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We consider zero-sum games on infinite graphs, with objectives specified as sets of infinite words over some alphabet of colors. A well-studied class of objectives is the one of $\omega$-regular objectives, due to its relation to many…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Patricia Bouyer , Mickael Randour , Pierre Vandenhove

We study two-player concurrent stochastic games on finite graphs, with B\"uchi and co-B\"uchi objectives. The goal of the first player is to maximize the probability of satisfying the given objective. Following Martin's determinacy theorem…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-11-28 Benjamin Bordais , Patricia Bouyer , Stéphane Le Roux

This paper is concerned with games of infinite duration played over potentially infinite graphs. Recently, Ohlmann (LICS 2022) presented a characterisation of objectives admitting optimal positional strategies, by means of universal graphs:…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Antonio Casares , Pierre Ohlmann

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

We study stochastic zero-sum games on graphs, which are prevalent tools to model decision-making in presence of an antagonistic opponent in a random environment. In this setting, an important question is the one of strategy complexity: what…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-02-14 Patricia Bouyer , Youssouf Oualhadj , Mickael Randour , Pierre Vandenhove

We study \emph{partial-information} two-player turn-based games on graphs with omega-regular objectives, when the partial-information player has \emph{limited memory}. Such games are a natural formalization for reactive synthesis when the…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2020-02-19 Dhananjay Raju , Rüdiger Ehlers , Ufuk Topcu

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

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

In the context of 2-player zero-sum infinite-duration games played on (potentially infinite) graphs, the memory of an objective is the smallest integer k such that in any game won by Eve, she has a strategy with <= k states of memory. For…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-10-17 Antonio Casares , Pierre Ohlmann

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

Shortest-path games are two-player zero-sum games played on a graph equipped with integer weights. One player, that we call Min, wants to reach a target set of states while minimising the total weight, and the other one has an antagonistic…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-05-04 Benjamin Monmege , Julie Parreaux , Pierre-Alain Reynier

In recent years, two-player zero-sum games with multiple objectives have received a lot of interest as a model for the synthesis of complex reactive systems. In this framework, Player 1 wins if he can ensure that all objectives are…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2018-07-03 Véronique Bruyère , Quentin Hautem , Jean-François Raskin

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

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

We investigate concurrent two-player win/lose stochastic games on finite graphs with prefix-independent objectives. We characterize subgame optimal strategies and use this characterization to show various memory transfer results: 1) For a…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-01-26 Benjamin Bordais , Patricia Bouyer , Stéphane Le Roux

We study two-player zero-sum games over infinite-state graphs with boundedness conditions. Our first contribution is about the strategy complexity, i.e the memory required for winning strategies: we prove that over general infinite-state…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2013-04-23 Krishnendu Chatterjee , Nathanaël Fijalkow

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

We study 2-player zero-sum concurrent (i.e., simultaneous move) stochastic B\"uchi games and Transience games on countable graphs. Two players, Max and Min, seek respectively to maximize and minimize the probability of satisfying the game…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Stefan Kiefer , Richard Mayr , Mahsa Shirmohammadi , Patrick Totzke

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

This paper studies a language-based opacity enforcement in a two-player, zero-sum game on a graph. In this game, player 1 (P1) wins if it can achieve a secret temporal goal described by the language of a finite automaton, no matter what…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-05 Chongyang Shi , Abhishek N. Kulkarni , Hazhar Rahmani , Jie Fu
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