To Handle, to Learn and to Manipulate the Attacker's (Uncertain) Payoffs in Security Games: Doctoral Consortium

Stackelberg security games (SSGs) are now established as a powerful tool in security domains. In order to compute the optimal strategy for the defender in SSG model, the defender needs to know the attacker's preferences over targets so that she can predict how the attacker would react under a certain defender strategy. Uncertainty over attacker preferences may cause the defender to suffer large losses.