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In this paper, we study two-player zero-sum turn-based games played on a finite multidimensional weighted graph. In recent papers all dimensions use the same measure, whereas here we allow to combine different measures. Such heterogeneous…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2016-06-22 Véronique Bruyère , Quentin Hautem , Jean-François Raskin

In many multiagent environments, a designer has some, but limited control over the game being played. In this paper, we formalize this by considering incompletely specified games, in which some entries of the payoff matrices can be chosen…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-04-30 Markus Brill , Rupert Freeman , Vincent Conitzer

This paper proposes a game-theoretic approach to address the problem of optimal sensor placement against an adversary in uncertain networked control systems. The problem is formulated as a zero-sum game with two players, namely a malicious…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-13 Anh Tung Nguyen , Sribalaji C. Anand , André M. H. Teixeira

Two-team zero-sum games are one of the most important paradigms in game theory. In this paper, we focus on finding an unexploitable equilibrium in large team games. An unexploitable equilibrium is a worst-case policy, where members in the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-03-04 Naming Liu , Mingzhi Wang , Youzhi Zhang , Yaodong Yang , Bo An , Ying Wen

Two-player quantitative zero-sum games provide a natural framework to synthesize controllers with performance guarantees for reactive systems within an uncontrollable environment. Classical settings include mean-payoff games, where the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-09-25 Patricia Bouyer , Nicolas Markey , Mickael Randour , Kim G. Larsen , Simon Laursen

Two-player quantitative zero-sum games provide a natural framework to synthesize controllers with performance guarantees for reactive systems within an uncontrollable environment. Classical settings include mean-payoff games, where the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2016-07-11 Patricia Bouyer , Nicolas Markey , Mickael Randour , Kim G. Larsen , Simon Laursen

Several problems in planning and reactive synthesis can be reduced to the analysis of two-player quantitative graph games. {\em Optimization} is one form of analysis. We argue that in many cases it may be better to replace the optimization…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2021-01-08 Suguman Bansal , Krishnendu Chatterjee , Moshe Y. Vardi

We introduce quantitative reductions, a novel technique for structuring the space of quantitative games and solving them that does not rely on a reduction to qualitative games. We show that such reductions exhibit the same desirable…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2020-03-25 Alexander Weinert

Quantitative verification techniques have been developed for the formal analysis of a variety of probabilistic models, such as Markov chains, Markov decision process and their variants. They can be used to produce guarantees on quantitative…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-07-18 Marta Kwiatkowska , Gethin Norman , David Parker

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

Energy parity games are infinite two-player turn-based games played on weighted graphs. The objective of the game combines a (qualitative) parity condition with the (quantitative) requirement that the sum of the weights (i.e., the level of…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2012-04-04 Krishnendu Chatterjee , Laurent Doyen

This paper considers two-player zero-sum finite-horizon Markov games with simultaneous moves. The study focuses on the challenging settings where the value function or the model is parameterized by general function classes. Provably…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-11-02 Baihe Huang , Jason D. Lee , Zhaoran Wang , Zhuoran Yang

The convergence of online learning algorithms in games under self-play is a fundamental question in game theory and machine learning. Among various notions of convergence, last-iterate convergence is particularly desirable, as it reflects…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Yang Cai , Haipeng Luo , Chen-Yu Wei , Weiqiang Zheng

For common notions of correlated equilibrium in extensive-form games, computing an optimal (e.g., welfare-maximizing) equilibrium is NP-hard. Other equilibrium notions -- communication (Forges 1986) and certification (Forges & Koessler…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-12-02 Brian Hu Zhang , Tuomas Sandholm

Although manipulation and bribery have been extensively studied under weighted voting, there has been almost no work done on election control under weighted voting. This is unfortunate, since weighted voting appears in many important…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2013-05-07 Piotr Faliszewski , Edith Hemaspaandra , Lane A. Hemaspaandra

We study synchronous values of games, especially synchronous games. It is known that a synchronous game has a perfect strategy if and only if it has a perfect synchronous strategy. However, we give examples of synchronous games, in…

Control problems for embedded systems like cars and trains can be modeled by two-player hybrid games. Control envelopes, which are families of safe control solutions, correspond to nondeterministic winning policies of hybrid games, where…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2025-08-11 Aditi Kabra , Jonathan Laurent , Stefan Mitsch , André Platzer

This paper considers a time-varying game with $N$ players. Every time slot, players observe their own random events and then take a control action. The events and control actions affect the individual utilities earned by each player. The…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2014-02-04 Michael J. Neely

We show that, by using multiplicative weights in a game-theoretic thought experiment (and an important convexity result on the composition of multiplicative weights with the relative entropy function), a symmetric bimatrix game (that is, a…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-04-24 Ioannis Avramopoulos

Timed automata are a convenient mathematical model for modelling and reasoning about real-time systems. While they provide a powerful way of representing timing aspects of such systems, timed automata assume arbitrary precision and…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2020-07-09 Emily Clement , Thierry Jéron , Nicolas Markey , David Mentré