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Measuring Permissiveness in Parity Games: Mean-Payoff Parity Games Revisited

Logic in Computer Science 2013-01-14 v2 Computer Science and Game Theory

Abstract

We study nondeterministic strategies in parity games with the aim of computing a most permissive winning strategy. Following earlier work, we measure permissiveness in terms of the average number/weight of transitions blocked by the strategy. Using a translation into mean-payoff parity games, we prove that the problem of computing (the permissiveness of) a most permissive winning strategy is in NP intersected coNP. Along the way, we provide a new study of mean-payoff parity games. In particular, we prove that the opponent player has a memoryless optimal strategy and give a new algorithm for solving these games.

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@article{arxiv.1102.3615,
  title  = {Measuring Permissiveness in Parity Games: Mean-Payoff Parity Games Revisited},
  author = {Patricia Bouyer and Nicolas Markey and Jörg Olschewski and Michael Ummels},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1102.3615},
  year   = {2013}
}

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30 pages, revised version