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Parity games are abstract infinite-round games that take an important role in formal verification. In the basic setting, these games are two-player, turn-based, and played under perfect information on directed graphs, whose nodes are…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2019-10-31 Antonio Di Stasio , Aniello Murano , Giuseppe Perelli , Moshe Y. Vardi

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

We study 2-player turn-based perfect-information stochastic games with countably infinite state space. The players aim at maximizing/minimizing the probability of a given event (i.e., measurable set of infinite plays), such as reachability,…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2017-04-18 Stefan Kiefer , Richard Mayr , Mahsa Shirmohammadi , Dominik Wojtczak

We consider finite-state Markov decision processes with the combined Energy-MeanPayoff objective. The controller tries to avoid running out of energy while simultaneously attaining a strictly positive mean payoff in a second dimension. We…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-13 Mohan Dantam , Richard Mayr

In mean-payoff games, the objective of the protagonist is to ensure that the limit average of an infinite sequence of numeric weights is nonnegative. In energy games, the objective is to ensure that the running sum of weights is always…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2012-09-17 Yaron Velner , Krishnendu Chatterjee , Laurent Doyen , Thomas A. Henzinger , Alexander Rabinovich , Jean-Francois Raskin

We investigate multi-round team competitions between two teams, where each team selects one of its players simultaneously in each round and each player can play at most once. The competition defines an extensive-form game with perfect…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2016-02-25 Kai Jin , Pingzhong Tang , Shiteng Chen

We study stochastic games with energy-parity objectives, which combine quantitative rewards with a qualitative $\omega$-regular condition: The maximizer aims to avoid running out of energy while simultaneously satisfying a parity condition.…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-01-19 Richard Mayr , Sven Schewe , Patrick Totzke , Dominik Wojtczak

We study two-player reachability games on finite graphs. At each state the interaction between the players is concurrent and there is a stochastic Nature. Players also play stochastically. The literature tells us that 1) Player B, who wants…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-10-29 Benjamin Bordais , Patricia Bouyer , Stéphane Le Roux

Many problems in compositional synthesis and verification of multi-agent systems -- such as rational verification and assume-guarantee verification in probabilistic systems -- reduce to reasoning about two-player multi-objective stochastic…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-16 Moritz Graf , Anthony Lin , Rupak Majumdar

We consider two-player stochastic games played on a finite graph for infinitely many rounds. Stochastic games generalize both Markov decision processes (MDP) by adding an adversary player, and two-player deterministic games by adding…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-02-28 Laurent Doyen

We consider zero-sum games on infinite graphs, with objectives specified as sets of infinite words over some alphabet of colors. A well-studied class of objectives is the one of $\omega$-regular objectives, due to its relation to many…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Patricia Bouyer , Mickael Randour , Pierre Vandenhove

We consider concurrent games played on graphs. At every round of the game, each player simultaneously and independently selects a move; the moves jointly determine the transition to a successor state. Two basic objectives are the safety…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2008-12-18 Krishnendu Chatterjee , Luca de Alfaro , Thomas A. Henzinger

We study \emph{partial-information} two-player turn-based games on graphs with omega-regular objectives, when the partial-information player has \emph{limited memory}. Such games are a natural formalization for reactive synthesis when the…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2020-02-19 Dhananjay Raju , Rüdiger Ehlers , Ufuk Topcu

We study infinite two-player win/lose games $(A,B,W)$ where $A,B$ are finite and $W \subseteq (A \times B)^\omega$. At each round Player 1 and Player 2 concurrently choose one action in $A$ and $B$, respectively. Player 1 wins iff the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-07-22 Patricia Bouyer , Stéphane Le Roux , Nathan Thomasset

We study Recursive Concurrent Stochastic Games (RCSGs), extending our recent analysis of recursive simple stochastic games to a concurrent setting where the two players choose moves simultaneously and independently at each state. For…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2015-07-01 Kousha Etessami , Mihalis Yannakakis

Two-player win/lose games of infinite duration are involved in several disciplines including computer science and logic. If such a game has deterministic winning strategies, one may ask how simple such strategies can get. The answer may…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2020-02-04 Stéphane Le Roux

We propose a stochastic first-order algorithm to learn the rationality parameters of simultaneous and non-cooperative potential games, i.e., the parameters of the agents' optimization problems. Our technique combines (i.) an active-set step…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-07-31 Stefan Clarke , Gabriele Dragotto , Jaime Fernández Fisac , Bartolomeo Stellato

We consider simple stochastic games $\mathcal G$ with energy-parity objectives, a combination of quantitative rewards with a qualitative parity condition. The Maximizer tries to avoid running out of energy while simultaneously satisfying a…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-07-13 Mohan Dantam , Richard Mayr

Graph games of infinite length are a natural model for open reactive processes: one player represents the controller, trying to ensure a given specification, and the other represents a hostile environment. The evolution of the system…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2010-06-09 Julien Cristau , Claire David , Florian Horn

It is well-known that for infinitely repeated games, there are computable strategies that have best responses, but no computable best responses. These results were originally proved for either specific games (e.g., Prisoner's dilemma), or…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2020-06-11 Jakub Dargaj , Jakob Grue Simonsen