Indiscriminative retaliation under unidentifiability

Retaliation Against Protocol Attacks

Security protocols intend to give their parties reasonable assurance that certain security properties will protect their communication session. However, the literature confirms that the protocols may suffer subtle and hidden attacks. Flawed protocols are customarily sent back to the design process, but the costs of reengineering a deployed protocol may be prohibitive. This paper outlines the co...

Towards Resolving Unidentifiability in Inverse Reinforcement Learning

We consider a setting for Inverse Reinforcement Learning (IRL) where the learner is extended with the ability to actively select multiple environments, observing an agent’s behavior on each environment. We first demonstrate that if the learner can experiment with any transition dynamic on some fixed set of states and actions, then there exists an algorithm that reconstructs the agent’s reward f...

Gaming A laboratory experiment in retaliation 1

is somewhat exploratory. An experimental game with options to attack and to retaliate was presented to 196 college students. A 2 X 3 factorial design explored the effects of accidental attack, expected iteration, social influence, and timing conditions upon the incidence of retaliation. Measures of authoritarianism, orientation to military-political strategy, and attitudes relating to nuclear w...

Fairness and Retaliation: The Economics of Reciprocity

This paper shows that reciprocity has powerful implications for many economic domains. It is an important determinant in the enforcement of contracts and social norms and enhances the possibilities of collective action greatly. Reciprocity may render the provision of explicit incentive inefficient because the incentives may crowd out voluntary co-operation. It strongly limits the effects of com...

First Amendment Retaliation Suits: Municipal Accountability