Obligation blackwell games and p-automata
Chatterjee K, Piterman N. 2017. Obligation blackwell games and p-automata. Journal of Symbolic Logic. 82(2), 420–452.
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Chatterjee, KrishnenduISTA ;
Piterman, Nir
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We generalize winning conditions in two-player games by adding a structural acceptance condition called obligations. Obligations are orthogonal to the linear winning conditions that define whether a play is winning. Obligations are a declaration that player 0 can achieve a certain value from a configuration. If the obligation is met, the value of that configuration for player 0 is 1. We define the value in such games and show that obligation games are determined. For Markov chains with Borel objectives and obligations, and finite turn-based stochastic parity games with obligations we give an alternative and simpler characterization of the value function. Based on this simpler definition we show that the decision problem of winning finite turn-based stochastic parity games with obligations is in NP∩co-NP. We also show that obligation games provide a game framework for reasoning about p-automata. © 2017 The Association for Symbolic Logic.
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2017-06-01
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Journal of Symbolic Logic
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Cambridge University Press
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82
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2
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420 - 452
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Chatterjee K, Piterman N. Obligation blackwell games and p-automata. Journal of Symbolic Logic. 2017;82(2):420-452. doi:10.1017/jsl.2016.71
Chatterjee, K., & Piterman, N. (2017). Obligation blackwell games and p-automata. Journal of Symbolic Logic. Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/jsl.2016.71
Chatterjee, Krishnendu, and Nir Piterman. “Obligation Blackwell Games and P-Automata.” Journal of Symbolic Logic. Cambridge University Press, 2017. https://doi.org/10.1017/jsl.2016.71.
K. Chatterjee and N. Piterman, “Obligation blackwell games and p-automata,” Journal of Symbolic Logic, vol. 82, no. 2. Cambridge University Press, pp. 420–452, 2017.
Chatterjee K, Piterman N. 2017. Obligation blackwell games and p-automata. Journal of Symbolic Logic. 82(2), 420–452.
Chatterjee, Krishnendu, and Nir Piterman. “Obligation Blackwell Games and P-Automata.” Journal of Symbolic Logic, vol. 82, no. 2, Cambridge University Press, 2017, pp. 420–52, doi:10.1017/jsl.2016.71.
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