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abstract:
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text: We consider two-player games played on weighted directed graphs with mean-payoff
and total-payoff objectives, two classical quantitative objectives. While for
single-dimensional games the complexity and memory bounds for both objectives
coincide, we show that in contrast to multi-dimensional mean-payoff games that
are known to be coNP-complete, multi-dimensional total-payoff games are undecidable.
We introduce conservative approximations of these objectives, where the payoff
is considered over a local finite window sliding along a play, instead of the
whole play. For single dimension, we show that (i) if the window size is polynomial,
deciding the winner takes polynomial time, and (ii) the existence of a bounded
window can be decided in NP ∩ coNP, and is at least as hard as solving mean-payoff
games. For multiple dimensions, we show that (i) the problem with fixed window
size is EXPTIME-complete, and (ii) there is no primitive-recursive algorithm to
decide the existence of a bounded window.
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author:
- first_name: Krishnendu
full_name: Chatterjee, Krishnendu
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last_name: Chatterjee
orcid: 0000-0002-4561-241X
- first_name: Laurent
full_name: Doyen, Laurent
last_name: Doyen
- first_name: Mickael
full_name: Randour, Mickael
last_name: Randour
- first_name: Jean
full_name: Raskin, Jean
last_name: Raskin
citation:
ama: Chatterjee K, Doyen L, Randour M, Raskin J. Looking at mean-payoff and total-payoff
through windows. Information and Computation. 2015;242(6):25-52. doi:10.1016/j.ic.2015.03.010
apa: Chatterjee, K., Doyen, L., Randour, M., & Raskin, J. (2015). Looking at
mean-payoff and total-payoff through windows. Information and Computation.
Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ic.2015.03.010
chicago: Chatterjee, Krishnendu, Laurent Doyen, Mickael Randour, and Jean Raskin.
“Looking at Mean-Payoff and Total-Payoff through Windows.” Information and
Computation. Elsevier, 2015. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ic.2015.03.010.
ieee: K. Chatterjee, L. Doyen, M. Randour, and J. Raskin, “Looking at mean-payoff
and total-payoff through windows,” Information and Computation, vol. 242,
no. 6. Elsevier, pp. 25–52, 2015.
ista: Chatterjee K, Doyen L, Randour M, Raskin J. 2015. Looking at mean-payoff and
total-payoff through windows. Information and Computation. 242(6), 25–52.
mla: Chatterjee, Krishnendu, et al. “Looking at Mean-Payoff and Total-Payoff through
Windows.” Information and Computation, vol. 242, no. 6, Elsevier, 2015,
pp. 25–52, doi:10.1016/j.ic.2015.03.010.
short: K. Chatterjee, L. Doyen, M. Randour, J. Raskin, Information and Computation
242 (2015) 25–52.
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text: 'We consider concurrent games played by two players on a finite-state graph,
where in every round the players simultaneously choose a move, and the current
state along with the joint moves determine the successor state. We study the most
fundamental objective for concurrent games, namely, mean-payoff or limit-average
objective, where a reward is associated to each transition, and the goal of player
1 is to maximize the long-run average of the rewards, and the objective of player
2 is strictly the opposite (i.e., the games are zero-sum). The path constraint
for player 1 could be qualitative, i.e., the mean-payoff is the maximal reward,
or arbitrarily close to it; or quantitative, i.e., a given threshold between the
minimal and maximal reward. We consider the computation of the almost-sure (resp.
positive) winning sets, where player 1 can ensure that the path constraint is
satisfied with probability 1 (resp. positive probability). Almost-sure winning
with qualitative constraint exactly corresponds to the question of whether there
exists a strategy to ensure that the payoff is the maximal reward of the game.
Our main results for qualitative path constraints are as follows: (1) we establish
qualitative determinacy results that show that for every state either player 1
has a strategy to ensure almost-sure (resp. positive) winning against all player-2
strategies, or player 2 has a spoiling strategy to falsify almost-sure (resp.
positive) winning against all player-1 strategies; (2) we present optimal strategy
complexity results that precisely characterize the classes of strategies required
for almost-sure and positive winning for both players; and (3) we present quadratic
time algorithms to compute the almost-sure and the positive winning sets, matching
the best known bound of the algorithms for much simpler problems (such as reachability
objectives). For quantitative constraints we show that a polynomial time solution
for the almost-sure or the positive winning set would imply a solution to a long-standing
open problem (of solving the value problem of turn-based deterministic mean-payoff
games) that is not known to be solvable in polynomial time.'
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- first_name: Rasmus
full_name: Ibsen-Jensen, Rasmus
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ama: Chatterjee K, Ibsen-Jensen R. Qualitative analysis of concurrent mean payoff
games. Information and Computation. 2015;242(6):2-24. doi:10.1016/j.ic.2015.03.009
apa: Chatterjee, K., & Ibsen-Jensen, R. (2015). Qualitative analysis of concurrent
mean payoff games. Information and Computation. Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ic.2015.03.009
chicago: Chatterjee, Krishnendu, and Rasmus Ibsen-Jensen. “Qualitative Analysis
of Concurrent Mean Payoff Games.” Information and Computation. Elsevier,
2015. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ic.2015.03.009.
ieee: K. Chatterjee and R. Ibsen-Jensen, “Qualitative analysis of concurrent mean
payoff games,” Information and Computation, vol. 242, no. 6. Elsevier,
pp. 2–24, 2015.
ista: Chatterjee K, Ibsen-Jensen R. 2015. Qualitative analysis of concurrent mean
payoff games. Information and Computation. 242(6), 2–24.
mla: Chatterjee, Krishnendu, and Rasmus Ibsen-Jensen. “Qualitative Analysis of Concurrent
Mean Payoff Games.” Information and Computation, vol. 242, no. 6, Elsevier,
2015, pp. 2–24, doi:10.1016/j.ic.2015.03.009.
short: K. Chatterjee, R. Ibsen-Jensen, Information and Computation 242 (2015) 2–24.
corr_author: '1'
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text: Ethylene is a gaseous phytohormone that plays vital roles in plant growth
and development. Previous studies uncovered EIN2 as an essential signal transducer
linking ethylene perception on ER to transcriptional regulation in the nucleus
through a “cleave and shuttle” model. In this study, we report another mechanism
of EIN2-mediated ethylene signaling, whereby EIN2 imposes the translational repression
of EBF1 and EBF2 mRNA. We find that the EBF1/2 3′ UTRs mediate EIN2-directed translational
repression and identify multiple poly-uridylates (PolyU) motifs as functional
cis elements of 3′ UTRs. Furthermore, we demonstrate that ethylene induces EIN2
to associate with 3′ UTRs and target EBF1/2 mRNA to cytoplasmic processing-body
(P-body) through interacting with multiple P-body factors, including EIN5 and
PABs. Our study illustrates translational regulation as a key step in ethylene
signaling and presents mRNA 3′ UTR functioning as a “signal transducer” to sense
and relay cellular signaling in plants.
article_processing_charge: No
author:
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full_name: Li, Wenyang
last_name: Li
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full_name: Ma, Mengdi
last_name: Ma
- first_name: Ying
full_name: Feng, Ying
last_name: Feng
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full_name: Li, Hongjiang
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last_name: Li
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full_name: Ma, Yutong
last_name: Ma
- first_name: Mingzhe
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last_name: Li
- first_name: Fengying
full_name: An, Fengying
last_name: An
- first_name: Hongwei
full_name: Guo, Hongwei
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citation:
ama: Li W, Ma M, Feng Y, et al. EIN2-directed translational regulation of ethylene
signaling in arabidopsis. Cell. 2015;163(3):670-683. doi:10.1016/j.cell.2015.09.037
apa: Li, W., Ma, M., Feng, Y., Li, H., Wang, Y., Ma, Y., … Guo, H. (2015). EIN2-directed
translational regulation of ethylene signaling in arabidopsis. Cell. Cell
Press. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2015.09.037
chicago: Li, Wenyang, Mengdi Ma, Ying Feng, Hongjiang Li, Yichuan Wang, Yutong Ma,
Mingzhe Li, Fengying An, and Hongwei Guo. “EIN2-Directed Translational Regulation
of Ethylene Signaling in Arabidopsis.” Cell. Cell Press, 2015. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2015.09.037.
ieee: W. Li et al., “EIN2-directed translational regulation of ethylene signaling
in arabidopsis,” Cell, vol. 163, no. 3. Cell Press, pp. 670–683, 2015.
ista: Li W, Ma M, Feng Y, Li H, Wang Y, Ma Y, Li M, An F, Guo H. 2015. EIN2-directed
translational regulation of ethylene signaling in arabidopsis. Cell. 163(3), 670–683.
mla: Li, Wenyang, et al. “EIN2-Directed Translational Regulation of Ethylene Signaling
in Arabidopsis.” Cell, vol. 163, no. 3, Cell Press, 2015, pp. 670–83, doi:10.1016/j.cell.2015.09.037.
short: W. Li, M. Ma, Y. Feng, H. Li, Y. Wang, Y. Ma, M. Li, F. An, H. Guo, Cell
163 (2015) 670–683.
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publist_id: '7285'
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title: EIN2-directed translational regulation of ethylene signaling in arabidopsis
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...
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abstract:
- lang: eng
text: "We consider Markov decision processes (MDPs) with multiple limit-average
(or mean-payoff) objectives. \r\nThere have been two different views: (i) the
expectation semantics, where the goal is to optimize the expected mean-payoff
objective, and (ii) the satisfaction semantics, where the goal is to maximize
the probability of runs such that the mean-payoff value stays above a given vector.
\ \r\nWe consider the problem where the goal is to optimize the expectation under
the constraint that the satisfaction semantics is ensured, and thus consider a
generalization that unifies the existing semantics.\r\nOur problem captures the
notion of optimization with respect to strategies that are risk-averse (i.e.,
ensures certain probabilistic guarantee).\r\nOur main results are algorithms for
the decision problem which are always polynomial in the size of the MDP. We also
show that an approximation of the Pareto-curve can be computed in time polynomial
in the size of the MDP, and the approximation factor, but exponential in the number
of dimensions.\r\nFinally, we present a complete characterization of the strategy
complexity (in terms of memory bounds and randomization) required to solve our
problem."
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- IST Austria Technical Report
author:
- first_name: Krishnendu
full_name: Chatterjee, Krishnendu
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last_name: Chatterjee
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- first_name: Zuzana
full_name: Komarkova, Zuzana
last_name: Komarkova
- first_name: Jan
full_name: Kretinsky, Jan
id: 44CEF464-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87
last_name: Kretinsky
orcid: 0000-0002-8122-2881
citation:
ama: Chatterjee K, Komarkova Z, Kretinsky J. Unifying Two Views on Multiple Mean-Payoff
Objectives in Markov Decision Processes. IST Austria; 2015. doi:10.15479/AT:IST-2015-318-v1-1
apa: Chatterjee, K., Komarkova, Z., & Kretinsky, J. (2015). Unifying two
views on multiple mean-payoff objectives in Markov decision processes. IST
Austria. https://doi.org/10.15479/AT:IST-2015-318-v1-1
chicago: Chatterjee, Krishnendu, Zuzana Komarkova, and Jan Kretinsky. Unifying
Two Views on Multiple Mean-Payoff Objectives in Markov Decision Processes.
IST Austria, 2015. https://doi.org/10.15479/AT:IST-2015-318-v1-1.
ieee: K. Chatterjee, Z. Komarkova, and J. Kretinsky, Unifying two views on multiple
mean-payoff objectives in Markov decision processes. IST Austria, 2015.
ista: Chatterjee K, Komarkova Z, Kretinsky J. 2015. Unifying two views on multiple
mean-payoff objectives in Markov decision processes, IST Austria, 41p.
mla: Chatterjee, Krishnendu, et al. Unifying Two Views on Multiple Mean-Payoff
Objectives in Markov Decision Processes. IST Austria, 2015, doi:10.15479/AT:IST-2015-318-v1-1.
short: K. Chatterjee, Z. Komarkova, J. Kretinsky, Unifying Two Views on Multiple
Mean-Payoff Objectives in Markov Decision Processes, IST Austria, 2015.
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text: We consider the core algorithmic problems related to verification of systems
with respect to three classical quantitative properties, namely, the mean- payoff
property, the ratio property, and the minimum initial credit for energy property.
The algorithmic problem given a graph and a quantitative property asks to compute
the optimal value (the infimum value over all traces) from every node of the graph.
We consider graphs with constant treewidth, and it is well-known that the control-flow
graphs of most programs have constant treewidth. Let n denote the number of nodes
of a graph, m the number of edges (for constant treewidth graphs m = O ( n ) )
and W the largest absolute value of the weights. Our main theoretical results
are as follows. First, for constant treewidth graphs we present an algorithm that
approximates the mean-payoff value within a mul- tiplicative factor of ∊ in time
O ( n · log( n/∊ )) and linear space, as compared to the classical algorithms
that require quadratic time. Second, for the ratio property we present an algorithm
that for constant treewidth graphs works in time O ( n · log( | a · b · n | ))
= O ( n · log( n · W )) , when the output is a b , as compared to the previously
best known algorithm with running time O ( n 2 · log( n · W )) . Third, for the
minimum initial credit problem we show that (i) for general graphs the problem
can be solved in O ( n 2 · m ) time and the associated decision problem can be
solved in O ( n · m ) time, improving the previous known O ( n 3 · m · log( n
· W )) and O ( n 2 · m ) bounds, respectively; and (ii) for constant treewidth
graphs we present an algorithm that requires O ( n · log n ) time, improving the
previous known O ( n 4 · log( n · W )) bound. We have implemented some of our
algorithms and show that they present a significant speedup on standard benchmarks.
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ama: Chatterjee K, Ibsen-Jensen R, Pavlogiannis A. Faster Algorithms for Quantitative
Verification in Constant Treewidth Graphs. IST Austria; 2015. doi:10.15479/AT:IST-2015-319-v1-1
apa: Chatterjee, K., Ibsen-Jensen, R., & Pavlogiannis, A. (2015). Faster
algorithms for quantitative verification in constant treewidth graphs. IST
Austria. https://doi.org/10.15479/AT:IST-2015-319-v1-1
chicago: Chatterjee, Krishnendu, Rasmus Ibsen-Jensen, and Andreas Pavlogiannis.
Faster Algorithms for Quantitative Verification in Constant Treewidth Graphs.
IST Austria, 2015. https://doi.org/10.15479/AT:IST-2015-319-v1-1.
ieee: K. Chatterjee, R. Ibsen-Jensen, and A. Pavlogiannis, Faster algorithms
for quantitative verification in constant treewidth graphs. IST Austria, 2015.
ista: Chatterjee K, Ibsen-Jensen R, Pavlogiannis A. 2015. Faster algorithms for
quantitative verification in constant treewidth graphs, IST Austria, 31p.
mla: Chatterjee, Krishnendu, et al. Faster Algorithms for Quantitative Verification
in Constant Treewidth Graphs. IST Austria, 2015, doi:10.15479/AT:IST-2015-319-v1-1.
short: K. Chatterjee, R. Ibsen-Jensen, A. Pavlogiannis, Faster Algorithms for Quantitative
Verification in Constant Treewidth Graphs, IST Austria, 2015.
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text: "We consider finite-state concurrent stochastic games, played by k>=2 players
for an infinite number of rounds, where in every round, each player simultaneously
and independently of the other players chooses an action, whereafter the successor
state is determined by a probability distribution given by the current state and
the chosen actions. We consider reachability objectives that given a target set
of states require that some state in the target set is visited, and the dual safety
objectives that given a target set require that only states in the target set
are visited. We are interested in the complexity of stationary strategies measured
by their patience, which is defined as the inverse of the smallest non-zero probability
employed.\r\n\r\n Our main results are as follows: We show that in two-player
zero-sum concurrent stochastic games (with reachability objective for one player
and the complementary safety objective for the other player): (i) the optimal
bound on the patience of optimal and epsilon-optimal strategies, for both players
is doubly exponential; and (ii) even in games with a single non-absorbing state
exponential (in the number of actions) patience is necessary. In general we study
the class of non-zero-sum games admitting epsilon-Nash equilibria. We show that
if there is at least one player with reachability objective, then doubly-exponential
patience is needed in general for epsilon-Nash equilibrium strategies, whereas
in contrast if all players have safety objectives, then the optimal bound on patience
for epsilon-Nash equilibrium strategies is only exponential."
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full_name: Chatterjee, Krishnendu
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Games with Safety and Reachability Objectives. IST Austria; 2015. doi:10.15479/AT:IST-2015-322-v1-1
apa: Chatterjee, K., Ibsen-Jensen, R., & Hansen, K. (2015). The patience
of concurrent stochastic games with safety and reachability objectives. IST
Austria. https://doi.org/10.15479/AT:IST-2015-322-v1-1
chicago: Chatterjee, Krishnendu, Rasmus Ibsen-Jensen, and Kristoffer Hansen. The
Patience of Concurrent Stochastic Games with Safety and Reachability Objectives.
IST Austria, 2015. https://doi.org/10.15479/AT:IST-2015-322-v1-1.
ieee: K. Chatterjee, R. Ibsen-Jensen, and K. Hansen, The patience of concurrent
stochastic games with safety and reachability objectives. IST Austria, 2015.
ista: Chatterjee K, Ibsen-Jensen R, Hansen K. 2015. The patience of concurrent stochastic
games with safety and reachability objectives, IST Austria, 25p.
mla: Chatterjee, Krishnendu, et al. The Patience of Concurrent Stochastic Games
with Safety and Reachability Objectives. IST Austria, 2015, doi:10.15479/AT:IST-2015-322-v1-1.
short: K. Chatterjee, R. Ibsen-Jensen, K. Hansen, The Patience of Concurrent Stochastic
Games with Safety and Reachability Objectives, IST Austria, 2015.
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abstract:
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text: "Evolution occurs in populations of reproducing individuals. The structure
of the population affects the outcome of the evolutionary process. Evolutionary
graph theory is a powerful approach to study this phenomenon. There are two graphs.
The interaction graph specifies who interacts with whom in the context of evolution.The
replacement graph specifies who competes with whom for reproduction. \r\nThe vertices
of the two graphs are the same, and each vertex corresponds to an individual of
the population. A key quantity is the fixation probability of a new mutant. It
is defined as the probability that a newly introduced mutant (on a single vertex)
generates a lineage of offspring which eventually takes over the entire population
of resident individuals. The basic computational questions are as follows: (i)
the qualitative question asks whether the fixation probability is positive; and
(ii) the quantitative approximation question asks for an approximation of the
fixation probability. \r\nOur main results are:\r\n(1) We show that the qualitative
question is NP-complete and the quantitative approximation question is #P-hard
in the special case when the interaction and the replacement graphs coincide and
even with the restriction that the resident individuals do not reproduce (which
corresponds to an invading population taking over an empty structure).\r\n(2)
We show that in general the qualitative question is PSPACE-complete and the quantitative
approximation question is PSPACE-hard and can be solved in exponential time.\r\n"
alternative_title:
- IST Austria Technical Report
author:
- first_name: Krishnendu
full_name: Chatterjee, Krishnendu
id: 2E5DCA20-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87
last_name: Chatterjee
orcid: 0000-0002-4561-241X
- first_name: Rasmus
full_name: Ibsen-Jensen, Rasmus
id: 3B699956-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87
last_name: Ibsen-Jensen
orcid: 0000-0003-4783-0389
- first_name: Martin
full_name: Nowak, Martin
last_name: Nowak
citation:
ama: Chatterjee K, Ibsen-Jensen R, Nowak M. The Complexity of Evolutionary Games
on Graphs. IST Austria; 2015. doi:10.15479/AT:IST-2015-323-v1-1
apa: Chatterjee, K., Ibsen-Jensen, R., & Nowak, M. (2015). The complexity
of evolutionary games on graphs. IST Austria. https://doi.org/10.15479/AT:IST-2015-323-v1-1
chicago: Chatterjee, Krishnendu, Rasmus Ibsen-Jensen, and Martin Nowak. The Complexity
of Evolutionary Games on Graphs. IST Austria, 2015. https://doi.org/10.15479/AT:IST-2015-323-v1-1.
ieee: K. Chatterjee, R. Ibsen-Jensen, and M. Nowak, The complexity of evolutionary
games on graphs. IST Austria, 2015.
ista: Chatterjee K, Ibsen-Jensen R, Nowak M. 2015. The complexity of evolutionary
games on graphs, IST Austria, 29p.
mla: Chatterjee, Krishnendu, et al. The Complexity of Evolutionary Games on Graphs.
IST Austria, 2015, doi:10.15479/AT:IST-2015-323-v1-1.
short: K. Chatterjee, R. Ibsen-Jensen, M. Nowak, The Complexity of Evolutionary
Games on Graphs, IST Austria, 2015.
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abstract:
- lang: eng
text: "We consider Markov decision processes (MDPs) with multiple limit-average
(or mean-payoff) objectives. \r\nThere have been two different views: (i) the
expectation semantics, where the goal is to optimize the expected mean-payoff
objective, and (ii) the satisfaction semantics, where the goal is to maximize
the probability of runs such that the mean-payoff value stays above a given vector.
\ \r\nWe consider the problem where the goal is to optimize the expectation under
the constraint that the satisfaction semantics is ensured, and thus consider a
generalization that unifies the existing semantics. Our problem captures the notion
of optimization with respect to strategies that are risk-averse (i.e., ensures
certain probabilistic guarantee).\r\nOur main results are algorithms for the decision
problem which are always polynomial in the size of the MDP.\r\nWe also show that
an approximation of the Pareto-curve can be computed in time polynomial in the
size of the MDP, and the approximation factor, but exponential in the number of
dimensions. Finally, we present a complete characterization of the strategy complexity
(in terms of memory bounds and randomization) required to solve our problem."
alternative_title:
- IST Austria Technical Report
author:
- first_name: Krishnendu
full_name: Chatterjee, Krishnendu
id: 2E5DCA20-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87
last_name: Chatterjee
orcid: 0000-0002-4561-241X
- first_name: Zuzana
full_name: Komarkova, Zuzana
last_name: Komarkova
- first_name: Jan
full_name: Kretinsky, Jan
id: 44CEF464-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87
last_name: Kretinsky
orcid: 0000-0002-8122-2881
citation:
ama: Chatterjee K, Komarkova Z, Kretinsky J. Unifying Two Views on Multiple Mean-Payoff
Objectives in Markov Decision Processes. IST Austria; 2015. doi:10.15479/AT:IST-2015-318-v2-1
apa: Chatterjee, K., Komarkova, Z., & Kretinsky, J. (2015). Unifying two
views on multiple mean-payoff objectives in Markov decision processes. IST
Austria. https://doi.org/10.15479/AT:IST-2015-318-v2-1
chicago: Chatterjee, Krishnendu, Zuzana Komarkova, and Jan Kretinsky. Unifying
Two Views on Multiple Mean-Payoff Objectives in Markov Decision Processes.
IST Austria, 2015. https://doi.org/10.15479/AT:IST-2015-318-v2-1.
ieee: K. Chatterjee, Z. Komarkova, and J. Kretinsky, Unifying two views on multiple
mean-payoff objectives in Markov decision processes. IST Austria, 2015.
ista: Chatterjee K, Komarkova Z, Kretinsky J. 2015. Unifying two views on multiple
mean-payoff objectives in Markov decision processes, IST Austria, 51p.
mla: Chatterjee, Krishnendu, et al. Unifying Two Views on Multiple Mean-Payoff
Objectives in Markov Decision Processes. IST Austria, 2015, doi:10.15479/AT:IST-2015-318-v2-1.
short: K. Chatterjee, Z. Komarkova, J. Kretinsky, Unifying Two Views on Multiple
Mean-Payoff Objectives in Markov Decision Processes, IST Austria, 2015.
date_created: 2018-12-12T11:39:19Z
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abstract:
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text: "Recently there has been a significant effort to handle quantitative properties
in formal verification and synthesis. While weighted automata over finite and
infinite words provide a natural and flexible framework to express quantitative
properties, perhaps surprisingly, some basic system properties such as average
response time cannot be expressed using weighted automata, nor in any other know
decidable formalism. In this work, we introduce nested weighted automata as a
natural extension of weighted automata which makes it possible to express important
quantitative properties such as average response time.\r\nIn nested weighted automata,
a master automaton spins off and collects results from weighted slave automata,
each of which computes a quantity along a finite portion of an infinite word.
Nested weighted automata can be viewed as the quantitative analogue of monitor
automata, which are used in run-time verification. We establish an almost complete
decidability picture for the basic decision problems about nested weighted automata,
and illustrate their applicability in several domains. In particular, nested weighted
automata can be used to decide average response time properties."
alternative_title:
- IST Austria Technical Report
author:
- first_name: Krishnendu
full_name: Chatterjee, Krishnendu
id: 2E5DCA20-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87
last_name: Chatterjee
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full_name: Henzinger, Thomas A
id: 40876CD8-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87
last_name: Henzinger
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full_name: Otop, Jan
id: 2FC5DA74-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87
last_name: Otop
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ama: Chatterjee K, Henzinger TA, Otop J. Nested Weighted Automata. IST Austria;
2015. doi:10.15479/AT:IST-2015-170-v2-2
apa: Chatterjee, K., Henzinger, T. A., & Otop, J. (2015). Nested weighted
automata. IST Austria. https://doi.org/10.15479/AT:IST-2015-170-v2-2
chicago: Chatterjee, Krishnendu, Thomas A Henzinger, and Jan Otop. Nested Weighted
Automata. IST Austria, 2015. https://doi.org/10.15479/AT:IST-2015-170-v2-2.
ieee: K. Chatterjee, T. A. Henzinger, and J. Otop, Nested weighted automata.
IST Austria, 2015.
ista: Chatterjee K, Henzinger TA, Otop J. 2015. Nested weighted automata, IST Austria,
29p.
mla: Chatterjee, Krishnendu, et al. Nested Weighted Automata. IST Austria,
2015, doi:10.15479/AT:IST-2015-170-v2-2.
short: K. Chatterjee, T.A. Henzinger, J. Otop, Nested Weighted Automata, IST Austria,
2015.
date_created: 2018-12-12T11:39:19Z
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abstract:
- lang: eng
text: "We consider the core algorithmic problems related to verification of systems
with respect to three classical quantitative properties, namely, the mean-payoff
property, the ratio property, and the minimum initial credit for energy property.
\r\nThe algorithmic problem given a graph and a quantitative property asks to
compute the optimal value (the infimum value over all traces) from every node
of the graph. We consider graphs with constant treewidth, and it is well-known
that the control-flow graphs of most programs have constant treewidth. Let $n$
denote the number of nodes of a graph, $m$ the number of edges (for constant treewidth
graphs $m=O(n)$) and $W$ the largest absolute value of the weights.\r\nOur main
theoretical results are as follows.\r\nFirst, for constant treewidth graphs we
present an algorithm that approximates the mean-payoff value within a multiplicative
factor of $\\epsilon$ in time $O(n \\cdot \\log (n/\\epsilon))$ and linear space,
as compared to the classical algorithms that require quadratic time. Second, for
the ratio property we present an algorithm that for constant treewidth graphs
works in time $O(n \\cdot \\log (|a\\cdot b|))=O(n\\cdot\\log (n\\cdot W))$, when
the output is $\\frac{a}{b}$, as compared to the previously best known algorithm
with running time $O(n^2 \\cdot \\log (n\\cdot W))$. Third, for the minimum initial
credit problem we show that (i)~for general graphs the problem can be solved in
$O(n^2\\cdot m)$ time and the associated decision problem can be solved in $O(n\\cdot
m)$ time, improving the previous known $O(n^3\\cdot m\\cdot \\log (n\\cdot W))$
and $O(n^2 \\cdot m)$ bounds, respectively; and (ii)~for constant treewidth graphs
we present an algorithm that requires $O(n\\cdot \\log n)$ time, improving the
previous known $O(n^4 \\cdot \\log (n \\cdot W))$ bound.\r\nWe have implemented
some of our algorithms and show that they present a significant speedup on standard
benchmarks. "
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- IST Austria Technical Report
author:
- first_name: Krishnendu
full_name: Chatterjee, Krishnendu
id: 2E5DCA20-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87
last_name: Chatterjee
orcid: 0000-0002-4561-241X
- first_name: Rasmus
full_name: Ibsen-Jensen, Rasmus
id: 3B699956-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87
last_name: Ibsen-Jensen
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full_name: Pavlogiannis, Andreas
id: 49704004-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87
last_name: Pavlogiannis
orcid: 0000-0002-8943-0722
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ama: Chatterjee K, Ibsen-Jensen R, Pavlogiannis A. Faster Algorithms for Quantitative
Verification in Constant Treewidth Graphs. IST Austria; 2015. doi:10.15479/AT:IST-2015-330-v2-1
apa: Chatterjee, K., Ibsen-Jensen, R., & Pavlogiannis, A. (2015). Faster
algorithms for quantitative verification in constant treewidth graphs. IST
Austria. https://doi.org/10.15479/AT:IST-2015-330-v2-1
chicago: Chatterjee, Krishnendu, Rasmus Ibsen-Jensen, and Andreas Pavlogiannis.
Faster Algorithms for Quantitative Verification in Constant Treewidth Graphs.
IST Austria, 2015. https://doi.org/10.15479/AT:IST-2015-330-v2-1.
ieee: K. Chatterjee, R. Ibsen-Jensen, and A. Pavlogiannis, Faster algorithms
for quantitative verification in constant treewidth graphs. IST Austria, 2015.
ista: Chatterjee K, Ibsen-Jensen R, Pavlogiannis A. 2015. Faster algorithms for
quantitative verification in constant treewidth graphs, IST Austria, 27p.
mla: Chatterjee, Krishnendu, et al. Faster Algorithms for Quantitative Verification
in Constant Treewidth Graphs. IST Austria, 2015, doi:10.15479/AT:IST-2015-330-v2-1.
short: K. Chatterjee, R. Ibsen-Jensen, A. Pavlogiannis, Faster Algorithms for Quantitative
Verification in Constant Treewidth Graphs, IST Austria, 2015.
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abstract:
- lang: eng
text: "The edit distance between two words w1, w2 is the minimal number of word
operations (letter insertions, deletions, and substitutions) necessary to transform
w1 to w2. The edit distance generalizes to languages L1, L2, where the edit distance
is the minimal number k such that for every word from L1 there exists a word in
L2 with edit distance at most k. We study the edit distance computation problem
between pushdown automata and their subclasses.\r\nThe problem of computing edit
distance to a pushdown automaton is undecidable, and in practice, the interesting
question is to compute the edit distance from a pushdown automaton (the implementation,
a standard model for programs with recursion) to a regular language (the specification).
In this work, we present a complete picture of decidability and complexity for
deciding whether, for a given threshold k, the edit distance from a pushdown automaton
to a finite automaton is at most k. "
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- IST Austria Technical Report
author:
- first_name: Krishnendu
full_name: Chatterjee, Krishnendu
id: 2E5DCA20-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87
last_name: Chatterjee
orcid: 0000-0002-4561-241X
- first_name: Thomas A
full_name: Henzinger, Thomas A
id: 40876CD8-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87
last_name: Henzinger
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full_name: Ibsen-Jensen, Rasmus
id: 3B699956-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87
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ama: Chatterjee K, Henzinger TA, Ibsen-Jensen R, Otop J. Edit Distance for Pushdown
Automata. IST Austria; 2015. doi:10.15479/AT:IST-2015-334-v1-1
apa: Chatterjee, K., Henzinger, T. A., Ibsen-Jensen, R., & Otop, J. (2015).
Edit distance for pushdown automata. IST Austria. https://doi.org/10.15479/AT:IST-2015-334-v1-1
chicago: Chatterjee, Krishnendu, Thomas A Henzinger, Rasmus Ibsen-Jensen, and Jan
Otop. Edit Distance for Pushdown Automata. IST Austria, 2015. https://doi.org/10.15479/AT:IST-2015-334-v1-1.
ieee: K. Chatterjee, T. A. Henzinger, R. Ibsen-Jensen, and J. Otop, Edit distance
for pushdown automata. IST Austria, 2015.
ista: Chatterjee K, Henzinger TA, Ibsen-Jensen R, Otop J. 2015. Edit distance for
pushdown automata, IST Austria, 15p.
mla: Chatterjee, Krishnendu, et al. Edit Distance for Pushdown Automata.
IST Austria, 2015, doi:10.15479/AT:IST-2015-334-v1-1.
short: K. Chatterjee, T.A. Henzinger, R. Ibsen-Jensen, J. Otop, Edit Distance for
Pushdown Automata, IST Austria, 2015.
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_id: '5439'
abstract:
- lang: eng
text: 'The target discounted-sum problem is the following: Given a rational discount
factor 0 < λ < 1 and three rational values a, b, and t, does there exist a finite
or an infinite sequence w ε(a, b)∗ or w ε(a, b)w, such that Σ|w| i=0 w(i)λi equals
t? The problem turns out to relate to many fields of mathematics and computer
science, and its decidability question is surprisingly hard to solve. We solve
the finite version of the problem, and show the hardness of the infinite version,
linking it to various areas and open problems in mathematics and computer science:
β-expansions, discounted-sum automata, piecewise affine maps, and generalizations
of the Cantor set. We provide some partial results to the infinite version, among
which are solutions to its restriction to eventually-periodic sequences and to
the cases that λ λ 1/2 or λ = 1/n, for every n ε N. We use our results for solving
some open problems on discounted-sum automata, among which are the exact-value
problem for nondeterministic automata over finite words and the universality and
inclusion problems for functional automata. '
alternative_title:
- IST Austria Technical Report
author:
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last_name: Boker
- first_name: Thomas A
full_name: Henzinger, Thomas A
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last_name: Henzinger
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full_name: Otop, Jan
id: 2FC5DA74-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87
last_name: Otop
citation:
ama: Boker U, Henzinger TA, Otop J. The Target Discounted-Sum Problem. IST
Austria; 2015. doi:10.15479/AT:IST-2015-335-v1-1
apa: Boker, U., Henzinger, T. A., & Otop, J. (2015). The target discounted-sum
problem. IST Austria. https://doi.org/10.15479/AT:IST-2015-335-v1-1
chicago: Boker, Udi, Thomas A Henzinger, and Jan Otop. The Target Discounted-Sum
Problem. IST Austria, 2015. https://doi.org/10.15479/AT:IST-2015-335-v1-1.
ieee: U. Boker, T. A. Henzinger, and J. Otop, The target discounted-sum problem.
IST Austria, 2015.
ista: Boker U, Henzinger TA, Otop J. 2015. The target discounted-sum problem, IST
Austria, 20p.
mla: Boker, Udi, et al. The Target Discounted-Sum Problem. IST Austria, 2015,
doi:10.15479/AT:IST-2015-335-v1-1.
short: U. Boker, T.A. Henzinger, J. Otop, The Target Discounted-Sum Problem, IST
Austria, 2015.
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text: 'Evolution occurs in populations of reproducing individuals. The structure
of the population affects the outcome of the evolutionary process. Evolutionary
graph theory is a powerful approach to study this phenomenon. There are two graphs.
The interaction graph specifies who interacts with whom for payoff in the context
of evolution. The replacement graph specifies who competes with whom for reproduction.
The vertices of the two graphs are the same, and each vertex corresponds to an
individual of the population. The fitness (or the reproductive rate) is a non-negative
number, and depends on the payoff. A key quantity is the fixation probability
of a new mutant. It is defined as the probability that a newly introduced mutant
(on a single vertex) generates a lineage of offspring which eventually takes over
the entire population of resident individuals. The basic computational questions
are as follows: (i) the qualitative question asks whether the fixation probability
is positive; and (ii) the quantitative approximation question asks for an approximation
of the fixation probability. Our main results are as follows: First, we consider
a special case of the general problem, where the residents do not reproduce. We
show that the qualitative question is NP-complete, and the quantitative approximation
question is #P-complete, and the hardness results hold even in the special case
where the interaction and the replacement graphs coincide. Second, we show that
in general both the qualitative and the quantitative approximation questions are
PSPACE-complete. The PSPACE-hardness result for quantitative approximation holds
even when the fitness is always positive.'
alternative_title:
- IST Austria Technical Report
author:
- first_name: Krishnendu
full_name: Chatterjee, Krishnendu
id: 2E5DCA20-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87
last_name: Chatterjee
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last_name: Ibsen-Jensen
orcid: 0000-0003-4783-0389
- first_name: Martin
full_name: Nowak, Martin
last_name: Nowak
citation:
ama: Chatterjee K, Ibsen-Jensen R, Nowak M. The Complexity of Evolutionary Games
on Graphs. IST Austria; 2015. doi:10.15479/AT:IST-2015-323-v2-2
apa: Chatterjee, K., Ibsen-Jensen, R., & Nowak, M. (2015). The complexity
of evolutionary games on graphs. IST Austria. https://doi.org/10.15479/AT:IST-2015-323-v2-2
chicago: Chatterjee, Krishnendu, Rasmus Ibsen-Jensen, and Martin Nowak. The Complexity
of Evolutionary Games on Graphs. IST Austria, 2015. https://doi.org/10.15479/AT:IST-2015-323-v2-2.
ieee: K. Chatterjee, R. Ibsen-Jensen, and M. Nowak, The complexity of evolutionary
games on graphs. IST Austria, 2015.
ista: Chatterjee K, Ibsen-Jensen R, Nowak M. 2015. The complexity of evolutionary
games on graphs, IST Austria, 18p.
mla: Chatterjee, Krishnendu, et al. The Complexity of Evolutionary Games on Graphs.
IST Austria, 2015, doi:10.15479/AT:IST-2015-323-v2-2.
short: K. Chatterjee, R. Ibsen-Jensen, M. Nowak, The Complexity of Evolutionary
Games on Graphs, IST Austria, 2015.
date_created: 2018-12-12T11:39:21Z
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text: We study algorithmic questions for concurrent systems where the transitions
are labeled from a complete, closed semiring, and path properties are algebraic
with semiring operations. The algebraic path properties can model dataflow analysis
problems, the shortest path problem, and many other natural problems that arise
in program analysis. We consider that each component of the concurrent system
is a graph with constant treewidth, a property satisfied by the controlflow graphs
of most programs. We allow for multiple possible queries, which arise naturally
in demand driven dataflow analysis. The study of multiple queries allows us to
consider the tradeoff between the resource usage of the one-time preprocessing
and for each individual query. The traditional approach constructs the product
graph of all components and applies the best-known graph algorithm on the product.
In this approach, even the answer to a single query requires the transitive closure
(i.e., the results of all possible queries), which provides no room for tradeoff
between preprocessing and query time. Our main contributions are algorithms that
significantly improve the worst-case running time of the traditional approach,
and provide various tradeoffs depending on the number of queries. For example,
in a concurrent system of two components, the traditional approach requires hexic
time in the worst case for answering one query as well as computing the transitive
closure, whereas we show that with one-time preprocessing in almost cubic time,
each subsequent query can be answered in at most linear time, and even the transitive
closure can be computed in almost quartic time. Furthermore, we establish conditional
optimality results showing that the worst-case running time of our algorithms
cannot be improved without achieving major breakthroughs in graph algorithms (i.e.,
improving the worst-case bound for the shortest path problem in general graphs).
Preliminary experimental results show that our algorithms perform favorably on
several benchmarks.
alternative_title:
- IST Austria Technical Report
author:
- first_name: Krishnendu
full_name: Chatterjee, Krishnendu
id: 2E5DCA20-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87
last_name: Chatterjee
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- first_name: Rasmus
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last_name: Ibsen-Jensen
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- first_name: Amir
full_name: Goharshady, Amir
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last_name: Goharshady
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full_name: Pavlogiannis, Andreas
id: 49704004-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87
last_name: Pavlogiannis
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citation:
ama: Chatterjee K, Ibsen-Jensen R, Goharshady AK, Pavlogiannis A. Algorithms
for Algebraic Path Properties in Concurrent Systems of Constant Treewidth Components.
IST Austria; 2015. doi:10.15479/AT:IST-2015-340-v1-1
apa: Chatterjee, K., Ibsen-Jensen, R., Goharshady, A. K., & Pavlogiannis, A.
(2015). Algorithms for algebraic path properties in concurrent systems of constant
treewidth components. IST Austria. https://doi.org/10.15479/AT:IST-2015-340-v1-1
chicago: Chatterjee, Krishnendu, Rasmus Ibsen-Jensen, Amir Kafshdar Goharshady,
and Andreas Pavlogiannis. Algorithms for Algebraic Path Properties in Concurrent
Systems of Constant Treewidth Components. IST Austria, 2015. https://doi.org/10.15479/AT:IST-2015-340-v1-1.
ieee: K. Chatterjee, R. Ibsen-Jensen, A. K. Goharshady, and A. Pavlogiannis, Algorithms
for algebraic path properties in concurrent systems of constant treewidth components.
IST Austria, 2015.
ista: Chatterjee K, Ibsen-Jensen R, Goharshady AK, Pavlogiannis A. 2015. Algorithms
for algebraic path properties in concurrent systems of constant treewidth components,
IST Austria, 24p.
mla: Chatterjee, Krishnendu, et al. Algorithms for Algebraic Path Properties
in Concurrent Systems of Constant Treewidth Components. IST Austria, 2015,
doi:10.15479/AT:IST-2015-340-v1-1.
short: K. Chatterjee, R. Ibsen-Jensen, A.K. Goharshady, A. Pavlogiannis, Algorithms
for Algebraic Path Properties in Concurrent Systems of Constant Treewidth Components,
IST Austria, 2015.
date_created: 2018-12-12T11:39:21Z
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abstract:
- lang: eng
text: POMDPs are standard models for probabilistic planning problems, where an agent
interacts with an uncertain environment. We study the problem of almost-sure reachability,
where given a set of target states, the question is to decide whether there is
a policy to ensure that the target set is reached with probability 1 (almost-surely).
While in general the problem is EXPTIME-complete, in many practical cases policies
with a small amount of memory suffice. Moreover, the existing solution to the
problem is explicit, which first requires to construct explicitly an exponential
reduction to a belief-support MDP. In this work, we first study the existence
of observation-stationary strategies, which is NP-complete, and then small-memory
strategies. We present a symbolic algorithm by an efficient encoding to SAT and
using a SAT solver for the problem. We report experimental results demonstrating
the scalability of our symbolic (SAT-based) approach.
alternative_title:
- IST Austria Technical Report
author:
- first_name: Krishnendu
full_name: Chatterjee, Krishnendu
id: 2E5DCA20-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87
last_name: Chatterjee
orcid: 0000-0002-4561-241X
- first_name: Martin
full_name: Chmelik, Martin
id: 3624234E-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87
last_name: Chmelik
- first_name: Jessica
full_name: Davies, Jessica
id: 378E0060-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87
last_name: Davies
citation:
ama: Chatterjee K, Chmelik M, Davies J. A Symbolic SAT-Based Algorithm for Almost-Sure
Reachability with Small Strategies in POMDPs. IST Austria; 2015. doi:10.15479/AT:IST-2015-325-v2-1
apa: Chatterjee, K., Chmelik, M., & Davies, J. (2015). A symbolic SAT-based
algorithm for almost-sure reachability with small strategies in POMDPs. IST
Austria. https://doi.org/10.15479/AT:IST-2015-325-v2-1
chicago: Chatterjee, Krishnendu, Martin Chmelik, and Jessica Davies. A Symbolic
SAT-Based Algorithm for Almost-Sure Reachability with Small Strategies in POMDPs.
IST Austria, 2015. https://doi.org/10.15479/AT:IST-2015-325-v2-1.
ieee: K. Chatterjee, M. Chmelik, and J. Davies, A symbolic SAT-based algorithm
for almost-sure reachability with small strategies in POMDPs. IST Austria,
2015.
ista: Chatterjee K, Chmelik M, Davies J. 2015. A symbolic SAT-based algorithm for
almost-sure reachability with small strategies in POMDPs, IST Austria, 23p.
mla: Chatterjee, Krishnendu, et al. A Symbolic SAT-Based Algorithm for Almost-Sure
Reachability with Small Strategies in POMDPs. IST Austria, 2015, doi:10.15479/AT:IST-2015-325-v2-1.
short: K. Chatterjee, M. Chmelik, J. Davies, A Symbolic SAT-Based Algorithm for
Almost-Sure Reachability with Small Strategies in POMDPs, IST Austria, 2015.
date_created: 2018-12-12T11:39:22Z
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abstract:
- lang: eng
text: A comprehensive understanding of the clonal evolution of cancer is critical
for understanding neoplasia. Genome-wide sequencing data enables evolutionary
studies at unprecedented depth. However, classical phylogenetic methods often
struggle with noisy sequencing data of impure DNA samples and fail to detect subclones
that have different evolutionary trajectories. We have developed a tool, called
Treeomics, that allows us to reconstruct the phylogeny of a cancer with commonly
available sequencing technologies. Using Bayesian inference and Integer Linear
Programming, robust phylogenies consistent with the biological processes underlying
cancer evolution were obtained for pancreatic, ovarian, and prostate cancers.
Furthermore, Treeomics correctly identified sequencing artifacts such as those
resulting from low statistical power; nearly 7% of variants were misclassified
by conventional statistical methods. These artifacts can skew phylogenies by creating
illusory tumor heterogeneity among distinct samples. Importantly, we show that
the evolutionary trees generated with Treeomics are mathematically optimal.
alternative_title:
- IST Austria Technical Report
author:
- first_name: Johannes
full_name: Reiter, Johannes
id: 4A918E98-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87
last_name: Reiter
orcid: 0000-0002-0170-7353
- first_name: Alvin
full_name: Makohon-Moore, Alvin
last_name: Makohon-Moore
- first_name: Jeffrey
full_name: Gerold, Jeffrey
last_name: Gerold
- first_name: Ivana
full_name: Bozic, Ivana
last_name: Bozic
- first_name: Krishnendu
full_name: Chatterjee, Krishnendu
id: 2E5DCA20-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87
last_name: Chatterjee
orcid: 0000-0002-4561-241X
- first_name: Christine
full_name: Iacobuzio-Donahue, Christine
last_name: Iacobuzio-Donahue
- first_name: Bert
full_name: Vogelstein, Bert
last_name: Vogelstein
- first_name: Martin
full_name: Nowak, Martin
last_name: Nowak
citation:
ama: Reiter J, Makohon-Moore A, Gerold J, et al. Reconstructing Robust Phylogenies
of Metastatic Cancers. IST Austria; 2015. doi:10.15479/AT:IST-2015-399-v1-1
apa: Reiter, J., Makohon-Moore, A., Gerold, J., Bozic, I., Chatterjee, K., Iacobuzio-Donahue,
C., … Nowak, M. (2015). Reconstructing robust phylogenies of metastatic cancers.
IST Austria. https://doi.org/10.15479/AT:IST-2015-399-v1-1
chicago: Reiter, Johannes, Alvin Makohon-Moore, Jeffrey Gerold, Ivana Bozic, Krishnendu
Chatterjee, Christine Iacobuzio-Donahue, Bert Vogelstein, and Martin Nowak. Reconstructing
Robust Phylogenies of Metastatic Cancers. IST Austria, 2015. https://doi.org/10.15479/AT:IST-2015-399-v1-1.
ieee: J. Reiter et al., Reconstructing robust phylogenies of metastatic
cancers. IST Austria, 2015.
ista: Reiter J, Makohon-Moore A, Gerold J, Bozic I, Chatterjee K, Iacobuzio-Donahue
C, Vogelstein B, Nowak M. 2015. Reconstructing robust phylogenies of metastatic
cancers, IST Austria, 25p.
mla: Reiter, Johannes, et al. Reconstructing Robust Phylogenies of Metastatic
Cancers. IST Austria, 2015, doi:10.15479/AT:IST-2015-399-v1-1.
short: J. Reiter, A. Makohon-Moore, J. Gerold, I. Bozic, K. Chatterjee, C. Iacobuzio-Donahue,
B. Vogelstein, M. Nowak, Reconstructing Robust Phylogenies of Metastatic Cancers,
IST Austria, 2015.
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- lang: eng
text: "This repository contains the experimental part of the CAV 2015 publication
Counterexample Explanation by Learning Small Strategies in Markov Decision Processes.\r\nWe
extended the probabilistic model checker PRISM to represent strategies of Markov
Decision Processes as Decision Trees.\r\nThe archive contains a java executable
version of the extended tool (prism_dectree.jar) together with a few examples
of the PRISM benchmark library.\r\nTo execute the program, please have a look
at the README.txt, which provides instructions and further information on the
archive.\r\nThe archive contains scripts that (if run often enough) reproduces
the data presented in the publication."
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citation:
ama: 'Fellner A. Experimental part of CAV 2015 publication: Counterexample Explanation
by Learning Small Strategies in Markov Decision Processes. 2015. doi:10.15479/AT:ISTA:28'
apa: 'Fellner, A. (2015). Experimental part of CAV 2015 publication: Counterexample
Explanation by Learning Small Strategies in Markov Decision Processes. Institute
of Science and Technology Austria. https://doi.org/10.15479/AT:ISTA:28'
chicago: 'Fellner, Andreas. “Experimental Part of CAV 2015 Publication: Counterexample
Explanation by Learning Small Strategies in Markov Decision Processes.” Institute
of Science and Technology Austria, 2015. https://doi.org/10.15479/AT:ISTA:28.'
ieee: 'A. Fellner, “Experimental part of CAV 2015 publication: Counterexample Explanation
by Learning Small Strategies in Markov Decision Processes.” Institute of Science
and Technology Austria, 2015.'
ista: 'Fellner A. 2015. Experimental part of CAV 2015 publication: Counterexample
Explanation by Learning Small Strategies in Markov Decision Processes, Institute
of Science and Technology Austria, 10.15479/AT:ISTA:28.'
mla: 'Fellner, Andreas. Experimental Part of CAV 2015 Publication: Counterexample
Explanation by Learning Small Strategies in Markov Decision Processes. Institute
of Science and Technology Austria, 2015, doi:10.15479/AT:ISTA:28.'
short: A. Fellner, (2015).
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title: 'Experimental part of CAV 2015 publication: Counterexample Explanation by Learning
Small Strategies in Markov Decision Processes'
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abstract:
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text: "We present a method and a tool for generating succinct representations of
sets of concurrent traces. We focus on trace sets that contain all correct or
all incorrect permutations of events from a given trace. We represent trace sets
as HB-Formulas that are Boolean combinations of happens-before constraints between
events. To generate a representation of incorrect interleavings, our method iteratively
explores interleavings that violate the specification and gathers generalizations
of the discovered interleavings into an HB-Formula; its complement yields a representation
of correct interleavings.\r\n\r\nWe claim that our trace set representations can
drive diverse verification, fault localization, repair, and synthesis techniques
for concurrent programs. We demonstrate this by using our tool in three case studies
involving synchronization synthesis, bug summarization, and abstraction refinement
based verification. In each case study, our initial experimental results have
been promising.\r\n\r\nIn the first case study, we present an algorithm for inferring
missing synchronization from an HB-Formula representing correct interleavings
of a given trace. The algorithm applies rules to rewrite specific patterns in
the HB-Formula into locks, barriers, and wait-notify constructs. In the second
case study, we use an HB-Formula representing incorrect interleavings for bug
summarization. While the HB-Formula itself is a concise counterexample summary,
we present additional inference rules to help identify specific concurrency bugs
such as data races, define-use order violations, and two-stage access bugs. In
the final case study, we present a novel predicate learning procedure that uses
HB-Formulas representing abstract counterexamples to accelerate counterexample-guided
abstraction refinement (CEGAR). In each iteration of the CEGAR loop, the procedure
refines the abstraction to eliminate multiple spurious abstract counterexamples
drawn from the HB-Formula."
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ama: 'Gupta A, Henzinger TA, Radhakrishna A, Samanta R, Tarrach T. Succinct representation
of concurrent trace sets. In: ACM; 2015:433-444. doi:10.1145/2676726.2677008'
apa: 'Gupta, A., Henzinger, T. A., Radhakrishna, A., Samanta, R., & Tarrach,
T. (2015). Succinct representation of concurrent trace sets (pp. 433–444). Presented
at the POPL: Principles of Programming Languages, Mumbai, India: ACM. https://doi.org/10.1145/2676726.2677008'
chicago: Gupta, Ashutosh, Thomas A Henzinger, Arjun Radhakrishna, Roopsha Samanta,
and Thorsten Tarrach. “Succinct Representation of Concurrent Trace Sets,” 433–44.
ACM, 2015. https://doi.org/10.1145/2676726.2677008.
ieee: 'A. Gupta, T. A. Henzinger, A. Radhakrishna, R. Samanta, and T. Tarrach, “Succinct
representation of concurrent trace sets,” presented at the POPL: Principles of
Programming Languages, Mumbai, India, 2015, pp. 433–444.'
ista: 'Gupta A, Henzinger TA, Radhakrishna A, Samanta R, Tarrach T. 2015. Succinct
representation of concurrent trace sets. POPL: Principles of Programming Languages,
433–444.'
mla: Gupta, Ashutosh, et al. Succinct Representation of Concurrent Trace Sets.
ACM, 2015, pp. 433–44, doi:10.1145/2676726.2677008.
short: A. Gupta, T.A. Henzinger, A. Radhakrishna, R. Samanta, T. Tarrach, in:, ACM,
2015, pp. 433–444.
conference:
end_date: 2015-01-17
location: Mumbai, India
name: 'POPL: Principles of Programming Languages'
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abstract:
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text: 'The fitness effects of symbionts on their hosts can be context-dependent,
with usually benign symbionts causing detrimental effects when their hosts are
stressed, or typically parasitic symbionts providing protection towards their
hosts (e.g. against pathogen infection). Here, we studied the novel association
between the invasive garden ant Lasius neglectus and its fungal ectosymbiont Laboulbenia
formicarum for potential costs and benefits. We tested ants with different Laboulbenia
levels for their survival and immunity under resource limitation and exposure
to the obligate killing entomopathogen Metarhizium brunneum. While survival of
L. neglectus workers under starvation was significantly decreased with increasing
Laboulbenia levels, host survival under Metarhizium exposure increased with higher
levels of the ectosymbiont, suggesting a symbiont-mediated anti-pathogen protection,
which seems to be driven mechanistically by both improved sanitary behaviours
and an upregulated immune system. Ants with high Laboulbenia levels showed significantly
longer self-grooming and elevated expression of immune genes relevant for wound
repair and antifungal responses (β-1,3-glucan binding protein, Prophenoloxidase),
compared with ants carrying low Laboulbenia levels. This suggests that the ectosymbiont
Laboulbenia formicarum weakens its ant host by either direct resource exploitation
or the costs of an upregulated behavioural and immunological response, which,
however, provides a prophylactic protection upon later exposure to pathogens. '
acknowledged_ssus:
- _id: EM-Fac
acknowledgement: "Funding was obtained by the German Research Foundation (CR 118–2)
and an ERC StG (243071) by the European Research Council (both to S.C.).\r\nWe thank
Line V. Ugelvig for help with ant collection and statistical discussion, Xavier
Espadaler for detailed information on the ant collection site, Birgit Lautenschläger
for the electron microscopy images and Eva Sixt for ant drawings. We further thank
Jørgen Eilenberg for the fungal strain, Meghan L. Vyleta for genetic strain characterization
and immune gene primer development, Paul Schmid-Hempel for discussion, and Line
V. Ugelvig, Xavier Espadaler and Christopher D. Pull for comments on the manuscript.
S.C., M.K. and S.T. conceived the study; M.K. and A.V.G. performed the experiments;
M.K. performed the statistical analysis; S.C. and M.K. wrote the manuscript with
intense contributions of A.V.G. and S.T.; all authors approved the manuscript."
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ama: Konrad M, Grasse AV, Tragust S, Cremer S. Anti-pathogen protection versus survival
costs mediated by an ectosymbiont in an ant host. Proceedings of the Royal
Society of London Series B Biological Sciences. 2015;282(1799). doi:10.1098/rspb.2014.1976
apa: Konrad, M., Grasse, A. V., Tragust, S., & Cremer, S. (2015). Anti-pathogen
protection versus survival costs mediated by an ectosymbiont in an ant host. Proceedings
of the Royal Society of London Series B Biological Sciences. The Royal Society.
https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2014.1976
chicago: Konrad, Matthias, Anna V Grasse, Simon Tragust, and Sylvia Cremer. “Anti-Pathogen
Protection versus Survival Costs Mediated by an Ectosymbiont in an Ant Host.”
Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B Biological Sciences.
The Royal Society, 2015. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2014.1976.
ieee: M. Konrad, A. V. Grasse, S. Tragust, and S. Cremer, “Anti-pathogen protection
versus survival costs mediated by an ectosymbiont in an ant host,” Proceedings
of the Royal Society of London Series B Biological Sciences, vol. 282, no.
1799. The Royal Society, 2015.
ista: Konrad M, Grasse AV, Tragust S, Cremer S. 2015. Anti-pathogen protection versus
survival costs mediated by an ectosymbiont in an ant host. Proceedings of the
Royal Society of London Series B Biological Sciences. 282(1799), 20141976.
mla: Konrad, Matthias, et al. “Anti-Pathogen Protection versus Survival Costs Mediated
by an Ectosymbiont in an Ant Host.” Proceedings of the Royal Society of London
Series B Biological Sciences, vol. 282, no. 1799, 20141976, The Royal Society,
2015, doi:10.1098/rspb.2014.1976.
short: M. Konrad, A.V. Grasse, S. Tragust, S. Cremer, Proceedings of the Royal Society
of London Series B Biological Sciences 282 (2015).
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date_created: 2018-12-11T11:55:06Z
date_published: 2015-01-22T00:00:00Z
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---
_id: '1997'
abstract:
- lang: eng
text: We prove that the three-state toric homogeneous Markov chain model has Markov
degree two. In algebraic terminology this means, that a certain class of toric
ideals is generated by quadratic binomials. This was conjectured by Haws, Martin
del Campo, Takemura and Yoshida, who proved that they are generated by degree
six binomials.
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author:
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citation:
ama: Noren P. The three-state toric homogeneous Markov chain model has Markov degree
two. Journal of Symbolic Computation. 2015;68/Part 2(May-June):285-296.
doi:10.1016/j.jsc.2014.09.014
apa: Noren, P. (2015). The three-state toric homogeneous Markov chain model has
Markov degree two. Journal of Symbolic Computation. Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsc.2014.09.014
chicago: Noren, Patrik. “The Three-State Toric Homogeneous Markov Chain Model Has
Markov Degree Two.” Journal of Symbolic Computation. Elsevier, 2015. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsc.2014.09.014.
ieee: P. Noren, “The three-state toric homogeneous Markov chain model has Markov
degree two,” Journal of Symbolic Computation, vol. 68/Part 2, no. May-June.
Elsevier, pp. 285–296, 2015.
ista: Noren P. 2015. The three-state toric homogeneous Markov chain model has Markov
degree two. Journal of Symbolic Computation. 68/Part 2(May-June), 285–296.
mla: Noren, Patrik. “The Three-State Toric Homogeneous Markov Chain Model Has Markov
Degree Two.” Journal of Symbolic Computation, vol. 68/Part 2, no. May-June,
Elsevier, 2015, pp. 285–96, doi:10.1016/j.jsc.2014.09.014.
short: P. Noren, Journal of Symbolic Computation 68/Part 2 (2015) 285–296.
corr_author: '1'
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