Artificial intelligence for social good: A survey

ZR Shi, C Wang, F Fang - arXiv preprint arXiv:2001.01818, 2020 - arxiv.org
Artificial intelligence for social good (AI4SG) is a research theme that aims to use and
advance artificial intelligence to address societal issues and improve the well-being of the …

Spot poachers in action: Augmenting conservation drones with automatic detection in near real time

E Bondi, F Fang, M Hamilton, D Kar, D Dmello… - Proceedings of the …, 2018 - ojs.aaai.org
The unrelenting threat of poaching has led to increased development of new technologies to
combat it. One such example is the use of long wave thermal infrared cameras mounted on …

Airsim-w: A simulation environment for wildlife conservation with uavs

E Bondi, D Dey, A Kapoor, J Piavis, S Shah… - Proceedings of the 1st …, 2018 - dl.acm.org
Increases in poaching levels have led to the use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs or
drones) to count animals, locate animals in parks, and even find poachers. Finding poachers …

Stay ahead of poachers: Illegal wildlife poaching prediction and patrol planning under uncertainty with field test evaluations (short version)

L Xu, S Gholami, S McCarthy, B Dilkina… - 2020 IEEE 36th …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Illegal wildlife poaching threatens ecosystems and drives endangered species toward
extinction. However, efforts for wildlife protection are constrained by the limited resources of …

Deception in finitely repeated security games

TH Nguyen, Y Wang, A Sinha… - Proceedings of the AAAI …, 2019 - ojs.aaai.org
Allocating resources to defend targets from attack is often complicated by uncertainty about
the attacker's capabilities, objectives, or other underlying characteristics. In a repeated …

Computational sustainability: A socio-technical perspective

D Chatterjee, S Rao - ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR), 2020 - dl.acm.org
This is a consolidated look at computational techniques for sustainability, and their limits and
possibilities. Sustainability is already well established as a concern and a topic of study and …

Optimal patrol planning for green security games with black-box attackers

H Xu, B Ford, F Fang, B Dilkina, A Plumptre… - Decision and Game …, 2017 - Springer
Motivated by the problem of protecting endangered animals, there has been a surge of
interests in optimizing patrol planning for conservation area protection. Previous efforts in …

[PDF][PDF] Don't put all your strategies in one basket: Playing green security games with imperfect prior knowledge

S Gholami, A Yadav, L Tran-Thanh, B Dilkina… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - cais.usc.edu
Security efforts for wildlife monitoring and protection of endangered species (eg, elephants,
rhinos, etc.) are constrained by limited resources available to law enforcement agencies …

[PDF][PDF] Imitative Attacker Deception in Stackelberg Security Games.

T Nguyen, H Xu - IJCAI, 2019 - haifeng-xu.com
To address the challenge of uncertainty regarding the attacker's payoffs, capabilities and
other characteristics, recent work in security games has focused on learning the optimal …

AbSRiM: An Agent‐Based Security Risk Management Approach for Airport Operations

S Janssen, A Sharpanskykh, R Curran - Risk analysis, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Security risk management is essential for ensuring effective airport operations. This article
introduces AbSRiM, a novel agent‐based modeling and simulation approach to perform …