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The winning condition of a parity game with costs requires an arbitrary, but fixed bound on the cost incurred between occurrences of odd colors and the next occurrence of a larger even one. Such games quantitatively extend parity games…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Alexander Weinert , Martin Zimmermann

We address a central (and classical) issue in the theory of infinite games: the reduction of the memory size that is needed to implement winning strategies in regular infinite games (i.e., controllers that ensure correct behavior against…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2011-02-22 Marcus Gelderie , Michael Holtmann

For decades, two-player (antagonistic) games on graphs have been a framework of choice for many important problems in theoretical computer science. A notorious one is controller synthesis, which can be rephrased through the game-theoretic…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Patricia Bouyer , Stéphane Le Roux , Youssouf Oualhadj , Mickael Randour , Pierre Vandenhove

Mean-payoff games are important quantitative models for open reactive systems. They have been widely studied as games of full observation. In this paper we investigate the algorithmic properties of several sub-classes of mean-payoff games…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2017-10-10 Paul Hunter , Arno Pauly , Guillermo A. Pérez , Jean-François Raskin

We consider two-player games over graphs and give tight bounds on the memory size of strategies ensuring safety objectives. More specifically, we show that the minimal number of memory states of a strategy ensuring a safety objective is…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-08-07 Thomas Colcombet , Nathanaël Fijalkow , Florian Horn

Infinite games where several players seek to coordinate under imperfect information are deemed to be undecidable, unless the information is hierarchically ordered among the players. We identify a class of games for which joint winning…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2015-07-29 Dietmar Berwanger , Anup Basil Mathew

We study games with reachability objectives under energy constraints. We first prove that under strict energy constraints (either only lower-bound constraint or interval constraint), those games are LOGSPACE-equivalent to energy games with…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2019-09-18 Loïc Hélouët , Nicolas Markey , Ritam Raha

We study countably infinite stochastic 2-player games with reachability objectives. Our results provide a complete picture of the memory requirements of $\varepsilon$-optimal (resp. optimal) strategies. These results depend on the size of…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-07-03 Stefan Kiefer , Richard Mayr , Mahsa Shirmohammadi , Patrick Totzke

Unlike Poker where the action space $\mathcal{A}$ is discrete, differential games in the physical world often have continuous action spaces not amenable to discrete abstraction, rendering no-regret algorithms with…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-02-17 Mukesh Ghimire , Zhe Xu , Yi Ren

The goal of agents in multi-agent environments is to maximize total reward against the opposing agents that are encountered. Following a game-theoretic solution concept, such as Nash equilibrium, may obtain a strong performance in some…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-05 Sam Ganzfried

In this paper, we study one-player and two-player energy mean-payoff games. Energy mean-payoff games are games of infinite duration played on a finite graph with edges labeled by 2-dimensional weight vectors. The objective of the first…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2019-07-03 Véronique Bruyère , Quentin Hautem , Mickael Randour , Jean-François Raskin

We study multi-player turn-based games played on (potentially infinite) directed graphs. An outcome is assigned to every play of the game. Each player has a preference relation on the set of outcomes which allows him to compare plays. We…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2017-10-06 Véronique Bruyère , Stéphane Le Roux , Arno Pauly , Jean-François Raskin

In this paper we investigate lossy channel games under incomplete information, where two players operate on a finite set of unbounded FIFO channels and one player, representing a system component under consideration operates under…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2013-03-05 Rayna Dimitrova , Bernd Finkbeiner

We solve the problem of automatically computing a new class of environment assumptions in two-player turn-based finite graph games which characterize an ``adequate cooperation'' needed from the environment to allow the system player to win.…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Ashwani Anand , Kaushik Mallik , Satya Prakash Nayak , Anne-Kathrin Schmuck

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 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

Multi-dimensional mean-payoff and energy games provide the mathematical foundation for the quantitative study of reactive systems, and play a central role in the emerging quantitative theory of verification and synthesis. In this work, we…

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

We study a class of two-player repeated games with incomplete information and informational externalities. In these games, two states are chosen at the outset, and players get private information on the pair, before engaging in repeated…

Probability · Mathematics 2010-07-27 Dinah Rosenberg , Eilon Solan , Nicolas Vieille

Mean-payoff games (MPGs) are infinite duration two-player zero-sum games played on weighted graphs. Under the hypothesis of perfect information, they admit memoryless optimal strategies for both players and can be solved in…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-04-14 Paul Hunter , Guillermo A. Pérez , Jean-François Raskin

Two-player games on graphs provide the theoretical frame- work for many important problems such as reactive synthesis. While the traditional study of two-player zero-sum games has been extended to multi-player games with several notions of…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2013-11-14 Krishnendu Chatterjee , Laurent Doyen , Emmanuel Filiot , Jean-François Raskin