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Optimal escape Interdiction on transportation networks

Optimal escape Interdiction on transportation networks
Optimal escape Interdiction on transportation networks
Preventing crimes or terrorist attacks in urban areas is challenging. Law enforcement officers need to respond quickly to catch the attacker on his escape route, which is subject to time-dependent traffic conditions on transportation networks. The attacker can strategically choose his escape path and driving speed to avoid being captured. Existing work on security resource allocation has not considered such scenarios with time-dependent strategies for both players. Therefore, in this paper, we study the problem of efficiently scheduling security resources for interdicting the escaping attacker. We propose: 1) a new defender-attacker security game model for escape interdiction on transportation networks; and 2) an efficient double oracle algorithm to compute the optimal defender strategy, which combines mixed-integer linear programming formulations for best response problems and effective approximation algorithms for improving the scalability of the algorithms. Experimental evaluation shows that our approach significantly outperforms baselines in solution quality and scales up to realistic-sized transportation networks with hundreds of intersections.
Zhang, Youzhi
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An, Bo
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Wang, Zhen
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Gan, Jiarui
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Zhang, Youzhi
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Wang, Zhen
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Gan, Jiarui
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Jennings, Nicholas R.
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Zhang, Youzhi, An, Bo, Tran-Thanh, Long, Wang, Zhen, Gan, Jiarui and Jennings, Nicholas R. (2017) Optimal escape Interdiction on transportation networks. International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, MCEC (Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Center), Melbourne, Australia. 19 - 25 Aug 2017. 9 pp .

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Abstract

Preventing crimes or terrorist attacks in urban areas is challenging. Law enforcement officers need to respond quickly to catch the attacker on his escape route, which is subject to time-dependent traffic conditions on transportation networks. The attacker can strategically choose his escape path and driving speed to avoid being captured. Existing work on security resource allocation has not considered such scenarios with time-dependent strategies for both players. Therefore, in this paper, we study the problem of efficiently scheduling security resources for interdicting the escaping attacker. We propose: 1) a new defender-attacker security game model for escape interdiction on transportation networks; and 2) an efficient double oracle algorithm to compute the optimal defender strategy, which combines mixed-integer linear programming formulations for best response problems and effective approximation algorithms for improving the scalability of the algorithms. Experimental evaluation shows that our approach significantly outperforms baselines in solution quality and scales up to realistic-sized transportation networks with hundreds of intersections.

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Accepted/In Press date: 23 April 2017
Published date: August 2017
Venue - Dates: International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, MCEC (Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Center), Melbourne, Australia, 2017-08-19 - 2017-08-25
Organisations: Agents, Interactions & Complexity

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Local EPrints ID: 411980
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/411980
PURE UUID: 1aba159b-162c-4a21-85b8-c76446461049
ORCID for Long Tran-Thanh: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0003-1617-8316

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Date deposited: 04 Jul 2017 16:31
Last modified: 16 Mar 2024 05:30

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Author: Youzhi Zhang
Author: Bo An
Author: Long Tran-Thanh ORCID iD
Author: Zhen Wang
Author: Jiarui Gan
Author: Nicholas R. Jennings

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