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Open parity games are proposed as a compositional extension of parity games with algebraic operations, forming string diagrams of parity games. A potential application of string diagrams of parity games is to describe a large parity game…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-05-29 Kazuki Watanabe

We study two-player zero-sum concurrent stochastic games with finite state and action space played for an infinite number of steps. In every step, the two players simultaneously and independently choose an action. Given the current state…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Ali Asadi , Krishnendu Chatterjee , Raimundo Saona , Jakub Svoboda

Game-theoretic techniques and equilibria analysis facilitate the design and verification of competitive systems. While algorithmic complexity of equilibria computation has been extensively studied, practical implementation and application…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-02-02 Marta Kwiatkowska , Gethin Norman , David Parker , Gabriel Santos

This paper investigates the discrete-time asynchronous games in which noncooperative agents seek to minimize their individual cost functions. Building on the assumption of partial asynchronism, i.e., each agent updates at least once within…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-08-13 Zifan Wang , Xinlei Yi , Michael M. Zavlanos , Karl H. Johansson

We propose a family of non-locality unique games for 2 parties based on a square lattice on an arbitrary surface. We show that, due to structural similarities with error correction codes of Kitaev for fault tolerant quantum computation, the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-06-16 Monika Rosicka , Paweł Mazurek , Andrzej Grudka , Michał Horodecki

We propose a new algorithm for a broad class of periodic time-varying Stochastic Game-Theoretic Riccati Differential Equations arising in Zero-Sum Linear-Quadratic Stochastic Differential Games. The algorithm is constructed via dual-layer…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-11-06 Yiyuan Wang

We investigate a multi-player and multi-choice quantum game. We start from two-player and two-choice game and the result is better than its classical version. Then we extend it to N-player and N-choice cases. In the quantum domain, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-06 Jiangfeng Du , Hui Li , Xiaodong Xu , Xianyi Zhou , Rongdian Han

In this paper we survey the computational time complexity of assorted simple stochastic game problems, and we give an overview of the best known algorithms associated with each problem.

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Jonas Dieckelmann

In a biased weak $(a,b)$ polyform achievement game, the maker and the breaker alternately mark $a,b$ previously unmarked cells on an infinite board, respectively. The maker's goal is to mark a set of cells congruent to a polyform. The…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2011-07-12 Ian Norris , Nandor Sieben

We consider the problem of estimating `preference' or `strength' parameters in three-way comparison experiments, each composed of a series of paired comparisons, but where only the single `preferred' or `strongest' candidate is known in…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-07-08 Roderick Edwards

We introduce and study Maker/Breaker-type positional games on random graphs. Our main concern is to determine the threshold probability $p_{F}$ for the existence of Maker's strategy to claim a member of $F$ in the unbiased game played on…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Milos Stojakovic , Tibor Szabo

We study a quantum game played by two players with restricted multiple strategies. It is found that in this restricted quantum game Nash equilibrium does not always exist when the initial state is entangled. At the same time, we find that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-01-17 Bo Chen , Ying-Jun Ma , Gui Lu Long

We consider the following two-player game on a graph. A token is located at a vertex, and the players take turns to move it along an edge to a vertex that has not been visited before. A player who cannot move loses. We analyze outcomes with…

Probability · Mathematics 2015-05-29 Riddhipratim Basu , Alexander E. Holroyd , James B. Martin , Johan Wästlund

A while loop tests a termination condition on every iteration. On a quantum computer, such measurements perturb the evolution of the algorithm. We define a while loop primitive using weak measurements, offering a trade-off between the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-01-07 Pablo Andrés-Martínez , Chris Heunen

Graph games lie at the algorithmic core of many automated design problems in computer science. These are games usually played between two players on a given graph, where the players keep moving a token along the edges according to…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-07-10 Guy Avni , Ehsan Kafshdar Goharshady , Thomas A. Henzinger , Kaushik Mallik

We construct games of chance from simpler games of chance. We show that it may happen that the simpler games of chance are fair or unfavourable to a player andyet the new combined game is favourable -- this is a counter-intuitive…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-05-23 E. S. Key , M. Klosek , D. Abbott

We study biased Maker-Breaker positional games between two players, one of whom is playing randomly against an opponent with an optimal strategy. In this work we focus on the case of Breaker playing randomly and Maker being "clever". The…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-04-01 Jonas Groschwitz , Tibor Szabó

We present linear time {\it in-place} algorithms for several basic and fundamental graph problems including the well-known graph search methods (like depth-first search, breadth-first search, maximum cardinality search), connectivity…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-07-24 Sankardeep Chakraborty , Kunihiko Sadakane , Srinivasa Rao Satti

Simple games cover voting systems in which a single alternative, such as a bill or an amendment, is pitted against the status quo. A simple game or a yes-no voting system is a set of rules that specifies exactly which collections of ``yea''…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2008-03-05 Josep Freixas , Xavier Molinero , Martin Olsen , Maria Serna

We introduce two-level discounted games played by two players on a perfect-information stochastic game graph. The upper level game is a discounted game and the lower level game is an undiscounted reachability game. Two-level games model…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2010-06-09 Krishnendu Chatterjee , Rupak Majumdar