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Two-player games are a fruitful way to represent and reason about several important synthesis tasks. These tasks include controller synthesis (where one asks for a controller for a given plant such that the controlled plant satisfies a…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Stanly Samuel , Deepak D'Souza , Raghavan Komondoor

We present a framework that incorporates the idea of bounded rationality into dynamic stochastic pursuit-evasion games. The solution of a stochastic game is characterized, in general, by its (Nash) equilibria in feedback form. However,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-17 Yue Guan , Dipankar Maity , Christopher M. Kroninger , Panagiotis Tsiotras

This paper presents a method for synthesizing a reactive program which coordinates the actions of a group of other reactive programs, so that the combined system satisfies a temporal specification of its desired long-term behavior.…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2019-11-12 Suguman Bansal , Kedar S. Namjoshi , Yaniv Sa'ar

We study the problem of synthesizing control strategies for Linear Temporal Logic (LTL) objectives in unknown environments. We model this problem as a turn-based zero-sum stochastic game between the controller and the environment, where the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Alper Kamil Bozkurt , Yu Wang , Michael Zavlanos , Miroslav Pajic

The threat of algorithmic collusion, and whether it merits regulatory intervention, remains debated, as existing evaluations of its emergence often rely on long learning horizons, assumptions about counterparty rationality in adopting…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Yuhong Luo , Daniel Schoepflin , Xintong Wang

There has been a recent surge of interest in the role of information in strategic interactions. Much of this work seeks to understand how the realized equilibrium of a game is influenced by uncertainty in the environment and the information…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2014-07-22 Shaddin Dughmi

This paper studies the synthesis of control policies for an agent that has to satisfy a temporal logic specification in a partially observable environment, in the presence of an adversary. The interaction of the agent (defender) with the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-09 Bhaskar Ramasubramanian , Luyao Niu , Andrew Clark , Linda Bushnell , Radha Poovendran

We study symmetric bimatrix games that also have the common-payoff property, i.e., the two players receive the same payoff at any outcome of the game. Due to the symmetry property, these games are guaranteed to have symmetric Nash…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-28 Abheek Ghosh , Alexandros Hollender

In this work, we provide a structural characterization of the possible Nash equilibria in the well-studied class of security games with additive utility. Our analysis yields a classification of possible equilibria into seven types and we…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-08-05 Joe Clanin , Sourabh Bhattacharya

We study the complexity of computing stationary Nash equilibrium (NE) in n-player infinite-horizon general-sum stochastic games. We focus on the problem of computing NE in such stochastic games when each player is restricted to choosing a…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-11-30 Yujia Jin , Vidya Muthukumar , Aaron Sidford

Adversarial team games model multiplayer strategic interactions in which a team of identically-interested players is competing against an adversarial player in a zero-sum game. Such games capture many well-studied settings in game theory,…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Ioannis Anagnostides , Fivos Kalogiannis , Ioannis Panageas , Emmanouil-Vasileios Vlatakis-Gkaragkounis , Stephen McAleer

We present a novel method for the synthesis of finite state systems that is a generalisation of the generalised reactivity(1) synthesis approach by Piterman, Pnueli and Sa'ar. In particular, we describe an efficient method to synthesize…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-03-13 Ruediger Ehlers

Emerson-Lei conditions have recently attracted attention due to their succinctness and compositionality properties. In the current work, we show how infinite-duration games with Emerson-Lei objectives can be analyzed in two different ways.…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2023-10-26 Daniel Hausmann , Mathieu Lehaut , Nir Pitermann

This paper addresses the problem of data-driven computation of controllers that are correct by design for safety-critical systems and can provably satisfy (complex) functional requirements. With a focus on continuous-space stochastic…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-11 Oliver Schön , Birgit van Huijgevoort , Sofie Haesaert , Sadegh Soudjani

The synthesis of reactive systems aims for the automated construction of strategies for systems that interact with their environment. Whereas the synthesis approach has the potential to change the development of reactive systems…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Linda Feeken , Martin Fränzle

We study the problem of finding robust equilibria in multiplayer concurrent games with mean payoff objectives. A $(k,t)$-robust equilibrium is a strategy profile such that no coalition of size $k$ can improve the payoff of one its member by…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2016-02-02 Romain Brenguier

The design and organization of complex robotic systems traditionally requires laborious trial-and-error processes to ensure both hardware and software components are correctly connected with the resources necessary for computation. This…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-08-28 Jason Ziglar , Ryan Williams , Alfred Wicks

We develop value iteration-based algorithms to solve in a unified manner different classes of combinatorial zero-sum games with mean-payoff type rewards. These algorithms rely on an oracle, evaluating the dynamic programming operator up to…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-11-12 Xavier Allamigeon , Stéphane Gaubert , Ricardo D. Katz , Mateusz Skomra

The most important factors which contribute to the efficiency of game-theoretical algorithms are time and game complexity. In this study, we have offered an elegant method to deal with high complexity of game theoretic multi-objective…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-13 Mahsa Badami , Ali Hamzeh , Sattar Hashemi

We study the computational complexity of an important property of simple, regular and weighted games, which is decisiveness. We show that this concept can naturally be represented in the context of hypergraph theory, and that decisiveness…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2013-07-10 Andreas Polyméris , Fabián Riquelme