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Lin, Anthony W.

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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.CSL.2024.32
Characterising and Verifying the Core in Concurrent Multi-Player Mean-Payoff Games

Authors: Julian Gutierrez, Anthony W. Lin, Muhammad Najib, Thomas Steeples, and Michael Wooldridge

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 288, 32nd EACSL Annual Conference on Computer Science Logic (CSL 2024)

Abstract
Concurrent multi-player mean-payoff games are important models for systems of agents with individual, non-dichotomous preferences. Whilst these games have been extensively studied in terms of their equilibria in non-cooperative settings, this paper explores an alternative solution concept: the core from cooperative game theory. This concept is particularly relevant for cooperative AI systems, as it enables the modelling of cooperation among agents, even when their goals are not fully aligned. Our contribution is twofold. First, we provide a characterisation of the core using discrete geometry techniques and establish a necessary and sufficient condition for its non-emptiness. We then use the characterisation to prove the existence of polynomial witnesses in the core. Second, we use the existence of such witnesses to solve key decision problems in rational verification and provide tight complexity bounds for the problem of checking whether some/every equilibrium in a game satisfies a given LTL or GR(1) specification. Our approach is general and can be adapted to handle other specifications expressed in various fragments of LTL without incurring additional computational costs.
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Julian Gutierrez, Anthony W. Lin, Muhammad Najib, Thomas Steeples, and Michael Wooldridge. Characterising and Verifying the Core in Concurrent Multi-Player Mean-Payoff Games. In 32nd EACSL Annual Conference on Computer Science Logic (CSL 2024). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 288, pp. 32:1-32:25, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2024)

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@InProceedings{gutierrez_et_al:LIPIcs.CSL.2024.32,
  author =	{Gutierrez, Julian and Lin, Anthony W. and Najib, Muhammad and Steeples, Thomas and Wooldridge, Michael},
  title =	{{Characterising and Verifying the Core in Concurrent Multi-Player Mean-Payoff Games}},
  booktitle =	{32nd EACSL Annual Conference on Computer Science Logic (CSL 2024)},
  pages =	{32:1--32:25},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-310-2},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2024},
  volume =	{288},
  editor =	{Murano, Aniello and Silva, Alexandra},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops-dev.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.CSL.2024.32},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-196752},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.CSL.2024.32},
  annote =	{Keywords: Concurrent games, multi-agent systems, temporal logic, game theory}
}
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Track B: Automata, Logic, Semantics, and Theory of Programming
DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.ICALP.2019.103
Monadic Decomposability of Regular Relations (Track B: Automata, Logic, Semantics, and Theory of Programming)

Authors: Pablo Barceló, Chih-Duo Hong, Xuan-Bach Le, Anthony W. Lin, and Reino Niskanen

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 132, 46th International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2019)

Abstract
Monadic decomposibility - the ability to determine whether a formula in a given logical theory can be decomposed into a boolean combination of monadic formulas - is a powerful tool for devising a decision procedure for a given logical theory. In this paper, we revisit a classical decision problem in automata theory: given a regular (a.k.a. synchronized rational) relation, determine whether it is recognizable, i.e., it has a monadic decomposition (that is, a representation as a boolean combination of cartesian products of regular languages). Regular relations are expressive formalisms which, using an appropriate string encoding, can capture relations definable in Presburger Arithmetic. In fact, their expressive power coincide with relations definable in a universal automatic structure; equivalently, those definable by finite set interpretations in WS1S (Weak Second Order Theory of One Successor). Determining whether a regular relation admits a recognizable relation was known to be decidable (and in exponential time for binary relations), but its precise complexity still hitherto remains open. Our main contribution is to fully settle the complexity of this decision problem by developing new techniques employing infinite Ramsey theory. The complexity for DFA (resp. NFA) representations of regular relations is shown to be NLOGSPACE-complete (resp. PSPACE-complete).
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Pablo Barceló, Chih-Duo Hong, Xuan-Bach Le, Anthony W. Lin, and Reino Niskanen. Monadic Decomposability of Regular Relations (Track B: Automata, Logic, Semantics, and Theory of Programming). In 46th International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2019). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 132, pp. 103:1-103:14, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2019)

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@InProceedings{barcelo_et_al:LIPIcs.ICALP.2019.103,
  author =	{Barcel\'{o}, Pablo and Hong, Chih-Duo and Le, Xuan-Bach and Lin, Anthony W. and Niskanen, Reino},
  title =	{{Monadic Decomposability of Regular Relations}},
  booktitle =	{46th International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2019)},
  pages =	{103:1--103:14},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-109-2},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2019},
  volume =	{132},
  editor =	{Baier, Christel and Chatzigiannakis, Ioannis and Flocchini, Paola and Leonardi, Stefano},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops-dev.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ICALP.2019.103},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-106790},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ICALP.2019.103},
  annote =	{Keywords: Transducers, Automata, Synchronized Rational Relations, Ramsey Theory, Variable Independence, Automatic Structures}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.FSTTCS.2016.19
Decidability and Complexity of Tree Share Formulas

Authors: Xuan Bach Le, Aquinas Hobor, and Anthony W. Lin

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 65, 36th IARCS Annual Conference on Foundations of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer Science (FSTTCS 2016)

Abstract
Fractional share models are used to reason about how multiple actors share ownership of resources. We examine the decidability and complexity of reasoning over the "tree share" model of Dockins et al. using first-order logic, or fragments thereof. We pinpoint a connection between the basic operations on trees union, intersection, and complement and countable atomless Boolean algebras, allowing us to obtain decidability with the precise complexity of both first-order and existential theories over the tree share model with the aforementioned operations. We establish a connection between the multiplication operation on trees and the theory of word equations, allowing us to derive the decidability of its existential theory and the undecidability of its full first-order theory. We prove that the full first-order theory over the model with both the Boolean operations and the restricted multiplication operation (with constants on the right hand side) is decidable via an embedding to tree-automatic structures.
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Xuan Bach Le, Aquinas Hobor, and Anthony W. Lin. Decidability and Complexity of Tree Share Formulas. In 36th IARCS Annual Conference on Foundations of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer Science (FSTTCS 2016). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 65, pp. 19:1-19:14, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2016)

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@InProceedings{le_et_al:LIPIcs.FSTTCS.2016.19,
  author =	{Le, Xuan Bach and Hobor, Aquinas and Lin, Anthony W.},
  title =	{{Decidability and Complexity of Tree Share Formulas}},
  booktitle =	{36th IARCS Annual Conference on Foundations of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer Science (FSTTCS 2016)},
  pages =	{19:1--19:14},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-027-9},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2016},
  volume =	{65},
  editor =	{Lal, Akash and Akshay, S. and Saurabh, Saket and Sen, Sandeep},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops-dev.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.FSTTCS.2016.19},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-68544},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.FSTTCS.2016.19},
  annote =	{Keywords: Fractional Share Models, Resource Accounting, Countable Atomless Boolean Algebras, Word Equations, Tree Automatic Structures}
}

Lin, Anthony Widjaja

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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.CSL.2024.46
Concurrent Stochastic Lossy Channel Games

Authors: Daniel Stan, Muhammad Najib, Anthony Widjaja Lin, and Parosh Aziz Abdulla

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 288, 32nd EACSL Annual Conference on Computer Science Logic (CSL 2024)

Abstract
Concurrent stochastic games are an important formalism for the rational verification of probabilistic multi-agent systems, which involves verifying whether a temporal logic property is satisfied in some or all game-theoretic equilibria of such systems. In this work, we study the rational verification of probabilistic multi-agent systems where agents can cooperate by communicating over unbounded lossy channels. To model such systems, we present concurrent stochastic lossy channel games (CSLCG) and employ an equilibrium concept from cooperative game theory known as the core, which is the most fundamental and widely studied cooperative equilibrium concept. Our main contribution is twofold. First, we show that the rational verification problem is undecidable for systems whose agents have almost-sure LTL objectives. Second, we provide a decidable fragment of such a class of objectives that subsumes almost-sure reachability and safety. Our techniques involve reductions to solving infinite-state zero-sum games with conjunctions of qualitative objectives. To the best of our knowledge, our result represents the first decidability result on the rational verification of stochastic multi-agent systems on infinite arenas.
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Daniel Stan, Muhammad Najib, Anthony Widjaja Lin, and Parosh Aziz Abdulla. Concurrent Stochastic Lossy Channel Games. In 32nd EACSL Annual Conference on Computer Science Logic (CSL 2024). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 288, pp. 46:1-46:19, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2024)

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@InProceedings{stan_et_al:LIPIcs.CSL.2024.46,
  author =	{Stan, Daniel and Najib, Muhammad and Lin, Anthony Widjaja and Abdulla, Parosh Aziz},
  title =	{{Concurrent Stochastic Lossy Channel Games}},
  booktitle =	{32nd EACSL Annual Conference on Computer Science Logic (CSL 2024)},
  pages =	{46:1--46:19},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-310-2},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2024},
  volume =	{288},
  editor =	{Murano, Aniello and Silva, Alexandra},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops-dev.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.CSL.2024.46},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-196894},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.CSL.2024.46},
  annote =	{Keywords: concurrent, games, stochastic, lossy channels, wqo, finite attractor property, cooperative, core, Nash equilibrium}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.FSTTCS.2012.313
Accelerating tree-automatic relations

Authors: Anthony Widjaja Lin

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 18, IARCS Annual Conference on Foundations of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer Science (FSTTCS 2012)

Abstract
We study the problem of computing the transitive closure of tree-automatic (binary) relations, which are represented by tree automata. Such relations include classes of infinite systems generated by pushdown systems (PDS), ground tree rewrite systems (GTRS), PA-processes, and Turing machines, to name a few. Although this problem is unsolvable in general, we provide a semi-algorithm for the problem and prove completeness guarantee for PDS, GTRS, and PA-processes. The semi-algorithm is an extension of a known semi-algorithm for structure-preserving tree-automatic relations, for which completeness is guaranteed for several interesting parameterized systems over tree topology. Hence, there is a single generic procedure that solves reachability for PDS, GTRS, PA-processes, and several parameterized systems in a uniform way. As an application, we provide a single generic semi-algorithm for checking repeated reachability over tree-automatic relations, for which completeness is guaranteed for the aforementioned classes.
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Anthony Widjaja Lin. Accelerating tree-automatic relations. In IARCS Annual Conference on Foundations of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer Science (FSTTCS 2012). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 18, pp. 313-324, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2012)

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@InProceedings{lin:LIPIcs.FSTTCS.2012.313,
  author =	{Lin, Anthony Widjaja},
  title =	{{Accelerating tree-automatic relations}},
  booktitle =	{IARCS Annual Conference on Foundations of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer Science (FSTTCS 2012)},
  pages =	{313--324},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-939897-47-7},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2012},
  volume =	{18},
  editor =	{D'Souza, Deepak and Radhakrishnan, Jaikumar and Telikepalli, Kavitha},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops-dev.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.FSTTCS.2012.313},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-38691},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.FSTTCS.2012.313},
  annote =	{Keywords: Semi-algorithm, Model Checking, Infinite Systems, Automata}
}
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