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We analyse the computational complexity of finding Nash equilibria in turn-based stochastic multiplayer games with omega-regular objectives. We show that restricting the search space to equilibria whose payoffs fall into a certain interval…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2015-07-01 Michael Ummels , Dominik Wojtczak

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

The paper discusses coordination games with remote players that have access to an entangled quantum state. It shows that the entangled state cannot be used by players for communicating information, but that in certain games it can be used…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Vladislav Kargin

Inspired by Martin Fr\"anzle's persistent and influential work on capturing and handling delay inherent to cyber-physical systems in the formal verification of such systems, we study timed games where controllable actions do not take effect…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2025-02-27 Kim G. Larsen , Martin Zimmermann

We consider infinite-state turn-based stochastic games of two players, Box and Diamond, who aim at maximizing and minimizing the expected total reward accumulated along a run, respectively. Since the total accumulated reward is unbounded,…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2012-08-09 Tomáš Brázdil , Antonín Kučera , Petr Novotný

This paper provides sufficient conditions for the existence of solutions for two-person zero-sum games with inf/sup-compact payoff functions and with possibly noncompact decision sets for both players. Payoff functions may be unbounded, and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-12-22 Eugene A. Feinberg , Pavlo O. Kasyanov , Michael Z. Zgurovsky

Hedonic games provide a natural model of coalition formation among self-interested agents. The associated problem of finding stable outcomes in such games has been extensively studied. In this paper, we identify simple conditions on…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2015-07-14 Dominik Peters , Edith Elkind

We consider a general time-inconsistent stochastic linear-quadratic differential game. The time-inconsistency arises from the presence of quadratic terms of the expected state as well as state-dependent term in the objective functionals. We…

Mathematical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2024-05-15 Qinglong Zhou , Gaofeng Zong

In this article, we look at a hat-guessing game, in which each player must guess the color of their own hat while only seeing the hats of the other players. We focus on the case of two hat colors and a countably infinite number of players.…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-10-28 Nathaniel Eldredge

We build new quantum games, similar to the spin flip game, where as a novelty the players perform measurements on a quantum system associated to a continuous time search algorithm. The measurements collapse the wave function into one of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Alejandro Romanelli

Using a novel rewriting problem, we show that several natural decision problems about finite automata are undecidable (i.e., recursively unsolvable). In contrast, we also prove three related problems are decidable. We apply one result to…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2017-03-01 Jörg Endrullis , Jeffrey Shallit , Tim Smith

Consider a set of agents who play a network game repeatedly. Agents may not know the network. They may even be unaware that they are interacting with other agents in a network. Possibly, they just understand that their payoffs depend on an…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2022-07-26 Pierpaolo Battigalli , Fabrizio Panebianco , Paolo Pin

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

A number of recent studies have focused on novel features in game theory when the games are played using quantum mechanical toolbox (entanglement, unitary operators, measurement). Researchers have concentrated in two-player-two strategy,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Junichi Shimamura , Sahin Kaya Ozdemir , Nobuyuki Imoto

Games on graphs provide a natural and powerful model for reactive systems. In this paper, we consider generalized reachability objectives, defined as conjunctions of reachability objectives. We first prove that deciding the winner in such…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2012-02-06 Nathanaël Fijalkow , Florian Horn

We study finite-memory (FM) determinacy in games on finite graphs, a central question for applications in controller synthesis, as FM strategies correspond to implementable controllers. We establish general conditions under which FM…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2018-10-08 Stéphane Le Roux , Arno Pauly , Mickael Randour

We introduce a formalism modelling communication of distributed agents strictly in continuous-time. Within this framework, we study the problem of synthesising local strategies for individual agents such that a specified set of goal states…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-01-08 Holger Hermanns , Jan Krčál , Steen Vester

A combinatorial game is a two-player game without hidden information or chance elements. The main object of combinatorial game theory is to obtain the outcome, which player has a winning strategy, of a given combinatorial game. Positions of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-11-27 Kengo Hashimoto

We consider multi-player graph games with partial-observation and parity objective. While the decision problem for three-player games with a coalition of the first and second players against the third player is undecidable, we present a…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2014-04-23 Krishnendu Chatterjee , Laurent Doyen

Iterated admissibility is a well-known and important concept in classical game theory, e.g. to determine rational behaviors in multi-player matrix games. As recently shown by Berwanger, this concept can be soundly extended to infinite games…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2014-01-24 Romain Brenguier , Jean-François Raskin , Mathieu Sassolas