Adversarial Reasoning

Computational Approaches to Reading the Opponent’s Mind

Alexander Kott, William M. McEneaney

• Publisher: Chapman and Hall/CRC
• Year: 2006
• Topic: Technology & Engineering
• eBook ISBN:
  9781040173237
• Subtopic: Business General
• Index: Technology & Engineering

The rising tide of threats, from financial cybercrime to asymmetric military conflicts, demands greater sophistication in tools and techniques of law enforcement, commercial and domestic security professionals, and terrorism prevention. Concentrating on computational solutions to determine or anticipate an adversary's intent, Adversarial Reasoning:

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Halftitle Page
• Series Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• About the Authors
• Introduction
• Contents
• 1.1: Adversarial Models for Opponent Intent Inferencing
• 1.2: Human Factors in Opponent Intent
• 1.3: Extrapolation of the Opponent’s Past Behaviors*
• 1.4: Plan Recognition
• 2.1: Detecting Deception
• 2.2: Deception as a Semantic Attack
• 2.3: Application and Value of Deception
• 2.4: Robustness against Deception
• 3.1: The Role of Imperfect Information
• 3.2: Handling Partial and Corrupted Information
• 3.3: Strategies in Large-Scale Problems*
• 3.4: Learning to Strategize
• 3.5: Learning from and about the Opponent
• Index