Positional ω-regular languages

A Casares, P Ohlmann - Proceedings of the 39th Annual ACM/IEEE …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
In the context of two-player games over graphs, a language L is called positional if, in all
games using L as winning objective, the protagonist can play optimally using positional …

Characterizing positionality in games of infinite duration over infinite graphs

P Ohlmann - Proceedings of the 37th Annual ACM/IEEE Symposium …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
We study turn-based quantitative games of infinite duration opposing two antagonistic
players and played over graphs. This model is widely accepted as providing the adequate …

How to Play Optimally for Regular Objectives?

P Bouyer, N Fijalkow, M Randour… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
This paper studies two-player zero-sum games played on graphs and makes contributions
toward the following question: given an objective, how much memory is required to play …

From Muller to Parity and Rabin Automata: Optimal Transformations Preserving (History) Determinism

A Casares, T Colcombet, N Fijalkow… - …, 2024 - theoretics.episciences.org
We study transformations of automata and games using Muller conditions into equivalent
ones using parity or Rabin conditions. We present two transformations, one that turns a …

Positionality in {\Sigma} _0^ 2 and a completeness result

P Ohlmann, M Skrzypczak - arXiv preprint arXiv:2309.17022, 2023 - arxiv.org
We study the existence of positional strategies for the protagonist in infinite duration games
over arbitrary game graphs. We prove that prefix-independent objectives in {\Sigma} _0^ 2 …

Characterising memory in infinite games

A Casares, P Ohlmann - arXiv preprint arXiv:2209.12044, 2022 - arxiv.org
This paper is concerned with games of infinite duration played over potentially infinite
graphs. Recently, Ohlmann (LICS 2022) presented a characterisation of objectives admitting …

Energy games over totally ordered groups

A Kozachinskiy - arXiv preprint arXiv:2205.04508, 2022 - arxiv.org
Kopczy\'{n} ski (ICALP 2006) conjectured that prefix-independent half-positional winning
conditions are closed under finite unions. We refute this conjecture over finite arenas. For …

The true colors of memory: A tour of chromatic-memory strategies in zero-sum games on graphs (invited talk)

P Bouyer, M Randour… - 42nd IARCS Annual …, 2022 - drops.dagstuhl.de
Two-player turn-based zero-sum games on (finite or infinite) graphs are a central framework
in theoretical computer science-notably as a tool for controller synthesis, but also due to their …

[PDF][PDF] Playing safe, ten years later

T Colcombet, N Fijalkow, F Horn - Logical Methods in …, 2024 - lmcs.episciences.org
We consider two-player games over graphs and give tight bounds on the memory size of
strategies ensuring safety objectives. More specifically, we show that the minimal number of …

Half-positional -regular languages

A Casares, P Ohlmann - arXiv preprint arXiv:2401.15384, 2024 - arxiv.org
In the context of two-player games over graphs, a language $ L $ is called half-positional if,
in all games using $ L $ as winning objective, the protagonist can play optimally using …