Mason Wright

Empirical game-theoretic methods for adaptive cyber-defense

MP Wellman, TH Nguyen, and M Wright in S Jajodia et al. (Eds.): Adversarial and Uncertain Reasoning for Adaptive Cyber Defense, LNCS 11830, pages 112–128, 2019. Abstract Game-theoretic applications in cyber-security are often restricted…
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Probably almost-stable strategy profiles in simulation-based games

M Wright and MP Wellman AAMAS-19 Workshop on Games, Agents and Incentives, May 2019. Abstract Empirical studies of strategic settings commonly model player interactions under supposed game-theoretic equilibrium behavior, to predict what…
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Iterated Deep Reinforcement Learning in Games: History-Aware Training for Improved Stability

M Wright, Y Wang, and MP Wellman Proceedings of the 20th ACM Conference on Economics and Computation, pages 617-636, June 2019. Abstract Deep reinforcement learning (RL) is a powerful method for generating policies in complex environments,…
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Mason Wright defends thesis

Congratulations to Mason Wright, on a successful thesis defense. And a special thanks to Mason's thesis committee members: Grant Schoenebeck Demos Teneketzis Jenna Wiens
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Evaluating the stability of non-adaptive trading in continuous double auctions

M Wright and MP Wellman 17th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, pages 614–622, July 2018. Abstract The continuous double auction (CDA) is the predominant mechanism in modern securities markets. Many agent-based…
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Mason Wright Defends Thesis Proposal

Mason Wright successfully defended his thesis proposal last week: Stable Profiles in Simulation-Based Games via Reinforcement Learning and Statistics. Congratulations, Mason.
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Multi-stage attack graph security games: Heuristic strategies, with empirical game-theoretic analysis

TH Nguyen, M Wright, MP Wellman, and S Singh Security and Communication Networks, Article ID 2864873, 28 pages, 2018. Extended version of a paper presented at the Fourth ACM Workshop on Moving Target Defense, Oct 2017. Abstract We study…
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A Moving Target Defense Approach to Mitigate DDoS Attacks against Proxy-Based Architectures

S Venkatesan, M Albanese, K Amin, S Jajodia, and M Wright IEEE Conference on Communications and Network Security, Oct 2016. Abstract Distributed Denial of Service attacks against high-profile targets have become more frequent in recent…
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Moving Target Defense against DDoS Attacks: An Empirical Game-Theoretic Analysis

M Wright, S Venkatesan, M Albanese, and MP Wellman Third ACM Workshop on Moving Target Defense, Oct 2016. Abstract Distributed denial-of-service attacks are a rampant problem facing web applications, for which many defense techniques have…
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Welfare Effects of Market Making in Continuous Double Auctions

E Wah, M Wright, and MP Wellman Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research 59:613–650, 2017. Revised and significantly extended version of a paper presented at: International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, May…