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Home / Proceedings / Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 30 / No. 2 (2016): The Twenty-Eighth Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence

Deploying PAWS: Field Optimization of the Protection Assistant for Wildlife Security

March 8, 2023

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Authors

Fei Fang

University of Southern California


Thanh Nguyen

University of Southern California


Rob Pickles

Panthera, USA


Wai Lam

Panthera, USA


Gopalasamy Clements

Panthera, USA


Bo An

Nanyang Technological University


Amandeep Singh

Columbia University


Milind Tambe

University of Southern California


Andrew Lemieux

The Netherlands Institute for the Study of Crime and Law Enforcement


DOI:

10.1609/aaai.v30i2.19070


Abstract:

Poaching is a serious threat to the conservation of key species and whole ecosystems. While conducting foot patrols is the most commonly used approach in many countries to prevent poaching, such patrols often do not make the best use of limited patrolling resources. To remedy this situation, prior work introduced a novel emerging application called PAWS (Protection Assistant for Wildlife Security); PAWS was proposed as a game-theoretic (“security games”) decision aid to optimize the use of patrolling resources.This paper reports on PAWS’s significant evolution from a proposed decision aid to a regularly deployed application, reporting on the lessons from the first tests in Africa in Spring 2014, through its continued evolution since then, to current regular use in Southeast Asia and plans for future worldwide deployment. In this process, we have worked closely with two NGOs (Panthera and Rimba) and incorporated extensive feedback from professional patrolling teams. We outline key technical advances that lead to PAWS’s regular deployment: (i) incorporating complex topographic features, e.g., ridgelines, in generating patrol routes; (ii) handling uncertainties in species distribution (game theoretic payoffs); (iii) ensuring scalability for patrolling large-scale conservation areas with fine-grained guidance; and (iv) handling complex patrol scheduling constraints.

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Fei Fang|| Thanh Nguyen|| Rob Pickles|| Wai Lam|| Gopalasamy Clements|| Bo An|| Amandeep Singh|| Milind Tambe|| Andrew Lemieux Deploying PAWS: Field Optimization of the Protection Assistant for Wildlife Security Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 30 (2016) 3966.

Fei Fang|| Thanh Nguyen|| Rob Pickles|| Wai Lam|| Gopalasamy Clements|| Bo An|| Amandeep Singh|| Milind Tambe|| Andrew Lemieux Deploying PAWS: Field Optimization of the Protection Assistant for Wildlife Security AAAI 2016, 3966.

Fei Fang|| Thanh Nguyen|| Rob Pickles|| Wai Lam|| Gopalasamy Clements|| Bo An|| Amandeep Singh|| Milind Tambe|| Andrew Lemieux (2016). Deploying PAWS: Field Optimization of the Protection Assistant for Wildlife Security. Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 30, 3966.

Fei Fang|| Thanh Nguyen|| Rob Pickles|| Wai Lam|| Gopalasamy Clements|| Bo An|| Amandeep Singh|| Milind Tambe|| Andrew Lemieux. Deploying PAWS: Field Optimization of the Protection Assistant for Wildlife Security. Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 30 2016 p.3966.

Fei Fang|| Thanh Nguyen|| Rob Pickles|| Wai Lam|| Gopalasamy Clements|| Bo An|| Amandeep Singh|| Milind Tambe|| Andrew Lemieux. 2016. Deploying PAWS: Field Optimization of the Protection Assistant for Wildlife Security. "Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 30". 3966.

Fei Fang|| Thanh Nguyen|| Rob Pickles|| Wai Lam|| Gopalasamy Clements|| Bo An|| Amandeep Singh|| Milind Tambe|| Andrew Lemieux. (2016) "Deploying PAWS: Field Optimization of the Protection Assistant for Wildlife Security", Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 30, p.3966

Fei Fang|| Thanh Nguyen|| Rob Pickles|| Wai Lam|| Gopalasamy Clements|| Bo An|| Amandeep Singh|| Milind Tambe|| Andrew Lemieux, "Deploying PAWS: Field Optimization of the Protection Assistant for Wildlife Security", AAAI, p.3966, 2016.

Fei Fang|| Thanh Nguyen|| Rob Pickles|| Wai Lam|| Gopalasamy Clements|| Bo An|| Amandeep Singh|| Milind Tambe|| Andrew Lemieux. "Deploying PAWS: Field Optimization of the Protection Assistant for Wildlife Security". Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 30, 2016, p.3966.

Fei Fang|| Thanh Nguyen|| Rob Pickles|| Wai Lam|| Gopalasamy Clements|| Bo An|| Amandeep Singh|| Milind Tambe|| Andrew Lemieux. "Deploying PAWS: Field Optimization of the Protection Assistant for Wildlife Security". Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 30, (2016): 3966.

Fei Fang|| Thanh Nguyen|| Rob Pickles|| Wai Lam|| Gopalasamy Clements|| Bo An|| Amandeep Singh|| Milind Tambe|| Andrew Lemieux. Deploying PAWS: Field Optimization of the Protection Assistant for Wildlife Security. AAAI[Internet]. 2016[cited 2023]; 3966.


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