Simple Stochastic Games with Almost-Sure Energy-Parity Objectives are in NP and coNP

Richard Mayr; Sven Schewe; Patrick Totzke; Dominik Wojtczak

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-71995-1_22

Simple Stochastic Games with Almost-Sure Energy-Parity Objectives are in NP and coNP

Richard Mayr, Sven Schewe, Patrick Totzke, Dominik Wojtczak

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We study stochastic games with energy-parity objectives, which combine quantitative rewards with a qualitative ω-regular condition: The maximizer aims to avoid running out of energy while simultaneously satisfying a parity condition. We show that the corresponding almost-sure problem, i.e., checking whether there exists a maximizer strategy that achieves the energy-parity objective with probability 1 when starting at a given energy level k, is decidable and in NP∩coNP. The same holds for checking if such a k exists and if a given k is minimal.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Foundations of Software Science and Computation Structures (FOSSACS 2021)
Publisher	Springer
Pages	427 - 447
Number of pages	21
ISBN (Electronic)	978-3-030-71995-1
ISBN (Print)	978-3-030-71994-4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-71995-1_22
Publication status	Published - 23 Mar 2021
Event	24th International Conference on Foundations of Software Science and Computation Structures - Online Duration: 27 Mar 2021 → 1 Apr 2021 https://etaps.org/2021/fossacs

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Name	Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Publisher	Springer, Cham
Volume	12650
ISSN (Print)	0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)	1611-3349

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Conference	24th International Conference on Foundations of Software Science and Computation Structures
Abbreviated title	FoSSaCS 2021
City	Online
Period	27/03/21 → 1/04/21
Internet address	https://etaps.org/2021/fossacs

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Simple Stochastic Games
Parity Games
Energy Games

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Mayr, R, Schewe, S, Totzke, P & Wojtczak, D 2021, Simple Stochastic Games with Almost-Sure Energy-Parity Objectives are in NP and coNP. in Foundations of Software Science and Computation Structures (FOSSACS 2021). Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 12650, Springer, pp. 427 - 447, 24th International Conference on Foundations of Software Science and Computation Structures, Online, 27/03/21. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-71995-1_22

Simple Stochastic Games with Almost-Sure Energy-Parity Objectives are in NP and coNP. / Mayr, Richard; Schewe, Sven; Totzke, Patrick et al.
Foundations of Software Science and Computation Structures (FOSSACS 2021). Springer, 2021. p. 427 - 447 ( Lecture Notes in Computer Science; Vol. 12650).

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