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Qualitative concurrent stochastic games with imperfect information

  • Université Paris 7

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Abstract

We study a model of games that combines concurrency, imperfect information and stochastic aspects. Those are finite states games in which, at each round, the two players choose, simultaneously and independently, an action. Then a successor state is chosen accordingly to some fixed probability distribution depending on the previous state and on the pair of actions chosen by the players. Imperfect information is modeled as follows: both players have an equivalence relation over states and, instead of observing the exact state, they only know to which equivalence class it belongs. Therefore, if two partial plays are indistinguishable by some player, he should behave the same in both of them. We consider reachability (does the play eventually visit a final state?) and Büchi objective (does the play visit infinitely often a final state?). Our main contribution is to prove that the following problem is complete for 2-ExpTime: decide whether the first player has a strategy that ensures her to almost-surely win against any possible strategy of her oponent. We also characterise those strategies needed by the first player to almost-surely win.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationAutomata, Languages and Programming - 36th International Colloquium, ICALP 2009, Proceedings
Pages200-211
Number of pages12
EditionPART 2
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 12 Nov 2009
Externally publishedYes
Event36th International Colloquium on Automata, Languages and Programming, ICALP 2009 - Rhodes, Greece
Duration: 5 Jul 200912 Jul 2009

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
NumberPART 2
Volume5556 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference36th International Colloquium on Automata, Languages and Programming, ICALP 2009
Country/TerritoryGreece
CityRhodes
Period5/07/0912/07/09

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