{"id":"https://openalex.org/W2739823785","doi":"https://doi.org/10.24963/ijcai.2017/54","title":"Don't Bury your Head in Warnings: A Game-Theoretic Approach for Intelligent Allocation of Cyber-security Alerts","display_name":"Don't Bury your Head in Warnings: A Game-Theoretic Approach for Intelligent Allocation of Cyber-security Alerts","publication_year":2017,"publication_date":"2017-07-28","ids":{"openalex":"https://openalex.org/W2739823785","doi":"https://doi.org/10.24963/ijcai.2017/54","mag":"2739823785"},"language":"en","primary_location":{"id":"doi:10.24963/ijcai.2017/54","is_oa":true,"landing_page_url":"https://doi.org/10.24963/ijcai.2017/54","pdf_url":"https://www.ijcai.org/proceedings/2017/0054.pdf","source":null,"license":null,"license_id":null,"version":"publishedVersion","is_accepted":true,"is_published":true,"raw_source_name":"Proceedings of the Twenty-Sixth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence","raw_type":"proceedings-article"},"type":"article","indexed_in":["crossref"],"open_access":{"is_oa":true,"oa_status":"gold","oa_url":"https://www.ijcai.org/proceedings/2017/0054.pdf","any_repository_has_fulltext":true},"authorships":[{"author_position":"first","author":{"id":"https://openalex.org/A5032639462","display_name":"Aaron Schlenker","orcid":null},"institutions":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/I1174212","display_name":"University of Southern California","ror":"https://ror.org/03taz7m60","country_code":"US","type":"education","lineage":["https://openalex.org/I1174212"]},{"id":"https://openalex.org/I2800817003","display_name":"California Southern University","ror":"https://ror.org/058zz0t50","country_code":"US","type":"education","lineage":["https://openalex.org/I2800817003"]}],"countries":["US"],"is_corresponding":false,"raw_author_name":"Aaron Schlenker","raw_affiliation_strings":["University of Southern California","University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089"],"raw_orcid":null,"affiliations":[{"raw_affiliation_string":"University of Southern California","institution_ids":["https://openalex.org/I2800817003","https://openalex.org/I1174212"]},{"raw_affiliation_string":"University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089","institution_ids":["https://openalex.org/I1174212"]}]},{"author_position":"middle","author":{"id":"https://openalex.org/A5101434141","display_name":"Haifeng Xu","orcid":"https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6371-4906"},"institutions":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/I1174212","display_name":"University of Southern California","ror":"https://ror.org/03taz7m60","country_code":"US","type":"education","lineage":["https://openalex.org/I1174212"]},{"id":"https://openalex.org/I2800817003","display_name":"California Southern University","ror":"https://ror.org/058zz0t50","country_code":"US","type":"education","lineage":["https://openalex.org/I2800817003"]}],"countries":["US"],"is_corresponding":false,"raw_author_name":"Haifeng Xu","raw_affiliation_strings":["University of Southern California","University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089"],"raw_orcid":null,"affiliations":[{"raw_affiliation_string":"University of Southern California","institution_ids":["https://openalex.org/I2800817003","https://openalex.org/I1174212"]},{"raw_affiliation_string":"University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089","institution_ids":["https://openalex.org/I1174212"]}]},{"author_position":"middle","author":{"id":"https://openalex.org/A5071514799","display_name":"Mina Guirguis","orcid":"https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2629-6172"},"institutions":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/I13511017","display_name":"Texas State University","ror":"https://ror.org/05h9q1g27","country_code":"US","type":"education","lineage":["https://openalex.org/I13511017"]}],"countries":["US"],"is_corresponding":false,"raw_author_name":"Mina Guirguis","raw_affiliation_strings":["Texas State University","Texas State University, San Marcos, Texas 78666"],"raw_orcid":null,"affiliations":[{"raw_affiliation_string":"Texas State University","institution_ids":[]},{"raw_affiliation_string":"Texas State University, San Marcos, Texas 78666","institution_ids":["https://openalex.org/I13511017"]}]},{"author_position":"middle","author":{"id":"https://openalex.org/A5020091080","display_name":"Christopher Kiekintveld","orcid":"https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0615-9584"},"institutions":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/I164936912","display_name":"The University of Texas at El Paso","ror":"https://ror.org/04d5vba33","country_code":"US","type":"education","lineage":["https://openalex.org/I164936912"]}],"countries":["US"],"is_corresponding":false,"raw_author_name":"Christopher Kiekintveld","raw_affiliation_strings":["Computer Science Department, University of Texas at El Paso"],"raw_orcid":null,"affiliations":[{"raw_affiliation_string":"Computer Science Department, University of Texas at El Paso","institution_ids":["https://openalex.org/I164936912"]}]},{"author_position":"middle","author":{"id":"https://openalex.org/A5074575821","display_name":"Arunesh Sinha","orcid":"https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3594-3848"},"institutions":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/I27837315","display_name":"University of Michigan","ror":"https://ror.org/00jmfr291","country_code":"US","type":"education","lineage":["https://openalex.org/I27837315"]}],"countries":["US"],"is_corresponding":false,"raw_author_name":"Arunesh Sinha","raw_affiliation_strings":["University of Michigan","University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109"],"raw_orcid":null,"affiliations":[{"raw_affiliation_string":"University of Michigan","institution_ids":["https://openalex.org/I27837315"]},{"raw_affiliation_string":"University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109","institution_ids":["https://openalex.org/I27837315"]}]},{"author_position":"middle","author":{"id":"https://openalex.org/A5000327528","display_name":"Milind Tambe","orcid":"https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3296-3672"},"institutions":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/I1174212","display_name":"University of Southern California","ror":"https://ror.org/03taz7m60","country_code":"US","type":"education","lineage":["https://openalex.org/I1174212"]},{"id":"https://openalex.org/I2800817003","display_name":"California Southern University","ror":"https://ror.org/058zz0t50","country_code":"US","type":"education","lineage":["https://openalex.org/I2800817003"]}],"countries":["US"],"is_corresponding":false,"raw_author_name":"Milind Tambe","raw_affiliation_strings":["University of Southern California","University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089"],"raw_orcid":null,"affiliations":[{"raw_affiliation_string":"University of Southern California","institution_ids":["https://openalex.org/I2800817003","https://openalex.org/I1174212"]},{"raw_affiliation_string":"University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089","institution_ids":["https://openalex.org/I1174212"]}]},{"author_position":"middle","author":{"id":"https://openalex.org/A5035384122","display_name":"Solomon Sonya","orcid":null},"institutions":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/I430641","display_name":"United States Air Force Academy","ror":"https://ror.org/0055d0g64","country_code":"US","type":"government","lineage":["https://openalex.org/I1330347796","https://openalex.org/I4210089612","https://openalex.org/I4210102105","https://openalex.org/I430641"]}],"countries":["US"],"is_corresponding":false,"raw_author_name":"Solomon Sonya","raw_affiliation_strings":["United States Air Force Academy","United States Air Force Academy,","USA Academy, CO 80840"],"raw_orcid":null,"affiliations":[{"raw_affiliation_string":"United States Air Force Academy","institution_ids":["https://openalex.org/I430641"]},{"raw_affiliation_string":"United States Air Force Academy,","institution_ids":["https://openalex.org/I430641"]},{"raw_affiliation_string":"USA Academy, CO 80840","institution_ids":["https://openalex.org/I430641"]}]},{"author_position":"middle","author":{"id":"https://openalex.org/A5054024575","display_name":"Darryl Balderas","orcid":null},"institutions":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/I13511017","display_name":"Texas State University","ror":"https://ror.org/05h9q1g27","country_code":"US","type":"education","lineage":["https://openalex.org/I13511017"]}],"countries":["US"],"is_corresponding":false,"raw_author_name":"Darryl Balderas","raw_affiliation_strings":["Texas State University","Texas State University, San Marcos, Texas 78666"],"raw_orcid":null,"affiliations":[{"raw_affiliation_string":"Texas State University","institution_ids":[]},{"raw_affiliation_string":"Texas State University, San Marcos, Texas 78666","institution_ids":["https://openalex.org/I13511017"]}]},{"author_position":"last","author":{"id":"https://openalex.org/A5037601467","display_name":"Noah Dunstatter","orcid":"https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9600-0432"},"institutions":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/I13511017","display_name":"Texas State University","ror":"https://ror.org/05h9q1g27","country_code":"US","type":"education","lineage":["https://openalex.org/I13511017"]}],"countries":["US"],"is_corresponding":false,"raw_author_name":"Noah Dunstatter","raw_affiliation_strings":["Texas State University","Texas State University, San Marcos, Texas 78666"],"raw_orcid":null,"affiliations":[{"raw_affiliation_string":"Texas State University","institution_ids":[]},{"raw_affiliation_string":"Texas State University, San Marcos, Texas 78666","institution_ids":["https://openalex.org/I13511017"]}]}],"institutions":[],"countries_distinct_count":1,"institutions_distinct_count":6,"corresponding_author_ids":[],"corresponding_institution_ids":[],"apc_list":null,"apc_paid":null,"fwci":7.1499,"has_fulltext":true,"cited_by_count":49,"citation_normalized_percentile":{"value":0.97377125,"is_in_top_1_percent":false,"is_in_top_10_percent":true},"cited_by_percentile_year":{"min":94,"max":99},"biblio":{"volume":null,"issue":null,"first_page":"381","last_page":"387"},"is_retracted":false,"is_paratext":false,"is_xpac":false,"primary_topic":{"id":"https://openalex.org/T10400","display_name":"Network Security and Intrusion Detection","score":0.9998999834060669,"subfield":{"id":"https://openalex.org/subfields/1705","display_name":"Computer Networks and Communications"},"field":{"id":"https://openalex.org/fields/17","display_name":"Computer Science"},"domain":{"id":"https://openalex.org/domains/3","display_name":"Physical Sciences"}},"topics":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/T10400","display_name":"Network Security and Intrusion Detection","score":0.9998999834060669,"subfield":{"id":"https://openalex.org/subfields/1705","display_name":"Computer Networks and Communications"},"field":{"id":"https://openalex.org/fields/17","display_name":"Computer Science"},"domain":{"id":"https://openalex.org/domains/3","display_name":"Physical Sciences"}},{"id":"https://openalex.org/T10734","display_name":"Information and Cyber Security","score":0.9998000264167786,"subfield":{"id":"https://openalex.org/subfields/1710","display_name":"Information Systems"},"field":{"id":"https://openalex.org/fields/17","display_name":"Computer Science"},"domain":{"id":"https://openalex.org/domains/3","display_name":"Physical Sciences"}},{"id":"https://openalex.org/T11807","display_name":"Infrastructure Resilience and Vulnerability Analysis","score":0.9976000189781189,"subfield":{"id":"https://openalex.org/subfields/2205","display_name":"Civil and Structural Engineering"},"field":{"id":"https://openalex.org/fields/22","display_name":"Engineering"},"domain":{"id":"https://openalex.org/domains/3","display_name":"Physical Sciences"}}],"keywords":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/computer-science","display_name":"Computer science","score":0.733778715133667},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/heuristic","display_name":"Heuristic","score":0.6879076957702637},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/computer-security","display_name":"Computer security","score":0.6761961579322815},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/intrusion-detection-system","display_name":"Intrusion detection system","score":0.6555202007293701},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/adversary","display_name":"Adversary","score":0.6029176115989685},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/domain","display_name":"Domain (mathematical analysis)","score":0.49933695793151855},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/game-theory","display_name":"Game theory","score":0.43953192234039307},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/artificial-intelligence","display_name":"Artificial intelligence","score":0.1868845820426941}],"concepts":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/C41008148","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21198","display_name":"Computer science","level":0,"score":0.733778715133667},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C173801870","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q201413","display_name":"Heuristic","level":2,"score":0.6879076957702637},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C38652104","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3510521","display_name":"Computer security","level":1,"score":0.6761961579322815},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C35525427","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q745881","display_name":"Intrusion detection system","level":2,"score":0.6555202007293701},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C41065033","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2825412","display_name":"Adversary","level":2,"score":0.6029176115989685},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C36503486","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11235244","display_name":"Domain (mathematical analysis)","level":2,"score":0.49933695793151855},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C177142836","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q44455","display_name":"Game theory","level":2,"score":0.43953192234039307},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C154945302","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11660","display_name":"Artificial intelligence","level":1,"score":0.1868845820426941},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C175444787","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q39072","display_name":"Microeconomics","level":1,"score":0.0},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C134306372","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7754","display_name":"Mathematical analysis","level":1,"score":0.0},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C162324750","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8134","display_name":"Economics","level":0,"score":0.0},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C33923547","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q395","display_name":"Mathematics","level":0,"score":0.0}],"mesh":[],"locations_count":2,"locations":[{"id":"doi:10.24963/ijcai.2017/54","is_oa":true,"landing_page_url":"https://doi.org/10.24963/ijcai.2017/54","pdf_url":"https://www.ijcai.org/proceedings/2017/0054.pdf","source":null,"license":null,"license_id":null,"version":"publishedVersion","is_accepted":true,"is_published":true,"raw_source_name":"Proceedings of the Twenty-Sixth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence","raw_type":"proceedings-article"},{"id":"pmh:oai:ink.library.smu.edu.sg:sis_research-5669","is_oa":true,"landing_page_url":"https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/4666","pdf_url":null,"source":{"id":"https://openalex.org/S4306401925","display_name":"Singapore Management University Institutional Knowledge (InK) (Singapore Management University)","issn_l":null,"issn":null,"is_oa":false,"is_in_doaj":false,"is_core":false,"host_organization":"https://openalex.org/I79891267","host_organization_name":"Singapore Management University","host_organization_lineage":["https://openalex.org/I79891267"],"host_organization_lineage_names":[],"type":"repository"},"license":"other-oa","license_id":"https://openalex.org/licenses/other-oa","version":"submittedVersion","is_accepted":false,"is_published":false,"raw_source_name":"https://doi.org/10.24963/ijcai.2017/54","raw_type":"Conference Proceeding Article"}],"best_oa_location":{"id":"doi:10.24963/ijcai.2017/54","is_oa":true,"landing_page_url":"https://doi.org/10.24963/ijcai.2017/54","pdf_url":"https://www.ijcai.org/proceedings/2017/0054.pdf","source":null,"license":null,"license_id":null,"version":"publishedVersion","is_accepted":true,"is_published":true,"raw_source_name":"Proceedings of the Twenty-Sixth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence","raw_type":"proceedings-article"},"sustainable_development_goals":[{"score":0.5099999904632568,"display_name":"Peace, Justice and strong institutions","id":"https://metadata.un.org/sdg/16"}],"awards":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/G5385673730","display_name":null,"funder_award_id":"W911NF-15-1-","funder_id":"https://openalex.org/F4320338281","funder_display_name":"Army Research Office"},{"id":"https://openalex.org/G7452299184","display_name":null,"funder_award_id":"W911NF","funder_id":"https://openalex.org/F4320338281","funder_display_name":"Army Research Office"}],"funders":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/F4320306110","display_name":"U.S. Department of Homeland Security","ror":"https://ror.org/00jyr0d86"},{"id":"https://openalex.org/F4320338281","display_name":"Army Research Office","ror":"https://ror.org/05epdh915"}],"has_content":{"grobid_xml":true,"pdf":true},"content_urls":{"pdf":"https://content.openalex.org/works/W2739823785.pdf","grobid_xml":"https://content.openalex.org/works/W2739823785.grobid-xml"},"referenced_works_count":27,"referenced_works":["https://openalex.org/W568984285","https://openalex.org/W1494756088","https://openalex.org/W1504521876","https://openalex.org/W1533392841","https://openalex.org/W1545302662","https://openalex.org/W1557285151","https://openalex.org/W1780330426","https://openalex.org/W1972997295","https://openalex.org/W1982680292","https://openalex.org/W1985987493","https://openalex.org/W2069259012","https://openalex.org/W2103042216","https://openalex.org/W2107381919","https://openalex.org/W2129391529","https://openalex.org/W2129749009","https://openalex.org/W2191448922","https://openalex.org/W2230402893","https://openalex.org/W2506654222","https://openalex.org/W2562505269","https://openalex.org/W2565555529","https://openalex.org/W3128155874","https://openalex.org/W4293663082","https://openalex.org/W4295847151","https://openalex.org/W4386549231","https://openalex.org/W6643689509","https://openalex.org/W6646475390","https://openalex.org/W6863631769"],"related_works":["https://openalex.org/W4388150944","https://openalex.org/W4242235492","https://openalex.org/W4237162029","https://openalex.org/W2367268135","https://openalex.org/W2385701518","https://openalex.org/W4237464767","https://openalex.org/W2068562251","https://openalex.org/W4252295672","https://openalex.org/W1480190076","https://openalex.org/W2035653613"],"abstract_inverted_index":{"In":[0],"recent":[1],"years,":[2],"there":[3,65,72],"have":[4,19,25],"been":[5],"a":[6,42,89,107,120],"number":[7],"of":[8,45,97,106,152,182],"successful":[9],"cyber":[10,53,74,121,128],"attacks":[11],"on":[12],"enterprise":[13],"networks":[14,24],"by":[15,52],"malicious":[16],"actors":[17],"which":[18,93,172],"caused":[20],"severe":[21],"damage.":[22],"These":[23,47],"Intrusion":[26],"Detection":[27],"and":[28,159],"Prevention":[29],"Systems":[30],"in":[31,103,156,166],"place":[32],"to":[33,55,76,83,101,154,176],"protect":[34],"them,":[35],"but":[36],"they":[37,58],"are":[38,59,66,73],"notorious":[39],"for":[40,91,126,136,141,163],"producing":[41],"high":[43],"volume":[44],"alerts.":[46],"alerts":[48,69,100,155],"must":[49],"be":[50],"investigated":[51],"analysts":[54,75,102],"determine":[56],"whether":[57],"an":[60,133,145],"attack":[61],"or":[62],"benign.":[63],"Unfortunately,":[64],"magnitude":[67],"more":[68],"generated":[70],"than":[71],"investigate":[77],"them.":[78],"This":[79],"trend":[80],"is":[81],"expected":[82],"continue":[84],"into":[85],"the":[86,98,104,115,127,138,142,149,157,179,183],"future":[87],"creating":[88],"need":[90],"tools":[92],"find":[94],"optimal":[95,139,150,184],"assignments":[96],"incoming":[99],"presence":[105],"strategic":[108],"adversary.":[109],"We":[110],"address":[111],"this":[112],"challenge":[113],"with":[114],"four":[116],"following":[117],"contributions:":[118],"(1)":[119],"screening":[122],"game":[123],"(CSG)":[124],"model":[125],"network":[129],"protection":[130],"domain,":[131],"(2)":[132],"NP-hardness":[134],"proof":[135],"computing":[137,164],"strategy":[140],"defender,":[143],"(3)":[144],"algorithm":[146],"that":[147,168],"finds":[148],"allocation":[151],"experts":[153],"CSG,":[158],"(4)":[160],"heuristic":[161],"improvements":[162],"allocations":[165],"CSGs":[167],"accomplishes":[169],"significant":[170],"scale-up":[171],"we":[173],"show":[174],"empirically":[175],"closely":[177],"match":[178],"solution":[180],"quality":[181],"algorithm.":[185]},"counts_by_year":[{"year":2025,"cited_by_count":3},{"year":2024,"cited_by_count":2},{"year":2022,"cited_by_count":7},{"year":2021,"cited_by_count":3},{"year":2020,"cited_by_count":11},{"year":2019,"cited_by_count":13},{"year":2018,"cited_by_count":10}],"updated_date":"2026-07-02T09:51:11.867554","created_date":"2025-10-10T00:00:00"}