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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.CSL.2026.32
Mean-Payoff and Energy Discrete-Bidding Games

Authors: Guy Avni and Suman Sadhukhan

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 363, 34th EACSL Annual Conference on Computer Science Logic (CSL 2026)

Abstract
A bidding game is played on a graph as follows. A token is placed on an initial vertex and both players are allocated budgets. In each turn, the players simultaneously submit bids that do not exceed their available budgets, the higher bidder moves the token, and pays the bid to the lower bidder. We focus on discrete-bidding, which are motivated by practical applications and restrict the granularity of the players' bids, e.g, bids must be given in cents. We study, for the first time, discrete-bidding games with mean-payoff and energy objectives. In contrast, mean-payoff continuous-bidding games (i.e., no granularity restrictions) are understood and exhibit a rich mathematical structure. The threshold budget is a necessary and sufficient initial budget for winning an energy game or guaranteeing a target payoff in a mean-payoff game. We first establish existence of threshold budgets; a non-trivial property due to the concurrent moves of the players. Moreover, we identify the structure of the thresholds, which is key in obtaining compact strategies, and in turn, showing that finding threshold is in NP and coNP even in succinctly-represented games.
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Guy Avni and Suman Sadhukhan. Mean-Payoff and Energy Discrete-Bidding Games. In 34th EACSL Annual Conference on Computer Science Logic (CSL 2026). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 363, pp. 32:1-32:18, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2026)

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@InProceedings{avni_et_al:LIPIcs.CSL.2026.32,
  author =	{Avni, Guy and Sadhukhan, Suman},
  title =	{{Mean-Payoff and Energy Discrete-Bidding Games}},
  booktitle =	{34th EACSL Annual Conference on Computer Science Logic (CSL 2026)},
  pages =	{32:1--32:18},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-411-6},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2026},
  volume =	{363},
  editor =	{Guerrini, Stefano and K\"{o}nig, Barbara},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.CSL.2026.32},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-254573},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.CSL.2026.32},
  annote =	{Keywords: Bidding games, Discrete-bidding, Mean-payoff games, energy games}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.OPODIS.2024.4
AMECOS: A Modular Event-Based Framework for Concurrent Object Specification

Authors: Timothé Albouy, Antonio Fernández Anta, Chryssis Georgiou, Mathieu Gestin, Nicolas Nicolaou, and Junlang Wang

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 324, 28th International Conference on Principles of Distributed Systems (OPODIS 2024)

Abstract
In this work, we introduce a modular framework for specifying distributed systems that we call AMECOS. Specifically, our framework departs from the traditional use of sequential specification, which presents limitations both on the specification expressiveness and implementation efficiency of inherently concurrent objects, as documented by Castañeda, Rajsbaum and Raynal in CACM 2023. Our framework focuses on the interactions between the various system components, specified as concurrent objects. Interactions are described with sequences of object events. This provides a modular way of specifying distributed systems and separates legality (object semantics) from other issues, such as consistency. We demonstrate the usability of our framework by (i) specifying various well-known concurrent objects, such as registers, shared memory, message-passing, reliable broadcast, and consensus, (ii) providing hierarchies of ordering semantics (namely, consistency hierarchy, memory hierarchy, and reliable broadcast hierarchy), and (iii) presenting a novel axiomatic proof of the impossibility of the well-known Consensus problem.
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Timothé Albouy, Antonio Fernández Anta, Chryssis Georgiou, Mathieu Gestin, Nicolas Nicolaou, and Junlang Wang. AMECOS: A Modular Event-Based Framework for Concurrent Object Specification. In 28th International Conference on Principles of Distributed Systems (OPODIS 2024). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 324, pp. 4:1-4:29, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2024)

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@InProceedings{albouy_et_al:LIPIcs.OPODIS.2024.4,
  author =	{Albouy, Timoth\'{e} and Fern\'{a}ndez Anta, Antonio and Georgiou, Chryssis and Gestin, Mathieu and Nicolaou, Nicolas and Wang, Junlang},
  title =	{{AMECOS: A Modular Event-Based Framework for Concurrent Object Specification}},
  booktitle =	{28th International Conference on Principles of Distributed Systems (OPODIS 2024)},
  pages =	{4:1--4:29},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-360-7},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2025},
  volume =	{324},
  editor =	{Bonomi, Silvia and Galletta, Letterio and Rivi\`{e}re, Etienne and Schiavoni, Valerio},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.OPODIS.2024.4},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-225409},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.OPODIS.2024.4},
  annote =	{Keywords: Concurrency, Object specification, Consistency conditions, Consensus impossibility}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/LITES.8.2.3
Higher-Dimensional Timed and Hybrid Automata

Authors: Uli Fahrenberg

Published in: LITES, Volume 8, Issue 2 (2022): Special Issue on Distributed Hybrid Systems. Leibniz Transactions on Embedded Systems, Volume 8, Issue 2

Abstract
We introduce a new formalism of higher-dimensional timed automata, based on Pratt and van Glabbeek’s higher-dimensional automata and Alur and Dill’s timed automata. We prove that their reachability is PSPACE-complete and can be decided using zone-based algorithms. We also extend the setting to higher-dimensional hybrid automata.The interest of our formalism is in modeling systems which exhibit both real-time behavior and concurrency. Other existing formalisms for real-time modeling identify concurrency and interleaving, which, as we shall argue, is problematic.
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Uli Fahrenberg. Higher-Dimensional Timed and Hybrid Automata. In LITES, Volume 8, Issue 2 (2022): Special Issue on Distributed Hybrid Systems. Leibniz Transactions on Embedded Systems, Volume 8, Issue 2, pp. 03:1-03:16, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2022)

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@Article{fahrenberg:LITES.8.2.3,
  author =	{Fahrenberg, Uli},
  title =	{{Higher-Dimensional Timed and Hybrid Automata}},
  journal =	{Leibniz Transactions on Embedded Systems},
  pages =	{03:1--03:16},
  ISSN =	{2199-2002},
  year =	{2022},
  volume =	{8},
  number =	{2},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LITES.8.2.3},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-192951},
  doi =		{10.4230/LITES.8.2.3},
  annote =	{Keywords: timed automaton, higher-dimensional automaton, precubical set, real time, non-interleaving concurrency, hybrid automaton}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.CONCUR.2017.14
Coverability Synthesis in Parametric Petri Nets

Authors: Nicolas David, Claude Jard, Didier Lime, and Olivier H. Roux

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

Abstract
We study Parametric Petri Nets (PPNs), i.e., Petri nets for which some arc weights can be parameters. In that setting, we address a problem of parameter synthesis, which consists in computing the exact set of values for the parameters such that a given marking is coverable in the instantiated net. Since the emptiness of that solution set is already undecidable for general PPNs, we address a special case where parameters are used only as input weights (preT-PPNs), and consequently for which the solution set is downward-closed. To this end, we invoke a result for the representation of upward closed set from Valk and Jantzen. To use this procedure, we show we need to decide universal coverability, that is decide if some marking is coverable for every possible values of the parameters. We therefore provide a proof of its EXPSPACE-completeness, thus settling the previously open problem of its decidability. We also propose an adaptation of this reasoning to the case of parameters used only as output weights (postT-PPNs). In this case, the condition to use this procedure can be reduced to the decidability of the existential coverability, that is decide if there exists values of the parameters making a given marking coverable. This problem is known decidable but we provide here a cleaner proof, providing its EXPSPACE-completeness, by reduction to Omega Petri Nets.
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Nicolas David, Claude Jard, Didier Lime, and Olivier H. Roux. Coverability Synthesis in Parametric Petri Nets. In 28th International Conference on Concurrency Theory (CONCUR 2017). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 85, pp. 14:1-14:16, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2017)

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@InProceedings{david_et_al:LIPIcs.CONCUR.2017.14,
  author =	{David, Nicolas and Jard, Claude and Lime, Didier and Roux, Olivier H.},
  title =	{{Coverability Synthesis in Parametric Petri Nets}},
  booktitle =	{28th International Conference on Concurrency Theory (CONCUR 2017)},
  pages =	{14:1--14:16},
  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.2017.14},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-77831},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.CONCUR.2017.14},
  annote =	{Keywords: Petri net, Parameters, Coverability, Unboundedness, Synthesis}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/OASIcs.SynCoP.2015.103
Discrete Parameters in Petri Nets (Informal Presentation)

Authors: Nicolas David, Claude Jard, Didier Lime, and Olivier H. Roux

Published in: OASIcs, Volume 44, 2nd International Workshop on Synthesis of Complex Parameters (SynCoP'15) (2015)

Abstract
With the aim of significantly increasing the modeling capability of Petri nets, we suggest models that involve parameters to represent the weights of arcs, or the number of tokens in places. We call these Petri nets parameterised nets or PPNs. Indeed, the introduction of parameters in models aims to improve genericity. It therefore allows the designer to leave unspecified aspects, such as those related to the modeling of the environment. This increase in modeling power usually results in greater complexity in the analysis and verification of the model. Here, we consider the property of coverability of markings. Two general questions arise: "Is there a parameter value for which the property is satisfied?" and "Does the property hold for all possible values of the parameters?". We first study the decidability of these issues, which we show to be undecidable in the general case. Therefore, we also define subclasses of parameterised networks, based on restriction of the use of parameters, depending on whether the parameters are used on places, input or output arcs of transitions or combinations of them. Those subclasses have therefore a dual interest. From a modeling point of view, restrict the use of parameters to tokens, outputs or inputs can be seen as respectively processes or synchronisation of a given number of processes. From a theoretical point of view, it is interesting to introduce those subclasses of PPN in a concern of completeness of the study. We study the relations between those subclasses and prove that, for some subclasses, certain problems become decidable, making these subclasses more usable in practice.
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Nicolas David, Claude Jard, Didier Lime, and Olivier H. Roux. Discrete Parameters in Petri Nets (Informal Presentation). In 2nd International Workshop on Synthesis of Complex Parameters (SynCoP'15). Open Access Series in Informatics (OASIcs), Volume 44, p. 103, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2015)

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@InProceedings{david_et_al:OASIcs.SynCoP.2015.103,
  author =	{David, Nicolas and Jard, Claude and Lime, Didier and Roux, Olivier H.},
  title =	{{Discrete Parameters in Petri Nets}},
  booktitle =	{2nd International Workshop on Synthesis of Complex Parameters (SynCoP'15)},
  pages =	{103--103},
  series =	{Open Access Series in Informatics (OASIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-939897-82-8},
  ISSN =	{2190-6807},
  year =	{2015},
  volume =	{44},
  editor =	{Andr\'{e}, \'{E}tienne and Frehse, Goran},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/OASIcs.SynCoP.2015.103},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-56046},
  doi =		{10.4230/OASIcs.SynCoP.2015.103},
  annote =	{Keywords: Petri nets, Parameters, Coverability}
}
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