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This paper revisits timed games by building upon the semantics introduced in "The Element of Surprise in Timed Games". We introduce some modifications to this semantics for two primary reasons: firstly, we recognize instances where the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Gilles Geeraerts , Frédéric Herbreteau , Jean-François Raskin , Alexis Reynouard

Positional games are a branch of combinatorics, researching a variety of two-player games, ranging from popular recreational games such as Tic-Tac-Toe and Hex, to purely abstract games played on graphs and hypergraphs. It is closely…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-04-11 Michael Krivelevich

Inspired by the theory of poset games, we introduce a new compound of impartial combinatorial games and provide a complete analysis in the spirit of the Sprague-Grundy theory. Furthermore, we establish several substitution and reduction…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-05-19 Mišo Gavrilović , Alexander Thumm

This thesis will be discussing scoring play combinatorial games and looking at the general structure of these games under different operators. I will also be looking at the Sprague-Grundy values for scoring play impartial games, and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-02-22 Fraser Stewart

Temporal graphs are a popular modelling mechanism for dynamic complex systems that extend ordinary graphs with discrete time. Simply put, time progresses one unit per step and the availability of edges can change with time. We consider the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-01-30 Pete Austin , Sougata Bose , Patrick Totzke

We present a new compositional approach to compositional game theory (CGT) based upon Arrows, a concept originally from functional programming, closely related to Tambara modules, and operators to build new Arrows from old. We model…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2021-01-29 Robert Atkey , Bruno Gavranović , Neil Ghani , Clemens Kupke , Jérémy Ledent , Fredrik Nordvall Forsberg

Classical objectives in two-player zero-sum games played on graphs often deal with limit behaviors of infinite plays: e.g., mean-payoff and total-payoff in the quantitative setting, or parity in the qualitative one (a canonical way to…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2016-09-15 Véronique Bruyère , Quentin Hautem , Mickael Randour

The paper presents an evolutionary game-theoretic approach to open access publishing as an asymmetric game between scientists and publishers. We show how the ordinary differential equations of the model presented can be written as a system…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2009-03-27 Katharina Habermann , Lutz Habermann

Game semantics and winning strategies offer a potential conceptual bridge between semantics and proof systems of logics. We illustrate this link for hybrid logic -- an extension of modal logic that allows for explicit reference to worlds…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2022-06-02 Robert Freiman

Parikh's game logic is a PDL-like fixpoint logic interpreted on monotone neighbourhood frames that represent the strategic power of players in determined two-player games. Game logic translates into a fragment of the monotone…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2017-09-05 Helle Hvid Hansen , Clemens Kupke , Johannes Marti , Yde Venema

Solving parity games is a major building block for numerous applications in reactive program verification and synthesis. While they can be solved efficiently in practice, no known approach has a polynomial worst-case runtime complexity. We…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-07-28 Tobias Hecking , Swathy Muthukrishnan , Alexander Weinert

The ability to compose parts to form a more complex whole, and to analyze a whole as a combination of elements, is desirable across disciplines. This workshop bring together researchers applying compositional approaches to physics, NLP,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-11-08 Martha Lewis , Bob Coecke , Jules Hedges , Dimitri Kartsaklis , Dan Marsden

The traditional mathematical model for an impartial combinatorial game is defined recursively as a set of the options of the game, where the options are games themselves. We propose a model called gamegraph, together with its generalization…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-11-05 Bojan Bašić , Paul Ellis , Dana C. Ernst , Danijela Popović , Nándor Sieben

Parity games are two-player infinite-duration games on graphs that play a crucial role in various fields of theoretical computer science. Finding efficient algorithms to solve these games in practice is widely acknowledged as a core problem…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2016-09-15 Massimo Benerecetti , Daniele Dell'Erba , Fabio Mogavero

Game semantics has been used with considerable success in formulating fully abstract semantics for languages with higher-order procedures and a wide range of computational effects. Recently, nominal games have been proposed for modelling…

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Cooperative interval games are a generalized model of cooperative games in which the worth of every coalition corresponds to a closed interval representing the possible outcomes of its cooperation. Selections are all possible outcomes of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-07-26 Jan Bok , Milan Hladík

The complexity of parity games is a long standing open problem that saw a major breakthrough in 2017 when two quasi-polynomial algorithms were published. This article presents a third, independent approach to solving parity games in…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Karoliina Lehtinen , Udi Boker

We define a game semantics for second order classical arithmetic PA2 (with quantifiers over predicates on integers and full comprehension axiom). Our semantics is effective: moves are described by a finite amount of information and whenever…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2016-10-28 Stefano Berardi

Parity games play an important role in model checking and synthesis. In their paper, Calude et al. have shown that these games can be solved in quasi-polynomial time. We show that their algorithm can be implemented efficiently: we use their…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2018-01-30 John Fearnley , Sanjay Jain , Sven Schewe , Frank Stephan , Dominik Wojtczak

Game semantics has proven to be a robust method to give compositional semantics for a variety of higher-order programming languages. However, due to the complexity of most game models, game semantics has remained unapproachable for…

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