190 Search Results for "Raskin, Jean-François"

Volume

LIPIcs, Volume 279

34th International Conference on Concurrency Theory (CONCUR 2023)

CONCUR 2023, September 18-23, 2023, Antwerp, Belgium

Editors: Guillermo A. Pérez and Jean-François Raskin

Volume

LIPIcs, Volume 83

42nd International Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science (MFCS 2017)

MFCS 2017, August 21-25, 2017, Aalborg, Denmark

Editors: Kim G. Larsen, Hans L. Bodlaender, and Jean-Francois Raskin

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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.ECOOP.2024.12
Mutation-Based Lifted Repair of Software Product Lines

Authors: Aleksandar S. Dimovski

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 313, 38th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP 2024)

Abstract
This paper presents a novel lifted repair algorithm for program families (Software Product Lines - SPLs) based on code mutations. The inputs of our algorithm are an erroneous SPL and a specification given in the form of assertions. We use variability encoding to transform the given SPL into a single program, called family simulator, which is translated into a set of SMT formulas whose conjunction is satisfiable iff the simulator (i.e., the input SPL) violates an assertion. We use a predefined set of mutations applied to feature and program expressions of the given SPL. The algorithm repeatedly mutates the erroneous family simulator and checks if it becomes (bounded) correct. Since mutating an expression corresponds to mutating a formula in the set of SMT formulas encoding the family simulator, the search for a correct mutant is reduced to searching an unsatisfiable set of SMT formulas. To efficiently explore the huge state space of mutants, we call SAT and SMT solvers in an incremental way. The outputs of our algorithm are all minimal repairs in the form of minimal number of (feature and program) expression replacements such that the repaired SPL is (bounded) correct with respect to a given set of assertions. We have implemented our algorithm in a prototype tool and evaluated it on a set of #ifdef-based C programs (i.e., annotative SPLs). The experimental results show that our approach is able to successfully repair various interesting SPLs.
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Aleksandar S. Dimovski. Mutation-Based Lifted Repair of Software Product Lines. In 38th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP 2024). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 313, pp. 12:1-12:24, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2024)

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@InProceedings{dimovski:LIPIcs.ECOOP.2024.12,
  author =	{Dimovski, Aleksandar S.},
  title =	{{Mutation-Based Lifted Repair of Software Product Lines}},
  booktitle =	{38th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP 2024)},
  pages =	{12:1--12:24},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-341-6},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2024},
  volume =	{313},
  editor =	{Aldrich, Jonathan and Salvaneschi, Guido},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ECOOP.2024.12},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-208613},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ECOOP.2024.12},
  annote =	{Keywords: Program repair, Software Product Lines, Code mutations, Variability encoding}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.CONCUR.2024.5
MITL Model Checking via Generalized Timed Automata and a New Liveness Algorithm

Authors: S. Akshay, Paul Gastin, R. Govind, and B. Srivathsan

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 311, 35th International Conference on Concurrency Theory (CONCUR 2024)

Abstract
The translation of Metric Interval Temporal Logic (MITL) to timed automata is a topic that has been extensively studied. A key challenge here is the conversion of future modalities into equivalent automata. Typical conversions equip the automata with a guess-and-check mechanism to ascertain the truth of future modalities. Guess-and-check can be naturally implemented via alternation. However, since timed automata tools do not handle alternation, existing methods perform an additional step of converting the alternating timed automata into timed automata. This "de-alternation" step proceeds by an intricate finite abstraction of the space of configurations of the alternating automaton. Recently, a model of generalized timed automata (GTA) has been proposed. The model comes with several powerful additional features, and yet, the best known zone-based reachability algorithms for timed automata have been extended to the GTA model, with the same complexity for all the zone operations. An attractive feature of GTAs is the presence of future clocks which act like timers that guess a time to an event and stay alive until a timeout. Future clocks seem to provide another natural way to implement the guess-and-check: start the future clock with a guessed time to an event and check its occurrence using a timeout. Indeed, using this feature, we provide a new concise translation from MITL to GTA. In particular, for the timed until modality, our translation offers an exponential improvement w.r.t. the state-of-the-art. Thanks to this conversion, MITL model checking reduces to checking liveness for GTAs. However, no liveness algorithm is known for GTAs. Due to the presence of future clocks, there is no finite time-abstract bisimulation (region equivalence) for GTAs, whereas liveness algorithms for timed automata crucially rely on the presence of the finite region equivalence. As our second contribution, we provide a new zone-based algorithm for checking Büchi non-emptiness in GTAs, which circumvents this fundamental challenge.
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S. Akshay, Paul Gastin, R. Govind, and B. Srivathsan. MITL Model Checking via Generalized Timed Automata and a New Liveness Algorithm. In 35th International Conference on Concurrency Theory (CONCUR 2024). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 311, pp. 5:1-5:19, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2024)

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@InProceedings{akshay_et_al:LIPIcs.CONCUR.2024.5,
  author =	{Akshay, S. and Gastin, Paul and Govind, R. and Srivathsan, B.},
  title =	{{MITL Model Checking via Generalized Timed Automata and a New Liveness Algorithm}},
  booktitle =	{35th International Conference on Concurrency Theory (CONCUR 2024)},
  pages =	{5:1--5:19},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-339-3},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2024},
  volume =	{311},
  editor =	{Majumdar, Rupak and Silva, Alexandra},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.CONCUR.2024.5},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-207774},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.CONCUR.2024.5},
  annote =	{Keywords: MITL model checking, timed automata, zones, liveness}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.CONCUR.2024.9
Risk-Averse Optimization of Total Rewards in Markovian Models Using Deviation Measures

Authors: Christel Baier, Jakob Piribauer, and Maximilian Starke

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 311, 35th International Conference on Concurrency Theory (CONCUR 2024)

Abstract
This paper addresses objectives tailored to the risk-averse optimization of accumulated rewards in Markov decision processes (MDPs). The studied objectives require maximizing the expected value of the accumulated rewards minus a penalty factor times a deviation measure of the resulting distribution of rewards. Using the variance in this penalty mechanism leads to the variance-penalized expectation (VPE) for which it is known that optimal schedulers have to minimize future expected rewards when a high amount of rewards has been accumulated. This behavior is undesirable as risk-averse behavior should keep the probability of particularly low outcomes low, but not discourage the accumulation of additional rewards on already good executions. The paper investigates the semi-variance, which only takes outcomes below the expected value into account, the mean absolute deviation (MAD), and the semi-MAD as alternative deviation measures. Furthermore, a penalty mechanism that penalizes outcomes below a fixed threshold is studied. For all of these objectives, the properties of optimal schedulers are specified and in particular the question whether these objectives overcome the problem observed for the VPE is answered. Further, the resulting algorithmic problems on MDPs and Markov chains are investigated.
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Christel Baier, Jakob Piribauer, and Maximilian Starke. Risk-Averse Optimization of Total Rewards in Markovian Models Using Deviation Measures. In 35th International Conference on Concurrency Theory (CONCUR 2024). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 311, pp. 9:1-9:20, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2024)

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@InProceedings{baier_et_al:LIPIcs.CONCUR.2024.9,
  author =	{Baier, Christel and Piribauer, Jakob and Starke, Maximilian},
  title =	{{Risk-Averse Optimization of Total Rewards in Markovian Models Using Deviation Measures}},
  booktitle =	{35th International Conference on Concurrency Theory (CONCUR 2024)},
  pages =	{9:1--9:20},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-339-3},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2024},
  volume =	{311},
  editor =	{Majumdar, Rupak and Silva, Alexandra},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.CONCUR.2024.9},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-207816},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.CONCUR.2024.9},
  annote =	{Keywords: Markov decision processes, risk-aversion, deviation measures, total reward}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.CONCUR.2024.10
Passive Learning of Regular Data Languages in Polynomial Time and Data

Authors: Mrudula Balachander, Emmanuel Filiot, and Raffaella Gentilini

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 311, 35th International Conference on Concurrency Theory (CONCUR 2024)

Abstract
A regular data language is a language over an infinite alphabet recognized by a deterministic register automaton (DRA), as defined by Benedikt, Ley and Puppis. The later model, which is expressively equivalent to the deterministic finite-memory automata introduced earlier by Francez and Kaminsky, enjoys unique minimal automata (up to isomorphism), based on a Myhill-Nerode theorem. In this paper, we introduce a polynomial time passive learning algorithm for regular data languages from positive and negative samples. Following Gold’s model for learning languages, we prove that our algorithm can identify in the limit any regular data language L, i.e. it returns a minimal DRA recognizing L if a characteristic sample set for L is provided as input. We prove that there exist characteristic sample sets of polynomial size with respect to the size of the minimal DRA recognizing L. To the best of our knowledge, it is the first passive learning algorithm for data languages, and the first learning algorithm which is fully polynomial, both with respect to time complexity and size of the characteristic sample set.
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Mrudula Balachander, Emmanuel Filiot, and Raffaella Gentilini. Passive Learning of Regular Data Languages in Polynomial Time and Data. In 35th International Conference on Concurrency Theory (CONCUR 2024). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 311, pp. 10:1-10:21, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2024)

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@InProceedings{balachander_et_al:LIPIcs.CONCUR.2024.10,
  author =	{Balachander, Mrudula and Filiot, Emmanuel and Gentilini, Raffaella},
  title =	{{Passive Learning of Regular Data Languages in Polynomial Time and Data}},
  booktitle =	{35th International Conference on Concurrency Theory (CONCUR 2024)},
  pages =	{10:1--10:21},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-339-3},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2024},
  volume =	{311},
  editor =	{Majumdar, Rupak and Silva, Alexandra},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.CONCUR.2024.10},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-207829},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.CONCUR.2024.10},
  annote =	{Keywords: Register automata, passive learning, automata over infinite alphabets}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.CONCUR.2024.14
As Soon as Possible but Rationally

Authors: Véronique Bruyère, Christophe Grandmont, and Jean-François Raskin

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 311, 35th International Conference on Concurrency Theory (CONCUR 2024)

Abstract
This paper addresses complexity problems in rational verification and synthesis for multi-player games played on weighted graphs, where the objective of each player is to minimize the cost of reaching a specific set of target vertices. In these games, one player, referred to as the system, declares his strategy upfront. The other players, composing the environment, then rationally make their moves according to their objectives. The rational behavior of these responding players is captured through two models: they opt for strategies that either represent a Nash equilibrium or lead to a play with a Pareto-optimal cost tuple.
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Véronique Bruyère, Christophe Grandmont, and Jean-François Raskin. As Soon as Possible but Rationally. In 35th International Conference on Concurrency Theory (CONCUR 2024). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 311, pp. 14:1-14:20, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2024)

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@InProceedings{bruyere_et_al:LIPIcs.CONCUR.2024.14,
  author =	{Bruy\`{e}re, V\'{e}ronique and Grandmont, Christophe and Raskin, Jean-Fran\c{c}ois},
  title =	{{As Soon as Possible but Rationally}},
  booktitle =	{35th International Conference on Concurrency Theory (CONCUR 2024)},
  pages =	{14:1--14:20},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-339-3},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2024},
  volume =	{311},
  editor =	{Majumdar, Rupak and Silva, Alexandra},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.CONCUR.2024.14},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-207869},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.CONCUR.2024.14},
  annote =	{Keywords: Games played on graphs, rational verification, rational synthesis, Nash equilibrium, Pareto-optimality, quantitative reachability objectives}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.CONCUR.2024.16
Effect Semantics for Quantum Process Calculi

Authors: Lorenzo Ceragioli, Fabio Gadducci, Giuseppe Lomurno, and Gabriele Tedeschi

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 311, 35th International Conference on Concurrency Theory (CONCUR 2024)

Abstract
The development of quantum communication protocols sparked the interest in quantum extensions of process calculi and behavioural equivalences, but defining a bisimilarity that matches the observational properties of a quantum-capable system is a surprisingly difficult task. The two proposals explicitly addressing this issue, qCCS and lqCCS, do not define an algorithmic verification scheme: the bisimilarity of two processes is proven by comparing their behaviour under all input states. We introduce a new semantic model based on effects, i.e. probabilistic predicates on quantum states that represent their observable properties. We define and investigate the properties of effect distributions and effect labelled transition systems (eLTSs), generalizing probability distributions and probabilistic labelled transition systems (pLTSs), respectively. As a proof of concept, we provide an eLTS-based semantics for a minimal quantum process algebra, which we prove sound and complete with respect to the observable probabilistic behaviour of quantum processes. To the best of our knowledge, ours is the first algorithmically verifiable proposal that abides to the properties of quantum theory.
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Lorenzo Ceragioli, Fabio Gadducci, Giuseppe Lomurno, and Gabriele Tedeschi. Effect Semantics for Quantum Process Calculi. In 35th International Conference on Concurrency Theory (CONCUR 2024). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 311, pp. 16:1-16:22, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2024)

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@InProceedings{ceragioli_et_al:LIPIcs.CONCUR.2024.16,
  author =	{Ceragioli, Lorenzo and Gadducci, Fabio and Lomurno, Giuseppe and Tedeschi, Gabriele},
  title =	{{Effect Semantics for Quantum Process Calculi}},
  booktitle =	{35th International Conference on Concurrency Theory (CONCUR 2024)},
  pages =	{16:1--16:22},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-339-3},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2024},
  volume =	{311},
  editor =	{Majumdar, Rupak and Silva, Alexandra},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.CONCUR.2024.16},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-207886},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.CONCUR.2024.16},
  annote =	{Keywords: Quantum process calculi, probabilistic LTSs, effect LTSs}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.CONCUR.2024.17
Invariants for One-Counter Automata with Disequality Tests

Authors: Dmitry Chistikov, Jérôme Leroux, Henry Sinclair-Banks, and Nicolas Waldburger

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 311, 35th International Conference on Concurrency Theory (CONCUR 2024)

Abstract
We study the reachability problem for one-counter automata in which transitions can carry disequality tests. A disequality test is a guard that prohibits a specified counter value. This reachability problem has been known to be NP-hard and in PSPACE, and characterising its computational complexity has been left as a challenging open question by Almagor, Cohen, Pérez, Shirmohammadi, and Worrell (2020). We reduce the complexity gap, placing the problem into the second level of the polynomial hierarchy, namely into the class coNP^NP. In the presence of both equality and disequality tests, our upper bound is at the third level, P^NP^NP. To prove this result, we show that non-reachability can be witnessed by a pair of invariants (forward and backward). These invariants are almost inductive. They aim to over-approximate only a "core" of the reachability set instead of the entire set. The invariants are also leaky: it is possible to escape the set. We complement this with separate checks as the leaks can only occur in a controlled way.
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Dmitry Chistikov, Jérôme Leroux, Henry Sinclair-Banks, and Nicolas Waldburger. Invariants for One-Counter Automata with Disequality Tests. In 35th International Conference on Concurrency Theory (CONCUR 2024). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 311, pp. 17:1-17:21, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2024)

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@InProceedings{chistikov_et_al:LIPIcs.CONCUR.2024.17,
  author =	{Chistikov, Dmitry and Leroux, J\'{e}r\^{o}me and Sinclair-Banks, Henry and Waldburger, Nicolas},
  title =	{{Invariants for One-Counter Automata with Disequality Tests}},
  booktitle =	{35th International Conference on Concurrency Theory (CONCUR 2024)},
  pages =	{17:1--17:21},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-339-3},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2024},
  volume =	{311},
  editor =	{Majumdar, Rupak and Silva, Alexandra},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.CONCUR.2024.17},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-207898},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.CONCUR.2024.17},
  annote =	{Keywords: Inductive invariant, Vector addition system, One-counter automaton}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.CONCUR.2024.23
Regular Games with Imperfect Information Are Not That Regular

Authors: Laurent Doyen and Thomas Soullard

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 311, 35th International Conference on Concurrency Theory (CONCUR 2024)

Abstract
We consider two-player games with imperfect information and the synthesis of a randomized strategy for one player that ensures the objective is satisfied almost-surely (i.e., with probability 1), regardless of the strategy of the other player. Imperfect information is modeled by an indistinguishability relation describing the pairs of histories that the first player cannot distinguish, a generalization of the traditional model with partial observations. The game is regular if it admits a regular function whose kernel commutes with the indistinguishability relation. The synthesis of pure strategies that ensure all possible outcomes satisfy the objective is possible in regular games, by a generic reduction that holds for all objectives. While the solution for pure strategies extends to randomized strategies in the traditional model with partial observations (which is always regular), a similar reduction does not exist in the more general model. Despite that, we show that in regular games with Büchi objectives the synthesis problem is decidable for randomized strategies that ensure the outcome satisfies the objective almost-surely.
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Laurent Doyen and Thomas Soullard. Regular Games with Imperfect Information Are Not That Regular. In 35th International Conference on Concurrency Theory (CONCUR 2024). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 311, pp. 23:1-23:19, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2024)

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@InProceedings{doyen_et_al:LIPIcs.CONCUR.2024.23,
  author =	{Doyen, Laurent and Soullard, Thomas},
  title =	{{Regular Games with Imperfect Information Are Not That Regular}},
  booktitle =	{35th International Conference on Concurrency Theory (CONCUR 2024)},
  pages =	{23:1--23:19},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-339-3},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2024},
  volume =	{311},
  editor =	{Majumdar, Rupak and Silva, Alexandra},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.CONCUR.2024.23},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-207953},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.CONCUR.2024.23},
  annote =	{Keywords: Imperfect-information games, randomized strategies, synthesis}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.CONCUR.2024.27
Inaproximability in Weighted Timed Games

Authors: Quentin Guilmant and Joël Ouaknine

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 311, 35th International Conference on Concurrency Theory (CONCUR 2024)

Abstract
We consider two-player, turn-based weighted timed games played on timed automata equipped with (positive and negative) integer weights, in which one player seeks to reach a goal location whilst minimising the cumulative weight of the underlying path. Although the value problem for such games (is the value of the game below a given threshold?) is known to be undecidable, the question of whether one can approximate this value has remained a longstanding open problem. In this paper, we resolve this question by showing that approximating arbitrarily closely the value of a given weighted timed game is computationally unsolvable.
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Quentin Guilmant and Joël Ouaknine. Inaproximability in Weighted Timed Games. In 35th International Conference on Concurrency Theory (CONCUR 2024). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 311, pp. 27:1-27:15, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2024)

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@InProceedings{guilmant_et_al:LIPIcs.CONCUR.2024.27,
  author =	{Guilmant, Quentin and Ouaknine, Jo\"{e}l},
  title =	{{Inaproximability in Weighted Timed Games}},
  booktitle =	{35th International Conference on Concurrency Theory (CONCUR 2024)},
  pages =	{27:1--27:15},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-339-3},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2024},
  volume =	{311},
  editor =	{Majumdar, Rupak and Silva, Alexandra},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.CONCUR.2024.27},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-207998},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.CONCUR.2024.27},
  annote =	{Keywords: Weighted timed games, approximation, undecidability}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.CONCUR.2024.28
Faster and Smaller Solutions of Obliging Games

Authors: Daniel Hausmann and Nir Piterman

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 311, 35th International Conference on Concurrency Theory (CONCUR 2024)

Abstract
Obliging games have been introduced in the context of the game perspective on reactive synthesis in order to enforce a degree of cooperation between the to-be-synthesized system and the environment. Previous approaches to the analysis of obliging games have been small-step in the sense that they have been based on a reduction to standard (non-obliging) games in which single moves correspond to single moves in the original (obliging) game. Here, we propose a novel, large-step view on obliging games, reducing them to standard games in which single moves encode long-term behaviors in the original game. This not only allows us to give a meaningful definition of the environment winning in obliging games, but also leads to significantly improved bounds on both strategy sizes and the solution runtime for obliging games.
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Daniel Hausmann and Nir Piterman. Faster and Smaller Solutions of Obliging Games. In 35th International Conference on Concurrency Theory (CONCUR 2024). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 311, pp. 28:1-28:19, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2024)

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@InProceedings{hausmann_et_al:LIPIcs.CONCUR.2024.28,
  author =	{Hausmann, Daniel and Piterman, Nir},
  title =	{{Faster and Smaller Solutions of Obliging Games}},
  booktitle =	{35th International Conference on Concurrency Theory (CONCUR 2024)},
  pages =	{28:1--28:19},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-339-3},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2024},
  volume =	{311},
  editor =	{Majumdar, Rupak and Silva, Alexandra},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.CONCUR.2024.28},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-208008},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.CONCUR.2024.28},
  annote =	{Keywords: Two-player games, reactive synthesis, Emerson-Lei games, parity games}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.CONCUR.2024.29
Strategic Dominance: A New Preorder for Nondeterministic Processes

Authors: Thomas A. Henzinger, Nicolas Mazzocchi, and N. Ege Saraç

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 311, 35th International Conference on Concurrency Theory (CONCUR 2024)

Abstract
We study the following refinement relation between nondeterministic state-transition models: model ℬ strategically dominates model 𝒜 iff every deterministic refinement of 𝒜 is language contained in some deterministic refinement of ℬ. While language containment is trace inclusion, and the (fair) simulation preorder coincides with tree inclusion, strategic dominance falls strictly between the two and can be characterized as "strategy inclusion" between 𝒜 and ℬ: every strategy that resolves the nondeterminism of 𝒜 is dominated by a strategy that resolves the nondeterminism of ℬ. Strategic dominance can be checked in 2-ExpTime by a decidable first-order Presburger logic with quantification over words and strategies, called resolver logic. We give several other applications of resolver logic, including checking the co-safety, co-liveness, and history-determinism of boolean and quantitative automata, and checking the inclusion between hyperproperties that are specified by nondeterministic boolean and quantitative automata.
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Thomas A. Henzinger, Nicolas Mazzocchi, and N. Ege Saraç. Strategic Dominance: A New Preorder for Nondeterministic Processes. In 35th International Conference on Concurrency Theory (CONCUR 2024). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 311, pp. 29:1-29:20, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2024)

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@InProceedings{henzinger_et_al:LIPIcs.CONCUR.2024.29,
  author =	{Henzinger, Thomas A. and Mazzocchi, Nicolas and Sara\c{c}, N. Ege},
  title =	{{Strategic Dominance: A New Preorder for Nondeterministic Processes}},
  booktitle =	{35th International Conference on Concurrency Theory (CONCUR 2024)},
  pages =	{29:1--29:20},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-339-3},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2024},
  volume =	{311},
  editor =	{Majumdar, Rupak and Silva, Alexandra},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.CONCUR.2024.29},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-208011},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.CONCUR.2024.29},
  annote =	{Keywords: quantitative automata, refinement relation, resolver, strategy, history-determinism}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.CONCUR.2024.32
Minimising the Probabilistic Bisimilarity Distance

Authors: Stefan Kiefer and Qiyi Tang

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 311, 35th International Conference on Concurrency Theory (CONCUR 2024)

Abstract
A labelled Markov decision process (MDP) is a labelled Markov chain with nondeterminism; i.e., together with a strategy a labelled MDP induces a labelled Markov chain. The model is related to interval Markov chains. Motivated by applications to the verification of probabilistic noninterference in security, we study problems of minimising probabilistic bisimilarity distances of labelled MDPs, in particular, whether there exist strategies such that the probabilistic bisimilarity distance between the induced labelled Markov chains is less than a given rational number, both for memoryless strategies and general strategies. We show that the distance minimisation problem is ∃ℝ-complete for memoryless strategies and undecidable for general strategies. We also study the computational complexity of the qualitative problem about making the distance less than one. This problem is known to be NP-complete for memoryless strategies. We show that it is EXPTIME-complete for general strategies.
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Stefan Kiefer and Qiyi Tang. Minimising the Probabilistic Bisimilarity Distance. In 35th International Conference on Concurrency Theory (CONCUR 2024). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 311, pp. 32:1-32:18, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2024)

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@InProceedings{kiefer_et_al:LIPIcs.CONCUR.2024.32,
  author =	{Kiefer, Stefan and Tang, Qiyi},
  title =	{{Minimising the Probabilistic Bisimilarity Distance}},
  booktitle =	{35th International Conference on Concurrency Theory (CONCUR 2024)},
  pages =	{32:1--32:18},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-339-3},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2024},
  volume =	{311},
  editor =	{Majumdar, Rupak and Silva, Alexandra},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.CONCUR.2024.32},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-208049},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.CONCUR.2024.32},
  annote =	{Keywords: Markov decision processes, Markov chains}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.CONCUR.2024.40
A PSPACE Algorithm for Almost-Sure Rabin Objectives in Multi-Environment MDPs

Authors: Marnix Suilen, Marck van der Vegt, and Sebastian Junges

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 311, 35th International Conference on Concurrency Theory (CONCUR 2024)

Abstract
Markov Decision Processes (MDPs) model systems with uncertain transition dynamics. Multiple-environment MDPs (MEMDPs) extend MDPs. They intuitively reflect finite sets of MDPs that share the same state and action spaces but differ in the transition dynamics. The key objective in MEMDPs is to find a single strategy that satisfies a given objective in every associated MDP. The main result of this paper is PSPACE-completeness for almost-sure Rabin objectives in MEMDPs. This result clarifies the complexity landscape for MEMDPs and contrasts with results for the more general class of partially observable MDPs (POMDPs), where almost-sure reachability is already EXP-complete, and almost-sure Rabin objectives are undecidable.
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Marnix Suilen, Marck van der Vegt, and Sebastian Junges. A PSPACE Algorithm for Almost-Sure Rabin Objectives in Multi-Environment MDPs. In 35th International Conference on Concurrency Theory (CONCUR 2024). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 311, pp. 40:1-40:17, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2024)

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@InProceedings{suilen_et_al:LIPIcs.CONCUR.2024.40,
  author =	{Suilen, Marnix and van der Vegt, Marck and Junges, Sebastian},
  title =	{{A PSPACE Algorithm for Almost-Sure Rabin Objectives in Multi-Environment MDPs}},
  booktitle =	{35th International Conference on Concurrency Theory (CONCUR 2024)},
  pages =	{40:1--40:17},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-339-3},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2024},
  volume =	{311},
  editor =	{Majumdar, Rupak and Silva, Alexandra},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.CONCUR.2024.40},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-208120},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.CONCUR.2024.40},
  annote =	{Keywords: Markov Decision Processes, partial observability, linear-time Objectives}
}
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