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We consider infinite duration alternating move games. These games were previously studied by Roth, Balcan, Kalai and Mansour. They presented an FPTAS for computing an approximated equilibrium, and conjectured that there is a polynomial…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2013-04-25 Yaron Velner

We consider turn-based stochastic two-player games with a combination of a parity condition that must hold surely, that is in all possible outcomes, and of a parity condition that must hold almost-surely, that is with probability 1. The…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-08 Laurent Doyen , Shibashis Guha

The optimal value computation for turned-based stochastic games with reachability objectives, also known as simple stochastic games, is one of the few problems in $NP \cap coNP$ which are not known to be in $P$. However, there are some…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2014-08-10 David Auger , Pierre COUCHENEY , Yann Strozecki

This paper is about a set-based computing method for solving a general class of two-player zero-sum Stackelberg differential games. We assume that the game is modeled by a set of coupled nonlinear differential equations, which can be…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-09-10 Xuhui Feng , Mario E. Villanueva , Boris Houska

In this paper, we present a method for finding approximate Nash equilibria in a broad class of reachability games. These games are often used to formulate both collision avoidance and goal satisfaction. Our method is computationally…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-23 David Fridovich-Keil , Claire J. Tomlin

In this paper, we deepen the study of two-player Stackelberg games played on graphs in which Player $0$ announces a strategy and Player $1$, having several objectives, responds rationally by following plays providing him Pareto-optimal…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-10 Thomas Brihaye , Véronique Bruyère , Gaspard Reghem

We present a causality-based algorithm for solving two-player reachability games represented by logical constraints. These games are a useful formalism to model a wide array of problems arising, e.g., in program synthesis. Our technique for…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2021-06-01 Christel Baier , Norine Coenen , Bernd Finkbeiner , Florian Funke , Simon Jantsch , Julian Siber

We consider infinite-state Attacker-Defender games with reachability objectives. The results of the paper are twofold. Firstly we prove a new language-theoretic result for weighted automata on infinite words and show its encoding into the…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2015-04-28 Vesa Halava , Tero Harju , Reino Niskanen , Igor Potapov

We study the class of reach-avoid dynamic games in which multiple agents interact noncooperatively, and each wishes to satisfy a distinct target criterion while avoiding a failure criterion. Reach-avoid games are commonly used to express…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-03 Dennis R. Anthony , Duy P. Nguyen , David Fridovich-Keil , Jaime F. Fisac

We consider discrete-time Markov decision processes in which the decision maker is interested in long but finite horizons. First we consider reachability objective: the decision maker's goal is to reach a specific target state with the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-11-14 Galit Ashkenazi-Golan , János Flesch , Arkadi Predtetchinski , Eilon Solan

2.5 player parity games combine the challenges posed by 2.5 player reachability games and the qualitative analysis of parity games. These two types of problems are best approached with different types of algorithms: strategy improvement…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2016-07-07 Ernst Moritz Hahn , Sven Schewe , Andrea Turrini , Lijun Zhang

In this paper, we study turn-based quantitative multiplayer non zero-sum games played on finite graphs with both reachability and safety objectives. In this framework a player with a reachability objective aims at reaching his own goal as…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2012-05-23 Thomas Brihaye , Véronique Bruyère , Julie De Pril

Games on recursive game graphs can be used to reason about the control flow of sequential programs with recursion. In games over recursive game graphs, the most natural notion of strategy is the modular strategy, i.e., a strategy that is…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2014-08-27 Ilaria De Crescenzo , Salvatore La Torre , Yaron Velner

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

Probabilistic timed automata are a suitable formalism to model systems with real-time, nondeterministic and probabilistic behaviour. We study two-player zero-sum games on such automata where the objective of the game is specified as the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2016-04-18 Vojtěch Forejt , Marta Kwiatkowska , Gethin Norman , Ashutosh Trivedi

Infinite-state games are a commonly used model for the synthesis of reactive systems with unbounded data domains. Symbolic methods for solving such games need to be able to construct intricate arguments to establish the existence of winning…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-05-16 Anne-Kathrin Schmuck , Philippe Heim , Rayna Dimitrova , Satya Prakash Nayak

Parity games are positionally determined. This is a fundamental and classical result. In 2010, Calude et al. showed a breakthrough result for finite parity games: the winning regions and their positional winning strategies can be computed…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-08-23 Volker Diekert , Manfred Kufleitner

We consider two-player stochastic games played on a finite graph for infinitely many rounds. Stochastic games generalize both Markov decision processes (MDP) by adding an adversary player, and two-player deterministic games by adding…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-02-28 Laurent Doyen

We study observation-based strategies for two-player turn-based games on graphs with omega-regular objectives. An observation-based strategy relies on imperfect information about the history of a play, namely, on the past sequence of…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-07-01 Krishnendu Chatterjee , Laurent Doyen , Thomas A. Henzinger , <br> Jean-Francois Raskin

Approachability has become a standard tool in analyzing earning algorithms in the adversarial online learning setup. We develop a variant of approachability for games where there is ambiguity in the obtained reward that belongs to a set,…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2012-02-17 Shie Mannor , Vianney Perchet , Gilles Stoltz