DIMACS/CCICADA Workshop on Adversarial Decision Making

September 30 - October 1, 2010
DIMACS Center, CoRE Building, Rutgers University

Organizers:

David Banks, Duke University, banks at stat.duke.edu

Janusz Marecki, IBM T.J. Watson Research, marecki at us.ibm.com

Bonnie Ray, IBM T.J. Watson Research, bonnier at us.ibm.com

Milind Tambe, University of Southern California, tambe at usc.edu

Workshop Program:

Thursday, September 30, 2010

 9:15 -  9:50  Registration and Continental Breakfast	

 9:50 - 10:00  Welcome and Opening Remarks	
               Fred Roberts, DIMACS Director

10:00 - 10:15  Welcome and Opening Remarks	
               David Banks, Duke University

10:15 - 11:00  Quantifying unobserved attributes in expert 
               elicitation of terrorist preferences	
               Vicki Bier, University of Wisconsin

11:00 - 12:00  The Emerging Threat; Ten years ago, al-Qaeda said this 
               is where they wanted to be
	       Erroll Southers, University of Southern California

12:00 -  1:15  Lunch	

 1:15 -  2:00  Trust Based Decision Making with Uncertain Information	
               Mudhakar Srivatsa, IBM Research

 2:00 -  2:45  Bayesian Borel Games
               David Banks, Duke University

 2:45 -  3:15  Break		

 3:15 -  4:00  Two-Person and n-Person Red and Black Games
               Laura Pontiggia, University of the Sciences

 4:00 -  5:00  Game Theory for Homeland Security Applications	
               Christopher Kiekintveld, USC
               Janusz Marecki, IBM Research

 5:00 -  5:30  Day 1 Summary and Discussion - All	

 5:30 -  6:30  Poster Session and Cocktail Reception - All	

 6:30 -  8:00  Dinner on your own at a local restaurant (Dinner groups to be formed as desired) 

	
Friday, October 1, 2010

 9:00 -  9:30  Registration and Continental Breakfast		

 9:30 - 10:15  Finding Optimal Mixed Strategies to Commit to in Security Games	
               Vince Conitzer, Duke University

10:15 - 11:00  Game-Theoretic Models and Solution Algorithms for Critical 
               Infrastructure Protection
               Matt Carlyle, Naval Postgraduate School

11:00 - 11:15  Break	 	

11:15 - 12:00  Resource Allocation for Homeland Defense: Dealing With the Team Effect
 	       Seth Guikema, The John Hopkins University

12:00 -  1:00  Lunch	 	

 1:00 -  1:45  Secure or Insure? A Game-theoretic analysis of
               Information Security Games	
               Nicolas Christin, Carnegie Mellon University

 1:45 -  2:30  Adversarial Risk Analysis for Counterterrorism Modelling	
               Jesus Rios, University of Manchester and IBM Research

 2:30 -  2:45  Break

 2:45 -  3:30  A Comparative Analysis of PRA and Intelligent Adversary Methods for Counterterrorism Risk Management
               Jason Merrick, Operations Research Dept., Virginia Commonwealth University

 3:30 -  3:45  Wrap-Up: Discussion on Future Research Agenda, Next Steps Organizers

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