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Semilinear Representations for Series-Parallel Atomic Congestion Games

Authors: Nathalie Bertrand, Nicolas Markey, Suman Sadhukhan, and Ocan Sankur

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 250, 42nd IARCS Annual Conference on Foundations of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer Science (FSTTCS 2022)


Abstract
We consider atomic congestion games on series-parallel networks, and study the structure of the sets of Nash equilibria and social local optima on a given network when the number of players varies. We establish that these sets are definable in Presburger arithmetic and that they admit semilinear representations whose all period vectors have a common direction. As an application, we prove that the prices of anarchy and stability converge to 1 as the number of players goes to infinity, and show how to exploit these semilinear representations to compute these ratios precisely for a given network and number of players.

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Nathalie Bertrand, Nicolas Markey, Suman Sadhukhan, and Ocan Sankur. Semilinear Representations for Series-Parallel Atomic Congestion Games. In 42nd IARCS Annual Conference on Foundations of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer Science (FSTTCS 2022). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 250, pp. 32:1-32:20, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2022)


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@InProceedings{bertrand_et_al:LIPIcs.FSTTCS.2022.32,
  author =	{Bertrand, Nathalie and Markey, Nicolas and Sadhukhan, Suman and Sankur, Ocan},
  title =	{{Semilinear Representations for Series-Parallel Atomic Congestion Games}},
  booktitle =	{42nd IARCS Annual Conference on Foundations of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer Science (FSTTCS 2022)},
  pages =	{32:1--32:20},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-261-7},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2022},
  volume =	{250},
  editor =	{Dawar, Anuj and Guruswami, Venkatesan},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.FSTTCS.2022.32},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-174243},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.FSTTCS.2022.32},
  annote =	{Keywords: congestion games, Nash equilibria, Presburger arithmetic, semilinear sets, price of anarchy}
}
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Track B: Automata, Logic, Semantics, and Theory of Programming
Parameterized Safety Verification of Round-Based Shared-Memory Systems

Authors: Nathalie Bertrand, Nicolas Markey, Ocan Sankur, and Nicolas Waldburger

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 229, 49th International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2022)


Abstract
We consider the parameterized verification problem for distributed algorithms where the goal is to develop techniques to prove the correctness of a given algorithm regardless of the number of participating processes. Motivated by an asynchronous binary consensus algorithm [James Aspnes, 2002], we consider round-based distributed algorithms communicating with shared memory. A particular challenge in these systems is that 1) the number of processes is unbounded, and, more importantly, 2) there is a fresh set of registers at each round. A verification algorithm thus needs to manage both sources of infinity. In this setting, we prove that the safety verification problem, which consists in deciding whether all possible executions avoid a given error state, is PSPACE-complete. For negative instances of the safety verification problem, we also provide exponential lower and upper bounds on the minimal number of processes needed for an error execution and on the minimal round on which the error state can be covered.

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Nathalie Bertrand, Nicolas Markey, Ocan Sankur, and Nicolas Waldburger. Parameterized Safety Verification of Round-Based Shared-Memory Systems. In 49th International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2022). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 229, pp. 113:1-113:20, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2022)


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@InProceedings{bertrand_et_al:LIPIcs.ICALP.2022.113,
  author =	{Bertrand, Nathalie and Markey, Nicolas and Sankur, Ocan and Waldburger, Nicolas},
  title =	{{Parameterized Safety Verification of Round-Based Shared-Memory Systems}},
  booktitle =	{49th International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2022)},
  pages =	{113:1--113:20},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-235-8},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2022},
  volume =	{229},
  editor =	{Boja\'{n}czyk, Miko{\l}aj and Merelli, Emanuela and Woodruff, David P.},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ICALP.2022.113},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-164541},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ICALP.2022.113},
  annote =	{Keywords: Verification, Parameterized models, Distributed algorithms}
}
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Track B: Automata, Logic, Semantics, and Theory of Programming
The Variance-Penalized Stochastic Shortest Path Problem

Authors: Jakob Piribauer, Ocan Sankur, and Christel Baier

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 229, 49th International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2022)


Abstract
The stochastic shortest path problem (SSPP) asks to resolve the non-deterministic choices in a Markov decision process (MDP) such that the expected accumulated weight before reaching a target state is maximized. This paper addresses the optimization of the variance-penalized expectation (VPE) of the accumulated weight, which is a variant of the SSPP in which a multiple of the variance of accumulated weights is incurred as a penalty. It is shown that the optimal VPE in MDPs with non-negative weights as well as an optimal deterministic finite-memory scheduler can be computed in exponential space. The threshold problem whether the maximal VPE exceeds a given rational is shown to be EXPTIME-hard and to lie in NEXPTIME. Furthermore, a result of interest in its own right obtained on the way is that a variance-minimal scheduler among all expectation-optimal schedulers can be computed in polynomial time.

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Jakob Piribauer, Ocan Sankur, and Christel Baier. The Variance-Penalized Stochastic Shortest Path Problem. In 49th International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2022). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 229, pp. 129:1-129:19, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2022)


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@InProceedings{piribauer_et_al:LIPIcs.ICALP.2022.129,
  author =	{Piribauer, Jakob and Sankur, Ocan and Baier, Christel},
  title =	{{The Variance-Penalized Stochastic Shortest Path Problem}},
  booktitle =	{49th International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2022)},
  pages =	{129:1--129:19},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-235-8},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2022},
  volume =	{229},
  editor =	{Boja\'{n}czyk, Miko{\l}aj and Merelli, Emanuela and Woodruff, David P.},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ICALP.2022.129},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-164705},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ICALP.2022.129},
  annote =	{Keywords: Markov decision process, variance, stochastic shortest path problem}
}
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Quantified Linear Temporal Logic over Probabilistic Systems with an Application to Vacuity Checking

Authors: Jakob Piribauer, Christel Baier, Nathalie Bertrand, and Ocan Sankur

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 203, 32nd International Conference on Concurrency Theory (CONCUR 2021)


Abstract
Quantified linear temporal logic (QLTL) is an ω-regular extension of LTL allowing quantification over propositional variables. We study the model checking problem of QLTL-formulas over Markov chains and Markov decision processes (MDPs) with respect to the number of quantifier alternations of formulas in prenex normal form. For formulas with k{-}1 quantifier alternations, we prove that all qualitative and quantitative model checking problems are k-EXPSPACE-complete over Markov chains and k{+}1-EXPTIME-complete over MDPs. As an application of these results, we generalize vacuity checking for LTL specifications from the non-probabilistic to the probabilistic setting. We show how to check whether an LTL-formula is affected by a subformula, and also study inherent vacuity for probabilistic systems.

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Jakob Piribauer, Christel Baier, Nathalie Bertrand, and Ocan Sankur. Quantified Linear Temporal Logic over Probabilistic Systems with an Application to Vacuity Checking. In 32nd International Conference on Concurrency Theory (CONCUR 2021). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 203, pp. 7:1-7:18, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2021)


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@InProceedings{piribauer_et_al:LIPIcs.CONCUR.2021.7,
  author =	{Piribauer, Jakob and Baier, Christel and Bertrand, Nathalie and Sankur, Ocan},
  title =	{{Quantified Linear Temporal Logic over Probabilistic Systems with an Application to Vacuity Checking}},
  booktitle =	{32nd International Conference on Concurrency Theory (CONCUR 2021)},
  pages =	{7:1--7:18},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-203-7},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2021},
  volume =	{203},
  editor =	{Haddad, Serge and Varacca, Daniele},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.CONCUR.2021.7},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-143842},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.CONCUR.2021.7},
  annote =	{Keywords: Quantified linear temporal logic, Markov chain, Markov decision process, vacuity}
}
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Dynamic Network Congestion Games

Authors: Nathalie Bertrand, Nicolas Markey, Suman Sadhukhan, and Ocan Sankur

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 182, 40th IARCS Annual Conference on Foundations of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer Science (FSTTCS 2020)


Abstract
Congestion games are a classical type of games studied in game theory, in which n players choose a resource, and their individual cost increases with the number of other players choosing the same resource. In network congestion games (NCGs), the resources correspond to simple paths in a graph, e.g. representing routing options from a source to a target. In this paper, we introduce a variant of NCGs, referred to as dynamic NCGs: in this setting, players take transitions synchronously, they select their next transitions dynamically, and they are charged a cost that depends on the number of players simultaneously using the same transition. We study, from a complexity perspective, standard concepts of game theory in dynamic NCGs: social optima, Nash equilibria, and subgame perfect equilibria. Our contributions are the following: the existence of a strategy profile with social cost bounded by a constant is in PSPACE and NP-hard. (Pure) Nash equilibria always exist in dynamic NCGs; the existence of a Nash equilibrium with bounded cost can be decided in EXPSPACE, and computing a witnessing strategy profile can be done in doubly-exponential time. The existence of a subgame perfect equilibrium with bounded cost can be decided in 2EXPSPACE, and a witnessing strategy profile can be computed in triply-exponential time.

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Nathalie Bertrand, Nicolas Markey, Suman Sadhukhan, and Ocan Sankur. Dynamic Network Congestion Games. In 40th IARCS Annual Conference on Foundations of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer Science (FSTTCS 2020). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 182, pp. 40:1-40:16, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2020)


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@InProceedings{bertrand_et_al:LIPIcs.FSTTCS.2020.40,
  author =	{Bertrand, Nathalie and Markey, Nicolas and Sadhukhan, Suman and Sankur, Ocan},
  title =	{{Dynamic Network Congestion Games}},
  booktitle =	{40th IARCS Annual Conference on Foundations of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer Science (FSTTCS 2020)},
  pages =	{40:1--40:16},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-174-0},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2020},
  volume =	{182},
  editor =	{Saxena, Nitin and Simon, Sunil},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.FSTTCS.2020.40},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-132811},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.FSTTCS.2020.40},
  annote =	{Keywords: Congestion games, Nash equilibria, Subgame perfect equilibria, Complexity}
}
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Invited Talk
Admissibility in Games with Imperfect Information (Invited Talk)

Authors: Romain Brenguier, Arno Pauly, Jean-François Raskin, and Ocan Sankur

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 85, 28th International Conference on Concurrency Theory (CONCUR 2017)


Abstract
In this invited paper, we study the concept of admissible strategies for two player win/lose infinite sequential games with imperfect information. We show that in stark contrast with the perfect information variant, admissible strategies are only guaranteed to exist when players have objectives that are closed sets. As a consequence, we also study decision problems related to the existence of admissible strategies for regular games as well as finite duration games.

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Romain Brenguier, Arno Pauly, Jean-François Raskin, and Ocan Sankur. Admissibility in Games with Imperfect Information (Invited Talk). In 28th International Conference on Concurrency Theory (CONCUR 2017). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 85, pp. 2:1-2:23, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2017)


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@InProceedings{brenguier_et_al:LIPIcs.CONCUR.2017.2,
  author =	{Brenguier, Romain and Pauly, Arno and Raskin, Jean-Fran\c{c}ois and Sankur, Ocan},
  title =	{{Admissibility in Games with Imperfect Information}},
  booktitle =	{28th International Conference on Concurrency Theory (CONCUR 2017)},
  pages =	{2:1--2:23},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-048-4},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2017},
  volume =	{85},
  editor =	{Meyer, Roland and Nestmann, Uwe},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.CONCUR.2017.2},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-78066},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.CONCUR.2017.2},
  annote =	{Keywords: Admissibility, non-zero sum games, reactive synthesis, imperfect infor- mation}
}
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Admissiblity in Concurrent Games

Authors: Nicolas Basset, Gilles Geeraerts, Jean-François Raskin, and Ocan Sankur

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 80, 44th International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2017)


Abstract
In this paper, we study the notion of admissibility for randomised strategies in concurrent games. Intuitively, an admissible strategy is one where the player plays 'as well as possible', because there is no other strategy that dominates it, i.e., that wins (almost surely) against a superset of adversarial strategies. We prove that admissible strategies always exist in concurrent games, and we characterise them precisely. Then, when the objectives of the players are omega-regular, we show how to perform assume-admissible synthesis, i.e., how to compute admissible strategies that win (almost surely) under the hypothesis that the other players play admissible strategies only.

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Nicolas Basset, Gilles Geeraerts, Jean-François Raskin, and Ocan Sankur. Admissiblity in Concurrent Games. In 44th International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2017). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 80, pp. 123:1-123:14, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2017)


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@InProceedings{basset_et_al:LIPIcs.ICALP.2017.123,
  author =	{Basset, Nicolas and Geeraerts, Gilles and Raskin, Jean-Fran\c{c}ois and Sankur, Ocan},
  title =	{{Admissiblity in Concurrent Games}},
  booktitle =	{44th International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2017)},
  pages =	{123:1--123:14},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-041-5},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2017},
  volume =	{80},
  editor =	{Chatzigiannakis, Ioannis and Indyk, Piotr and Kuhn, Fabian and Muscholl, Anca},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ICALP.2017.123},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-74765},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ICALP.2017.123},
  annote =	{Keywords: Multi-player games, admissibility, concurrent games, randomized strategies}
}
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Admissibility in Quantitative Graph Games

Authors: Romain Brenguier, Guillermo A. Pérez, Jean-Francois Raskin, and Ocan Sankur

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


Abstract
Admissibility has been studied for games of infinite duration with Boolean objectives. We extend here this study to games of infinite duration with quantitative objectives. First, we show that, under the assumption that optimal worst-case and cooperative strategies exist, admissible strategies are guaranteed to exist. Second, we give a characterization of admissible strategies using the notion of adversarial and cooperative values of a history, and we characterize the set of outcomes that are compatible with admissible strategies. Finally, we show how these characterizations can be used to design algorithms to decide relevant verification and synthesis problems.

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Romain Brenguier, Guillermo A. Pérez, Jean-Francois Raskin, and Ocan Sankur. Admissibility in Quantitative Graph Games. 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. 42:1-42:14, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2016)


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@InProceedings{brenguier_et_al:LIPIcs.FSTTCS.2016.42,
  author =	{Brenguier, Romain and P\'{e}rez, Guillermo A. and Raskin, Jean-Francois and Sankur, Ocan},
  title =	{{Admissibility in Quantitative Graph Games}},
  booktitle =	{36th IARCS Annual Conference on Foundations of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer Science (FSTTCS 2016)},
  pages =	{42:1--42:14},
  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.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.FSTTCS.2016.42},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-68772},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.FSTTCS.2016.42},
  annote =	{Keywords: Quantitative games, Verification, Reactive synthesis, Admissibility}
}
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Assume-Admissible Synthesis

Authors: Romain Brenguier, Jean-François Raskin, and Ocan Sankur

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 42, 26th International Conference on Concurrency Theory (CONCUR 2015)


Abstract
In this paper, we introduce a novel rule for synthesis of reactive systems, applicable to systems made of n components which have each their own objectives. It is based on the notion of admissible strategies. We compare our novel rule with previous rules defined in the literature, and we show that contrary to the previous proposals, our rule define sets of solutions which are rectangular. This property leads to solutions which are robust and resilient. We provide algorithms with optimal complexity and also an abstraction framework.

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Romain Brenguier, Jean-François Raskin, and Ocan Sankur. Assume-Admissible Synthesis. In 26th International Conference on Concurrency Theory (CONCUR 2015). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 42, pp. 100-113, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2015)


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@InProceedings{brenguier_et_al:LIPIcs.CONCUR.2015.100,
  author =	{Brenguier, Romain and Raskin, Jean-Fran\c{c}ois and Sankur, Ocan},
  title =	{{Assume-Admissible Synthesis}},
  booktitle =	{26th International Conference on Concurrency Theory (CONCUR 2015)},
  pages =	{100--113},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-939897-91-0},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2015},
  volume =	{42},
  editor =	{Aceto, Luca and de Frutos Escrig, David},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.CONCUR.2015.100},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-53711},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.CONCUR.2015.100},
  annote =	{Keywords: Multi-player games, controller synthesis, admissibility}
}
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Multiple-Environment Markov Decision Processes

Authors: Jean-Francois Raskin and Ocan Sankur

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 29, 34th International Conference on Foundation of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer Science (FSTTCS 2014)


Abstract
We introduce Multi-Environment Markov Decision Processes (MEMDPs) which are MDPs with a set of probabilistic transition functions. The goal in an MEMDP is to synthesize a single controller strategy with guaranteed performances against all environments even though the environment is unknown a priori. While MEMDPs can be seen as a special class of partially observable MDPs, we show that several verification problems that are undecidable for partially observable MDPs, are decidable for MEMDPs and sometimes have even efficient solutions.

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Jean-Francois Raskin and Ocan Sankur. Multiple-Environment Markov Decision Processes. In 34th International Conference on Foundation of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer Science (FSTTCS 2014). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 29, pp. 531-543, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2014)


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@InProceedings{raskin_et_al:LIPIcs.FSTTCS.2014.531,
  author =	{Raskin, Jean-Francois and Sankur, Ocan},
  title =	{{Multiple-Environment Markov Decision Processes}},
  booktitle =	{34th International Conference on Foundation of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer Science (FSTTCS 2014)},
  pages =	{531--543},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-939897-77-4},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2014},
  volume =	{29},
  editor =	{Raman, Venkatesh and Suresh, S. P.},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.FSTTCS.2014.531},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-48692},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.FSTTCS.2014.531},
  annote =	{Keywords: Markov decision processes, probabilistic systems, multiple objectives}
}
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Shrinking Timed Automata

Authors: Ocan Sankur, Patricia Bouyer, and Nicolas Markey

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 13, IARCS Annual Conference on Foundations of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer Science (FSTTCS 2011)


Abstract
We define and study a new approach to the implementability of timed automata, where the semantics is perturbed by imprecisions and finite frequency of the hardware. In order to circumvent these effects, we introduce parametric shrinking of clock constraints, which corresponds to tightening these. We propose symbolic procedures to decide the existence of (and then compute) parameters under which the shrunk version of a given timed automaton is non-blocking and can time-abstract simulate the exact semantics. We then define an implementation semantics for timed automata with a digital clock and positive reaction times, and show that for shrinkable timed automata, non-blockingness and time-abstract simulation are preserved in implementation.

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Ocan Sankur, Patricia Bouyer, and Nicolas Markey. Shrinking Timed Automata. In IARCS Annual Conference on Foundations of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer Science (FSTTCS 2011). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 13, pp. 90-102, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2011)


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@InProceedings{sankur_et_al:LIPIcs.FSTTCS.2011.90,
  author =	{Sankur, Ocan and Bouyer, Patricia and Markey, Nicolas},
  title =	{{Shrinking Timed Automata}},
  booktitle =	{IARCS Annual Conference on Foundations of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer Science (FSTTCS 2011)},
  pages =	{90--102},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-939897-34-7},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2011},
  volume =	{13},
  editor =	{Chakraborty, Supratik and Kumar, Amit},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.FSTTCS.2011.90},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-33627},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.FSTTCS.2011.90},
  annote =	{Keywords: Timed automata, implementability, robustness}
}
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Online Correlation Clustering

Authors: Claire Mathieu, Ocan Sankur, and Warren Schudy

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 5, 27th International Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science (2010)


Abstract
We study the online clustering problem where data items arrive in an online fashion. The algorithm maintains a clustering of data items into similarity classes. Upon arrival of v, the relation between v and previously arrived items is revealed, so that for each u we are told whether v is similar to u. The algorithm can create a new luster for v and merge existing clusters. When the objective is to minimize disagreements between the clustering and the input, we prove that a natural greedy algorithm is O(n)-competitive, and this is optimal. When the objective is to maximize agreements between the clustering and the input, we prove that the greedy algorithm is .5-competitive; that no online algorithm can be better than .834-competitive; we prove that it is possible to get better than 1/2, by exhibiting a randomized algorithm with competitive ratio .5+c for a small positive fixed constant c.

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Claire Mathieu, Ocan Sankur, and Warren Schudy. Online Correlation Clustering. In 27th International Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science. Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 5, pp. 573-584, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2010)


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@InProceedings{mathieu_et_al:LIPIcs.STACS.2010.2486,
  author =	{Mathieu, Claire and Sankur, Ocan and Schudy, Warren},
  title =	{{Online Correlation Clustering}},
  booktitle =	{27th International Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science},
  pages =	{573--584},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-939897-16-3},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2010},
  volume =	{5},
  editor =	{Marion, Jean-Yves and Schwentick, Thomas},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.STACS.2010.2486},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-24862},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.STACS.2010.2486},
  annote =	{Keywords: Correlation clustering, online algorithms}
}
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