Abstract Purpose of Review Robotic patrolling aims at protecting a physical environment by
deploying a team of one or more autonomous mobile robots in it. A key problem in this …

An important way cyber adversaries find vulnerabilities in modern networks is through
reconnaissance, in which they attempt to identify configuration specifics of network hosts. To …

In the last fifty years, researchers have developed statistical, data-driven, analytical, and
algorithmic approaches for designing and improving emergency response management …

Security games are gaining significant interest in artificial intelligence. They are
characterized by two players (a defender and an attacker) and by a set of targets the …

Wildlife poaching presents a serious extinction threat to many animalspecies. Agencies
(“defenders”) focused on protecting suchanimals need tools that help analyze, model and …

Many strategic actions carry a 'contagious' component beyond the immediate locale of the
effort itself. Viral marketing and peacekeeping operations have both been observed to have …

Most real-world games and many recreational games are games of incomplete information.
Over the last dozen years, abstraction has emerged as a key enabler for solving large …

Abstraction has emerged as a key component in solving extensive-form games of
incomplete information. However, lossless abstractions are typically too large to solve, so …

Stackelberg games form the core of a number of tools deployed for computing optimal
patrolling strategies in adversarial domains, such as the US Federal Air Marshall Service …

Stackelberg games increasingly influence security policies deployed in real-world settings.
Much of the work to date focuses on devising a fixed randomized strategy for the defender …