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Selecting the combination of security controls that will most effectively protect a system's assets is a difficult task. If the wrong controls are selected, the system may be left vulnerable to cyber-attacks that can impact the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Dylan Léveillé , Jason Jaskolka

We study a security game over a network played between a $defender$ and $k$ $attackers$. Every attacker chooses, probabilistically, a node of the network to damage. The defender chooses, probabilistically as well, a connected induced…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2019-06-10 Eleni C. Akrida , Argyrios Deligkas , Themistoklis Melissourgos , Paul G. Spirakis

We introduce the class of modified Schelling games in which there are different types of agents who occupy the nodes of a location graph; agents of the same type are friends, and agents of different types are enemies. Every agent is…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2020-05-26 Panagiotis Kanellopoulos , Maria Kyropoulou , Alexandros A. Voudouris

Resource allocation is the process of optimizing the rare resources. In the area of security, how to allocate limited resources to protect a massive number of targets is especially challenging. This paper addresses this resource allocation…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2019-02-26 Xu Liu , Xiaoqiang Di , Jinqing Li , Huan Wang , Jianping Zhao , Huamin Yang , Ligang Cong

Network games study the strategic interaction of agents connected through a network. Interventions in such a game -- actions a coordinator or planner may take that change the utility of the agents and thus shift the equilibrium action…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-09-21 Kun Jin , Mingyan Liu

In this paper, we propose a method to develop trustworthy reinforcement learning systems. To ensure safety especially during exploration, we automatically synthesize a correct-by-construction runtime enforcer, called a shield, that blocks…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2020-12-18 Bettina Könighofer , Julian Rudolf , Alexander Palmisano , Martin Tappler , Roderick Bloem

Stochastic games combine controllable and adversarial non-determinism with stochastic behavior and are a common tool in control, verification and synthesis of reactive systems facing uncertainty. Multi-objective stochastic games are natural…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2022-07-21 Tobias Winkler , Maximilian Weininger

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

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-05 Daigo Shishika , James Paulos , Vijay Kumar

Corrigibility of autonomous agents is an under explored part of system design, with previous work focusing on single agent systems. It has been suggested that uncertainty over the human preferences acts to keep the agents corrigible, even…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-01-10 Edmund Dable-Heath , Boyko Vodenicharski , James Bishop

Ensuring public safety in a Smart City (SC) environment is a critical and increasingly complicated task due to the involvement of multiple agencies and the city's expansion across cyber and social layers. In this paper, we propose an…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-01-28 Dimitrios Sikeridis , Michael Devetsikiotis

Ensuring robust safety alignment is crucial for Large Language Models (LLMs), yet existing defenses often lag behind evolving adversarial attacks due to their \textbf{reliance on static, pre-collected data distributions}. In this paper, we…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Xiaoyu Wen , Zhida He , Han Qi , Ziyu Wan , Zhongtian Ma , Ying Wen , Tianhang Zheng , Xingcheng Xu , Chaochao Lu , Qiaosheng Zhang

In this paper, we consider a discrete-time stochastic Stackelberg game with a single leader and multiple followers. Both the followers and the leader together have conditionally independent private types, conditioned on action and previous…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-09-21 Deepanshu Vasal

In classical job-scheduling games, each job behaves as a selfish player, choosing a machine to minimize its own completion time. To reduce the equilibria inefficiency, coordination mechanisms are employed, allowing each machine to follow…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Gilad Lavie , Tami Tamir

Concurrent multi-player games with $\omega$-regular objectives are a standard model for systems that consist of several interacting components, each with its own objective. The standard solution concept for such games is Nash Equilibrium,…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-09-28 Shaull Almagor , Shai Guendelman

We extend the formalism of Conjectural Variations games to Stackelberg games involving multiple leaders and a single follower. To solve these nonconvex games, a common assumption is that the leaders compute their strategies having perfect…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-24 Francesco Morri , Hélène Le Cadre , Luce Brotcorne

Stackelberg planning is a recently introduced single-turn two-player adversarial planning model, where two players are acting in a joint classical planning task, the objective of the first player being hampering the second player from…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-03-27 Gregor Behnke , Marcel Steinmetz

We consider a game in which a strategic defender classifies an intruder as spy or spammer. The classification is based on the number of file server and mail server attacks observed during a fixed window. The spammer naively attacks (with a…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-20 Lemonia Dritsoula , Patrick Loiseau , John Musacchio

In increasingly different contexts, it happens that a human player has to interact with artificial players who make decisions following decision-making algorithms. How should the human player play against these algorithms to maximize his…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-02-22 Maurizio D 'Andrea

Stochastic games combine controllable and adversarial non-determinism with stochastic behavior and are a common tool in control, verification and synthesis of reactive systems facing uncertainty. Multi-objective stochastic games are natural…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-09-20 Tobias Winkler , Maximilian Weininger

In a stochastic Stackelberg asymmetric security game, the strong Stackelberg equilibrium (SSE) strategy is a popular option for the defender to get the highest utility against an attacker with the best response (BR) strategy. However, the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-01-09 Zhaoyang Cheng , Guanpu Chen , Yiguang Hong