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We consider two classes of constrained finite state-action stochastic games. First, we consider a two player nonzero sum single controller constrained stochastic game with both average and discounted cost criterion. We consider the same…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-06-11 Vikas Vikram Singh , N. Hemachandra

Stochastic games are a natural model for the synthesis of controllers confronted to adversarial and/or random actions. In particular, $\omega$-regular games of infinite length can represent reactive systems which are not expected to reach a…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2009-02-17 Florian Horn

This paper reframes approachability theory within the context of population games. Thus, whilst one player aims at driving her average payoff to a predefined set, her opponent is not malevolent but rather extracted randomly from a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-07-16 Dario Bauso , Thomas W L Norman

Ensuring that AI systems make strategic decisions aligned with the specified preferences in adversarial sequential interactions is a critical challenge for developing trustworthy AI systems, especially when the environment is stochastic and…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Abhishek Ninad Kulkarni , Jie Fu , Ufuk Topcu

A major open problem in the area of infinite-duration games is to characterize winning conditions that are determined in finite-memory strategies. Infinite-duration games are usually studied over edge-colored graphs, with winning conditions…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-01-25 Alexander Kozachinskiy

Strategic deception is an act of manipulating the opponent's perception to gain strategic advantages. In this paper, we study synthesis of deceptive winning strategies in two-player turn-based zero-sum reachability games on graphs with…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-04-26 Abhishek N. Kulkarni , Jie Fu

Goal-conditioned planning benefits from learned low-dimensional representations of rich observations. While compact latent representations typically learned from variational autoencoders or inverse dynamics enable goal-conditioned decision…

A binary constraint system game is a two-player one-round non-local game defined by a system of Boolean constraints. The game has a perfect quantum strategy if and only if the constraint system has a quantum satisfying assignment [R. Cleve…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-11-05 Zhengfeng Ji

This paper presents (permissive) \emph{Quantitative Strategy Templates} (QaSTels) to succinctly represent infinitely many winning strategies in two-player energy and mean-payoff games. This transfers the recently introduced concept of…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-04-24 Ashwani Anand , Satya Prakash Nayak , Ritam Raha , Irmak Sağlam , Anne-Kathrin Schmuck

We consider two-player games played on weighted directed graphs with mean-payoff and total-payoff objectives, two classical quantitative objectives. While for single-dimensional games the complexity and memory bounds for both objectives…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2014-11-04 Krishnendu Chatterjee , Laurent Doyen , Mickael Randour , Jean-François Raskin

Priced timed games are two-player zero-sum games played on priced timed automata (whose locations and transitions are labeled by weights modeling the costs of spending time in a state and executing an action, respectively). The goals of the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2017-04-05 Thomas Brihaye , Gilles Geeraerts , Axel Haddad , Engel Lefaucheux , Benjamin Monmege

In two-player games on graph, the players construct an infinite path through the game graph and get a reward computed by a payoff function over infinite paths. Over weighted graphs, the typical and most studied payoff functions compute the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2011-04-19 Krishnendu Chatterjee , Laurent Doyen , Rohit Singh

We study two-player concurrent stochastic games on finite graphs, with B\"uchi and co-B\"uchi objectives. The goal of the first player is to maximize the probability of satisfying the given objective. Following Martin's determinacy theorem…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-11-28 Benjamin Bordais , Patricia Bouyer , Stéphane Le Roux

Probabilistic guarantees of safety and performance are important in constrained dynamical systems with stochastic uncertainty. We consider the stochastic reachability problem, which maximizes the probability that the state remains within…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-12-01 Abraham P. Vinod , Meeko M. K. Oishi

We continue the investigation of finite-duration variants of infinite-duration games by extending known results for games played on finite graphs to those played on infinite ones. In particular, we establish an equivalence between pushdown…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2012-10-10 Wladimir Fridman , Martin Zimmermann

Two-player games on graphs provide the mathematical foundation for the study of reactive systems. In the quantitative framework, an objective assigns a value to every play, and the goal of player 1 is to minimize the value of the objective.…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2014-04-30 Yaron Velner

The overall aim of our research is to develop techniques to reason about the equilibrium properties of multi-agent systems. We model multi-agent systems as concurrent games, in which each player is a process that is assumed to act…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2020-08-14 Julian Gutierrez , Aniello Murano , Giuseppe Perelli , Sasha Rubin , Thomas Steeples , Michael Wooldridge

Consider concurrent, infinite duration, two-player win/lose games played on graphs. If the winning condition satisfies some simple requirement, the existence of Player 1 winning (finite-memory) strategies is equivalent to the existence of…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2018-05-01 Stephane Le Roux

What is a finite-state strategy in a delay game? We answer this surprisingly non-trivial question and present a very general framework for computing such strategies: they exist for all winning conditions that are recognized by automata with…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2017-09-13 Martin Zimmermann

We study deterministic games of infinite duration played on graphs and focus on the strategy complexity of quantitative objectives. Such games are known to admit optimal memoryless strategies over finite graphs, but require infinite-memory…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-06-26 Sougata Bose , Rasmus Ibsen-Jensen , David Purser , Patrick Totzke , Pierre Vandenhove