---
_id: '3361'
abstract:
- lang: eng
text: In this paper, we investigate the computational complexity of quantitative
information flow (QIF) problems. Information-theoretic quantitative relaxations
of noninterference (based on Shannon entropy)have been introduced to enable more
fine-grained reasoning about programs in situations where limited information
flow is acceptable. The QIF bounding problem asks whether the information flow
in a given program is bounded by a constant $d$. Our first result is that the
QIF bounding problem is PSPACE-complete. The QIF memoryless synthesis problem
asks whether it is possible to resolve nondeterministic choices in a given partial
program in such a way that in the resulting deterministic program, the quantitative
information flow is bounded by a given constant $d$. Our second result is that
the QIF memoryless synthesis problem is also EXPTIME-complete. The QIF memoryless
synthesis problem generalizes to QIF general synthesis problem which does not
impose the memoryless requirement (that is, by allowing the synthesized program
to have more variables then the original partial program). Our third result is
that the QIF general synthesis problem is EXPTIME-hard.
article_processing_charge: No
author:
- first_name: Pavol
full_name: Cerny, Pavol
id: 4DCBEFFE-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87
last_name: Cerny
- first_name: Krishnendu
full_name: Chatterjee, Krishnendu
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last_name: Chatterjee
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- first_name: Thomas A
full_name: Henzinger, Thomas A
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last_name: Henzinger
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citation:
ama: 'Cerny P, Chatterjee K, Henzinger TA. The complexity of quantitative information
flow problems. In: IEEE; 2011:205-217. doi:10.1109/CSF.2011.21'
apa: 'Cerny, P., Chatterjee, K., & Henzinger, T. A. (2011). The complexity of
quantitative information flow problems (pp. 205–217). Presented at the CSF: Computer
Security Foundations, Cernay-la-Ville, France: IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/CSF.2011.21'
chicago: Cerny, Pavol, Krishnendu Chatterjee, and Thomas A Henzinger. “The Complexity
of Quantitative Information Flow Problems,” 205–17. IEEE, 2011. https://doi.org/10.1109/CSF.2011.21.
ieee: 'P. Cerny, K. Chatterjee, and T. A. Henzinger, “The complexity of quantitative
information flow problems,” presented at the CSF: Computer Security Foundations,
Cernay-la-Ville, France, 2011, pp. 205–217.'
ista: 'Cerny P, Chatterjee K, Henzinger TA. 2011. The complexity of quantitative
information flow problems. CSF: Computer Security Foundations, 205–217.'
mla: Cerny, Pavol, et al. The Complexity of Quantitative Information Flow Problems.
IEEE, 2011, pp. 205–17, doi:10.1109/CSF.2011.21.
short: P. Cerny, K. Chatterjee, T.A. Henzinger, in:, IEEE, 2011, pp. 205–217.
conference:
end_date: 2011-06-29
location: Cernay-la-Ville, France
name: 'CSF: Computer Security Foundations'
start_date: 2011-06-27
corr_author: '1'
date_created: 2018-12-11T12:02:54Z
date_published: 2011-06-27T00:00:00Z
date_updated: 2025-09-30T09:04:15Z
day: '27'
ddc:
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doi: 10.1109/CSF.2011.21
ec_funded: 1
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call_identifier: FP7
grant_number: '267989'
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...
---
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abstract:
- lang: eng
text: We consider probabilistic automata on infinite words with acceptance defined
by safety, reachability, Büchi, coBüchi, and limit-average conditions. We consider
quantitative and qualitative decision problems. We present extensions and adaptations
of proofs for probabilistic finite automata and present a complete characterization
of the decidability and undecidability frontier of the quantitative and qualitative
decision problems for probabilistic automata on infinite words.
article_number: '1104.0127'
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author:
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full_name: Henzinger, Thomas A
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last_name: Henzinger
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- first_name: Mathieu
full_name: Tracol, Mathieu
id: 3F54FA38-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87
last_name: Tracol
citation:
ama: Chatterjee K, Henzinger TA, Tracol M. The decidability frontier for probabilistic
automata on infinite words. doi:10.48550/arXiv.1104.0127
apa: Chatterjee, K., Henzinger, T. A., & Tracol, M. (n.d.). The decidability
frontier for probabilistic automata on infinite words. ArXiv. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.1104.0127
chicago: Chatterjee, Krishnendu, Thomas A Henzinger, and Mathieu Tracol. “The Decidability
Frontier for Probabilistic Automata on Infinite Words.” ArXiv, n.d. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.1104.0127.
ieee: K. Chatterjee, T. A. Henzinger, and M. Tracol, “The decidability frontier
for probabilistic automata on infinite words.” ArXiv.
ista: Chatterjee K, Henzinger TA, Tracol M. The decidability frontier for probabilistic
automata on infinite words. 1104.0127.
mla: Chatterjee, Krishnendu, et al. The Decidability Frontier for Probabilistic
Automata on Infinite Words. 1104.0127, ArXiv, doi:10.48550/arXiv.1104.0127.
short: K. Chatterjee, T.A. Henzinger, M. Tracol, (n.d.).
corr_author: '1'
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...
---
_id: '3365'
abstract:
- lang: eng
text: We present the tool Quasy, a quantitative synthesis tool. Quasy takes qualitative
and quantitative specifications and automatically constructs a system that satisfies
the qualitative specification and optimizes the quantitative specification, if
such a system exists. The user can choose between a system that satisfies and
optimizes the specifications (a) under all possible environment behaviors or (b)
under the most-likely environment behaviors given as a probability distribution
on the possible input sequences. Quasy solves these two quantitative synthesis
problems by reduction to instances of 2-player games and Markov Decision Processes
(MDPs) with quantitative winning objectives. Quasy can also be seen as a game
solver for quantitative games. Most notable, it can solve lexicographic mean-payoff
games with 2 players, MDPs with mean-payoff objectives, and ergodic MDPs with
mean-payoff parity objectives.
alternative_title:
- LNCS
author:
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full_name: Chatterjee, Krishnendu
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last_name: Chatterjee
orcid: 0000-0002-4561-241X
- first_name: Thomas A
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- first_name: Barbara
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last_name: Jobstmann
- first_name: Rohit
full_name: Singh, Rohit
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citation:
ama: 'Chatterjee K, Henzinger TA, Jobstmann B, Singh R. QUASY: quantitative synthesis
tool. In: Vol 6605. Springer; 2011:267-271. doi:10.1007/978-3-642-19835-9_24'
apa: 'Chatterjee, K., Henzinger, T. A., Jobstmann, B., & Singh, R. (2011). QUASY:
quantitative synthesis tool (Vol. 6605, pp. 267–271). Presented at the TACAS:
Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems, Saarbrucken,
Germany: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-19835-9_24'
chicago: 'Chatterjee, Krishnendu, Thomas A Henzinger, Barbara Jobstmann, and Rohit
Singh. “QUASY: Quantitative Synthesis Tool,” 6605:267–71. Springer, 2011. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-19835-9_24.'
ieee: 'K. Chatterjee, T. A. Henzinger, B. Jobstmann, and R. Singh, “QUASY: quantitative
synthesis tool,” presented at the TACAS: Tools and Algorithms for the Construction
and Analysis of Systems, Saarbrucken, Germany, 2011, vol. 6605, pp. 267–271.'
ista: 'Chatterjee K, Henzinger TA, Jobstmann B, Singh R. 2011. QUASY: quantitative
synthesis tool. TACAS: Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis
of Systems, LNCS, vol. 6605, 267–271.'
mla: 'Chatterjee, Krishnendu, et al. QUASY: Quantitative Synthesis Tool.
Vol. 6605, Springer, 2011, pp. 267–71, doi:10.1007/978-3-642-19835-9_24.'
short: K. Chatterjee, T.A. Henzinger, B. Jobstmann, R. Singh, in:, Springer, 2011,
pp. 267–271.
conference:
end_date: 2011-04-03
location: Saarbrucken, Germany
name: 'TACAS: Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems'
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...
---
_id: '3366'
abstract:
- lang: eng
text: 'We present an algorithmic method for the quantitative, performance-aware
synthesis of concurrent programs. The input consists of a nondeterministic partial
program and of a parametric performance model. The nondeterminism allows the programmer
to omit which (if any) synchronization construct is used at a particular program
location. The performance model, specified as a weighted automaton, can capture
system architectures by assigning different costs to actions such as locking,
context switching, and memory and cache accesses. The quantitative synthesis problem
is to automatically resolve the nondeterminism of the partial program so that
both correctness is guaranteed and performance is optimal. As is standard for
shared memory concurrency, correctness is formalized "specification free",
in particular as race freedom or deadlock freedom. For worst-case (average-case)
performance, we show that the problem can be reduced to 2-player graph games (with
probabilistic transitions) with quantitative objectives. While we show, using
game-theoretic methods, that the synthesis problem is Nexp-complete, we present
an algorithmic method and an implementation that works efficiently for concurrent
programs and performance models of practical interest. We have implemented a prototype
tool and used it to synthesize finite-state concurrent programs that exhibit different
programming patterns, for several performance models representing different architectures. '
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- first_name: Krishnendu
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ama: 'Cerny P, Chatterjee K, Henzinger TA, Radhakrishna A, Singh R. Quantitative
synthesis for concurrent programs. In: Gopalakrishnan G, Qadeer S, eds. Vol 6806.
Springer; 2011:243-259. doi:10.1007/978-3-642-22110-1_20'
apa: 'Cerny, P., Chatterjee, K., Henzinger, T. A., Radhakrishna, A., & Singh,
R. (2011). Quantitative synthesis for concurrent programs. In G. Gopalakrishnan
& S. Qadeer (Eds.) (Vol. 6806, pp. 243–259). Presented at the CAV: Computer
Aided Verification, Snowbird, USA: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-22110-1_20'
chicago: Cerny, Pavol, Krishnendu Chatterjee, Thomas A Henzinger, Arjun Radhakrishna,
and Rohit Singh. “Quantitative Synthesis for Concurrent Programs.” edited by Ganesh
Gopalakrishnan and Shaz Qadeer, 6806:243–59. Springer, 2011. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-22110-1_20.
ieee: 'P. Cerny, K. Chatterjee, T. A. Henzinger, A. Radhakrishna, and R. Singh,
“Quantitative synthesis for concurrent programs,” presented at the CAV: Computer
Aided Verification, Snowbird, USA, 2011, vol. 6806, pp. 243–259.'
ista: 'Cerny P, Chatterjee K, Henzinger TA, Radhakrishna A, Singh R. 2011. Quantitative
synthesis for concurrent programs. CAV: Computer Aided Verification, LNCS, vol.
6806, 243–259.'
mla: Cerny, Pavol, et al. Quantitative Synthesis for Concurrent Programs.
Edited by Ganesh Gopalakrishnan and Shaz Qadeer, vol. 6806, Springer, 2011, pp.
243–59, doi:10.1007/978-3-642-22110-1_20.
short: P. Cerny, K. Chatterjee, T.A. Henzinger, A. Radhakrishna, R. Singh, in:,
G. Gopalakrishnan, S. Qadeer (Eds.), Springer, 2011, pp. 243–259.
conference:
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location: Snowbird, USA
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text: Computing the winning set for Büchi objectives in alternating games on graphs
is a central problem in computer aided verification with a large number of applications.
The long standing best known upper bound for solving the problem is ̃O(n·m), where
n is the number of vertices and m is the number of edges in the graph. We are
the first to break the ̃O(n·m) boundary by presenting a new technique that reduces
the running time to O(n2). This bound also leads to O(n2) time algorithms for
computing the set of almost-sure winning vertices for Büchi objectives (1) in
alternating games with probabilistic transitions (improving an earlier bound of
O(n·m)), (2) in concurrent graph games with constant actions (improving an earlier
bound of O(n3)), and (3) in Markov decision processes (improving for m > n4/3
an earlier bound of O(min(m1.5, m·n2/3)). We also show that the same technique
can be used to compute the maximal end-component decomposition of a graph in time
O(n2), which is an improvement over earlier bounds for m > n4/3. Finally, we show
how to maintain the winning set for Büchi objectives in alternating games under
a sequence of edge insertions or a sequence of edge deletions in O(n) amortized
time per operation. This is the first dynamic algorithm for this problem.
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Games. IST Austria; 2011. doi:10.15479/AT:IST-2011-0009
apa: Chatterjee, K., & Henzinger, M. (2011). An O(n2) time algorithm for
alternating Büchi games. IST Austria. https://doi.org/10.15479/AT:IST-2011-0009
chicago: Chatterjee, Krishnendu, and Monika Henzinger. An O(N2) Time Algorithm
for Alternating Büchi Games. IST Austria, 2011. https://doi.org/10.15479/AT:IST-2011-0009.
ieee: K. Chatterjee and M. Henzinger, An O(n2) time algorithm for alternating
Büchi games. IST Austria, 2011.
ista: Chatterjee K, Henzinger M. 2011. An O(n2) time algorithm for alternating Büchi
games, IST Austria, 20p.
mla: Chatterjee, Krishnendu, and Monika Henzinger. An O(N2) Time Algorithm for
Alternating Büchi Games. IST Austria, 2011, doi:10.15479/AT:IST-2011-0009.
short: K. Chatterjee, M. Henzinger, An O(N2) Time Algorithm for Alternating Büchi
Games, IST Austria, 2011.
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abstract:
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text: 'We consider 2-player games played on a finite state space for an infinite
number of rounds. The games are concurrent: in each round, the two players (player
1 and player 2) choose their moves independently and simultaneously; the current
state and the two moves determine the successor state. We study concurrent games
with ω-regular winning conditions specified as parity objectives. We consider
the qualitative analysis problems: the computation of the almost-sure and limit-sure
winning set of states, where player 1 can ensure to win with probability 1 and
with probability arbitrarily close to 1, respectively. In general the almost-sure
and limit-sure winning strategies require both infinite-memory as well as infinite-precision
(to describe probabilities). We study the bounded-rationality problem for qualitative
analysis of concurrent parity games, where the strategy set for player 1 is restricted
to bounded-resource strategies. In terms of precision, strategies can be deterministic,
uniform, finite-precision or infinite-precision; and in terms of memory, strategies
can be memoryless, finite-memory or infinite-memory. We present a precise and
complete characterization of the qualitative winning sets for all combinations
of classes of strategies. In particular, we show that uniform memoryless strategies
are as powerful as finite-precision infinite-memory strategies, and infinite-precision
memoryless strategies are as powerful as infinite-precision finite-memory strategies. We
show that the winning sets can be computed in O(n2d+3) time, where n is the size
of the game structure and 2d is the number of priorities (or colors), and our
algorithms are symbolic. The membership problem of whether a state belongs to
a winning set can be decided in NP ∩ coNP. While this complexity is the same as
for the simpler class of turn-based parity games, where in each state only one
of the two players has a choice of moves, our algorithms,that are obtained by
characterization of the winning sets as μ-calculus formulas, are considerably
more involved than those for turn-based games.'
alternative_title:
- IST Austria Technical Report
author:
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full_name: Chatterjee, Krishnendu
id: 2E5DCA20-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87
last_name: Chatterjee
orcid: 0000-0002-4561-241X
citation:
ama: Chatterjee K. Bounded Rationality in Concurrent Parity Games. IST Austria;
2011. doi:10.15479/AT:IST-2011-0008
apa: Chatterjee, K. (2011). Bounded rationality in concurrent parity games.
IST Austria. https://doi.org/10.15479/AT:IST-2011-0008
chicago: Chatterjee, Krishnendu. Bounded Rationality in Concurrent Parity Games.
IST Austria, 2011. https://doi.org/10.15479/AT:IST-2011-0008.
ieee: K. Chatterjee, Bounded rationality in concurrent parity games. IST
Austria, 2011.
ista: Chatterjee K. 2011. Bounded rationality in concurrent parity games, IST Austria,
53p.
mla: Chatterjee, Krishnendu. Bounded Rationality in Concurrent Parity Games.
IST Austria, 2011, doi:10.15479/AT:IST-2011-0008.
short: K. Chatterjee, Bounded Rationality in Concurrent Parity Games, IST Austria,
2011.
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text: "In two-player finite-state stochastic games of partial obser- vation on graphs,
in every state of the graph, the players simultaneously choose an action, and
their joint actions determine a probability distri- bution over the successor
states. The game is played for infinitely many rounds and thus the players construct
an infinite path in the graph. We consider reachability objectives where the first
player tries to ensure a target state to be visited almost-surely (i.e., with
probability 1) or pos- itively (i.e., with positive probability), no matter the
strategy of the second player.\r\n\r\nWe classify such games according to the
information and to the power of randomization available to the players. On the
basis of information, the game can be one-sided with either (a) player 1, or (b)
player 2 having partial observation (and the other player has perfect observation),
or two- sided with (c) both players having partial observation. On the basis of
randomization, (a) the players may not be allowed to use randomization (pure strategies),
or (b) they may choose a probability distribution over actions but the actual
random choice is external and not visible to the player (actions invisible), or
(c) they may use full randomization.\r\n\r\nOur main results for pure strategies
are as follows: (1) For one-sided games with player 2 perfect observation we show
that (in contrast to full randomized strategies) belief-based (subset-construction
based) strate- gies are not sufficient, and present an exponential upper bound
on mem- ory both for almost-sure and positive winning strategies; we show that
the problem of deciding the existence of almost-sure and positive winning strategies
for player 1 is EXPTIME-complete and present symbolic algo- rithms that avoid
the explicit exponential construction. (2) For one-sided games with player 1 perfect
observation we show that non-elementary memory is both necessary and sufficient
for both almost-sure and posi- tive winning strategies. (3) We show that for the
general (two-sided) case finite-memory strategies are sufficient for both positive
and almost-sure winning, and at least non-elementary memory is required. We establish
the equivalence of the almost-sure winning problems for pure strategies and for
randomized strategies with actions invisible. Our equivalence re- sult exhibit
serious flaws in previous results in the literature: we show a non-elementary
memory lower bound for almost-sure winning whereas an exponential upper bound
was previously claimed."
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author:
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last_name: Chatterjee
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- first_name: Laurent
full_name: Doyen, Laurent
last_name: Doyen
citation:
ama: 'Chatterjee K, Doyen L. Partial-Observation Stochastic Games: How to Win
When Belief Fails. IST Austria; 2011. doi:10.15479/AT:IST-2011-0007'
apa: 'Chatterjee, K., & Doyen, L. (2011). Partial-observation stochastic
games: How to win when belief fails. IST Austria. https://doi.org/10.15479/AT:IST-2011-0007'
chicago: 'Chatterjee, Krishnendu, and Laurent Doyen. Partial-Observation Stochastic
Games: How to Win When Belief Fails. IST Austria, 2011. https://doi.org/10.15479/AT:IST-2011-0007.'
ieee: 'K. Chatterjee and L. Doyen, Partial-observation stochastic games: How
to win when belief fails. IST Austria, 2011.'
ista: 'Chatterjee K, Doyen L. 2011. Partial-observation stochastic games: How to
win when belief fails, IST Austria, 43p.'
mla: 'Chatterjee, Krishnendu, and Laurent Doyen. Partial-Observation Stochastic
Games: How to Win When Belief Fails. IST Austria, 2011, doi:10.15479/AT:IST-2011-0007.'
short: 'K. Chatterjee, L. Doyen, Partial-Observation Stochastic Games: How to Win
When Belief Fails, IST Austria, 2011.'
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text: 'We consider two-player stochastic games played on a finite state space for
an infinite num- ber of rounds. The games are concurrent: in each round, the two
players (player 1 and player 2) choose their moves independently and simultaneously;
the current state and the two moves determine a probability distribution over
the successor states. We also consider the important special case of turn-based
stochastic games where players make moves in turns, rather than concurrently.
We study concurrent games with ω-regular winning conditions specified as parity
objectives. The value for player 1 for a parity objective is the maximal probability
with which the player can guarantee the satisfaction of the objective against
all strategies of the opponent. We study the problem of continuity and robustness
of the value function in concurrent and turn-based stochastic parity games with
respect to imprecision in the transition probabilities. We present quantitative
bounds on the difference of the value function (in terms of the imprecision of
the transition probabilities) and show the value continuity for structurally equivalent
concurrent games (two games are structurally equivalent if the support of the
transition func- tion is same and the probabilities differ). We also show robustness
of optimal strategies for structurally equivalent turn-based stochastic parity
games. Finally we show that the value continuity property breaks without the structurally
equivalent assumption (even for Markov chains) and show that our quantitative
bound is asymptotically optimal. Hence our results are tight (the assumption is
both necessary and sufficient) and optimal (our quantitative bound is asymptotically
optimal).'
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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ama: Chatterjee K. Robustness of Structurally Equivalent Concurrent Parity Games.
IST Austria; 2011. doi:10.15479/AT:IST-2011-0006
apa: Chatterjee, K. (2011). Robustness of structurally equivalent concurrent
parity games. IST Austria. https://doi.org/10.15479/AT:IST-2011-0006
chicago: Chatterjee, Krishnendu. Robustness of Structurally Equivalent Concurrent
Parity Games. IST Austria, 2011. https://doi.org/10.15479/AT:IST-2011-0006.
ieee: K. Chatterjee, Robustness of structurally equivalent concurrent parity
games. IST Austria, 2011.
ista: Chatterjee K. 2011. Robustness of structurally equivalent concurrent parity
games, IST Austria, 18p.
mla: Chatterjee, Krishnendu. Robustness of Structurally Equivalent Concurrent
Parity Games. IST Austria, 2011, doi:10.15479/AT:IST-2011-0006.
short: K. Chatterjee, Robustness of Structurally Equivalent Concurrent Parity Games,
IST Austria, 2011.
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text: 'We consider probabilistic automata on infinite words with acceptance defined
by parity conditions. We consider three qualitative decision problems: (i) the
positive decision problem asks whether there is a word that is accepted with positive
probability; (ii) the almost decision problem asks whether there is a word that
is accepted with probability 1; and (iii) the limit decision problem asks whether
for every ε > 0 there is a word that is accepted with probability at least 1 −
ε. We unify and generalize several decidability results for probabilistic automata
over infinite words, and identify a robust (closed under union and intersection)
subclass of probabilistic automata for which all the qualitative decision problems
are decidable for parity conditions. We also show that if the input words are
restricted to lasso shape words, then the positive and almost problems are decidable
for all probabilistic automata with parity conditions.'
alternative_title:
- IST Austria Technical Report
author:
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last_name: Chatterjee
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- first_name: Mathieu
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ama: Chatterjee K, Tracol M. Decidable Problems for Probabilistic Automata on
Infinite Words. IST Austria; 2011. doi:10.15479/AT:IST-2011-0004
apa: Chatterjee, K., & Tracol, M. (2011). Decidable problems for probabilistic
automata on infinite words. IST Austria. https://doi.org/10.15479/AT:IST-2011-0004
chicago: Chatterjee, Krishnendu, and Mathieu Tracol. Decidable Problems for Probabilistic
Automata on Infinite Words. IST Austria, 2011. https://doi.org/10.15479/AT:IST-2011-0004.
ieee: K. Chatterjee and M. Tracol, Decidable problems for probabilistic automata
on infinite words. IST Austria, 2011.
ista: Chatterjee K, Tracol M. 2011. Decidable problems for probabilistic automata
on infinite words, IST Austria, 30p.
mla: Chatterjee, Krishnendu, and Mathieu Tracol. Decidable Problems for Probabilistic
Automata on Infinite Words. IST Austria, 2011, doi:10.15479/AT:IST-2011-0004.
short: K. Chatterjee, M. Tracol, Decidable Problems for Probabilistic Automata on
Infinite Words, IST Austria, 2011.
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text: There is recently a significant effort to add quantitative objectives to formal
verification and synthesis. We introduce and investigate the extension of temporal
logics with quantitative atomic assertions, aiming for a general and flexible
framework for quantitative-oriented specifications. In the heart of quantitative
objectives lies the accumulation of values along a computation. It is either the
accumulated summation, as with the energy objectives, or the accumulated average,
as with the mean-payoff objectives. We investigate the extension of temporal logics
with the prefix-accumulation assertions Sum(v) ≥ c and Avg(v) ≥ c, where v is
a numeric variable of the system, c is a constant rational number, and Sum(v)
and Avg(v) denote the accumulated sum and average of the values of v from the
beginning of the computation up to the current point of time. We also allow the
path-accumulation assertions LimInfAvg(v) ≥ c and LimSupAvg(v) ≥ c, referring
to the average value along an entire computation. We study the border of decidability
for extensions of various temporal logics. In particular, we show that extending
the fragment of CTL that has only the EX, EF, AX, and AG temporal modalities by
prefix-accumulation assertions and extending LTL with path-accumulation assertions,
result in temporal logics whose model-checking problem is decidable. The extended
logics allow to significantly extend the currently known energy and mean-payoff
objectives. Moreover, the prefix-accumulation assertions may be refined with “controlled-accumulation”,
allowing, for example, to specify constraints on the average waiting time between
a request and a grant. On the negative side, we show that the fragment we point
to is, in a sense, the maximal logic whose extension with prefix-accumulation
assertions permits a decidable model-checking procedure. Extending a temporal
logic that has the EG or EU modalities, and in particular CTL and LTL, makes the
problem undecidable.
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last_name: Henzinger
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ama: Boker U, Chatterjee K, Henzinger TA, Kupferman O. Temporal Specifications
with Accumulative Values. IST Austria; 2011. doi:10.15479/AT:IST-2011-0003
apa: Boker, U., Chatterjee, K., Henzinger, T. A., & Kupferman, O. (2011). Temporal
specifications with accumulative values. IST Austria. https://doi.org/10.15479/AT:IST-2011-0003
chicago: Boker, Udi, Krishnendu Chatterjee, Thomas A Henzinger, and Orna Kupferman.
Temporal Specifications with Accumulative Values. IST Austria, 2011. https://doi.org/10.15479/AT:IST-2011-0003.
ieee: U. Boker, K. Chatterjee, T. A. Henzinger, and O. Kupferman, Temporal specifications
with accumulative values. IST Austria, 2011.
ista: Boker U, Chatterjee K, Henzinger TA, Kupferman O. 2011. Temporal specifications
with accumulative values, IST Austria, 14p.
mla: Boker, Udi, et al. Temporal Specifications with Accumulative Values.
IST Austria, 2011, doi:10.15479/AT:IST-2011-0003.
short: U. Boker, K. Chatterjee, T.A. Henzinger, O. Kupferman, Temporal Specifications
with Accumulative Values, IST Austria, 2011.
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text: We consider Markov Decision Processes (MDPs) with mean-payoff parity and energy
parity objectives. In system design, the parity objective is used to encode ω-regular
specifications, and the mean-payoff and energy objectives can be used to model
quantitative resource constraints. The energy condition re- quires that the resource
level never drops below 0, and the mean-payoff condi- tion requires that the limit-average
value of the resource consumption is within a threshold. While these two (energy
and mean-payoff) classical conditions are equivalent for two-player games, we
show that they differ for MDPs. We show that the problem of deciding whether a
state is almost-sure winning (i.e., winning with probability 1) in energy parity
MDPs is in NP ∩ coNP, while for mean- payoff parity MDPs, the problem is solvable
in polynomial time, improving a recent PSPACE bound.
alternative_title:
- IST Austria Technical Report
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last_name: Chatterjee
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- first_name: Laurent
full_name: Doyen, Laurent
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ama: Chatterjee K, Doyen L. Energy and Mean-Payoff Parity Markov Decision Processes.
IST Austria; 2011. doi:10.15479/AT:IST-2011-0001
apa: Chatterjee, K., & Doyen, L. (2011). Energy and mean-payoff parity Markov
decision processes. IST Austria. https://doi.org/10.15479/AT:IST-2011-0001
chicago: Chatterjee, Krishnendu, and Laurent Doyen. Energy and Mean-Payoff Parity
Markov Decision Processes. IST Austria, 2011. https://doi.org/10.15479/AT:IST-2011-0001.
ieee: K. Chatterjee and L. Doyen, Energy and mean-payoff parity Markov decision
processes. IST Austria, 2011.
ista: Chatterjee K, Doyen L. 2011. Energy and mean-payoff parity Markov decision
processes, IST Austria, 20p.
mla: Chatterjee, Krishnendu, and Laurent Doyen. Energy and Mean-Payoff Parity
Markov Decision Processes. IST Austria, 2011, doi:10.15479/AT:IST-2011-0001.
short: K. Chatterjee, L. Doyen, Energy and Mean-Payoff Parity Markov Decision Processes,
IST Austria, 2011.
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- lang: eng
text: 'Graph games of infinite length are a natural model for open reactive processes:
one player represents the controller, trying to ensure a given specification,
and the other represents a hostile environment. The evolution of the system depends
on the decisions of both players, supplemented by chance. In this work, we focus
on the notion of randomised strategy. More specifically, we show that three natural
definitions may lead to very different results: in the most general cases, an
almost-surely winning situation may become almost-surely losing if the player
is only allowed to use a weaker notion of strategy. In more reasonable settings,
translations exist, but they require infinite memory, even in simple cases. Finally,
some traditional problems becomes undecidable for the strongest type of strategies.'
alternative_title:
- EPTCS
article_processing_charge: No
arxiv: 1
author:
- first_name: Julien
full_name: Cristau, Julien
last_name: Cristau
- first_name: Claire
full_name: David, Claire
last_name: David
- first_name: Florian
full_name: Horn, Florian
id: 37327ACE-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87
last_name: Horn
citation:
ama: 'Cristau J, David C, Horn F. How do we remember the past in randomised strategies?
In: Proceedings of GandALF 2010. Vol 25. Open Publishing Association; 2010:30-39.
doi:10.4204/EPTCS.25.7'
apa: 'Cristau, J., David, C., & Horn, F. (2010). How do we remember the past
in randomised strategies? In Proceedings of GandALF 2010 (Vol. 25, pp.
30–39). Minori, Amalfi Coast, Italy: Open Publishing Association. https://doi.org/10.4204/EPTCS.25.7'
chicago: Cristau, Julien, Claire David, and Florian Horn. “How Do We Remember the
Past in Randomised Strategies?” In Proceedings of GandALF 2010, 25:30–39.
Open Publishing Association, 2010. https://doi.org/10.4204/EPTCS.25.7.
ieee: J. Cristau, C. David, and F. Horn, “How do we remember the past in randomised
strategies?,” in Proceedings of GandALF 2010, Minori, Amalfi Coast, Italy,
2010, vol. 25, pp. 30–39.
ista: 'Cristau J, David C, Horn F. 2010. How do we remember the past in randomised
strategies? Proceedings of GandALF 2010. GandALF: Games, Automata, Logic, and
Formal Verification, EPTCS, vol. 25, 30–39.'
mla: Cristau, Julien, et al. “How Do We Remember the Past in Randomised Strategies?”
Proceedings of GandALF 2010, vol. 25, Open Publishing Association, 2010,
pp. 30–39, doi:10.4204/EPTCS.25.7.
short: J. Cristau, C. David, F. Horn, in:, Proceedings of GandALF 2010, Open Publishing
Association, 2010, pp. 30–39.
conference:
end_date: 2010-06-18
location: Minori, Amalfi Coast, Italy
name: 'GandALF: Games, Automata, Logic, and Formal Verification'
start_date: 2010-06-17
corr_author: '1'
date_created: 2018-12-11T11:46:45Z
date_published: 2010-06-09T00:00:00Z
date_updated: 2025-06-11T08:14:27Z
day: '09'
department:
- _id: KrCh
doi: 10.4204/EPTCS.25.7
external_id:
arxiv:
- '1006.1404'
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...
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abstract:
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text: "We present an algorithmic method for the synthesis of concurrent programs
that are optimal with respect to quantitative performance measures. The input
consists of a sequential sketch, that is, a program that does not contain synchronization
constructs, and of a parametric performance model that assigns costs to actions
such as locking, context switching, and idling. The quantitative synthesis problem
is to automatically introduce synchronization constructs into the sequential sketch
so that both correctness is guaranteed and worst-case (or average-case) performance
is optimized. Correctness is formalized as race freedom or linearizability.\r\n\r\nWe
show that for worst-case performance, the problem can be modeled\r\nas a 2-player
graph game with quantitative (limit-average) objectives, and\r\nfor average-case
performance, as a 2 1/2 -player graph game (with probabilistic transitions). In
both cases, the optimal correct program is derived from an optimal strategy in
the corresponding quantitative game. We prove that the respective game problems
are computationally expensive (NP-complete), and present several techniques that
overcome the theoretical difficulty in cases of concurrent programs of practical
interest.\r\n\r\nWe have implemented a prototype tool and used it for the automatic
syn- thesis of programs that access a concurrent list. For certain parameter val-
ues, our method automatically synthesizes various classical synchronization schemes
for implementing a concurrent list, such as fine-grained locking or a lazy algorithm.
For other parameter values, a new, hybrid synchronization style is synthesized,
which uses both the lazy approach and coarse-grained locks (instead of standard
fine-grained locks). The trade-off occurs because while fine-grained locking tends
to decrease the cost that is due to waiting for locks, it increases cache size
requirements."
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: Pavol
full_name: Cerny, Pavol
id: 4DCBEFFE-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87
last_name: Cerny
- first_name: Thomas A
full_name: Henzinger, Thomas A
id: 40876CD8-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87
last_name: Henzinger
orcid: 0000−0002−2985−7724
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full_name: Radhakrishna, Arjun
id: 3B51CAC4-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87
last_name: Radhakrishna
- first_name: Rohit
full_name: Singh, Rohit
last_name: Singh
citation:
ama: Chatterjee K, Cerny P, Henzinger TA, Radhakrishna A, Singh R. Quantitative
Synthesis for Concurrent Programs. IST Austria; 2010. doi:10.15479/AT:IST-2010-0004
apa: Chatterjee, K., Cerny, P., Henzinger, T. A., Radhakrishna, A., & Singh,
R. (2010). Quantitative synthesis for concurrent programs. IST Austria.
https://doi.org/10.15479/AT:IST-2010-0004
chicago: Chatterjee, Krishnendu, Pavol Cerny, Thomas A Henzinger, Arjun Radhakrishna,
and Rohit Singh. Quantitative Synthesis for Concurrent Programs. IST Austria,
2010. https://doi.org/10.15479/AT:IST-2010-0004.
ieee: K. Chatterjee, P. Cerny, T. A. Henzinger, A. Radhakrishna, and R. Singh, Quantitative
synthesis for concurrent programs. IST Austria, 2010.
ista: Chatterjee K, Cerny P, Henzinger TA, Radhakrishna A, Singh R. 2010. Quantitative
synthesis for concurrent programs, IST Austria, 17p.
mla: Chatterjee, Krishnendu, et al. Quantitative Synthesis for Concurrent Programs.
IST Austria, 2010, doi:10.15479/AT:IST-2010-0004.
short: K. Chatterjee, P. Cerny, T.A. Henzinger, A. Radhakrishna, R. Singh, Quantitative
Synthesis for Concurrent Programs, IST Austria, 2010.
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abstract:
- lang: eng
text: The class of ω regular languages provide a robust specification language in
verification. Every ω-regular condition can be decomposed into a safety part and
a liveness part. The liveness part ensures that something good happens “eventually.”
Two main strengths of the classical, infinite-limit formulation of liveness are
robustness (independence from the granularity of transitions) and simplicity (abstraction
of complicated time bounds). However, the classical liveness formulation suffers
from the drawback that the time until something good happens may be unbounded.
A stronger formulation of liveness, so-called finitary liveness, overcomes this
drawback, while still retaining robustness and simplicity. Finitary liveness requires
that there exists an unknown, fixed bound b such that something good happens within
b transitions. In this work we consider the finitary parity and Streett (fairness)
conditions. We present the topological, automata-theoretic and logical characterization
of finitary languages defined by finitary parity and Streett conditions. We (a)
show that the finitary parity and Streett languages are Σ2-complete; (b) present
a complete characterization of the expressive power of various classes of automata
with finitary and infinitary conditions (in particular we show that non-deterministic
finitary parity and Streett automata cannot be determinized to deterministic finitary
parity or Streett automata); and (c) show that the languages defined by non-deterministic
finitary parity automata exactly characterize the star-free fragment of ωB-regular
languages.
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: Nathanaël
full_name: Fijalkow, Nathanaël
last_name: Fijalkow
citation:
ama: Chatterjee K, Fijalkow N. Topological, Automata-Theoretic and Logical Characterization
of Finitary Languages. IST Austria; 2010. doi:10.15479/AT:IST-2010-0002
apa: Chatterjee, K., & Fijalkow, N. (2010). Topological, automata-theoretic
and logical characterization of finitary languages. IST Austria. https://doi.org/10.15479/AT:IST-2010-0002
chicago: Chatterjee, Krishnendu, and Nathanaël Fijalkow. Topological, Automata-Theoretic
and Logical Characterization of Finitary Languages. IST Austria, 2010. https://doi.org/10.15479/AT:IST-2010-0002.
ieee: K. Chatterjee and N. Fijalkow, Topological, automata-theoretic and logical
characterization of finitary languages. IST Austria, 2010.
ista: Chatterjee K, Fijalkow N. 2010. Topological, automata-theoretic and logical
characterization of finitary languages, IST Austria, 21p.
mla: Chatterjee, Krishnendu, and Nathanaël Fijalkow. Topological, Automata-Theoretic
and Logical Characterization of Finitary Languages. IST Austria, 2010, doi:10.15479/AT:IST-2010-0002.
short: K. Chatterjee, N. Fijalkow, Topological, Automata-Theoretic and Logical Characterization
of Finitary Languages, IST Austria, 2010.
date_created: 2018-12-12T11:39:03Z
date_published: 2010-06-04T00:00:00Z
date_updated: 2020-07-14T23:04:41Z
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...
---
_id: '3851'
abstract:
- lang: eng
text: 'Energy parity games are infinite two-player turn-based games played on weighted
graphs. The objective of the game combines a (qualitative) parity condition with
the (quantitative) requirement that the sum of the weights (i.e., the level of
energy in the game) must remain positive. Beside their own interest in the design
and synthesis of resource-constrained omega-regular specifications, energy parity
games provide one of the simplest model of games with combined qualitative and
quantitative objective. Our main results are as follows: (a) exponential memory
is sufficient and may be necessary for winning strategies in energy parity games;
(b) the problem of deciding the winner in energy parity games can be solved in
NP ∩ coNP; and (c) we give an algorithm to solve energy parity by reduction to
energy games. We also show that the problem of deciding the winner in energy parity
games is polynomially equivalent to the problem of deciding the winner in mean-payoff
parity games, which can thus be solved in NP ∩ coNP. As a consequence we also
obtain a conceptually simple algorithm to solve mean-payoff parity games.'
alternative_title:
- LNCS
article_processing_charge: No
arxiv: 1
author:
- first_name: Krishnendu
full_name: Chatterjee, Krishnendu
id: 2E5DCA20-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87
last_name: Chatterjee
orcid: 0000-0002-4561-241X
- first_name: Laurent
full_name: Doyen, Laurent
last_name: Doyen
citation:
ama: 'Chatterjee K, Doyen L. Energy parity games. In: Vol 6199. Springer; 2010:599-610.
doi:10.1007/978-3-642-14162-1_50'
apa: 'Chatterjee, K., & Doyen, L. (2010). Energy parity games (Vol. 6199, pp.
599–610). Presented at the ICALP: Automata, Languages and Programming, Bordeaux,
France: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-14162-1_50'
chicago: Chatterjee, Krishnendu, and Laurent Doyen. “Energy Parity Games,” 6199:599–610.
Springer, 2010. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-14162-1_50.
ieee: 'K. Chatterjee and L. Doyen, “Energy parity games,” presented at the ICALP:
Automata, Languages and Programming, Bordeaux, France, 2010, vol. 6199, pp. 599–610.'
ista: 'Chatterjee K, Doyen L. 2010. Energy parity games. ICALP: Automata, Languages
and Programming, LNCS, vol. 6199, 599–610.'
mla: Chatterjee, Krishnendu, and Laurent Doyen. Energy Parity Games. Vol.
6199, Springer, 2010, pp. 599–610, doi:10.1007/978-3-642-14162-1_50.
short: K. Chatterjee, L. Doyen, in:, Springer, 2010, pp. 599–610.
conference:
end_date: 2010-07-10
location: Bordeaux, France
name: 'ICALP: Automata, Languages and Programming'
start_date: 2010-07-06
corr_author: '1'
date_created: 2018-12-11T12:05:31Z
date_published: 2010-09-10T00:00:00Z
date_updated: 2025-09-30T08:02:20Z
day: '10'
department:
- _id: KrCh
doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-14162-1_50
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arxiv:
- '1001.5183'
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- iso: eng
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...
---
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abstract:
- lang: eng
text: 'We introduce two-level discounted games played by two players on a perfect-information
stochastic game graph. The upper level game is a discounted game and the lower
level game is an undiscounted reachability game. Two-level games model hierarchical
and sequential decision making under uncertainty across different time scales.
We show the existence of pure memoryless optimal strategies for both players and
an ordered field property for such games. We show that if there is only one player
(Markov decision processes), then the values can be computed in polynomial time.
It follows that whether the value of a player is equal to a given rational constant
in two-level discounted games can be decided in NP intersected coNP. We also give
an alternate strategy improvement algorithm to compute the value. '
alternative_title:
- EPTCS
article_processing_charge: No
arxiv: 1
author:
- first_name: Krishnendu
full_name: Chatterjee, Krishnendu
id: 2E5DCA20-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87
last_name: Chatterjee
orcid: 0000-0002-4561-241X
- first_name: Ritankar
full_name: Majumdar, Ritankar
last_name: Majumdar
citation:
ama: 'Chatterjee K, Majumdar R. Discounting in games across time scales. In: Vol
25. EPTCS; 2010:22-29. doi:10.4204/EPTCS.25.6'
apa: 'Chatterjee, K., & Majumdar, R. (2010). Discounting in games across time
scales (Vol. 25, pp. 22–29). Presented at the GandALF: Games, Automata, Logic,
and Formal Verification, Minori, Italy: EPTCS. https://doi.org/10.4204/EPTCS.25.6'
chicago: Chatterjee, Krishnendu, and Ritankar Majumdar. “Discounting in Games across
Time Scales,” 25:22–29. EPTCS, 2010. https://doi.org/10.4204/EPTCS.25.6.
ieee: 'K. Chatterjee and R. Majumdar, “Discounting in games across time scales,”
presented at the GandALF: Games, Automata, Logic, and Formal Verification, Minori,
Italy, 2010, vol. 25, pp. 22–29.'
ista: 'Chatterjee K, Majumdar R. 2010. Discounting in games across time scales.
GandALF: Games, Automata, Logic, and Formal Verification, EPTCS, vol. 25, 22–29.'
mla: Chatterjee, Krishnendu, and Ritankar Majumdar. Discounting in Games across
Time Scales. Vol. 25, EPTCS, 2010, pp. 22–29, doi:10.4204/EPTCS.25.6.
short: K. Chatterjee, R. Majumdar, in:, EPTCS, 2010, pp. 22–29.
conference:
end_date: 2010-06-18
location: Minori, Italy
name: 'GandALF: Games, Automata, Logic, and Formal Verification'
start_date: 2010-06-17
corr_author: '1'
date_created: 2018-12-11T12:05:31Z
date_published: 2010-06-08T00:00:00Z
date_updated: 2024-10-09T20:54:08Z
day: '08'
ddc:
- '000'
department:
- _id: KrCh
doi: 10.4204/EPTCS.25.6
external_id:
arxiv:
- '1006.1403'
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...
---
_id: '3853'
abstract:
- lang: eng
text: 'Quantitative languages are an extension of boolean languages that assign
to each word a real number. Mean-payoff automata are finite automata with numerical
weights on transitions that assign to each infinite path the long-run average
of the transition weights. When the mode of branching of the automaton is deterministic,
nondeterministic, or alternating, the corresponding class of quantitative languages
is not robust as it is not closed under the pointwise operations of max, min,
sum, and numerical complement. Nondeterministic and alternating mean-payoff automata
are not decidable either, as the quantitative generalization of the problems of
universality and language inclusion is undecidable. We introduce a new class of
quantitative languages, defined by mean-payoff automaton expressions, which is
robust and decidable: it is closed under the four pointwise operations, and we
show that all decision problems are decidable for this class. Mean-payoff automaton
expressions subsume deterministic meanpayoff automata, and we show that they have
expressive power incomparable to nondeterministic and alternating mean-payoff
automata. We also present for the first time an algorithm to compute distance
between two quantitative languages, and in our case the quantitative languages
are given as mean-payoff automaton expressions.'
alternative_title:
- LNCS
author:
- first_name: Krishnendu
full_name: Chatterjee, Krishnendu
id: 2E5DCA20-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87
last_name: Chatterjee
orcid: 0000-0002-4561-241X
- first_name: Laurent
full_name: Doyen, Laurent
last_name: Doyen
- first_name: Herbert
full_name: Edelsbrunner, Herbert
id: 3FB178DA-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87
last_name: Edelsbrunner
orcid: 0000-0002-9823-6833
- first_name: Thomas A
full_name: Henzinger, Thomas A
id: 40876CD8-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87
last_name: Henzinger
orcid: 0000−0002−2985−7724
- first_name: Philippe
full_name: Rannou, Philippe
last_name: Rannou
citation:
ama: 'Chatterjee K, Doyen L, Edelsbrunner H, Henzinger TA, Rannou P. Mean-payoff
automaton expressions. In: Vol 6269. Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik;
2010:269-283. doi:10.1007/978-3-642-15375-4_19'
apa: 'Chatterjee, K., Doyen, L., Edelsbrunner, H., Henzinger, T. A., & Rannou,
P. (2010). Mean-payoff automaton expressions (Vol. 6269, pp. 269–283). Presented
at the CONCUR: Concurrency Theory, Paris, France: Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibniz-Zentrum
für Informatik. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-15375-4_19'
chicago: Chatterjee, Krishnendu, Laurent Doyen, Herbert Edelsbrunner, Thomas A Henzinger,
and Philippe Rannou. “Mean-Payoff Automaton Expressions,” 6269:269–83. Schloss
Dagstuhl - Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik, 2010. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-15375-4_19.
ieee: 'K. Chatterjee, L. Doyen, H. Edelsbrunner, T. A. Henzinger, and P. Rannou,
“Mean-payoff automaton expressions,” presented at the CONCUR: Concurrency Theory,
Paris, France, 2010, vol. 6269, pp. 269–283.'
ista: 'Chatterjee K, Doyen L, Edelsbrunner H, Henzinger TA, Rannou P. 2010. Mean-payoff
automaton expressions. CONCUR: Concurrency Theory, LNCS, vol. 6269, 269–283.'
mla: Chatterjee, Krishnendu, et al. Mean-Payoff Automaton Expressions. Vol.
6269, Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik, 2010, pp. 269–83, doi:10.1007/978-3-642-15375-4_19.
short: K. Chatterjee, L. Doyen, H. Edelsbrunner, T.A. Henzinger, P. Rannou, in:,
Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik, 2010, pp. 269–283.
conference:
end_date: 2010-09-03
location: Paris, France
name: 'CONCUR: Concurrency Theory'
start_date: 2010-08-31
corr_author: '1'
date_created: 2018-12-11T12:05:31Z
date_published: 2010-11-18T00:00:00Z
date_updated: 2024-10-09T20:54:08Z
day: '18'
ddc:
- '000'
- '005'
department:
- _id: KrCh
- _id: HeEd
- _id: ToHe
doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-15375-4_19
ec_funded: 1
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title: Mean-payoff automaton expressions
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year: '2010'
...
---
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abstract:
- lang: eng
text: 'Graph games of infinite length provide a natural model for open reactive
systems: one player (Eve) represents the controller and the other player (Adam)
represents the environment. The evolution of the system depends on the decisions
of both players. The specification for the system is usually given as an ω-regular
language L over paths and Eve’s goal is to ensure that the play belongs to L irrespective
of Adam’s behaviour. The classical notion of winning strategies fails to capture
several interesting scenarios. For example, strong fairness (Streett) conditions
are specified by a number of request-grant pairs and require every pair that is
requested infinitely often to be granted infinitely often: Eve might win just
by preventing Adam from making any new request, but a “better” strategy would
allow Adam to make as many requests as possible and still ensure fairness. To
address such questions, we introduce the notion of obliging games, where Eve has
to ensure a strong condition Φ, while always allowing Adam to satisfy a weak condition
Ψ. We present a linear time reduction of obliging games with two Muller conditions
Φ and Ψ to classical Muller games. We consider obliging Streett games and show
they are co-NP complete, and show a natural quantitative optimisation problem
for obliging Streett games is in FNP. We also show how obliging games can provide
new and interesting semantics for multi-player games.'
alternative_title:
- LNCS
author:
- first_name: Krishnendu
full_name: Chatterjee, Krishnendu
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last_name: Chatterjee
orcid: 0000-0002-4561-241X
- first_name: Florian
full_name: Horn, Florian
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last_name: Horn
- first_name: Christof
full_name: Löding, Christof
last_name: Löding
citation:
ama: 'Chatterjee K, Horn F, Löding C. Obliging games. In: Vol 6269. Schloss Dagstuhl
- Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik; 2010:284-296. doi:10.1007/978-3-642-15375-4_20'
apa: 'Chatterjee, K., Horn, F., & Löding, C. (2010). Obliging games (Vol. 6269,
pp. 284–296). Presented at the CONCUR: Concurrency Theory, Paris, France: Schloss
Dagstuhl - Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-15375-4_20'
chicago: Chatterjee, Krishnendu, Florian Horn, and Christof Löding. “Obliging Games,”
6269:284–96. Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik, 2010. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-15375-4_20.
ieee: 'K. Chatterjee, F. Horn, and C. Löding, “Obliging games,” presented at the
CONCUR: Concurrency Theory, Paris, France, 2010, vol. 6269, pp. 284–296.'
ista: 'Chatterjee K, Horn F, Löding C. 2010. Obliging games. CONCUR: Concurrency
Theory, LNCS, vol. 6269, 284–296.'
mla: Chatterjee, Krishnendu, et al. Obliging Games. Vol. 6269, Schloss Dagstuhl
- Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik, 2010, pp. 284–96, doi:10.1007/978-3-642-15375-4_20.
short: K. Chatterjee, F. Horn, C. Löding, in:, Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibniz-Zentrum
für Informatik, 2010, pp. 284–296.
conference:
end_date: 2010-09-03
location: Paris, France
name: 'CONCUR: Concurrency Theory'
start_date: 2010-08-31
corr_author: '1'
date_created: 2018-12-11T12:05:32Z
date_published: 2010-09-08T00:00:00Z
date_updated: 2024-10-09T20:54:07Z
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department:
- _id: KrCh
doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-15375-4_20
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- iso: eng
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quality_controlled: '1'
scopus_import: 1
status: public
title: Obliging games
type: conference
user_id: 4435EBFC-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87
volume: 6269
year: '2010'
...
---
_id: '3855'
abstract:
- lang: eng
text: 'We study observation-based strategies for partially-observable Markov decision
processes (POMDPs) with parity objectives. An observation-based strategy relies
on partial information about the history of a play, namely, on the past sequence
of observations. We consider qualitative analysis problems: given a POMDP with
a parity objective, decide whether there exists an observation-based strategy
to achieve the objective with probability 1 (almost-sure winning), or with positive
probability (positive winning). Our main results are twofold. First, we present
a complete picture of the computational complexity of the qualitative analysis
problem for POMDPs with parity objectives and its subclasses: safety, reachability,
Büchi, and coBüchi objectives. We establish several upper and lower bounds that
were not known in the literature. Second, we give optimal bounds (matching upper
and lower bounds) for the memory required by pure and randomized observation-based
strategies for each class of objectives.'
alternative_title:
- LNCS
author:
- first_name: Krishnendu
full_name: Chatterjee, Krishnendu
id: 2E5DCA20-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87
last_name: Chatterjee
orcid: 0000-0002-4561-241X
- first_name: Laurent
full_name: Doyen, Laurent
last_name: Doyen
- first_name: Thomas A
full_name: Henzinger, Thomas A
id: 40876CD8-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87
last_name: Henzinger
orcid: 0000−0002−2985−7724
citation:
ama: 'Chatterjee K, Doyen L, Henzinger TA. Qualitative analysis of partially-observable
Markov Decision Processes. In: Vol 6281. Springer; 2010:258-269. doi:10.1007/978-3-642-15155-2_24'
apa: 'Chatterjee, K., Doyen, L., & Henzinger, T. A. (2010). Qualitative analysis
of partially-observable Markov Decision Processes (Vol. 6281, pp. 258–269). Presented
at the MFCS: Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science, Brno, Czech Republic:
Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-15155-2_24'
chicago: Chatterjee, Krishnendu, Laurent Doyen, and Thomas A Henzinger. “Qualitative
Analysis of Partially-Observable Markov Decision Processes,” 6281:258–69. Springer,
2010. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-15155-2_24.
ieee: 'K. Chatterjee, L. Doyen, and T. A. Henzinger, “Qualitative analysis of partially-observable
Markov Decision Processes,” presented at the MFCS: Mathematical Foundations of
Computer Science, Brno, Czech Republic, 2010, vol. 6281, pp. 258–269.'
ista: 'Chatterjee K, Doyen L, Henzinger TA. 2010. Qualitative analysis of partially-observable
Markov Decision Processes. MFCS: Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science,
LNCS, vol. 6281, 258–269.'
mla: Chatterjee, Krishnendu, et al. Qualitative Analysis of Partially-Observable
Markov Decision Processes. Vol. 6281, Springer, 2010, pp. 258–69, doi:10.1007/978-3-642-15155-2_24.
short: K. Chatterjee, L. Doyen, T.A. Henzinger, in:, Springer, 2010, pp. 258–269.
conference:
end_date: 2010-08-27
location: Brno, Czech Republic
name: 'MFCS: Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science'
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corr_author: '1'
date_created: 2018-12-11T12:05:32Z
date_published: 2010-08-01T00:00:00Z
date_updated: 2024-10-09T21:08:23Z
day: '01'
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title: Qualitative analysis of partially-observable Markov Decision Processes
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volume: 6281
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...
---
_id: '3856'
abstract:
- lang: eng
text: 'We consider two-player zero-sum games on graphs. These games can be classified
on the basis of the information of the players and on the mode of interaction
between them. On the basis of information the classification is as follows: (a)
partial-observation (both players have partial view of the game); (b) one-sided
complete-observation (one player has complete observation); and (c) complete-observation
(both players have complete view of the game). On the basis of mode of interaction
we have the following classification: (a) concurrent (players interact simultaneously);
and (b) turn-based (players interact in turn). The two sources of randomness in
these games are randomness in transition function and randomness in strategies.
In general, randomized strategies are more powerful than deterministic strategies,
and randomness in transitions gives more general classes of games. We present
a complete characterization for the classes of games where randomness is not helpful
in: (a) the transition function (probabilistic transition can be simulated by
deterministic transition); and (b) strategies (pure strategies are as powerful
as randomized strategies). As consequence of our characterization we obtain new
undecidability results for these games. '
acknowledgement: This research was supported by the European Union project COMBEST
and the European Network of Excellence ArtistDesign.
alternative_title:
- LNCS
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author:
- first_name: Krishnendu
full_name: Chatterjee, Krishnendu
id: 2E5DCA20-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87
last_name: Chatterjee
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- first_name: Laurent
full_name: Doyen, Laurent
last_name: Doyen
- first_name: Hugo
full_name: Gimbert, Hugo
last_name: Gimbert
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citation:
ama: 'Chatterjee K, Doyen L, Gimbert H, Henzinger TA. Randomness for free. In: Vol
6281. Springer; 2010:246-257. doi:10.1007/978-3-642-15155-2_23'
apa: 'Chatterjee, K., Doyen, L., Gimbert, H., & Henzinger, T. A. (2010). Randomness
for free (Vol. 6281, pp. 246–257). Presented at the MFCS: Mathematical Foundations
of Computer Science, Brno, Czech Republic: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-15155-2_23'
chicago: Chatterjee, Krishnendu, Laurent Doyen, Hugo Gimbert, and Thomas A Henzinger.
“Randomness for Free,” 6281:246–57. Springer, 2010. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-15155-2_23.
ieee: 'K. Chatterjee, L. Doyen, H. Gimbert, and T. A. Henzinger, “Randomness for
free,” presented at the MFCS: Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science, Brno,
Czech Republic, 2010, vol. 6281, pp. 246–257.'
ista: 'Chatterjee K, Doyen L, Gimbert H, Henzinger TA. 2010. Randomness for free.
MFCS: Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science, LNCS, vol. 6281, 246–257.'
mla: Chatterjee, Krishnendu, et al. Randomness for Free. Vol. 6281, Springer,
2010, pp. 246–57, doi:10.1007/978-3-642-15155-2_23.
short: K. Chatterjee, L. Doyen, H. Gimbert, T.A. Henzinger, in:, Springer, 2010,
pp. 246–257.
conference:
end_date: 2010-08-27
location: Brno, Czech Republic
name: 'MFCS: Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science'
start_date: 2010-08-23
corr_author: '1'
date_created: 2018-12-11T12:05:32Z
date_published: 2010-09-06T00:00:00Z
date_updated: 2025-09-23T10:32:00Z
day: '06'
department:
- _id: KrCh
- _id: ToHe
doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-15155-2_23
ec_funded: 1
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grant_number: '215543'
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call_identifier: FP7
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