@conference {1503009,
	title = {Unleashing Dec-MDPs in Security Games: Enabling Effective Defender Teamwork },
	booktitle = {European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI)},
	year = {2014},
	abstract = {Multiagent teamwork and defender-attacker security games are
two areas that are currently receiving significant attention within
multiagent systems research. Unfortunately, despite the need for effective teamwork among multiple defenders, little has been done to
harness the teamwork research in security games. This paper is the
first to remedy this situation by integrating the powerful teamwork
mechanisms offered by Dec-MDPs into security games. We offer the
following novel contributions in this paper: (i) New models of security games where a defender team{\textquoteright}s pure strategy is defined as a DecMDP policy for addressing coordination under uncertainty; (ii) New
algorithms based on column generation that enable efficient generation of mixed strategies given this new model; (iii) Handling global
events during defender execution for effective teamwork; (iv) Exploration of the robustness of randomized pure strategies. The paper
opens the door to a potentially new area combining computational
game theory and multiagent teamwork.},
	author = {Shieh, Eric and Xin Jiang, Albert and Amulya Yadav and Varakantham, Pradeep and Tambe, Milind}
}
