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We define a general framework of partition games for formulating two-player pebble games over finite structures. We show that one particular such game, which we call the invertible-map game, yields a family of polynomial-time approximations…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-03-20 Anuj Dawar , Bjarki Holm

This paper presents a soundness and completeness proof for propositional intuitionistic calculus with respect to the semantics of computability logic. The latter interprets formulas as interactive computational problems, formalized as games…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2011-04-15 Giorgi Japaridze

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

This paper investigates the popular card game UNO from the viewpoint of algorithmic combinatorial game theory. We define simple and concise mathematical models for the game, including both cooperative and uncooperative versions, and analyze…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2013-12-03 Erik D. Demaine , Martin L. Demaine , Nicholas J. A. Harvey , Ryuhei Uehara , Takeaki Uno , Yushi Uno

Boolean games are an expressive and natural formalism through which to investigate problems of strategic interaction in multiagent systems. Although they have been widely studied, almost all previous work on Nash equilibria in Boolean games…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2013-12-17 Egor Ianovski , Luke Ong

The computation of a solution concept of a cooperative game usually depends on values of all coalitions. However, in some applications, values of some of the coalitions might be unknown due to various reasons. We introduce a method to…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-12-12 Martin Černý

Notes on the Spinpossible puzzle game. We give a mathematical description of the game, prove some elementary bounds on the length of optimal solutions, and consider variations of the game which place restrictions on the set of permitted…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2011-11-01 Alex Sutherland , Andrew Sutherland

We introduce a new type of game on natural numbers of variable countable length, which can be regarded as a diagonalization of all games of fixed countable length on natural numbers. Building on previous work by Trang and Woodin, we show…

Logic · Mathematics 2026-01-08 Takehiko Gappo , Sandra Müller

Combinatorial games lead to several interesting, clean problems in algorithms and complexity theory, many of which remain open. The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of the area to encourage further research. In particular, we…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2009-09-25 Erik D. Demaine , Robert A. Hearn

If uncertainty is modelled by a probability measure, decisions are typically made by choosing the option with the highest expected utility. If an imprecise probability model is used instead, this decision rule can be generalised in several…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-03-27 Jasper De Bock

Coalitional voting games appear in different forms in multi-agent systems, social choice and threshold logic. In this paper, the complexity of comparison of influence between players in coalitional voting games is characterized. The…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2008-09-04 Haris Aziz

For zero-sum two-player continuous-time games with integral payoff and incomplete information on one side, one shows that the optimal strategy of the informed player can be computed through an auxiliary optimization problem over some…

Probability · Mathematics 2008-10-02 Pierre Cardaliaguet , Catherine Rainer

Probabilistic game structures combine both nondeterminism and stochasticity, where players repeatedly take actions simultaneously to move to the next state of the concurrent game. Probabilistic alternating simulation is an important tool to…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-07-10 Chenyi Zhang , Jun Pang

The clique number of a tournament is the maximum clique number of a graph formed by keeping backwards arcs in an ordering of its vertices. We study the time complexity of computing the clique number of a tournament and prove that, for any…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-01-17 Guillaume Aubian

We show that any cooperative game can be represented by an assignment of costly facilities to players, in which it is intuitively obvious how to allocate the total cost in an equitable manner. This equitable solution turns out to be the…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2024-01-19 Pradeep Dubey

This paper is a twofold contribution. First, it contributes to the problem of enumerating some classes of simple games and in particular provides the number of weighted games with minimum and the number of weighted games for the dual class…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-05-14 Josep Freixas , Sascha Kurz

We study variations of classical combinatorial games on two finite heaps of tokens, a.k.a. \emph{subtraction games}. Given non-negative integers $p_1,q_1, p_2,q_2$, where $p_1q_2 > q_1p_2$, $p_1>0$ and $q_2>0$, two players alternate in…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-02-09 Urban Larsson

We study the combinatorial two-player game Tron. We answer the extremal question on general graphs and also consider smaller graph classes. Bodlaender and Kloks conjectured in [2] PSPACE- completeness. We proof this conjecture.

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2011-10-17 Tillmann Miltzow

Schmidt's game is a powerful tool for studying properties of certain sets which arise in Diophantine approximation theory, number theory, and dynamics. Recently, many new results have been proven using this game. In this paper we address…

Logic · Mathematics 2019-02-20 Lior Fishman , Tue Ly , David S. Simmons

Recently, five quasi-polynomial-time algorithms solving parity games were proposed. We elaborate on one of the algorithms, by Lehtinen (2018). Czerwi\'nski et al. (2019) observe that four of the algorithms can be expressed as constructions…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2019-10-10 Paweł Parys