Poaching is a serious threat to the conservation of key species and whole ecosystems.
While conducting foot patrols is the most commonly used approach in many countries to …

In the last fifty years, researchers have developed statistical, data-driven, analytical, and
algorithmic approaches for designing and improving emergency response management …

Wildlife poaching presents a serious extinction threat to many animalspecies. Agencies
(“defenders”) focused on protecting suchanimals need tools that help analyze, model and …

Wildlife conservation organizations task rangers to deter and capture wildlife poachers.
Since rangers are responsible for patrolling vast areas, adversary behavior modeling can …

Poaching is considered a major driver for the population drop of key species such as tigers,
elephants, and rhinos, which can be detrimental to whole ecosystems. While conducting foot …

Security is a critical concern around the world, whether it is the challenge of protecting ports,
airports and other critical infrastructure, interdicting the illegal flow of drugs, weapons and …

State-of-the-art applications of Stackelberg security games--including wildlife protection--
offer a wealth of data, which can be used to learn the behavior of the adversary. But existing …

Poachers are engaged in extinction level wholesale slaughter, so it is critical to harness
historical data for predicting poachers' behavior. However, in these domains, data collected …

Recent applications of Stackelberg Security Games (SSG), from wildlife crime to urban
crime, have employed machine learning tools to learn and predict adversary behavior using …

Green security—protection of forests, fish and wildlife—is a critical problem in environmental
sustainability. We focus on the problem of optimizing the defense of forests againstillegal …