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Advanced Game Theory Goes to Work For Homeland Security
The Teamcore Research Group of the University of Southern California is using game theory applications to help agencies better handle homeland security.
Credit: Petty Officer Seth Johnson/U.S. Coast Guard
The University of Southern California's Teamcore Research Group is creating game theory applications to help agencies solve problems related to homeland security.
The group is funded by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and has developed apps for the Transportation Security Administration and the U.S. Coast Guard.
In February, the team unveiled Protection Assistant for Wildlife Security (PAWS), which uses artificial intelligence and game theory to catch animal poachers. PAWS can help patrols find the best routes to apprehend poachers by using historical poaching data.
Game theory is being similarly applied to protect airport facilities and the surrounding perimeters in a system known as ARMOR. "You want to come up with a randomized method of allocating checkpoints such that the adversary can't quite figure out by doing surveillance exactly where you will be, but at the same time the more important roads will be covered more often," says Teamcore director Milind Tambe.
Protect, the Coast Guard's app, is designed to help patrols locate illegal fishing in the Gulf of Mexico, and further development will include data pertaining to weather conditions.
Tambe's team currently is working with the U.S. Army and the Coast Guard to create cybersecurity tools using game theory.
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