Unleashing Dec-MDPs in security games: Enabling effective defender teamwork

Eric Shieh, Albert Xin Jiang, Amulya Yadav, Pradeep Varakantham, Milind Tambe

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Abstract

Multiagent teamwork and defender-attacker security games are two areas that are currently receiving significant attention within multiagent systems research. Unfortunately, despite the need for effective teamwork among multiple defenders, little has been done to harness the teamwork research in security games. This paper is the first to remedy this situation by integrating the powerful teamwork mechanisms offered by Dec-MDPs into security games. We offer the following novel contributions in this paper: (i) New models of security games where a defender team's pure strategy is defined as a Dec-MDP policy for addressing coordination under uncertainty; (ii) New algorithms based on column generation that enable efficient generation of mixed strategies given this new model; (iii) Handling global events during defender execution for effective teamwork; (iv) Exploration of the robustness of randomized pure strategies. The paper opens the door to a potentially new area combining computational game theory and multiagent teamwork.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationECAI 2014 - 21st European Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Including Prestigious Applications of Intelligent Systems, PAIS 2014, Proceedings
EditorsTorsten Schaub, Gerhard Friedrich, Barry O'Sullivan
PublisherIOS Press
Pages819-824
Number of pages6
ISBN (Electronic)9781614994183
DOIs
StatePublished - 2014
Event21st European Conference on Artificial Intelligence, ECAI 2014 - Prague, Czech Republic
Duration: Aug 18 2014Aug 22 2014

Publication series

NameFrontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications
Volume263
ISSN (Print)0922-6389

Conference

Conference21st European Conference on Artificial Intelligence, ECAI 2014
Country/TerritoryCzech Republic
CityPrague
Period8/18/148/22/14

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Artificial Intelligence

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