Title
Stackelberg Security Games With Multiple Uncoordinated Defenders
Abstract
Stackelberg security games have received much attention in recent years. While most existing work focuses on single-defender settings, there are many real-world scenarios that involve multiple defenders (e.g., multi-national anti-crime actions in international waters, different security agencies patrolling the same area). In this paper, we consider security games with uncoordinated defenders who jointly protect a set of targets, but may have different valuations for these targets; each defender schedules their own resources and selfishly optimizes their own utility. We generalize the standard (single-defender) model of Stackelberg security games to this setting and formulate an equilibrium concept that captures the nature of strategic interaction among the players. We argue that an exact equilibrium may fail to exist, and, in fact, deciding whether it exists is NP-hard. However, under mild assumptions, every multi-defender security game admits an epsilon-equilibrium for every epsilon > 0, and the limit points corresponding to epsilon -> 0 can be efficiently approximated.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.5555/3237383.3237487
PROCEEDINGS OF THE 17TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON AUTONOMOUS AGENTS AND MULTIAGENT SYSTEMS (AAMAS' 18)
Keywords
Field
DocType
Security games, Stackelberg games, multiple defenders
Mathematical economics,Computer science,Patrolling,Schedule,International waters,Stackelberg competition,Valuation (finance),Limit point,Distributed computing
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
16
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Jiarui Gan1399.05
Edith Elkind21340120.81
Michael Wooldridge310010810.27