A review of attacker-defender games: Current state and paths forward
These videos have been matched automatically. Contact us if they are not relevant.
These videos have been matched automatically. Contact us if they are not relevant.
View abstract on PubMed
Summary
This summary is machine-generated.This review analyzes attacker-defender games for strategic adversarial threats, summarizing 15 years of research on modeling, solving, and assumptions. It highlights challenges in relaxing assumptions and suggests future research directions for enhanced security.
Area Of Science
- Operations Research
- Game Theory
- Cybersecurity
Background
- Strategic adversarial threats necessitate robust defense mechanisms.
- Attacker-defender games provide a framework for modeling security scenarios.
- Existing literature offers diverse approaches to game formulation and solution.
Purpose Of The Study
- To systematically review and synthesize the literature on attacker-defender games over the past 15 years.
- To analyze common modeling approaches, assumptions, and solution methods.
- To identify research gaps and future directions in the field.
Main Methods
- Systematic literature review methodology.
- Collection and analysis of 127 journal articles.
- Categorization of game formulations based on features like sequence of moves, players, decision variables, objective functions, and time horizons.
- Analysis of assumptions (rationality, risk neutrality, information completeness) and solution methods (closed-form solutions, algorithms, heuristics).
Main Results
- The majority of studies employ standard assumptions like perfect rationality and complete information.
- Relaxing these assumptions introduces challenges in uncertainty modeling and computational intractability.
- Common solution methods include closed-form solutions and novel algorithms/heuristics.
- Application areas range widely, but the focus is on game modeling and solution techniques.
Conclusions
- Relaxing traditional assumptions in attacker-defender games is an active research area with significant challenges.
- Further research is needed to address uncertainties and computational issues when incorporating risk preferences.
- Identifying open questions and future research directions is crucial for advancing the field of strategic security games.
These videos have been matched automatically. Contact us if they are not relevant.
These videos have been matched automatically. Contact us if they are not relevant.
Related Concept Videos
During the 1950s, the landmark Robbers Cave experiment demonstrated that when groups must compete with one another, intergroup conflict, hostility, and even violence may result. At the Oklahoman summer camp, two troops of boys—termed the Rattlers and the Eagles—took part in a week-long tournament. During this time, their negativity culminated in derogatory name-calling, fistfights, and even vandalism and destruction of property. However, this work also revealed that such tension...
When drugs are administered, they can elicit either an agonist or antagonist effect on the body. Agonism occurs when a drug activates a specific receptor, triggering a biological response. On the other hand, antagonism happens when a drug binds to the same receptors but blocks their activation, thereby preventing a biological response.
To quantify these effects, researchers use a dose-response curve, which provides valuable information about the potency and efficacy of a drug. Potency refers to...
It is far more common for collisions to occur in two dimensions; that is, the initial velocity vectors are neither parallel nor antiparallel to each other. Let's see what complications arise from this. The first idea is that momentum is a vector. Like all vectors, it can be expressed as a sum of perpendicular components (usually, though not always, an x-component and a y-component, and a z-component if necessary). Thus, when the statement of conservation of momentum is written for a...
In multiple dimensions, the conservation of momentum applies in each direction independently. Hence, to solve collisions in multiple dimensions, we should write down the momentum conservation in each direction separately. To help understand collisions in multiple dimensions, consider an example.
A small car of mass 1,200 kg traveling east at 60 km/h collides at an intersection with a truck of mass 3,000 kg traveling due north at 40 km/h. The two vehicles are locked together. What is the...
A revisionist approach to Jean Piaget's theory of cognitive development has brought new insights that challenge and reinterpret his established ideas. Piaget proposed that the formal operational stage, emerging in adolescence, represents the culmination of cognitive maturity. During this stage, individuals are said to develop abstract thinking, engage in systematic problem-solving, and show a form of egocentrism, believing others are as preoccupied with their behavior as they are...
Predators consume prey for energy. Predators that acquire prey and prey that avoid predation both increase their chances of survival and reproduction (i.e., fitness). Routine predator-prey interactions elicit mutual adaptations that improve predator offenses, such as claws, teeth, and speed, as well as prey defenses, including crypsis, aposematism, and mimicry. Thus, predator-prey interactions resemble an evolutionary arms race.
Although predation is commonly associated with carnivory, for...