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The window mechanism, introduced by Chatterjee et al. for mean-payoff and total-payoff objectives in two-player turn-based games on graphs, refines long-term objectives with time bounds. This mechanism has proven useful in a variety of…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-05-10 James C. A. Main , Mickael Randour , Jeremy Sproston

Turn-based discounted-sum games are two-player zero-sum games played on finite directed graphs. The vertices of the graph are partitioned between player 1 and player 2. Plays are infinite walks on the graph where the next vertex is decided…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Ali Asadi , Krishnendu Chatterjee , Raimundo Saona , Jakub Svoboda

This paper studies a large class of two-player perfect-information turn-based parity games on infinite graphs, namely those generated by collapsible pushdown automata. The main motivation for studying these games comes from the connections…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2020-10-14 Christopher H. Broadbent , Arnaud Carayol , Matthew Hague , Andrzej S. Murawski , C. -H. Luke Ong , Olivier Serre

Many analysis and verifications tasks, such as static program analyses and model-checking for temporal logics reduce to the solution of systems of equations over suitable lattices. Inspired by recent work on lattice-theoretic progress…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Paolo Baldan , Barbara König , Tommaso Padoan , Christina Mika-Michalski

We study two-player games of infinite duration that are played on finite or infinite game graphs. A winning strategy for such a game is positional if it only depends on the current position, and not on the history of the play. A game is…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2017-01-11 Erich Graedel , Igor Walukiewicz

We give an algorithm for solving stochastic parity games with almost-sure winning conditions on {\it lossy channel systems}, under the constraint that both players are restricted to finite-memory strategies. First, we describe a general…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-03-14 Parosh Aziz Abdulla , Lorenzo Clemente , Richard Mayr , Sven Sandberg

We consider two-player games over finite graphs in which both players are restricted by fairness constraints on their moves. Given a two player game graph $G=(V,E)$ and a set of fair moves $E_f\subseteq E$ a player is said to play "fair" in…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Daniel Hausmann , Nir Piterman , Irmak Sağlam , Anne-Kathrin Schmuck

Graph games provide the foundation for modeling and synthesis of reactive processes. Such games are played over graphs where the vertices are controlled by two adversarial players. We consider graph games where the objective of the first…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2017-06-21 Krishnendu Chatterjee , Monika Henzinger , Alexander Svozil

We study two-player games on finite graphs. Turn-based games have many nice properties, but concurrent games are harder to tame: e.g. turn-based stochastic parity games have positional optimal strategies, whereas even basic concurrent…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-11-27 Benjamin Bordais , Patricia Bouyer , Stéphane Le Roux

Dull, weak and nested solitaire games are important classes of parity games, capturing, among others, alternation-free mu-calculus and ECTL* model checking problems. These classes can be solved in polynomial time using dedicated algorithms.…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2013-07-18 Maciej Gazda , Tim A. C. Willemse

We consider graph games of infinite duration with winning conditions in parameterized linear temporal logic, where the temporal operators are equipped with variables for time bounds. In model checking such specifications were introduced as…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2011-06-08 Martin Zimmermann

We define memory-efficient certificates for $\mu$-calculus model checking problems based on the well-known correspondence of the $\mu$-calculus model checking with winning certain parity games. Winning strategies can independently checked,…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2014-01-09 Martin Hofmann , Harald Ruess

Parity games are two player games with omega-winning conditions, played on finite graphs. Such games play an important role in verification, satisfiability and synthesis. It is therefore important to identify algorithms that can efficiently…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2018-09-11 Lisette Sanchez , Wieger Wesselink , Tim A. C. Willemse

We study the process theoretic notion of stuttering equivalence in the setting of parity games. We demonstrate that stuttering equivalent vertices have the same winner in the parity game. This means that solving a parity game can be…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-08-08 Sjoerd Cranen , Jeroen J. A. Keiren , Tim A. C. Willemse

Calude, Jain, Khoussainov, Li, and Stephan (2017) proposed a quasi-polynomial-time algorithm solving parity games. After this breakthrough result, a few other quasi-polynomial-time algorithms were introduced; none of them is easy to…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2019-04-30 Paweł Parys

We consider two-player games played on finite graphs equipped with costs on edges and introduce two winning conditions, cost-parity and cost-Streett, which require bounds on the cost between requests and their responses. Both conditions…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-07-01 Nathanaël Fijalkow , Martin Zimmermann

This paper is a contribution to the study of parity games and the recent constructions of three quasipolynomial time algorithms for solving them. We revisit a result of Czerwi\'nski, Daviaud, Fijalkow, Jurdzi\'nski, Lazi\'c, and Parys…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2018-10-22 Thomas Colcombet , Nathanaël Fijalkow

Quantitative games are two-player zero-sum games played on directed weighted graphs. Total-payoff games (that can be seen as a refinement of the well-studied mean-payoff games) are the variant where the payoff of a play is computed as the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2015-07-15 Thomas Brihaye , Gilles Geeraerts , Axel Haddad , Benjamin Monmege

We consider games played on graphs with the winning conditions for the players specified as weak-parity conditions. In weak-parity conditions the winner of a play is decided by looking into the set of states appearing in the play, rather…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2008-12-18 Krishnendu Chatterjee

Graph games with {\omega}-regular winning conditions provide a mathematical framework to analyze a wide range of problems in the analysis of reactive systems and programs (such as the synthesis of reactive systems, program repair, and the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-06-16 Krishnendu Chatterjee , Wolfgang Dvořák , Monika Henzinger , Veronika Loitzenbauer