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  2. Malware detection and response is critical to ensuring information security across a wide range of devices. There have been few attempts, however, to develop security systems that exploit the benefits of different malware detection techniques. We formally introduce an automated malware defense framework and represent it as a belief-space planning problem that optimally reduces the impact on the performance of a system. Using the framework, we then provide an example automated malware defense system for email worm detection and response. Finally, we show in simulation that the system outperforms standard security techniques that have been used in practice. The result is a novel belief-space planning approach to auto- mated malware defense designed for robust, accurate, and efficient use in large networks of resource-constrained devices. 
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  3. We present a general formal model called MODIA that can tackle a central challenge for autonomous vehicles (AVs), namely the ability to interact with an unspecified, large number of world entities. In MODIA, a collection of possible decision-problems (DPs), known a priori, are instantiated online and executed as decision-components (DCs), unknown a priori. To combine their individual action recommendations of the DCs into a single action, we propose the lexicographic executor action function (LEAF) mechanism. We analyze the complexity of MODIA and establish LEAF’s relation to regret minimization. Finally, we implement MODIA and LEAF using collections of partially observable Markov decision process (POMDP) DPs, and use them for complex AV intersection decision-making. We evaluate the approach in six scenarios within an industry-standard vehicle simulator, and present its use on an AV prototype. 
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