaafar , Andy Walker

Modern enterprise networks increasingly rely on Active Directory (AD) for identity and access management. However, this centralization exposes a single point of failure, allowing adversaries to compromise high-value assets. Existing AD…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Diksha Goel , Hussain Ahmad , Kristen Moore , Mingyu Guo

Graph neural networks (GNNs) which apply the deep neural networks to graph data have achieved significant performance for the task of semi-supervised node classification. However, only few work has addressed the adversarial robustness of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-16 Kaidi Xu , Hongge Chen , Sijia Liu , Pin-Yu Chen , Tsui-Wei Weng , Mingyi Hong , Xue Lin

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

In most of the shortest path problems like vehicle routing problems and network routing problems, we only need an efficient path between two points source and destination, and it is not necessary to calculate the shortest path from source…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2009-11-03 Muhammad Aasim Qureshi , Dr. Fadzil B. Hassan , Sohail Safdar , Rehan Akbar

Complex systems of interacting components often can be modeled by a simple graph $\mathcal{G}$ that consists of a set of $n$ nodes and a set of $m$ edges. Such a graph can be represented by an adjacency matrix $A\in\R^{n\times n}$, whose…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-09-17 Silvia Noschese , Lothar Reichel

In this paper we consider an ambiguity-averse multi-stage network game between a user and an attacker. The arc costs are assumed to be random variables that satisfy prescribed first-order moment constraints for some subsets of arcs and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-02-21 Sergey S. Ketkov

Graph classification is crucial in network analyses. Networks face potential security threats, such as adversarial attacks. Some defense methods may trade off the algorithm complexity for robustness, such as adversarial training, whereas…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-07 Jinyin Chen , Haiyang Xiong , Haibin Zhenga , Dunjie Zhang , Jian Zhang , Mingwei Jia , Yi Liu

We introduce Shortest Connection Game, a two-player game played on a directed graph with edge costs. Given two designated vertices in which they start, the players take turns in choosing edges emanating from the vertex they are currently…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2015-11-26 Andreas Darmann , Ulrich Pferschy , Joachim Schauer

Reconfiguring two shortest paths in a graph means modifying one shortest path to the other by changing one vertex at a time so that all the intermediate paths are also shortest paths. This problem has several natural applications, namely:…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-12-15 Kshitij Gajjar , Agastya Vibhuti Jha , Manish Kumar , Abhiruk Lahiri

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