Adversarial and Uncertain Reasoning for Adaptive Cyber Defense: Building the Scientific Foundation

G Cybenko, S Jajodia, MP Wellman, and P Liu In: Prakash A., Shyamasundar R. (eds) Information Systems Security. ICISS 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8880. Springer. Abstract Today’s cyber defenses are largely static. They…

Database modeling of empirical games

B-A Cassell and MP Wellman SIGMOD-14 Workshop on Data Science for Macro-Modeling, June 2014 Abstract There is a growing interest in computational game theory, the study of algorithms for analyzing multi-agent strategic interaction cast as…

Empirical Game-Theoretic Analysis of an Adaptive Cyber-Defense Scenario (Preliminary Report)

MP Wellman and A Prakash Fifth Conference on Decision and Game Theory for Security, Nov 2014. This report is superseded by a follow-on paper presented at the 2015 MTD workshop. Abstract We investigate an adaptive cyber-defense scenario,…

Bootstrap statistics for empirical games

B Wiedenbeck, B-A Cassell, and, MP Wellman International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, pages 597–604, May 2014. Abstract Researchers often use normal-form games to model multi-agent interactions. When a game…

Signal Structure and Strategic Information Acquisition: Deliberative Auctions with Interdependent Values

E Brinkman, MP Wellman, and SE Page International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, pages 229–236, May 2014. Abstract The ability to gather information can affect outcomes in auctions and other games of incomplete…

Characterizing Strategic Cascades on Networks

T Martin, G Schoenebeck, and MP Wellman 15th ACM Conference on Economics and Computation, pages 113–130, June 2014. Abstract Transmission of disease, spread of information and rumors, adoption of new products, and many other network phenomena…