Publications

Conference and Journal Publications

• Sara Mc Carthy, Corine Laan, Kai Want, Arunesh Sinha, Phebe Vayanos, Milind Tambe. The Price of Usability: Designing Operationalizable Strategies for Security Games. In Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI) 2018


• Shahrzad Gholami, Sara Mc Carthy, Bistra Dilkina, Andrew Plumptre, Milind Tambe, Margaret Driciru, Fred Wanyama, Aggrey Rwetsiba, Mustapha Nsubaga, Joshua Mabonga. Adversary models account for imperfect crime data: Forecasting and planning against real-world poachers. In International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-agent Systems (AAMAS 2018)


• Sara Mc Carthy, Phebe Vayanos, Milind Tambe. Staying Ahead of the Game: Adaptive Robust Optimization for Dynamic Allocation of Threat Screening Resources. In Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI) 2017


• Sara Mc Carthy, Arunesh Sinha, Milind Tambe, Pratyusa Manadhata. Data Exfiltration Detection and Prevention: Virtually Distributed POMDPs for Practically Safer Networks. In Proceedings of the Conference on Decision and Game Theory for Security (GameSec) 2016


• Sara Mc Carthy, Milind Tambe, Christopher Kiekintveld, Meredith L. Gore, Alex Killion. Preventing Illegal Logging: Simultaneous Optimization of Resource Teams and Tactics for Security. In Proceedings of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) 2016


• Sara M. McCarthy, Doina Precup. Theoretical results on the effect of 'shortcut' actions in MDPs. Connection Science. Vol. 26, Iss. 2, 2014

Book Chapters

• Sara Mc Carthy, Milind Tambe, Christopher Kiekintveld, Meredith L. Gore, Alex Killion. Simultaneous Optimization of Strategic and Tactical Planning for Environmental Sustainability and Security. AI for Conservation. Cambridge University Press


• Sara Mc Carthy, Arunesh Sinha, Milind Tambe, Pratyusa Manadhata.Decision Theory for Network Security: Active Sensing for Detection and Prevention of Data Exfiltration. In Applied Risk Analysis for Guiding Homeland Security Policy and Decisions. John Wiley & Sons Inc. 2017


• Sara Mc Carthy, Arunesh Sinha, and Milind Tambe. Game Theoretic Defense for Maritime Security. Book on Challenges in Maritime Security. (CCICADA Department of Homeland Security) 2016

Workshop Papers

• Sara Mc Carthy, Phebe Vayanos, Milind Tambe. Dynamic Decisions and Adaptive Allocations: Robust Planning for Physical and Cyber Threat Screening Games. In International Workshop on A.I. in Security 2017


• Sara Mc Carthy, Milind Tambe, Christopher Kiekintveld, Meredith L. Gore, Alex Killion. Preventing Illegal Logging: Simultaneous Optimization of Resource Teams and Tactics for Security. In AAMAS Workshop on Security and Multi-agent Systems (SecMAS) 2016


• Sara Mc Carthy, Milind Tambe, Christopher Kiekintveld, Meredith L. Gore, Alex Killion. Multi-Agent Patrolling on a Budget: Finding the Best Team for the Job. In AAMAS Workshop on Optimization in Multi-Agent Systems (OPTMAS) 2015


• Sara M. McCarthy, Doina Precup. Theoretical Results on Variable-Length Actions in MDPs.In AAMAS Workshop on Adaptive and Learning Agents (ALA13)