--- _id: '12767' abstract: - lang: eng text: "Several problems in planning and reactive synthesis can be reduced to the analysis of two-player quantitative graph games. Optimization is one form of analysis. We argue that in many cases it may be better to replace the optimization problem with the satisficing problem, where instead of searching for optimal solutions, the goal is to search for solutions that adhere to a given threshold bound.\r\nThis work defines and investigates the satisficing problem on a two-player graph game with the discounted-sum cost model. We show that while the satisficing problem can be solved using numerical methods just like the optimization problem, this approach does not render compelling benefits over optimization. When the discount factor is, however, an integer, we present another approach to satisficing, which is purely based on automata methods. We show that this approach is algorithmically more performant – both theoretically and empirically – and demonstrates the broader applicability of satisficing over optimization." acknowledgement: We thank anonymous reviewers for valuable inputs. This work is supported in part by NSF grant 2030859 to the CRA for the CIFellows Project, NSF grants IIS-1527668, CCF-1704883, IIS-1830549, the ERC CoG 863818 (ForM-SMArt), and an award from the Maryland Procurement Office. alternative_title: - LNCS article_processing_charge: No author: - first_name: Suguman full_name: Bansal, Suguman last_name: Bansal - first_name: Krishnendu full_name: Chatterjee, Krishnendu id: 2E5DCA20-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Chatterjee orcid: 0000-0002-4561-241X - first_name: Moshe Y. full_name: Vardi, Moshe Y. last_name: Vardi citation: ama: 'Bansal S, Chatterjee K, Vardi MY. On satisficing in quantitative games. In: 27th International Conference on Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems. Vol 12651. Springer Nature; 2021:20-37. doi:10.1007/978-3-030-72016-2' apa: 'Bansal, S., Chatterjee, K., & Vardi, M. Y. (2021). On satisficing in quantitative games. In 27th International Conference on Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems (Vol. 12651, pp. 20–37). Luxembourg City, Luxembourg: Springer Nature. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-72016-2' chicago: Bansal, Suguman, Krishnendu Chatterjee, and Moshe Y. Vardi. “On Satisficing in Quantitative Games.” In 27th International Conference on Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems, 12651:20–37. Springer Nature, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-72016-2. ieee: S. Bansal, K. Chatterjee, and M. Y. Vardi, “On satisficing in quantitative games,” in 27th International Conference on Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems, Luxembourg City, Luxembourg, 2021, vol. 12651, pp. 20–37. ista: 'Bansal S, Chatterjee K, Vardi MY. 2021. On satisficing in quantitative games. 27th International Conference on Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems. TACAS: Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems, LNCS, vol. 12651, 20–37.' mla: Bansal, Suguman, et al. “On Satisficing in Quantitative Games.” 27th International Conference on Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems, vol. 12651, Springer Nature, 2021, pp. 20–37, doi:10.1007/978-3-030-72016-2. short: S. Bansal, K. Chatterjee, M.Y. Vardi, in:, 27th International Conference on Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems, Springer Nature, 2021, pp. 20–37. conference: end_date: 2021-04-01 location: Luxembourg City, Luxembourg name: 'TACAS: Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems' start_date: 2021-03-27 date_created: 2023-03-26T22:01:09Z date_published: 2021-03-21T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2023-03-28T11:03:11Z day: '21' ddc: - '000' department: - _id: KrCh doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-72016-2 ec_funded: 1 external_id: arxiv: - '2101.02594' file: - access_level: open_access checksum: b020b78b23587ce7610b1aafb4e63438 content_type: application/pdf creator: dernst date_created: 2023-03-28T11:00:33Z date_updated: 2023-03-28T11:00:33Z file_id: '12777' file_name: 2021_LNCS_Bansal.pdf file_size: 747418 relation: main_file success: 1 file_date_updated: 2023-03-28T11:00:33Z has_accepted_license: '1' intvolume: ' 12651' language: - iso: eng month: '03' oa: 1 oa_version: Published Version page: 20-37 project: - _id: 0599E47C-7A3F-11EA-A408-12923DDC885E call_identifier: H2020 grant_number: '863818' name: 'Formal Methods for Stochastic Models: Algorithms and Applications' publication: 27th International Conference on Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems publication_identifier: eissn: - 1611-3349 isbn: - '9783030720155' issn: - 0302-9743 publication_status: published publisher: Springer Nature quality_controlled: '1' scopus_import: '1' status: public title: On satisficing in quantitative games tmp: image: /images/cc_by.png legal_code_url: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode name: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC-BY 4.0) short: CC BY (4.0) type: conference user_id: 2DF688A6-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 volume: 12651 year: '2021' ... --- _id: '10667' abstract: - lang: eng text: Bayesian neural networks (BNNs) place distributions over the weights of a neural network to model uncertainty in the data and the network's prediction. We consider the problem of verifying safety when running a Bayesian neural network policy in a feedback loop with infinite time horizon systems. Compared to the existing sampling-based approaches, which are inapplicable to the infinite time horizon setting, we train a separate deterministic neural network that serves as an infinite time horizon safety certificate. In particular, we show that the certificate network guarantees the safety of the system over a subset of the BNN weight posterior's support. Our method first computes a safe weight set and then alters the BNN's weight posterior to reject samples outside this set. Moreover, we show how to extend our approach to a safe-exploration reinforcement learning setting, in order to avoid unsafe trajectories during the training of the policy. We evaluate our approach on a series of reinforcement learning benchmarks, including non-Lyapunovian safety specifications. acknowledgement: This research was supported in part by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) under grant Z211-N23 (Wittgenstein Award), ERC CoG 863818 (FoRM-SMArt), and the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Grant Agreement No. 665385. alternative_title: - ' Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems' article_processing_charge: No author: - first_name: Mathias full_name: Lechner, Mathias id: 3DC22916-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Lechner - first_name: Ðorđe full_name: Žikelić, Ðorđe last_name: Žikelić - first_name: Krishnendu full_name: Chatterjee, Krishnendu id: 2E5DCA20-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Chatterjee orcid: 0000-0002-4561-241X - first_name: Thomas A full_name: Henzinger, Thomas A id: 40876CD8-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Henzinger orcid: 0000-0002-2985-7724 citation: ama: 'Lechner M, Žikelić Ð, Chatterjee K, Henzinger TA. Infinite time horizon safety of Bayesian neural networks. In: 35th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems. ; 2021. doi:10.48550/arXiv.2111.03165' apa: Lechner, M., Žikelić, Ð., Chatterjee, K., & Henzinger, T. A. (2021). Infinite time horizon safety of Bayesian neural networks. In 35th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems. Virtual. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2111.03165 chicago: Lechner, Mathias, Ðorđe Žikelić, Krishnendu Chatterjee, and Thomas A Henzinger. “Infinite Time Horizon Safety of Bayesian Neural Networks.” In 35th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, 2021. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2111.03165. ieee: M. Lechner, Ð. Žikelić, K. Chatterjee, and T. A. Henzinger, “Infinite time horizon safety of Bayesian neural networks,” in 35th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, Virtual, 2021. ista: 'Lechner M, Žikelić Ð, Chatterjee K, Henzinger TA. 2021. Infinite time horizon safety of Bayesian neural networks. 35th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems. NeurIPS: Neural Information Processing Systems, Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, .' mla: Lechner, Mathias, et al. “Infinite Time Horizon Safety of Bayesian Neural Networks.” 35th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, 2021, doi:10.48550/arXiv.2111.03165. short: M. Lechner, Ð. Žikelić, K. Chatterjee, T.A. Henzinger, in:, 35th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, 2021. conference: end_date: 2021-12-10 location: Virtual name: 'NeurIPS: Neural Information Processing Systems' start_date: 2021-12-06 date_created: 2022-01-25T15:45:58Z date_published: 2021-12-01T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2023-06-23T07:01:11Z day: '01' ddc: - '000' department: - _id: GradSch - _id: ToHe - _id: KrCh doi: 10.48550/arXiv.2111.03165 ec_funded: 1 external_id: arxiv: - '2111.03165' file: - access_level: open_access checksum: 0fc0f852525c10dda9cc9ffea07fb4e4 content_type: application/pdf creator: mlechner date_created: 2022-01-26T07:39:59Z date_updated: 2022-01-26T07:39:59Z file_id: '10682' file_name: infinite_time_horizon_safety_o.pdf file_size: 452492 relation: main_file success: 1 file_date_updated: 2022-01-26T07:39:59Z has_accepted_license: '1' language: - iso: eng license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ main_file_link: - open_access: '1' url: https://proceedings.neurips.cc/paper/2021/hash/544defa9fddff50c53b71c43e0da72be-Abstract.html month: '12' oa: 1 oa_version: Published Version project: - _id: 2564DBCA-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 call_identifier: H2020 grant_number: '665385' name: International IST Doctoral Program - _id: 0599E47C-7A3F-11EA-A408-12923DDC885E call_identifier: H2020 grant_number: '863818' name: 'Formal Methods for Stochastic Models: Algorithms and Applications' - _id: 25F42A32-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 call_identifier: FWF grant_number: Z211 name: The Wittgenstein Prize publication: 35th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems publication_status: published quality_controlled: '1' related_material: record: - id: '11362' relation: dissertation_contains status: public status: public title: Infinite time horizon safety of Bayesian neural networks tmp: image: /images/cc_by_nc_nd.png legal_code_url: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/legalcode name: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0) short: CC BY-NC-ND (3.0) type: conference user_id: 2EBD1598-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 year: '2021' ... --- _id: '8793' abstract: - lang: eng text: We study optimal election sequences for repeatedly selecting a (very) small group of leaders among a set of participants (players) with publicly known unique ids. In every time slot, every player has to select exactly one player that it considers to be the current leader, oblivious to the selection of the other players, but with the overarching goal of maximizing a given parameterized global (“social”) payoff function in the limit. We consider a quite generic model, where the local payoff achieved by a given player depends, weighted by some arbitrary but fixed real parameter, on the number of different leaders chosen in a round, the number of players that choose the given player as the leader, and whether the chosen leader has changed w.r.t. the previous round or not. The social payoff can be the maximum, average or minimum local payoff of the players. Possible applications include quite diverse examples such as rotating coordinator-based distributed algorithms and long-haul formation flying of social birds. Depending on the weights and the particular social payoff, optimal sequences can be very different, from simple round-robin where all players chose the same leader alternatingly every time slot to very exotic patterns, where a small group of leaders (at most 2) is elected in every time slot. Moreover, we study the question if and when a single player would not benefit w.r.t. its local payoff when deviating from the given optimal sequence, i.e., when our optimal sequences are Nash equilibria in the restricted strategy space of oblivious strategies. As this is the case for many parameterizations of our model, our results reveal that no punishment is needed to make it rational for the players to optimize the social payoff. acknowledgement: "We are grateful to Matthias Függer and Thomas Nowak for having raised our interest in the problem studied in this paper.\r\nThis work has been supported the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) projects S11405, S11407 (RiSE), and P28182 (ADynNet)." article_processing_charge: No article_type: original author: - first_name: Martin full_name: Zeiner, Martin last_name: Zeiner - first_name: Ulrich full_name: Schmid, Ulrich last_name: Schmid - first_name: Krishnendu full_name: Chatterjee, Krishnendu id: 2E5DCA20-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Chatterjee orcid: 0000-0002-4561-241X citation: ama: Zeiner M, Schmid U, Chatterjee K. Optimal strategies for selecting coordinators. Discrete Applied Mathematics. 2021;289(1):392-415. doi:10.1016/j.dam.2020.10.022 apa: Zeiner, M., Schmid, U., & Chatterjee, K. (2021). Optimal strategies for selecting coordinators. Discrete Applied Mathematics. Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dam.2020.10.022 chicago: Zeiner, Martin, Ulrich Schmid, and Krishnendu Chatterjee. “Optimal Strategies for Selecting Coordinators.” Discrete Applied Mathematics. Elsevier, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dam.2020.10.022. ieee: M. Zeiner, U. Schmid, and K. Chatterjee, “Optimal strategies for selecting coordinators,” Discrete Applied Mathematics, vol. 289, no. 1. Elsevier, pp. 392–415, 2021. ista: Zeiner M, Schmid U, Chatterjee K. 2021. Optimal strategies for selecting coordinators. Discrete Applied Mathematics. 289(1), 392–415. mla: Zeiner, Martin, et al. “Optimal Strategies for Selecting Coordinators.” Discrete Applied Mathematics, vol. 289, no. 1, Elsevier, 2021, pp. 392–415, doi:10.1016/j.dam.2020.10.022. short: M. Zeiner, U. Schmid, K. Chatterjee, Discrete Applied Mathematics 289 (2021) 392–415. date_created: 2020-11-22T23:01:26Z date_published: 2021-01-31T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2023-08-04T11:12:41Z day: '31' ddc: - '510' department: - _id: KrCh doi: 10.1016/j.dam.2020.10.022 external_id: isi: - '000596823800035' file: - access_level: open_access checksum: f1039ff5a2d6ca116720efdb84ee9d5e content_type: application/pdf creator: dernst date_created: 2021-02-04T11:28:42Z date_updated: 2021-02-04T11:28:42Z file_id: '9089' file_name: 2021_DiscreteApplMath_Zeiner.pdf file_size: 652739 relation: main_file success: 1 file_date_updated: 2021-02-04T11:28:42Z has_accepted_license: '1' intvolume: ' 289' isi: 1 issue: '1' language: - iso: eng month: '01' oa: 1 oa_version: Published Version page: 392-415 project: - _id: 25F2ACDE-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 call_identifier: FWF grant_number: S11402-N23 name: Rigorous Systems Engineering - _id: 25863FF4-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 call_identifier: FWF grant_number: S11407 name: Game Theory publication: Discrete Applied Mathematics publication_identifier: issn: - 0166218X publication_status: published publisher: Elsevier quality_controlled: '1' scopus_import: '1' status: public title: Optimal strategies for selecting coordinators tmp: image: /images/cc_by.png legal_code_url: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode name: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC-BY 4.0) short: CC BY (4.0) type: journal_article user_id: 4359f0d1-fa6c-11eb-b949-802e58b17ae8 volume: 289 year: '2021' ... --- _id: '9381' abstract: - lang: eng text: 'A game of rock-paper-scissors is an interesting example of an interaction where none of the pure strategies strictly dominates all others, leading to a cyclic pattern. In this work, we consider an unstable version of rock-paper-scissors dynamics and allow individuals to make behavioural mistakes during the strategy execution. We show that such an assumption can break a cyclic relationship leading to a stable equilibrium emerging with only one strategy surviving. We consider two cases: completely random mistakes when individuals have no bias towards any strategy and a general form of mistakes. Then, we determine conditions for a strategy to dominate all other strategies. However, given that individuals who adopt a dominating strategy are still prone to behavioural mistakes in the observed behaviour, we may still observe extinct strategies. That is, behavioural mistakes in strategy execution stabilise evolutionary dynamics leading to an evolutionary stable and, potentially, mixed co-existence equilibrium.' acknowledgement: Authors would like to thank Christian Hilbe and Martin Nowak for their inspiring and very helpful feedback on the manuscript. article_number: e1008523 article_processing_charge: No article_type: original author: - first_name: Maria full_name: Kleshnina, Maria id: 4E21749C-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Kleshnina - first_name: Sabrina S. full_name: Streipert, Sabrina S. last_name: Streipert - first_name: Jerzy A. full_name: Filar, Jerzy A. last_name: Filar - first_name: Krishnendu full_name: Chatterjee, Krishnendu id: 2E5DCA20-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Chatterjee orcid: 0000-0002-4561-241X citation: ama: Kleshnina M, Streipert SS, Filar JA, Chatterjee K. Mistakes can stabilise the dynamics of rock-paper-scissors games. PLoS Computational Biology. 2021;17(4). doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1008523 apa: Kleshnina, M., Streipert, S. S., Filar, J. A., & Chatterjee, K. (2021). Mistakes can stabilise the dynamics of rock-paper-scissors games. PLoS Computational Biology. Public Library of Science. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1008523 chicago: Kleshnina, Maria, Sabrina S. Streipert, Jerzy A. Filar, and Krishnendu Chatterjee. “Mistakes Can Stabilise the Dynamics of Rock-Paper-Scissors Games.” PLoS Computational Biology. Public Library of Science, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1008523. ieee: M. Kleshnina, S. S. Streipert, J. A. Filar, and K. Chatterjee, “Mistakes can stabilise the dynamics of rock-paper-scissors games,” PLoS Computational Biology, vol. 17, no. 4. Public Library of Science, 2021. ista: Kleshnina M, Streipert SS, Filar JA, Chatterjee K. 2021. Mistakes can stabilise the dynamics of rock-paper-scissors games. PLoS Computational Biology. 17(4), e1008523. mla: Kleshnina, Maria, et al. “Mistakes Can Stabilise the Dynamics of Rock-Paper-Scissors Games.” PLoS Computational Biology, vol. 17, no. 4, e1008523, Public Library of Science, 2021, doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1008523. short: M. Kleshnina, S.S. Streipert, J.A. Filar, K. Chatterjee, PLoS Computational Biology 17 (2021). date_created: 2021-05-09T22:01:38Z date_published: 2021-04-01T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2023-08-08T13:31:08Z day: '01' ddc: - '000' department: - _id: KrCh doi: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1008523 ec_funded: 1 external_id: isi: - '000639711200001' file: - access_level: open_access checksum: a94ebe0c4116f5047eaa6029e54d2dac content_type: application/pdf creator: kschuh date_created: 2021-05-11T13:50:06Z date_updated: 2021-05-11T13:50:06Z file_id: '9385' file_name: 2021_pcbi_Kleshnina.pdf file_size: 1323820 relation: main_file success: 1 file_date_updated: 2021-05-11T13:50:06Z has_accepted_license: '1' intvolume: ' 17' isi: 1 issue: '4' language: - iso: eng month: '04' oa: 1 oa_version: Published Version project: - _id: 260C2330-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 call_identifier: H2020 grant_number: '754411' name: ISTplus - Postdoctoral Fellowships - _id: 0599E47C-7A3F-11EA-A408-12923DDC885E call_identifier: H2020 grant_number: '863818' name: 'Formal Methods for Stochastic Models: Algorithms and Applications' publication: PLoS Computational Biology publication_identifier: eissn: - '15537358' issn: - 1553734X publication_status: published publisher: Public Library of Science quality_controlled: '1' scopus_import: '1' status: public title: Mistakes can stabilise the dynamics of rock-paper-scissors games tmp: image: /images/cc_by.png legal_code_url: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode name: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC-BY 4.0) short: CC BY (4.0) type: journal_article user_id: 4359f0d1-fa6c-11eb-b949-802e58b17ae8 volume: 17 year: '2021' ... --- _id: '9640' abstract: - lang: eng text: 'Selection and random drift determine the probability that novel mutations fixate in a population. Population structure is known to affect the dynamics of the evolutionary process. Amplifiers of selection are population structures that increase the fixation probability of beneficial mutants compared to well-mixed populations. Over the past 15 years, extensive research has produced remarkable structures called strong amplifiers which guarantee that every beneficial mutation fixates with high probability. But strong amplification has come at the cost of considerably delaying the fixation event, which can slow down the overall rate of evolution. However, the precise relationship between fixation probability and time has remained elusive. Here we characterize the slowdown effect of strong amplification. First, we prove that all strong amplifiers must delay the fixation event at least to some extent. Second, we construct strong amplifiers that delay the fixation event only marginally as compared to the well-mixed populations. Our results thus establish a tight relationship between fixation probability and time: Strong amplification always comes at a cost of a slowdown, but more than a marginal slowdown is not needed.' acknowledgement: 'K.C. acknowledges support from ERC Start grant no. (279307: Graph Games), ERC Consolidator grant no. (863818: ForM-SMart), Austrian Science Fund (FWF) grant no. P23499-N23 and S11407-N23 (RiSE). M.A.N. acknowledges support from Office of Naval Research grant N00014-16-1-2914 and from the John Templeton Foundation.' article_number: '4009' article_processing_charge: No article_type: original author: - first_name: Josef full_name: Tkadlec, Josef id: 3F24CCC8-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Tkadlec orcid: 0000-0002-1097-9684 - first_name: Andreas full_name: Pavlogiannis, Andreas id: 49704004-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Pavlogiannis orcid: 0000-0002-8943-0722 - first_name: Krishnendu full_name: Chatterjee, Krishnendu id: 2E5DCA20-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Chatterjee orcid: 0000-0002-4561-241X - first_name: Martin A. full_name: Nowak, Martin A. last_name: Nowak citation: ama: Tkadlec J, Pavlogiannis A, Chatterjee K, Nowak MA. Fast and strong amplifiers of natural selection. Nature Communications. 2021;12(1). doi:10.1038/s41467-021-24271-w apa: Tkadlec, J., Pavlogiannis, A., Chatterjee, K., & Nowak, M. A. (2021). Fast and strong amplifiers of natural selection. Nature Communications. Springer Nature. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-24271-w chicago: Tkadlec, Josef, Andreas Pavlogiannis, Krishnendu Chatterjee, and Martin A. Nowak. “Fast and Strong Amplifiers of Natural Selection.” Nature Communications. Springer Nature, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-24271-w. ieee: J. Tkadlec, A. Pavlogiannis, K. Chatterjee, and M. A. Nowak, “Fast and strong amplifiers of natural selection,” Nature Communications, vol. 12, no. 1. Springer Nature, 2021. ista: Tkadlec J, Pavlogiannis A, Chatterjee K, Nowak MA. 2021. Fast and strong amplifiers of natural selection. Nature Communications. 12(1), 4009. mla: Tkadlec, Josef, et al. “Fast and Strong Amplifiers of Natural Selection.” Nature Communications, vol. 12, no. 1, 4009, Springer Nature, 2021, doi:10.1038/s41467-021-24271-w. short: J. Tkadlec, A. Pavlogiannis, K. Chatterjee, M.A. Nowak, Nature Communications 12 (2021). date_created: 2021-07-11T22:01:15Z date_published: 2021-06-29T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2023-08-10T14:05:09Z day: '29' ddc: - '510' department: - _id: KrCh doi: 10.1038/s41467-021-24271-w ec_funded: 1 external_id: isi: - '000671752100003' pmid: - '34188036' file: - access_level: open_access checksum: 5767418926a7f7fb76151de29473dae0 content_type: application/pdf creator: cziletti date_created: 2021-07-19T13:02:20Z date_updated: 2021-07-19T13:02:20Z file_id: '9692' file_name: 2021_NatCoom_Tkadlec.pdf file_size: 628992 relation: main_file success: 1 file_date_updated: 2021-07-19T13:02:20Z has_accepted_license: '1' intvolume: ' 12' isi: 1 issue: '1' language: - iso: eng month: '06' oa: 1 oa_version: Published Version pmid: 1 project: - _id: 2581B60A-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 call_identifier: FP7 grant_number: '279307' name: 'Quantitative Graph Games: Theory and Applications' - _id: 0599E47C-7A3F-11EA-A408-12923DDC885E call_identifier: H2020 grant_number: '863818' name: 'Formal Methods for Stochastic Models: Algorithms and Applications' - _id: 2584A770-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 call_identifier: FWF grant_number: P 23499-N23 name: Modern Graph Algorithmic Techniques in Formal Verification - _id: 25832EC2-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 call_identifier: FWF grant_number: S 11407_N23 name: Rigorous Systems Engineering publication: Nature Communications publication_identifier: eissn: - '20411723' publication_status: published publisher: Springer Nature quality_controlled: '1' scopus_import: '1' status: public title: Fast and strong amplifiers of natural selection tmp: image: /images/cc_by.png legal_code_url: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode name: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC-BY 4.0) short: CC BY (4.0) type: journal_article user_id: 4359f0d1-fa6c-11eb-b949-802e58b17ae8 volume: 12 year: '2021' ... --- _id: '9646' abstract: - lang: eng text: We consider the fundamental problem of deriving quantitative bounds on the probability that a given assertion is violated in a probabilistic program. We provide automated algorithms that obtain both lower and upper bounds on the assertion violation probability. The main novelty of our approach is that we prove new and dedicated fixed-point theorems which serve as the theoretical basis of our algorithms and enable us to reason about assertion violation bounds in terms of pre and post fixed-point functions. To synthesize such fixed-points, we devise algorithms that utilize a wide range of mathematical tools, including repulsing ranking supermartingales, Hoeffding's lemma, Minkowski decompositions, Jensen's inequality, and convex optimization. On the theoretical side, we provide (i) the first automated algorithm for lower-bounds on assertion violation probabilities, (ii) the first complete algorithm for upper-bounds of exponential form in affine programs, and (iii) provably and significantly tighter upper-bounds than the previous approaches. On the practical side, we show our algorithms can handle a wide variety of programs from the literature and synthesize bounds that are remarkably tighter than previous results, in some cases by thousands of orders of magnitude. acknowledgement: 'We are very thankful to the anonymous reviewers for the helpful and valuable comments. The work was partially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) Grant No. 61802254, the Huawei Innovation Research Program, the ERC CoG 863818 (ForM-SMArt), the Facebook PhD Fellowship Program and DOC Fellowship #24956 of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW).' article_processing_charge: No author: - first_name: Jinyi full_name: Wang, Jinyi last_name: Wang - first_name: Yican full_name: Sun, Yican last_name: Sun - first_name: Hongfei full_name: Fu, Hongfei id: 3AAD03D6-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Fu - first_name: Krishnendu full_name: Chatterjee, Krishnendu id: 2E5DCA20-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Chatterjee orcid: 0000-0002-4561-241X - first_name: Amir Kafshdar full_name: Goharshady, Amir Kafshdar id: 391365CE-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Goharshady orcid: 0000-0003-1702-6584 citation: ama: 'Wang J, Sun Y, Fu H, Chatterjee K, Goharshady AK. Quantitative analysis of assertion violations in probabilistic programs. In: Proceedings of the 42nd ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation. Association for Computing Machinery; 2021:1171-1186. doi:10.1145/3453483.3454102' apa: 'Wang, J., Sun, Y., Fu, H., Chatterjee, K., & Goharshady, A. K. (2021). Quantitative analysis of assertion violations in probabilistic programs. In Proceedings of the 42nd ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation (pp. 1171–1186). Online: Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/3453483.3454102' chicago: Wang, Jinyi, Yican Sun, Hongfei Fu, Krishnendu Chatterjee, and Amir Kafshdar Goharshady. “Quantitative Analysis of Assertion Violations in Probabilistic Programs.” In Proceedings of the 42nd ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation, 1171–86. Association for Computing Machinery, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1145/3453483.3454102. ieee: J. Wang, Y. Sun, H. Fu, K. Chatterjee, and A. K. Goharshady, “Quantitative analysis of assertion violations in probabilistic programs,” in Proceedings of the 42nd ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation, Online, 2021, pp. 1171–1186. ista: 'Wang J, Sun Y, Fu H, Chatterjee K, Goharshady AK. 2021. Quantitative analysis of assertion violations in probabilistic programs. Proceedings of the 42nd ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation. PLDI: Programming Language Design and Implementation, 1171–1186.' mla: Wang, Jinyi, et al. “Quantitative Analysis of Assertion Violations in Probabilistic Programs.” Proceedings of the 42nd ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation, Association for Computing Machinery, 2021, pp. 1171–86, doi:10.1145/3453483.3454102. short: J. Wang, Y. Sun, H. Fu, K. Chatterjee, A.K. Goharshady, in:, Proceedings of the 42nd ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation, Association for Computing Machinery, 2021, pp. 1171–1186. conference: end_date: 2021-06-26 location: Online name: 'PLDI: Programming Language Design and Implementation' start_date: 2021-06-20 date_created: 2021-07-11T22:01:18Z date_published: 2021-06-01T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2023-08-10T14:14:08Z day: '01' department: - _id: KrCh doi: 10.1145/3453483.3454102 ec_funded: 1 external_id: arxiv: - '2011.14617' isi: - '000723661700076' isi: 1 language: - iso: eng main_file_link: - open_access: '1' url: https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.14617 month: '06' oa: 1 oa_version: Preprint page: 1171-1186 project: - _id: 0599E47C-7A3F-11EA-A408-12923DDC885E call_identifier: H2020 grant_number: '863818' name: 'Formal Methods for Stochastic Models: Algorithms and Applications' - _id: 267066CE-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 name: Quantitative Analysis of Probablistic Systems with a focus on Crypto-currencies publication: Proceedings of the 42nd ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation publication_identifier: isbn: - '9781450383912' publication_status: published publisher: Association for Computing Machinery quality_controlled: '1' scopus_import: '1' status: public title: Quantitative analysis of assertion violations in probabilistic programs type: conference user_id: 4359f0d1-fa6c-11eb-b949-802e58b17ae8 year: '2021' ... --- _id: '9645' abstract: - lang: eng text: "We consider the fundamental problem of reachability analysis over imperative programs with real variables. Previous works that tackle reachability are either unable to handle programs consisting of general loops (e.g. symbolic execution), or lack completeness guarantees (e.g. abstract interpretation), or are not automated (e.g. incorrectness logic). In contrast, we propose a novel approach for reachability analysis that can handle general and complex loops, is complete, and can be entirely automated for a wide family of programs. Through the notion of Inductive Reachability Witnesses (IRWs), our approach extends ideas from both invariant generation and termination to reachability analysis.\r\n\r\nWe first show that our IRW-based approach is sound and complete for reachability analysis of imperative programs. Then, we focus on linear and polynomial programs and develop automated methods for synthesizing linear and polynomial IRWs. In the linear case, we follow the well-known approaches using Farkas' Lemma. Our main contribution is in the polynomial case, where we present a push-button semi-complete algorithm. We achieve this using a novel combination of classical theorems in real algebraic geometry, such as Putinar's Positivstellensatz and Hilbert's Strong Nullstellensatz. Finally, our experimental results show we can prove complex reachability objectives over various benchmarks that were beyond the reach of previous methods." acknowledgement: This research was partially supported by the ERC CoG 863818 (ForM-SMArt), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) Grant No. 61802254, the Huawei Innovation Research Program, the Facebook PhD Fellowship Program, and DOC Fellowship No. 24956 of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW). article_processing_charge: No author: - first_name: Ali full_name: Asadi, Ali last_name: Asadi - first_name: Krishnendu full_name: Chatterjee, Krishnendu id: 2E5DCA20-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Chatterjee orcid: 0000-0002-4561-241X - first_name: Hongfei full_name: Fu, Hongfei id: 3AAD03D6-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Fu - first_name: Amir Kafshdar full_name: Goharshady, Amir Kafshdar id: 391365CE-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Goharshady orcid: 0000-0003-1702-6584 - first_name: Mohammad full_name: Mahdavi, Mohammad last_name: Mahdavi citation: ama: 'Asadi A, Chatterjee K, Fu H, Goharshady AK, Mahdavi M. Polynomial reachability witnesses via Stellensätze. In: Proceedings of the 42nd ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation. Association for Computing Machinery; 2021:772-787. doi:10.1145/3453483.3454076' apa: 'Asadi, A., Chatterjee, K., Fu, H., Goharshady, A. K., & Mahdavi, M. (2021). Polynomial reachability witnesses via Stellensätze. In Proceedings of the 42nd ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation (pp. 772–787). Online: Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/3453483.3454076' chicago: Asadi, Ali, Krishnendu Chatterjee, Hongfei Fu, Amir Kafshdar Goharshady, and Mohammad Mahdavi. “Polynomial Reachability Witnesses via Stellensätze.” In Proceedings of the 42nd ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation, 772–87. Association for Computing Machinery, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1145/3453483.3454076. ieee: A. Asadi, K. Chatterjee, H. Fu, A. K. Goharshady, and M. Mahdavi, “Polynomial reachability witnesses via Stellensätze,” in Proceedings of the 42nd ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation, Online, 2021, pp. 772–787. ista: 'Asadi A, Chatterjee K, Fu H, Goharshady AK, Mahdavi M. 2021. Polynomial reachability witnesses via Stellensätze. Proceedings of the 42nd ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation. PLDI: Programming Language Design and Implementation, 772–787.' mla: Asadi, Ali, et al. “Polynomial Reachability Witnesses via Stellensätze.” Proceedings of the 42nd ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation, Association for Computing Machinery, 2021, pp. 772–87, doi:10.1145/3453483.3454076. short: A. Asadi, K. Chatterjee, H. Fu, A.K. Goharshady, M. Mahdavi, in:, Proceedings of the 42nd ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation, Association for Computing Machinery, 2021, pp. 772–787. conference: end_date: 2021-06-26 location: Online name: ' PLDI: Programming Language Design and Implementation' start_date: 2021-06-20 date_created: 2021-07-11T22:01:17Z date_published: 2021-06-01T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2023-08-10T14:13:39Z day: '01' department: - _id: KrCh doi: 10.1145/3453483.3454076 ec_funded: 1 external_id: isi: - '000723661700050' isi: 1 language: - iso: eng main_file_link: - open_access: '1' url: https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-03183862/ month: '06' oa: 1 oa_version: Submitted Version page: 772-787 project: - _id: 0599E47C-7A3F-11EA-A408-12923DDC885E call_identifier: H2020 grant_number: '863818' name: 'Formal Methods for Stochastic Models: Algorithms and Applications' - _id: 267066CE-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 name: Quantitative Analysis of Probablistic Systems with a focus on Crypto-currencies publication: Proceedings of the 42nd ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation publication_identifier: isbn: - '9781450383912' publication_status: published publisher: Association for Computing Machinery quality_controlled: '1' scopus_import: '1' status: public title: Polynomial reachability witnesses via Stellensätze type: conference user_id: 4359f0d1-fa6c-11eb-b949-802e58b17ae8 year: '2021' ... --- _id: '10002' abstract: - lang: eng text: 'We present a faster symbolic algorithm for the following central problem in probabilistic verification: Compute the maximal end-component (MEC) decomposition of Markov decision processes (MDPs). This problem generalizes the SCC decomposition problem of graphs and closed recurrent sets of Markov chains. The model of symbolic algorithms is widely used in formal verification and model-checking, where access to the input model is restricted to only symbolic operations (e.g., basic set operations and computation of one-step neighborhood). For an input MDP with n vertices and m edges, the classical symbolic algorithm from the 1990s for the MEC decomposition requires O(n2) symbolic operations and O(1) symbolic space. The only other symbolic algorithm for the MEC decomposition requires O(nm−−√) symbolic operations and O(m−−√) symbolic space. A main open question is whether the worst-case O(n2) bound for symbolic operations can be beaten. We present a symbolic algorithm that requires O˜(n1.5) symbolic operations and O˜(n−−√) symbolic space. Moreover, the parametrization of our algorithm provides a trade-off between symbolic operations and symbolic space: for all 0<ϵ≤1/2 the symbolic algorithm requires O˜(n2−ϵ) symbolic operations and O˜(nϵ) symbolic space ( O˜ hides poly-logarithmic factors). Using our techniques we present faster algorithms for computing the almost-sure winning regions of ω -regular objectives for MDPs. We consider the canonical parity objectives for ω -regular objectives, and for parity objectives with d -priorities we present an algorithm that computes the almost-sure winning region with O˜(n2−ϵ) symbolic operations and O˜(nϵ) symbolic space, for all 0<ϵ≤1/2 .' acknowledgement: The authors are grateful to the anonymous referees for their valuable comments. A. S. is fully supported by the Vienna Science and Technology Fund (WWTF) through project ICT15–003. K. C. is supported by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) NFN Grant No S11407-N23 (RiSE/SHiNE) and by the ERC CoG 863818 (ForM-SMArt). For M. H. the research leading to these results has received funding from the European Research Council under the European Unions Seventh Framework Programme (FP/2007–2013) / ERC Grant Agreement no. 340506. article_processing_charge: No author: - first_name: Krishnendu full_name: Chatterjee, Krishnendu id: 2E5DCA20-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Chatterjee orcid: 0000-0002-4561-241X - first_name: Wolfgang full_name: Dvorak, Wolfgang last_name: Dvorak - first_name: Monika H full_name: Henzinger, Monika H id: 540c9bbd-f2de-11ec-812d-d04a5be85630 last_name: Henzinger orcid: 0000-0002-5008-6530 - first_name: Alexander full_name: Svozil, Alexander last_name: Svozil citation: ama: 'Chatterjee K, Dvorak W, Henzinger MH, Svozil A. Symbolic time and space tradeoffs for probabilistic verification. In: Proceedings of the 36th Annual ACM/IEEE Symposium on Logic in Computer Science. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers; 2021:1-13. doi:10.1109/LICS52264.2021.9470739' apa: 'Chatterjee, K., Dvorak, W., Henzinger, M. H., & Svozil, A. (2021). Symbolic time and space tradeoffs for probabilistic verification. In Proceedings of the 36th Annual ACM/IEEE Symposium on Logic in Computer Science (pp. 1–13). Rome, Italy: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. https://doi.org/10.1109/LICS52264.2021.9470739' chicago: Chatterjee, Krishnendu, Wolfgang Dvorak, Monika H Henzinger, and Alexander Svozil. “Symbolic Time and Space Tradeoffs for Probabilistic Verification.” In Proceedings of the 36th Annual ACM/IEEE Symposium on Logic in Computer Science, 1–13. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1109/LICS52264.2021.9470739. ieee: K. Chatterjee, W. Dvorak, M. H. Henzinger, and A. Svozil, “Symbolic time and space tradeoffs for probabilistic verification,” in Proceedings of the 36th Annual ACM/IEEE Symposium on Logic in Computer Science, Rome, Italy, 2021, pp. 1–13. ista: 'Chatterjee K, Dvorak W, Henzinger MH, Svozil A. 2021. Symbolic time and space tradeoffs for probabilistic verification. Proceedings of the 36th Annual ACM/IEEE Symposium on Logic in Computer Science. LICS: Symposium on Logic in Computer Science, 1–13.' mla: Chatterjee, Krishnendu, et al. “Symbolic Time and Space Tradeoffs for Probabilistic Verification.” Proceedings of the 36th Annual ACM/IEEE Symposium on Logic in Computer Science, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2021, pp. 1–13, doi:10.1109/LICS52264.2021.9470739. short: K. Chatterjee, W. Dvorak, M.H. Henzinger, A. Svozil, in:, Proceedings of the 36th Annual ACM/IEEE Symposium on Logic in Computer Science, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2021, pp. 1–13. conference: end_date: 2021-07-02 location: Rome, Italy name: 'LICS: Symposium on Logic in Computer Science' start_date: 2021-06-29 date_created: 2021-09-12T22:01:24Z date_published: 2021-07-07T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2023-08-14T06:51:33Z day: '07' department: - _id: KrCh doi: 10.1109/LICS52264.2021.9470739 ec_funded: 1 external_id: arxiv: - '2104.07466' isi: - '000947350400089' isi: 1 keyword: - Computer science - Computational modeling - Markov processes - Probabilistic logic - Formal verification - Game Theory language: - iso: eng main_file_link: - open_access: '1' url: https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.07466 month: '07' oa: 1 oa_version: Preprint page: 1-13 project: - _id: 25863FF4-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 call_identifier: FWF grant_number: S11407 name: Game Theory - _id: 0599E47C-7A3F-11EA-A408-12923DDC885E call_identifier: H2020 grant_number: '863818' name: 'Formal Methods for Stochastic Models: Algorithms and Applications' publication: Proceedings of the 36th Annual ACM/IEEE Symposium on Logic in Computer Science publication_identifier: eisbn: - 978-1-6654-4895-6 isbn: - 978-1-6654-4896-3 issn: - 1043-6871 publication_status: published publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers quality_controlled: '1' scopus_import: '1' status: public title: Symbolic time and space tradeoffs for probabilistic verification type: conference user_id: 4359f0d1-fa6c-11eb-b949-802e58b17ae8 year: '2021' ... --- _id: '10004' abstract: - lang: eng text: 'Markov chains are the de facto finite-state model for stochastic dynamical systems, and Markov decision processes (MDPs) extend Markov chains by incorporating non-deterministic behaviors. Given an MDP and rewards on states, a classical optimization criterion is the maximal expected total reward where the MDP stops after T steps, which can be computed by a simple dynamic programming algorithm. We consider a natural generalization of the problem where the stopping times can be chosen according to a probability distribution, such that the expected stopping time is T, to optimize the expected total reward. Quite surprisingly we establish inter-reducibility of the expected stopping-time problem for Markov chains with the Positivity problem (which is related to the well-known Skolem problem), for which establishing either decidability or undecidability would be a major breakthrough. Given the hardness of the exact problem, we consider the approximate version of the problem: we show that it can be solved in exponential time for Markov chains and in exponential space for MDPs.' acknowledgement: We are grateful to the anonymous reviewers of LICS 2021 and of a previous version of this paper for insightful comments that helped improving the presentation. This research was partially supported by the grant ERC CoG 863818 (ForM-SMArt). article_processing_charge: No author: - first_name: Krishnendu full_name: Chatterjee, Krishnendu id: 2E5DCA20-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Chatterjee orcid: 0000-0002-4561-241X - first_name: Laurent full_name: Doyen, Laurent last_name: Doyen citation: ama: 'Chatterjee K, Doyen L. Stochastic processes with expected stopping time. In: Proceedings of the 36th Annual ACM/IEEE Symposium on Logic in Computer Science. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers; 2021:1-13. doi:10.1109/LICS52264.2021.9470595' apa: 'Chatterjee, K., & Doyen, L. (2021). Stochastic processes with expected stopping time. In Proceedings of the 36th Annual ACM/IEEE Symposium on Logic in Computer Science (pp. 1–13). Rome, Italy: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. https://doi.org/10.1109/LICS52264.2021.9470595' chicago: Chatterjee, Krishnendu, and Laurent Doyen. “Stochastic Processes with Expected Stopping Time.” In Proceedings of the 36th Annual ACM/IEEE Symposium on Logic in Computer Science, 1–13. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1109/LICS52264.2021.9470595. ieee: K. Chatterjee and L. Doyen, “Stochastic processes with expected stopping time,” in Proceedings of the 36th Annual ACM/IEEE Symposium on Logic in Computer Science, Rome, Italy, 2021, pp. 1–13. ista: 'Chatterjee K, Doyen L. 2021. Stochastic processes with expected stopping time. Proceedings of the 36th Annual ACM/IEEE Symposium on Logic in Computer Science. LICS: Symposium on Logic in Computer Science, 1–13.' mla: Chatterjee, Krishnendu, and Laurent Doyen. “Stochastic Processes with Expected Stopping Time.” Proceedings of the 36th Annual ACM/IEEE Symposium on Logic in Computer Science, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2021, pp. 1–13, doi:10.1109/LICS52264.2021.9470595. short: K. Chatterjee, L. Doyen, in:, Proceedings of the 36th Annual ACM/IEEE Symposium on Logic in Computer Science, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2021, pp. 1–13. conference: end_date: 2021-07-02 location: Rome, Italy name: 'LICS: Symposium on Logic in Computer Science' start_date: 2021-06-29 date_created: 2021-09-12T22:01:25Z date_published: 2021-07-07T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2023-08-14T06:52:07Z day: '07' department: - _id: KrCh doi: 10.1109/LICS52264.2021.9470595 ec_funded: 1 external_id: arxiv: - '2104.07278' isi: - '000947350400036' isi: 1 keyword: - Computer science - Heuristic algorithms - Memory management - Automata - Markov processes - Probability distribution - Complexity theory language: - iso: eng main_file_link: - open_access: '1' url: https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.07278 month: '07' oa: 1 oa_version: Preprint page: 1-13 project: - _id: 0599E47C-7A3F-11EA-A408-12923DDC885E call_identifier: H2020 grant_number: '863818' name: 'Formal Methods for Stochastic Models: Algorithms and Applications' publication: Proceedings of the 36th Annual ACM/IEEE Symposium on Logic in Computer Science publication_identifier: eisbn: - 978-1-6654-4895-6 isbn: - 978-1-6654-4896-3 issn: - 1043-6871 publication_status: published publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers quality_controlled: '1' scopus_import: '1' status: public title: Stochastic processes with expected stopping time type: conference user_id: 4359f0d1-fa6c-11eb-b949-802e58b17ae8 year: '2021' ... --- _id: '10055' abstract: - lang: eng text: "Repeated idempotent elements are commonly used to characterise iterable behaviours in abstract models of computation. Therefore, given a monoid M, it is natural to ask how long a sequence of elements of M needs to be to ensure the presence of consecutive idempotent factors. This question is formalised through the notion of the Ramsey function R_M associated to M, obtained by mapping every k ∈ ℕ to the minimal integer R_M(k) such that every word u ∈ M^* of length R_M(k) contains k consecutive non-empty factors that correspond to the same idempotent element of M. In this work, we study the behaviour of the Ramsey function R_M by investigating the regular \U0001D49F-length of M, defined as the largest size L(M) of a submonoid of M isomorphic to the set of natural numbers {1,2, …, L(M)} equipped with the max operation. We show that the regular \U0001D49F-length of M determines the degree of R_M, by proving that k^L(M) ≤ R_M(k) ≤ (k|M|⁴)^L(M). To allow applications of this result, we provide the value of the regular \U0001D49F-length of diverse monoids. In particular, we prove that the full monoid of n × n Boolean matrices, which is used to express transition monoids of non-deterministic automata, has a regular \U0001D49F-length of (n²+n+2)/2." acknowledgement: This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Grant Agreement No. 754411. I wish to thank Michaël Cadilhac, Emmanuel Filiot and Charles Paperman for their valuable insights concerning Green’s relations. alternative_title: - LIPIcs article_number: '44' article_processing_charge: No author: - first_name: Ismael R full_name: Jecker, Ismael R id: 85D7C63E-7D5D-11E9-9C0F-98C4E5697425 last_name: Jecker citation: ama: 'Jecker IR. A Ramsey theorem for finite monoids. In: 38th International Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science. Vol 187. Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibniz Zentrum für Informatik; 2021. doi:10.4230/LIPIcs.STACS.2021.44' apa: 'Jecker, I. R. (2021). A Ramsey theorem for finite monoids. In 38th International Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science (Vol. 187). Saarbrücken, Germany: Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibniz Zentrum für Informatik. https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.STACS.2021.44' chicago: Jecker, Ismael R. “A Ramsey Theorem for Finite Monoids.” In 38th International Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science, Vol. 187. Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibniz Zentrum für Informatik, 2021. https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.STACS.2021.44. ieee: I. R. Jecker, “A Ramsey theorem for finite monoids,” in 38th International Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science, Saarbrücken, Germany, 2021, vol. 187. ista: 'Jecker IR. 2021. A Ramsey theorem for finite monoids. 38th International Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science. STACS: Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science, LIPIcs, vol. 187, 44.' mla: Jecker, Ismael R. “A Ramsey Theorem for Finite Monoids.” 38th International Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science, vol. 187, 44, Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibniz Zentrum für Informatik, 2021, doi:10.4230/LIPIcs.STACS.2021.44. short: I.R. Jecker, in:, 38th International Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science, Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibniz Zentrum für Informatik, 2021. conference: end_date: 2021-03-19 location: Saarbrücken, Germany name: 'STACS: Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science' start_date: 2021-03-16 date_created: 2021-09-27T14:33:15Z date_published: 2021-03-10T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2023-08-14T07:03:23Z day: '10' ddc: - '000' department: - _id: KrCh doi: 10.4230/LIPIcs.STACS.2021.44 ec_funded: 1 external_id: isi: - '000635691700044' file: - access_level: open_access checksum: 17432a05733f408de300e17e390a90e4 content_type: application/pdf creator: cchlebak date_created: 2021-10-01T09:55:00Z date_updated: 2021-10-01T09:55:00Z file_id: '10063' file_name: 2021_LIPIcs_Jecker.pdf file_size: 720250 relation: main_file success: 1 file_date_updated: 2021-10-01T09:55:00Z has_accepted_license: '1' intvolume: ' 187' isi: 1 language: - iso: eng month: '03' oa: 1 oa_version: Published Version project: - _id: 260C2330-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 call_identifier: H2020 grant_number: '754411' name: ISTplus - Postdoctoral Fellowships publication: 38th International Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science publication_identifier: isbn: - 978-3-9597-7180-1 issn: - 1868-8969 publication_status: published publisher: Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibniz Zentrum für Informatik quality_controlled: '1' scopus_import: '1' status: public title: A Ramsey theorem for finite monoids tmp: image: /images/cc_by.png legal_code_url: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode name: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC-BY 4.0) short: CC BY (4.0) type: conference user_id: 4359f0d1-fa6c-11eb-b949-802e58b17ae8 volume: 187 year: '2021' ... --- _id: '9987' abstract: - lang: eng text: 'Stateless model checking (SMC) is one of the standard approaches to the verification of concurrent programs. As scheduling non-determinism creates exponentially large spaces of thread interleavings, SMC attempts to partition this space into equivalence classes and explore only a few representatives from each class. The efficiency of this approach depends on two factors: (a) the coarseness of the partitioning, and (b) the time to generate representatives in each class. For this reason, the search for coarse partitionings that are efficiently explorable is an active research challenge. In this work we present RVF-SMC , a new SMC algorithm that uses a novel reads-value-from (RVF) partitioning. Intuitively, two interleavings are deemed equivalent if they agree on the value obtained in each read event, and read events induce consistent causal orderings between them. The RVF partitioning is provably coarser than recent approaches based on Mazurkiewicz and “reads-from” partitionings. Our experimental evaluation reveals that RVF is quite often a very effective equivalence, as the underlying partitioning is exponentially coarser than other approaches. Moreover, RVF-SMC generates representatives very efficiently, as the reduction in the partitioning is often met with significant speed-ups in the model checking task.' acknowledgement: The research was partially funded by the ERC CoG 863818 (ForM-SMArt) and the Vienna Science and Technology Fund (WWTF) through project ICT15-003. alternative_title: - LNCS article_processing_charge: Yes author: - first_name: Pratyush full_name: Agarwal, Pratyush last_name: Agarwal - first_name: Krishnendu full_name: Chatterjee, Krishnendu id: 2E5DCA20-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Chatterjee orcid: 0000-0002-4561-241X - first_name: Shreya full_name: Pathak, Shreya last_name: Pathak - first_name: Andreas full_name: Pavlogiannis, Andreas id: 49704004-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Pavlogiannis orcid: 0000-0002-8943-0722 - first_name: Viktor full_name: Toman, Viktor id: 3AF3DA7C-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Toman orcid: 0000-0001-9036-063X citation: ama: 'Agarwal P, Chatterjee K, Pathak S, Pavlogiannis A, Toman V. Stateless model checking under a reads-value-from equivalence. In: 33rd International Conference on Computer-Aided Verification . Vol 12759. Springer Nature; 2021:341-366. doi:10.1007/978-3-030-81685-8_16' apa: 'Agarwal, P., Chatterjee, K., Pathak, S., Pavlogiannis, A., & Toman, V. (2021). Stateless model checking under a reads-value-from equivalence. In 33rd International Conference on Computer-Aided Verification (Vol. 12759, pp. 341–366). Virtual: Springer Nature. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-81685-8_16' chicago: Agarwal, Pratyush, Krishnendu Chatterjee, Shreya Pathak, Andreas Pavlogiannis, and Viktor Toman. “Stateless Model Checking under a Reads-Value-from Equivalence.” In 33rd International Conference on Computer-Aided Verification , 12759:341–66. Springer Nature, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-81685-8_16. ieee: P. Agarwal, K. Chatterjee, S. Pathak, A. Pavlogiannis, and V. Toman, “Stateless model checking under a reads-value-from equivalence,” in 33rd International Conference on Computer-Aided Verification , Virtual, 2021, vol. 12759, pp. 341–366. ista: 'Agarwal P, Chatterjee K, Pathak S, Pavlogiannis A, Toman V. 2021. Stateless model checking under a reads-value-from equivalence. 33rd International Conference on Computer-Aided Verification . CAV: Computer Aided Verification , LNCS, vol. 12759, 341–366.' mla: Agarwal, Pratyush, et al. “Stateless Model Checking under a Reads-Value-from Equivalence.” 33rd International Conference on Computer-Aided Verification , vol. 12759, Springer Nature, 2021, pp. 341–66, doi:10.1007/978-3-030-81685-8_16. short: P. Agarwal, K. Chatterjee, S. Pathak, A. Pavlogiannis, V. Toman, in:, 33rd International Conference on Computer-Aided Verification , Springer Nature, 2021, pp. 341–366. conference: end_date: 2021-07-23 location: Virtual name: 'CAV: Computer Aided Verification ' start_date: 2021-07-20 date_created: 2021-09-05T22:01:24Z date_published: 2021-07-15T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2023-09-07T13:30:27Z day: '15' ddc: - '000' department: - _id: KrCh doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-81685-8_16 ec_funded: 1 external_id: arxiv: - '2105.06424' isi: - '000698732400016' file: - access_level: open_access checksum: 4b346e5fbaa8b9bdf107819c7b2aadee content_type: application/pdf creator: dernst date_created: 2022-05-13T07:00:20Z date_updated: 2022-05-13T07:00:20Z file_id: '11368' file_name: 2021_LNCS_Agarwal.pdf file_size: 1516756 relation: main_file success: 1 file_date_updated: 2022-05-13T07:00:20Z has_accepted_license: '1' isi: 1 language: - iso: eng month: '07' oa: 1 oa_version: Published Version page: 341-366 project: - _id: 25892FC0-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 grant_number: ICT15-003 name: Efficient Algorithms for Computer Aided Verification - _id: 0599E47C-7A3F-11EA-A408-12923DDC885E call_identifier: H2020 grant_number: '863818' name: 'Formal Methods for Stochastic Models: Algorithms and Applications' publication: '33rd International Conference on Computer-Aided Verification ' publication_identifier: eisbn: - 978-3-030-81685-8 eissn: - 1611-3349 isbn: - 978-3-030-81684-1 issn: - 0302-9743 publication_status: published publisher: Springer Nature quality_controlled: '1' related_material: record: - id: '10199' relation: dissertation_contains status: public scopus_import: '1' status: public title: Stateless model checking under a reads-value-from equivalence tmp: image: /images/cc_by.png legal_code_url: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode name: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC-BY 4.0) short: CC BY (4.0) type: conference user_id: 4359f0d1-fa6c-11eb-b949-802e58b17ae8 volume: '12759 ' year: '2021' ... --- _id: '10191' abstract: - lang: eng text: "In this work we solve the algorithmic problem of consistency verification for the TSO and PSO memory models given a reads-from map, denoted VTSO-rf and VPSO-rf, respectively. For an execution of n events over k threads and d variables, we establish novel bounds that scale as nk+1 for TSO and as nk+1· min(nk2, 2k· d) for PSO. Moreover, based on our solution to these problems, we develop an SMC algorithm under TSO and PSO that uses the RF equivalence. The algorithm is exploration-optimal, in the sense that it is guaranteed to explore each class of the RF partitioning exactly once, and spends polynomial time per class when k is bounded. Finally, we implement all our algorithms in the SMC tool Nidhugg, and perform a large number of experiments over benchmarks from existing literature. Our experimental results show that our algorithms for VTSO-rf and VPSO-rf provide significant scalability improvements over standard alternatives. Moreover, when used for SMC, the RF partitioning is often much coarser than the standard Shasha-Snir partitioning for TSO/PSO, which yields a significant speedup in the model checking task.\r\n\r\n" acknowledgement: "The research was partially funded by the ERC CoG 863818 (ForM-SMArt) and the Vienna Science\r\nand Technology Fund (WWTF) through project ICT15-003." article_number: '164' article_processing_charge: No article_type: original author: - first_name: Truc Lam full_name: Bui, Truc Lam last_name: Bui - first_name: Krishnendu full_name: Chatterjee, Krishnendu id: 2E5DCA20-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Chatterjee orcid: 0000-0002-4561-241X - first_name: Tushar full_name: Gautam, Tushar last_name: Gautam - first_name: Andreas full_name: Pavlogiannis, Andreas id: 49704004-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Pavlogiannis orcid: 0000-0002-8943-0722 - first_name: Viktor full_name: Toman, Viktor id: 3AF3DA7C-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Toman orcid: 0000-0001-9036-063X citation: ama: Bui TL, Chatterjee K, Gautam T, Pavlogiannis A, Toman V. The reads-from equivalence for the TSO and PSO memory models. Proceedings of the ACM on Programming Languages. 2021;5(OOPSLA). doi:10.1145/3485541 apa: Bui, T. L., Chatterjee, K., Gautam, T., Pavlogiannis, A., & Toman, V. (2021). The reads-from equivalence for the TSO and PSO memory models. Proceedings of the ACM on Programming Languages. Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/3485541 chicago: Bui, Truc Lam, Krishnendu Chatterjee, Tushar Gautam, Andreas Pavlogiannis, and Viktor Toman. “The Reads-from Equivalence for the TSO and PSO Memory Models.” Proceedings of the ACM on Programming Languages. Association for Computing Machinery, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1145/3485541. ieee: T. L. Bui, K. Chatterjee, T. Gautam, A. Pavlogiannis, and V. Toman, “The reads-from equivalence for the TSO and PSO memory models,” Proceedings of the ACM on Programming Languages, vol. 5, no. OOPSLA. Association for Computing Machinery, 2021. ista: Bui TL, Chatterjee K, Gautam T, Pavlogiannis A, Toman V. 2021. The reads-from equivalence for the TSO and PSO memory models. Proceedings of the ACM on Programming Languages. 5(OOPSLA), 164. mla: Bui, Truc Lam, et al. “The Reads-from Equivalence for the TSO and PSO Memory Models.” Proceedings of the ACM on Programming Languages, vol. 5, no. OOPSLA, 164, Association for Computing Machinery, 2021, doi:10.1145/3485541. short: T.L. Bui, K. Chatterjee, T. Gautam, A. Pavlogiannis, V. Toman, Proceedings of the ACM on Programming Languages 5 (2021). date_created: 2021-10-27T15:05:34Z date_published: 2021-10-15T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2023-09-07T13:30:27Z day: '15' ddc: - '000' department: - _id: GradSch - _id: KrCh doi: 10.1145/3485541 ec_funded: 1 external_id: arxiv: - '2011.11763' file: - access_level: open_access checksum: 9d6dce7b611853c529bb7b1915ac579e content_type: application/pdf creator: cchlebak date_created: 2021-11-04T07:24:48Z date_updated: 2021-11-04T07:24:48Z file_id: '10215' file_name: 2021_ProcACMPL_Bui.pdf file_size: 2903485 relation: main_file success: 1 file_date_updated: 2021-11-04T07:24:48Z has_accepted_license: '1' intvolume: ' 5' issue: OOPSLA keyword: - safety - risk - reliability and quality - software language: - iso: eng month: '10' oa: 1 oa_version: Published Version project: - _id: 0599E47C-7A3F-11EA-A408-12923DDC885E call_identifier: H2020 grant_number: '863818' name: 'Formal Methods for Stochastic Models: Algorithms and Applications' - _id: 25892FC0-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 grant_number: ICT15-003 name: Efficient Algorithms for Computer Aided Verification publication: Proceedings of the ACM on Programming Languages publication_identifier: eissn: - 2475-1421 publication_status: published publisher: Association for Computing Machinery quality_controlled: '1' related_material: record: - id: '10199' relation: dissertation_contains status: public scopus_import: '1' status: public title: The reads-from equivalence for the TSO and PSO memory models tmp: image: /images/cc_by.png legal_code_url: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode name: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC-BY 4.0) short: CC BY (4.0) type: journal_article user_id: 8b945eb4-e2f2-11eb-945a-df72226e66a9 volume: 5 year: '2021' ... --- _id: '10199' abstract: - lang: eng text: The design and verification of concurrent systems remains an open challenge due to the non-determinism that arises from the inter-process communication. In particular, concurrent programs are notoriously difficult both to be written correctly and to be analyzed formally, as complex thread interaction has to be accounted for. The difficulties are further exacerbated when concurrent programs get executed on modern-day hardware, which contains various buffering and caching mechanisms for efficiency reasons. This causes further subtle non-determinism, which can often produce very unintuitive behavior of the concurrent programs. Model checking is at the forefront of tackling the verification problem, where the task is to decide, given as input a concurrent system and a desired property, whether the system satisfies the property. The inherent state-space explosion problem in model checking of concurrent systems causes naïve explicit methods not to scale, thus more inventive methods are required. One such method is stateless model checking (SMC), which explores in memory-efficient manner the program executions rather than the states of the program. State-of-the-art SMC is typically coupled with partial order reduction (POR) techniques, which argue that certain executions provably produce identical system behavior, thus limiting the amount of executions one needs to explore in order to cover all possible behaviors. Another method to tackle the state-space explosion is symbolic model checking, where the considered techniques operate on a succinct implicit representation of the input system rather than explicitly accessing the system. In this thesis we present new techniques for verification of concurrent systems. We present several novel POR methods for SMC of concurrent programs under various models of semantics, some of which account for write-buffering mechanisms. Additionally, we present novel algorithms for symbolic model checking of finite-state concurrent systems, where the desired property of the systems is to ensure a formally defined notion of fairness. acknowledged_ssus: - _id: SSU alternative_title: - ISTA Thesis article_processing_charge: No author: - first_name: Viktor full_name: Toman, Viktor id: 3AF3DA7C-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Toman orcid: 0000-0001-9036-063X citation: ama: Toman V. Improved verification techniques for concurrent systems. 2021. doi:10.15479/at:ista:10199 apa: Toman, V. (2021). Improved verification techniques for concurrent systems. Institute of Science and Technology Austria. https://doi.org/10.15479/at:ista:10199 chicago: Toman, Viktor. “Improved Verification Techniques for Concurrent Systems.” Institute of Science and Technology Austria, 2021. https://doi.org/10.15479/at:ista:10199. ieee: V. Toman, “Improved verification techniques for concurrent systems,” Institute of Science and Technology Austria, 2021. ista: Toman V. 2021. Improved verification techniques for concurrent systems. Institute of Science and Technology Austria. mla: Toman, Viktor. Improved Verification Techniques for Concurrent Systems. Institute of Science and Technology Austria, 2021, doi:10.15479/at:ista:10199. short: V. Toman, Improved Verification Techniques for Concurrent Systems, Institute of Science and Technology Austria, 2021. date_created: 2021-10-29T20:09:01Z date_published: 2021-10-31T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2023-09-19T09:59:54Z day: '31' ddc: - '000' degree_awarded: PhD department: - _id: GradSch - _id: KrCh doi: 10.15479/at:ista:10199 ec_funded: 1 file: - access_level: open_access checksum: 4f412a1ee60952221b499a4b1268df35 content_type: application/pdf creator: vtoman date_created: 2021-11-08T14:12:22Z date_updated: 2021-11-08T14:12:22Z file_id: '10225' file_name: toman_th_final.pdf file_size: 2915234 relation: main_file - access_level: closed checksum: 9584943f99127be2dd2963f6784c37d4 content_type: application/zip creator: vtoman date_created: 2021-11-08T14:12:46Z date_updated: 2021-11-09T09:00:50Z file_id: '10226' file_name: toman_thesis.zip file_size: 8616056 relation: source_file file_date_updated: 2021-11-09T09:00:50Z has_accepted_license: '1' keyword: - concurrency - verification - model checking language: - iso: eng month: '10' oa: 1 oa_version: Published Version page: '166' project: - _id: 2564DBCA-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 call_identifier: H2020 grant_number: '665385' name: International IST Doctoral Program - _id: 25F2ACDE-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 call_identifier: FWF grant_number: S11402-N23 name: Rigorous Systems Engineering - _id: 25892FC0-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 grant_number: ICT15-003 name: Efficient Algorithms for Computer Aided Verification - _id: 0599E47C-7A3F-11EA-A408-12923DDC885E call_identifier: H2020 grant_number: '863818' name: 'Formal Methods for Stochastic Models: Algorithms and Applications' publication_identifier: issn: - 2663-337X publication_status: published publisher: Institute of Science and Technology Austria related_material: record: - id: '10190' relation: part_of_dissertation status: public - id: '10191' relation: part_of_dissertation status: public - id: '9987' relation: part_of_dissertation status: public - id: '141' relation: part_of_dissertation status: public status: public supervisor: - first_name: Krishnendu full_name: Chatterjee, Krishnendu id: 2E5DCA20-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Chatterjee orcid: 0000-0002-4561-241X title: Improved verification techniques for concurrent systems type: dissertation user_id: c635000d-4b10-11ee-a964-aac5a93f6ac1 year: '2021' ... --- _id: '9293' abstract: - lang: eng text: 'We consider planning problems for graphs, Markov Decision Processes (MDPs), and games on graphs in an explicit state space. While graphs represent the most basic planning model, MDPs represent interaction with nature and games on graphs represent interaction with an adversarial environment. We consider two planning problems with k different target sets: (a) the coverage problem asks whether there is a plan for each individual target set; and (b) the sequential target reachability problem asks whether the targets can be reached in a given sequence. For the coverage problem, we present a linear-time algorithm for graphs, and quadratic conditional lower bound for MDPs and games on graphs. For the sequential target problem, we present a linear-time algorithm for graphs, a sub-quadratic algorithm for MDPs, and a quadratic conditional lower bound for games on graphs. Our results with conditional lower bounds, based on the boolean matrix multiplication (BMM) conjecture and strong exponential time hypothesis (SETH), establish (i) model-separation results showing that for the coverage problem MDPs and games on graphs are harder than graphs, and for the sequential reachability problem games on graphs are harder than MDPs and graphs; and (ii) problem-separation results showing that for MDPs the coverage problem is harder than the sequential target problem.' article_number: '103499' article_processing_charge: No article_type: original author: - first_name: Krishnendu full_name: Chatterjee, Krishnendu id: 2E5DCA20-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Chatterjee orcid: 0000-0002-4561-241X - first_name: Wolfgang full_name: Dvořák, Wolfgang last_name: Dvořák - first_name: Monika H full_name: Henzinger, Monika H id: 540c9bbd-f2de-11ec-812d-d04a5be85630 last_name: Henzinger orcid: 0000-0002-5008-6530 - first_name: Alexander full_name: Svozil, Alexander last_name: Svozil citation: ama: Chatterjee K, Dvořák W, Henzinger MH, Svozil A. Algorithms and conditional lower bounds for planning problems. Artificial Intelligence. 2021;297(8). doi:10.1016/j.artint.2021.103499 apa: Chatterjee, K., Dvořák, W., Henzinger, M. H., & Svozil, A. (2021). Algorithms and conditional lower bounds for planning problems. Artificial Intelligence. Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.artint.2021.103499 chicago: Chatterjee, Krishnendu, Wolfgang Dvořák, Monika H Henzinger, and Alexander Svozil. “Algorithms and Conditional Lower Bounds for Planning Problems.” Artificial Intelligence. Elsevier, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.artint.2021.103499. ieee: K. Chatterjee, W. Dvořák, M. H. Henzinger, and A. Svozil, “Algorithms and conditional lower bounds for planning problems,” Artificial Intelligence, vol. 297, no. 8. Elsevier, 2021. ista: Chatterjee K, Dvořák W, Henzinger MH, Svozil A. 2021. Algorithms and conditional lower bounds for planning problems. Artificial Intelligence. 297(8), 103499. mla: Chatterjee, Krishnendu, et al. “Algorithms and Conditional Lower Bounds for Planning Problems.” Artificial Intelligence, vol. 297, no. 8, 103499, Elsevier, 2021, doi:10.1016/j.artint.2021.103499. short: K. Chatterjee, W. Dvořák, M.H. Henzinger, A. Svozil, Artificial Intelligence 297 (2021). date_created: 2021-03-28T22:01:40Z date_published: 2021-03-16T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2023-09-26T10:41:42Z day: '16' department: - _id: KrCh doi: 10.1016/j.artint.2021.103499 external_id: arxiv: - '1804.07031' isi: - '000657537500003' intvolume: ' 297' isi: 1 issue: '8' language: - iso: eng main_file_link: - open_access: '1' url: https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.07031 month: '03' oa: 1 oa_version: Preprint publication: Artificial Intelligence publication_identifier: issn: - 0004-3702 publication_status: published publisher: Elsevier quality_controlled: '1' related_material: record: - id: '35' relation: earlier_version status: public scopus_import: '1' status: public title: Algorithms and conditional lower bounds for planning problems type: journal_article user_id: 2DF688A6-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 volume: 297 year: '2021' ... --- _id: '9393' abstract: - lang: eng text: "We consider the core algorithmic problems related to verification of systems with respect to three classical quantitative properties, namely, the mean-payoff, the ratio, and the minimum initial credit for energy property. The algorithmic problem given a graph and a quantitative property asks to compute the optimal value (the infimum value over all traces) from every node of the graph. We consider graphs with bounded treewidth—a class that contains the control flow graphs of most programs. Let n denote the number of nodes of a graph, m the number of edges (for bounded treewidth \U0001D45A=\U0001D442(\U0001D45B)) and W the largest absolute value of the weights. Our main theoretical results are as follows. First, for the minimum initial credit problem we show that (1) for general graphs the problem can be solved in \U0001D442(\U0001D45B2⋅\U0001D45A) time and the associated decision problem in \U0001D442(\U0001D45B⋅\U0001D45A) time, improving the previous known \U0001D442(\U0001D45B3⋅\U0001D45A⋅log(\U0001D45B⋅\U0001D44A)) and \U0001D442(\U0001D45B2⋅\U0001D45A) bounds, respectively; and (2) for bounded treewidth graphs we present an algorithm that requires \U0001D442(\U0001D45B⋅log\U0001D45B) time. Second, for bounded treewidth graphs we present an algorithm that approximates the mean-payoff value within a factor of 1+\U0001D716 in time \U0001D442(\U0001D45B⋅log(\U0001D45B/\U0001D716)) as compared to the classical exact algorithms on general graphs that require quadratic time. Third, for the ratio property we present an algorithm that for bounded treewidth graphs works in time \U0001D442(\U0001D45B⋅log(|\U0001D44E⋅\U0001D44F|))=\U0001D442(\U0001D45B⋅log(\U0001D45B⋅\U0001D44A)), when the output is \U0001D44E\U0001D44F, as compared to the previously best known algorithm on general graphs with running time \U0001D442(\U0001D45B2⋅log(\U0001D45B⋅\U0001D44A)). We have implemented some of our algorithms and show that they present a significant speedup on standard benchmarks." acknowledgement: 'The research was partly supported by Austrian Science Fund (FWF) Grant No P23499- N23, FWF NFN Grant No S11407-N23 (RiSE/SHiNE), ERC Start Grant (279307: Graph Games), and Microsoft faculty fellows award.' article_processing_charge: No article_type: original author: - first_name: Krishnendu full_name: Chatterjee, Krishnendu id: 2E5DCA20-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Chatterjee orcid: 0000-0002-4561-241X - first_name: Rasmus full_name: Ibsen-Jensen, Rasmus id: 3B699956-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Ibsen-Jensen orcid: 0000-0003-4783-0389 - first_name: Andreas full_name: Pavlogiannis, Andreas id: 49704004-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Pavlogiannis orcid: 0000-0002-8943-0722 citation: ama: Chatterjee K, Ibsen-Jensen R, Pavlogiannis A. Faster algorithms for quantitative verification in bounded treewidth graphs. Formal Methods in System Design. 2021;57:401-428. doi:10.1007/s10703-021-00373-5 apa: Chatterjee, K., Ibsen-Jensen, R., & Pavlogiannis, A. (2021). Faster algorithms for quantitative verification in bounded treewidth graphs. Formal Methods in System Design. Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10703-021-00373-5 chicago: Chatterjee, Krishnendu, Rasmus Ibsen-Jensen, and Andreas Pavlogiannis. “Faster Algorithms for Quantitative Verification in Bounded Treewidth Graphs.” Formal Methods in System Design. Springer, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10703-021-00373-5. ieee: K. Chatterjee, R. Ibsen-Jensen, and A. Pavlogiannis, “Faster algorithms for quantitative verification in bounded treewidth graphs,” Formal Methods in System Design, vol. 57. Springer, pp. 401–428, 2021. ista: Chatterjee K, Ibsen-Jensen R, Pavlogiannis A. 2021. Faster algorithms for quantitative verification in bounded treewidth graphs. Formal Methods in System Design. 57, 401–428. mla: Chatterjee, Krishnendu, et al. “Faster Algorithms for Quantitative Verification in Bounded Treewidth Graphs.” Formal Methods in System Design, vol. 57, Springer, 2021, pp. 401–28, doi:10.1007/s10703-021-00373-5. short: K. Chatterjee, R. Ibsen-Jensen, A. Pavlogiannis, Formal Methods in System Design 57 (2021) 401–428. date_created: 2021-05-16T22:01:47Z date_published: 2021-09-01T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2023-10-10T11:13:20Z day: '01' department: - _id: KrCh doi: 10.1007/s10703-021-00373-5 ec_funded: 1 external_id: arxiv: - '1504.07384' isi: - '000645490300001' intvolume: ' 57' isi: 1 language: - iso: eng main_file_link: - open_access: '1' url: https://arxiv.org/abs/1504.07384 month: '09' oa: 1 oa_version: Preprint page: 401-428 project: - _id: 2584A770-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 call_identifier: FWF grant_number: P 23499-N23 name: Modern Graph Algorithmic Techniques in Formal Verification - _id: 25832EC2-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 call_identifier: FWF grant_number: S 11407_N23 name: Rigorous Systems Engineering - _id: 2581B60A-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 call_identifier: FP7 grant_number: '279307' name: 'Quantitative Graph Games: Theory and Applications' - _id: 2587B514-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 name: Microsoft Research Faculty Fellowship publication: Formal Methods in System Design publication_identifier: eissn: - 1572-8102 issn: - 0925-9856 publication_status: published publisher: Springer quality_controlled: '1' scopus_import: '1' status: public title: Faster algorithms for quantitative verification in bounded treewidth graphs type: journal_article user_id: 2DF688A6-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 volume: 57 year: '2021' ... --- _id: '9644' abstract: - lang: eng text: 'We present a new approach to proving non-termination of non-deterministic integer programs. Our technique is rather simple but efficient. It relies on a purely syntactic reversal of the program''s transition system followed by a constraint-based invariant synthesis with constraints coming from both the original and the reversed transition system. The latter task is performed by a simple call to an off-the-shelf SMT-solver, which allows us to leverage the latest advances in SMT-solving. Moreover, our method offers a combination of features not present (as a whole) in previous approaches: it handles programs with non-determinism, provides relative completeness guarantees and supports programs with polynomial arithmetic. The experiments performed with our prototype tool RevTerm show that our approach, despite its simplicity and stronger theoretical guarantees, is at least on par with the state-of-the-art tools, often achieving a non-trivial improvement under a proper configuration of its parameters.' acknowledgement: We thank the anonymous reviewers for their helpful comments. This research was partially supported by the ERCCoG 863818 (ForM-SMArt) and the Czech Science Foundation grant No. GJ19-15134Y. article_processing_charge: No author: - first_name: Krishnendu full_name: Chatterjee, Krishnendu id: 2E5DCA20-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Chatterjee orcid: 0000-0002-4561-241X - first_name: Ehsan Kafshdar full_name: Goharshady, Ehsan Kafshdar last_name: Goharshady - first_name: Petr full_name: Novotný, Petr id: 3CC3B868-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Novotný - first_name: Dorde full_name: Zikelic, Dorde id: 294AA7A6-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Zikelic orcid: 0000-0002-4681-1699 citation: ama: 'Chatterjee K, Goharshady EK, Novotný P, Zikelic D. Proving non-termination by program reversal. In: Proceedings of the 42nd ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation. Association for Computing Machinery; 2021:1033-1048. doi:10.1145/3453483.3454093' apa: 'Chatterjee, K., Goharshady, E. K., Novotný, P., & Zikelic, D. (2021). Proving non-termination by program reversal. In Proceedings of the 42nd ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation (pp. 1033–1048). Online: Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/3453483.3454093' chicago: Chatterjee, Krishnendu, Ehsan Kafshdar Goharshady, Petr Novotný, and Dorde Zikelic. “Proving Non-Termination by Program Reversal.” In Proceedings of the 42nd ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation, 1033–48. Association for Computing Machinery, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1145/3453483.3454093. ieee: K. Chatterjee, E. K. Goharshady, P. Novotný, and D. Zikelic, “Proving non-termination by program reversal,” in Proceedings of the 42nd ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation, Online, 2021, pp. 1033–1048. ista: 'Chatterjee K, Goharshady EK, Novotný P, Zikelic D. 2021. Proving non-termination by program reversal. Proceedings of the 42nd ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation. PLDI: Programming Language Design and Implementation, 1033–1048.' mla: Chatterjee, Krishnendu, et al. “Proving Non-Termination by Program Reversal.” Proceedings of the 42nd ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation, Association for Computing Machinery, 2021, pp. 1033–48, doi:10.1145/3453483.3454093. short: K. Chatterjee, E.K. Goharshady, P. Novotný, D. Zikelic, in:, Proceedings of the 42nd ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation, Association for Computing Machinery, 2021, pp. 1033–1048. conference: end_date: 2021-06-26 location: Online name: 'PLDI: Programming Language Design and Implementation' start_date: 2021-06-20 date_created: 2021-07-11T22:01:17Z date_published: 2021-06-01T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2023-11-30T10:55:37Z day: '01' department: - _id: KrCh doi: 10.1145/3453483.3454093 ec_funded: 1 external_id: arxiv: - '2104.01189' isi: - '000723661700067' isi: 1 language: - iso: eng main_file_link: - open_access: '1' url: https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.01189 month: '06' oa: 1 oa_version: Preprint page: 1033-1048 project: - _id: 0599E47C-7A3F-11EA-A408-12923DDC885E call_identifier: H2020 grant_number: '863818' name: 'Formal Methods for Stochastic Models: Algorithms and Applications' publication: Proceedings of the 42nd ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation publication_identifier: isbn: - '9781450383912' publication_status: published publisher: Association for Computing Machinery quality_controlled: '1' related_material: record: - id: '14539' relation: dissertation_contains status: public scopus_import: '1' status: public title: Proving non-termination by program reversal type: conference user_id: 4359f0d1-fa6c-11eb-b949-802e58b17ae8 year: '2021' ... --- _id: '10414' abstract: - lang: eng text: 'We consider the almost-sure (a.s.) termination problem for probabilistic programs, which are a stochastic extension of classical imperative programs. Lexicographic ranking functions provide a sound and practical approach for termination of non-probabilistic programs, and their extension to probabilistic programs is achieved via lexicographic ranking supermartingales (LexRSMs). However, LexRSMs introduced in the previous work have a limitation that impedes their automation: all of their components have to be non-negative in all reachable states. This might result in LexRSM not existing even for simple terminating programs. Our contributions are twofold: First, we introduce a generalization of LexRSMs which allows for some components to be negative. This standard feature of non-probabilistic termination proofs was hitherto not known to be sound in the probabilistic setting, as the soundness proof requires a careful analysis of the underlying stochastic process. Second, we present polynomial-time algorithms using our generalized LexRSMs for proving a.s. termination in broad classes of linear-arithmetic programs.' acknowledgement: This research was partially supported by the ERC CoG 863818 (ForM-SMArt), the Czech Science Foundation grant No. GJ19-15134Y, and the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Grant Agreement No. 665385. alternative_title: - LNCS article_processing_charge: No author: - first_name: Krishnendu full_name: Chatterjee, Krishnendu id: 2E5DCA20-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Chatterjee orcid: 0000-0002-4561-241X - first_name: Ehsan Kafshdar full_name: Goharshady, Ehsan Kafshdar last_name: Goharshady - first_name: Petr full_name: Novotný, Petr id: 3CC3B868-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Novotný - first_name: Jiří full_name: Zárevúcky, Jiří last_name: Zárevúcky - first_name: Dorde full_name: Zikelic, Dorde id: 294AA7A6-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Zikelic orcid: 0000-0002-4681-1699 citation: ama: 'Chatterjee K, Goharshady EK, Novotný P, Zárevúcky J, Zikelic D. On lexicographic proof rules for probabilistic termination. In: 24th International Symposium on Formal Methods. Vol 13047. Springer Nature; 2021:619-639. doi:10.1007/978-3-030-90870-6_33' apa: 'Chatterjee, K., Goharshady, E. K., Novotný, P., Zárevúcky, J., & Zikelic, D. (2021). On lexicographic proof rules for probabilistic termination. In 24th International Symposium on Formal Methods (Vol. 13047, pp. 619–639). Virtual: Springer Nature. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-90870-6_33' chicago: Chatterjee, Krishnendu, Ehsan Kafshdar Goharshady, Petr Novotný, Jiří Zárevúcky, and Dorde Zikelic. “On Lexicographic Proof Rules for Probabilistic Termination.” In 24th International Symposium on Formal Methods, 13047:619–39. Springer Nature, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-90870-6_33. ieee: K. Chatterjee, E. K. Goharshady, P. Novotný, J. Zárevúcky, and D. Zikelic, “On lexicographic proof rules for probabilistic termination,” in 24th International Symposium on Formal Methods, Virtual, 2021, vol. 13047, pp. 619–639. ista: 'Chatterjee K, Goharshady EK, Novotný P, Zárevúcky J, Zikelic D. 2021. On lexicographic proof rules for probabilistic termination. 24th International Symposium on Formal Methods. FM: Formal Methods, LNCS, vol. 13047, 619–639.' mla: Chatterjee, Krishnendu, et al. “On Lexicographic Proof Rules for Probabilistic Termination.” 24th International Symposium on Formal Methods, vol. 13047, Springer Nature, 2021, pp. 619–39, doi:10.1007/978-3-030-90870-6_33. short: K. Chatterjee, E.K. Goharshady, P. Novotný, J. Zárevúcky, D. Zikelic, in:, 24th International Symposium on Formal Methods, Springer Nature, 2021, pp. 619–639. conference: end_date: 2021-11-26 location: Virtual name: 'FM: Formal Methods' start_date: 2021-11-20 date_created: 2021-12-05T23:01:45Z date_published: 2021-11-10T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2024-01-17T08:19:41Z day: '10' department: - _id: KrCh doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-90870-6_33 ec_funded: 1 external_id: arxiv: - '2108.02188' isi: - '000758218600033' intvolume: ' 13047' isi: 1 language: - iso: eng main_file_link: - open_access: '1' url: https://arxiv.org/abs/2108.02188 month: '11' oa: 1 oa_version: Preprint page: 619-639 project: - _id: 0599E47C-7A3F-11EA-A408-12923DDC885E call_identifier: H2020 grant_number: '863818' name: 'Formal Methods for Stochastic Models: Algorithms and Applications' - _id: 2564DBCA-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 call_identifier: H2020 grant_number: '665385' name: International IST Doctoral Program publication: 24th International Symposium on Formal Methods publication_identifier: eisbn: - 978-3-030-90870-6 eissn: - 1611-3349 isbn: - 9-783-0309-0869-0 issn: - 0302-9743 publication_status: published publisher: Springer Nature quality_controlled: '1' related_material: record: - id: '14539' relation: dissertation_contains status: public - id: '14778' relation: later_version status: public scopus_import: '1' status: public title: On lexicographic proof rules for probabilistic termination type: conference user_id: 2DF688A6-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 volume: 13047 year: '2021' ... --- _id: '8934' abstract: - lang: eng text: "In this thesis, we consider several of the most classical and fundamental problems in static analysis and formal verification, including invariant generation, reachability analysis, termination analysis of probabilistic programs, data-flow analysis, quantitative analysis of Markov chains and Markov decision processes, and the problem of data packing in cache management.\r\nWe use techniques from parameterized complexity theory, polyhedral geometry, and real algebraic geometry to significantly improve the state-of-the-art, in terms of both scalability and completeness guarantees, for the mentioned problems. In some cases, our results are the first theoretical improvements for the respective problems in two or three decades." acknowledgement: 'The research was partially supported by an IBM PhD fellowship, a Facebook PhD fellowship, and DOC fellowship #24956 of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (OeAW).' alternative_title: - ISTA Thesis article_processing_charge: No author: - first_name: Amir Kafshdar full_name: Goharshady, Amir Kafshdar id: 391365CE-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Goharshady orcid: 0000-0003-1702-6584 citation: ama: Goharshady AK. Parameterized and algebro-geometric advances in static program analysis. 2021. doi:10.15479/AT:ISTA:8934 apa: Goharshady, A. K. (2021). Parameterized and algebro-geometric advances in static program analysis. Institute of Science and Technology Austria. https://doi.org/10.15479/AT:ISTA:8934 chicago: Goharshady, Amir Kafshdar. “Parameterized and Algebro-Geometric Advances in Static Program Analysis.” Institute of Science and Technology Austria, 2021. https://doi.org/10.15479/AT:ISTA:8934. ieee: A. K. Goharshady, “Parameterized and algebro-geometric advances in static program analysis,” Institute of Science and Technology Austria, 2021. ista: Goharshady AK. 2021. Parameterized and algebro-geometric advances in static program analysis. Institute of Science and Technology Austria. mla: Goharshady, Amir Kafshdar. Parameterized and Algebro-Geometric Advances in Static Program Analysis. Institute of Science and Technology Austria, 2021, doi:10.15479/AT:ISTA:8934. short: A.K. Goharshady, Parameterized and Algebro-Geometric Advances in Static Program Analysis, Institute of Science and Technology Austria, 2021. date_created: 2020-12-10T12:17:07Z date_published: 2021-01-01T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2023-09-22T10:03:21Z day: '01' ddc: - '005' degree_awarded: PhD department: - _id: KrCh - _id: GradSch doi: 10.15479/AT:ISTA:8934 file: - access_level: open_access checksum: d1b9db3725aed34dadd81274aeb9426c content_type: application/pdf creator: akafshda date_created: 2020-12-22T20:08:44Z date_updated: 2021-12-23T23:30:04Z embargo: 2021-12-22 file_id: '8969' file_name: Thesis-pdfa.pdf file_size: 5251507 relation: main_file - access_level: closed checksum: 1661df7b393e6866d2460eba3c905130 content_type: application/zip creator: akafshda date_created: 2020-12-22T20:08:50Z date_updated: 2021-03-04T23:30:04Z embargo_to: open_access file_id: '8970' file_name: source.zip file_size: 10636756 relation: source_file file_date_updated: 2021-12-23T23:30:04Z has_accepted_license: '1' language: - iso: eng license: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ month: '01' oa: 1 oa_version: Published Version page: '278' project: - _id: 267066CE-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 name: Quantitative Analysis of Probablistic Systems with a focus on Crypto-currencies - _id: 266EEEC0-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 name: Quantitative Game-theoretic Analysis of Blockchain Applications and Smart Contracts publication_identifier: issn: - 2663-337X publication_status: published publisher: Institute of Science and Technology Austria related_material: record: - id: '1386' relation: part_of_dissertation status: public - id: '1437' relation: part_of_dissertation status: public - id: '311' relation: part_of_dissertation status: public - id: '6056' relation: part_of_dissertation status: public - id: '6380' relation: part_of_dissertation status: public - id: '639' relation: part_of_dissertation status: public - id: '66' relation: part_of_dissertation status: public - id: '6780' relation: part_of_dissertation status: public - id: '6918' relation: part_of_dissertation status: public - id: '7810' relation: part_of_dissertation status: public - id: '6175' relation: part_of_dissertation status: public - id: '6378' relation: part_of_dissertation status: public - id: '6490' relation: part_of_dissertation status: public - id: '7014' relation: part_of_dissertation status: public - id: '8089' relation: part_of_dissertation status: public - id: '8728' relation: part_of_dissertation status: public - id: '7158' relation: part_of_dissertation status: public - id: '5977' relation: part_of_dissertation status: public - id: '6009' relation: part_of_dissertation status: public - id: '6340' relation: part_of_dissertation status: public - id: '949' relation: part_of_dissertation status: public status: public supervisor: - first_name: Krishnendu full_name: Chatterjee, Krishnendu id: 2E5DCA20-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Chatterjee orcid: 0000-0002-4561-241X title: Parameterized and algebro-geometric advances in static program analysis tmp: image: /images/cc_0.png legal_code_url: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode name: Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication (CC0 1.0) short: CC0 (1.0) type: dissertation user_id: c635000d-4b10-11ee-a964-aac5a93f6ac1 year: '2021' ... --- _id: '10293' abstract: - lang: eng text: "Indirect reciprocity in evolutionary game theory is a prominent mechanism for explaining the evolution of cooperation among unrelated individuals. In contrast to direct reciprocity, which is based on individuals meeting repeatedly, and conditionally cooperating by using their own experiences, indirect reciprocity is based on individuals’ reputations. If a player helps another, this increases the helper’s public standing, benefitting them in the future. This lets cooperation in the population emerge without individuals having to meet more than once. While the two modes of reciprocity are intertwined, they are difficult to compare. Thus, they are usually studied in isolation. Direct reciprocity can maintain cooperation with simple strategies, and is robust against noise even when players do not remember more\r\nthan their partner’s last action. Meanwhile, indirect reciprocity requires its successful strategies, or social norms, to be more complex. Exhaustive search previously identified eight such norms, called the “leading eight”, which excel at maintaining cooperation. However, as the first result of this thesis, we show that the leading eight break down once we remove the fundamental assumption that information is synchronized and public, such that everyone agrees on reputations. Once we consider a more realistic scenario of imperfect information, where reputations are private, and individuals occasionally misinterpret or miss observations, the leading eight do not promote cooperation anymore. Instead, minor initial disagreements can proliferate, fragmenting populations into subgroups. In a next step, we consider ways to mitigate this issue. We first explore whether introducing “generosity” can stabilize cooperation when players use the leading eight strategies in noisy environments. This approach of modifying strategies to include probabilistic elements for coping with errors is known to work well in direct reciprocity. However, as we show here, it fails for the more complex norms of indirect reciprocity. Imperfect information still prevents cooperation from evolving. On the other hand, we succeeded to show in this thesis that modifying the leading eight to use “quantitative assessment”, i.e. tracking reputation scores on a scale beyond good and bad, and making overall judgments of others based on a threshold, is highly successful, even when noise increases in the environment. Cooperation can flourish when reputations\r\nare more nuanced, and players have a broader understanding what it means to be “good.” Finally, we present a single theoretical framework that unites the two modes of reciprocity despite their differences. Within this framework, we identify a novel simple and successful strategy for indirect reciprocity, which can cope with noisy environments and has an analogue in direct reciprocity. We can also analyze decision making when different sources of information are available. Our results help highlight that for sustaining cooperation, already the most simple rules of reciprocity can be sufficient." alternative_title: - ISTA Thesis article_processing_charge: No author: - first_name: Laura full_name: Schmid, Laura id: 38B437DE-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Schmid orcid: 0000-0002-6978-7329 citation: ama: Schmid L. Evolution of cooperation via (in)direct reciprocity under imperfect information. 2021. doi:10.15479/at:ista:10293 apa: Schmid, L. (2021). Evolution of cooperation via (in)direct reciprocity under imperfect information. Institute of Science and Technology Austria. https://doi.org/10.15479/at:ista:10293 chicago: Schmid, Laura. “Evolution of Cooperation via (in)Direct Reciprocity under Imperfect Information.” Institute of Science and Technology Austria, 2021. https://doi.org/10.15479/at:ista:10293. ieee: L. Schmid, “Evolution of cooperation via (in)direct reciprocity under imperfect information,” Institute of Science and Technology Austria, 2021. ista: Schmid L. 2021. Evolution of cooperation via (in)direct reciprocity under imperfect information. Institute of Science and Technology Austria. mla: Schmid, Laura. Evolution of Cooperation via (in)Direct Reciprocity under Imperfect Information. Institute of Science and Technology Austria, 2021, doi:10.15479/at:ista:10293. short: L. Schmid, Evolution of Cooperation via (in)Direct Reciprocity under Imperfect Information, Institute of Science and Technology Austria, 2021. date_created: 2021-11-15T17:12:57Z date_published: 2021-11-17T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2023-11-07T08:28:29Z day: '17' ddc: - '519' - '576' degree_awarded: PhD department: - _id: GradSch - _id: KrCh doi: 10.15479/at:ista:10293 ec_funded: 1 file: - access_level: closed checksum: 86a05b430756ca12ae8107b6e6f3c1e5 content_type: application/zip creator: lschmid date_created: 2021-11-18T12:41:46Z date_updated: 2022-12-20T23:30:08Z embargo_to: open_access file_id: '10305' file_name: submission_new.zip file_size: 29703124 relation: source_file - access_level: open_access checksum: d940af042e94660c6b6a7b4f0b184d47 content_type: application/pdf creator: lschmid date_created: 2021-11-18T12:59:15Z date_updated: 2022-12-20T23:30:08Z embargo: 2022-10-18 file_id: '10306' file_name: thesis_new_upload.pdf file_size: 8320985 relation: main_file file_date_updated: 2022-12-20T23:30:08Z has_accepted_license: '1' language: - iso: eng month: '11' oa: 1 oa_version: Published Version page: '171' project: - _id: 2581B60A-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 call_identifier: FP7 grant_number: '279307' name: 'Quantitative Graph Games: Theory and Applications' - _id: 0599E47C-7A3F-11EA-A408-12923DDC885E call_identifier: H2020 grant_number: '863818' name: 'Formal Methods for Stochastic Models: Algorithms and Applications' - _id: 25F42A32-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 call_identifier: FWF grant_number: Z211 name: The Wittgenstein Prize - _id: 2584A770-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 call_identifier: FWF grant_number: P 23499-N23 name: Modern Graph Algorithmic Techniques in Formal Verification - _id: 25832EC2-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 call_identifier: FWF grant_number: S 11407_N23 name: Rigorous Systems Engineering publication_identifier: issn: - 2663-337X publication_status: published publisher: Institute of Science and Technology Austria related_material: record: - id: '9997' relation: part_of_dissertation status: public - id: '2' relation: part_of_dissertation status: public - id: '9402' relation: part_of_dissertation status: public status: public supervisor: - first_name: Krishnendu full_name: Chatterjee, Krishnendu id: 2E5DCA20-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Chatterjee orcid: 0000-0002-4561-241X title: Evolution of cooperation via (in)direct reciprocity under imperfect information type: dissertation user_id: c635000d-4b10-11ee-a964-aac5a93f6ac1 year: '2021' ... --- _id: '9997' abstract: - lang: eng text: Indirect reciprocity is a mechanism for the evolution of cooperation based on social norms. This mechanism requires that individuals in a population observe and judge each other’s behaviors. Individuals with a good reputation are more likely to receive help from others. Previous work suggests that indirect reciprocity is only effective when all relevant information is reliable and publicly available. Otherwise, individuals may disagree on how to assess others, even if they all apply the same social norm. Such disagreements can lead to a breakdown of cooperation. Here we explore whether the predominantly studied ‘leading eight’ social norms of indirect reciprocity can be made more robust by equipping them with an element of generosity. To this end, we distinguish between two kinds of generosity. According to assessment generosity, individuals occasionally assign a good reputation to group members who would usually be regarded as bad. According to action generosity, individuals occasionally cooperate with group members with whom they would usually defect. Using individual-based simulations, we show that the two kinds of generosity have a very different effect on the resulting reputation dynamics. Assessment generosity tends to add to the overall noise and allows defectors to invade. In contrast, a limited amount of action generosity can be beneficial in a few cases. However, even when action generosity is beneficial, the respective simulations do not result in full cooperation. Our results suggest that while generosity can favor cooperation when individuals use the most simple strategies of reciprocity, it is disadvantageous when individuals use more complex social norms. acknowledgement: 'This work was supported by the European Research Council CoG 863818 (ForM-SMArt) (to K.C.) and the European Research Council Starting Grant 850529: E-DIRECT (to C.H.). L.S. received additional partial support by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) under Grant Z211-N23 (Wittgenstein Award).' article_number: '17443' article_processing_charge: Yes article_type: original author: - first_name: Laura full_name: Schmid, Laura id: 38B437DE-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Schmid orcid: 0000-0002-6978-7329 - first_name: Pouya full_name: Shati, Pouya last_name: Shati - first_name: Christian full_name: Hilbe, Christian last_name: Hilbe - first_name: Krishnendu full_name: Chatterjee, Krishnendu id: 2E5DCA20-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Chatterjee orcid: 0000-0002-4561-241X citation: ama: Schmid L, Shati P, Hilbe C, Chatterjee K. The evolution of indirect reciprocity under action and assessment generosity. Scientific Reports. 2021;11(1). doi:10.1038/s41598-021-96932-1 apa: Schmid, L., Shati, P., Hilbe, C., & Chatterjee, K. (2021). The evolution of indirect reciprocity under action and assessment generosity. Scientific Reports. Springer Nature. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-96932-1 chicago: Schmid, Laura, Pouya Shati, Christian Hilbe, and Krishnendu Chatterjee. “The Evolution of Indirect Reciprocity under Action and Assessment Generosity.” Scientific Reports. Springer Nature, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-96932-1. ieee: L. Schmid, P. Shati, C. Hilbe, and K. Chatterjee, “The evolution of indirect reciprocity under action and assessment generosity,” Scientific Reports, vol. 11, no. 1. Springer Nature, 2021. ista: Schmid L, Shati P, Hilbe C, Chatterjee K. 2021. The evolution of indirect reciprocity under action and assessment generosity. Scientific Reports. 11(1), 17443. mla: Schmid, Laura, et al. “The Evolution of Indirect Reciprocity under Action and Assessment Generosity.” Scientific Reports, vol. 11, no. 1, 17443, Springer Nature, 2021, doi:10.1038/s41598-021-96932-1. short: L. Schmid, P. Shati, C. Hilbe, K. Chatterjee, Scientific Reports 11 (2021). date_created: 2021-09-11T16:22:02Z date_published: 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2024-03-28T23:30:45Z day: '31' ddc: - '003' department: - _id: GradSch - _id: KrCh doi: 10.1038/s41598-021-96932-1 ec_funded: 1 external_id: isi: - '000692406400018' pmid: - '34465830' file: - access_level: open_access checksum: 19df8816cf958b272b85841565c73182 content_type: application/pdf creator: cchlebak date_created: 2021-09-13T10:31:21Z date_updated: 2021-09-13T10:31:21Z file_id: '10006' file_name: 2021_ScientificReports_Schmid.pdf file_size: 2424943 relation: main_file success: 1 file_date_updated: 2021-09-13T10:31:21Z has_accepted_license: '1' intvolume: ' 11' isi: 1 issue: '1' keyword: - Multidisciplinary language: - iso: eng month: '08' oa: 1 oa_version: Published Version pmid: 1 project: - _id: 0599E47C-7A3F-11EA-A408-12923DDC885E call_identifier: H2020 grant_number: '863818' name: 'Formal Methods for Stochastic Models: Algorithms and Applications' - _id: 25F42A32-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 call_identifier: FWF grant_number: Z211 name: The Wittgenstein Prize publication: Scientific Reports publication_identifier: eissn: - 2045-2322 publication_status: published publisher: Springer Nature quality_controlled: '1' related_material: record: - id: '10293' relation: dissertation_contains status: public status: public title: The evolution of indirect reciprocity under action and assessment generosity tmp: image: /images/cc_by.png legal_code_url: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode name: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC-BY 4.0) short: CC BY (4.0) type: journal_article user_id: 4359f0d1-fa6c-11eb-b949-802e58b17ae8 volume: 11 year: '2021' ... --- _id: '9402' abstract: - lang: eng text: Direct and indirect reciprocity are key mechanisms for the evolution of cooperation. Direct reciprocity means that individuals use their own experience to decide whether to cooperate with another person. Indirect reciprocity means that they also consider the experiences of others. Although these two mechanisms are intertwined, they are typically studied in isolation. Here, we introduce a mathematical framework that allows us to explore both kinds of reciprocity simultaneously. We show that the well-known ‘generous tit-for-tat’ strategy of direct reciprocity has a natural analogue in indirect reciprocity, which we call ‘generous scoring’. Using an equilibrium analysis, we characterize under which conditions either of the two strategies can maintain cooperation. With simulations, we additionally explore which kind of reciprocity evolves when members of a population engage in social learning to adapt to their environment. Our results draw unexpected connections between direct and indirect reciprocity while highlighting important differences regarding their evolvability. acknowledgement: 'This work was supported by the European Research Council CoG 863818 (ForM-SMArt) (to K.C.), the European Research Council Start Grant 279307: Graph Games (to K.C.), and the European Research Council Starting Grant 850529: E-DIRECT (to C.H.). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish or preparation of the manuscript.' article_processing_charge: No article_type: original author: - first_name: Laura full_name: Schmid, Laura id: 38B437DE-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Schmid orcid: 0000-0002-6978-7329 - first_name: Krishnendu full_name: Chatterjee, Krishnendu id: 2E5DCA20-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Chatterjee orcid: 0000-0002-4561-241X - first_name: Christian full_name: Hilbe, Christian id: 2FDF8F3C-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Hilbe orcid: 0000-0001-5116-955X - first_name: Martin A. full_name: Nowak, Martin A. last_name: Nowak citation: ama: Schmid L, Chatterjee K, Hilbe C, Nowak MA. A unified framework of direct and indirect reciprocity. Nature Human Behaviour. 2021;5(10):1292–1302. doi:10.1038/s41562-021-01114-8 apa: Schmid, L., Chatterjee, K., Hilbe, C., & Nowak, M. A. (2021). A unified framework of direct and indirect reciprocity. Nature Human Behaviour. Springer Nature. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-021-01114-8 chicago: Schmid, Laura, Krishnendu Chatterjee, Christian Hilbe, and Martin A. Nowak. “A Unified Framework of Direct and Indirect Reciprocity.” Nature Human Behaviour. Springer Nature, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-021-01114-8. ieee: L. Schmid, K. Chatterjee, C. Hilbe, and M. A. Nowak, “A unified framework of direct and indirect reciprocity,” Nature Human Behaviour, vol. 5, no. 10. Springer Nature, pp. 1292–1302, 2021. ista: Schmid L, Chatterjee K, Hilbe C, Nowak MA. 2021. A unified framework of direct and indirect reciprocity. Nature Human Behaviour. 5(10), 1292–1302. mla: Schmid, Laura, et al. “A Unified Framework of Direct and Indirect Reciprocity.” Nature Human Behaviour, vol. 5, no. 10, Springer Nature, 2021, pp. 1292–1302, doi:10.1038/s41562-021-01114-8. short: L. Schmid, K. Chatterjee, C. Hilbe, M.A. Nowak, Nature Human Behaviour 5 (2021) 1292–1302. date_created: 2021-05-18T16:56:57Z date_published: 2021-05-13T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2024-03-28T23:30:45Z day: '13' ddc: - '000' department: - _id: KrCh - _id: GradSch doi: 10.1038/s41562-021-01114-8 ec_funded: 1 external_id: isi: - '000650304000002' pmid: - '33986519' file: - access_level: open_access checksum: 34f55e173f90dc1dab731063458ac780 content_type: application/pdf creator: dernst date_created: 2023-11-07T08:27:23Z date_updated: 2023-11-07T08:27:23Z file_id: '14496' file_name: 2021_NatureHumanBehaviour_Schmid_accepted.pdf file_size: 5232761 relation: main_file success: 1 file_date_updated: 2023-11-07T08:27:23Z has_accepted_license: '1' intvolume: ' 5' isi: 1 issue: '10' language: - iso: eng month: '05' oa: 1 oa_version: Submitted Version page: 1292–1302 pmid: 1 project: - _id: 0599E47C-7A3F-11EA-A408-12923DDC885E call_identifier: H2020 grant_number: '863818' name: 'Formal Methods for Stochastic Models: Algorithms and Applications' - _id: 2581B60A-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 call_identifier: FP7 grant_number: '279307' name: 'Quantitative Graph Games: Theory and Applications' publication: Nature Human Behaviour publication_identifier: eissn: - 2397-3374 publication_status: published publisher: Springer Nature quality_controlled: '1' related_material: link: - description: News on IST Homepage relation: press_release url: https://ist.ac.at/en/news/the-emergence-of-cooperation/ record: - id: '10293' relation: dissertation_contains status: public scopus_import: '1' status: public title: A unified framework of direct and indirect reciprocity type: journal_article user_id: 2DF688A6-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 volume: 5 year: '2021' ... --- _id: '7346' abstract: - lang: eng text: 'The Price of Anarchy (PoA) is a well-established game-theoretic concept to shed light on coordination issues arising in open distributed systems. Leaving agents to selfishly optimize comes with the risk of ending up in sub-optimal states (in terms of performance and/or costs), compared to a centralized system design. However, the PoA relies on strong assumptions about agents'' rationality (e.g., resources and information) and interactions, whereas in many distributed systems agents interact locally with bounded resources. They do so repeatedly over time (in contrast to "one-shot games"), and their strategies may evolve. Using a more realistic evolutionary game model, this paper introduces a realized evolutionary Price of Anarchy (ePoA). The ePoA allows an exploration of equilibrium selection in dynamic distributed systems with multiple equilibria, based on local interactions of simple memoryless agents. Considering a fundamental game related to virus propagation on networks, we present analytical bounds on the ePoA in basic network topologies and for different strategy update dynamics. In particular, deriving stationary distributions of the stochastic evolutionary process, we find that the Nash equilibria are not always the most abundant states, and that different processes can feature significant off-equilibrium behavior, leading to a significantly higher ePoA compared to the PoA studied traditionally in the literature. ' alternative_title: - LIPIcs article_number: '21' article_processing_charge: No author: - first_name: Laura full_name: Schmid, Laura id: 38B437DE-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Schmid orcid: 0000-0002-6978-7329 - first_name: Krishnendu full_name: Chatterjee, Krishnendu id: 2E5DCA20-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Chatterjee orcid: 0000-0002-4561-241X - first_name: Stefan full_name: Schmid, Stefan last_name: Schmid citation: ama: 'Schmid L, Chatterjee K, Schmid S. The evolutionary price of anarchy: Locally bounded agents in a dynamic virus game. In: Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Principles of Distributed Systems. Vol 153. Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik; 2020. doi:10.4230/LIPIcs.OPODIS.2019.21' apa: 'Schmid, L., Chatterjee, K., & Schmid, S. (2020). The evolutionary price of anarchy: Locally bounded agents in a dynamic virus game. In Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Principles of Distributed Systems (Vol. 153). Neuchâtel, Switzerland: Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik. https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.OPODIS.2019.21' chicago: 'Schmid, Laura, Krishnendu Chatterjee, and Stefan Schmid. “The Evolutionary Price of Anarchy: Locally Bounded Agents in a Dynamic Virus Game.” In Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Principles of Distributed Systems, Vol. 153. Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik, 2020. https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.OPODIS.2019.21.' ieee: 'L. Schmid, K. Chatterjee, and S. Schmid, “The evolutionary price of anarchy: Locally bounded agents in a dynamic virus game,” in Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Principles of Distributed Systems, Neuchâtel, Switzerland, 2020, vol. 153.' ista: 'Schmid L, Chatterjee K, Schmid S. 2020. The evolutionary price of anarchy: Locally bounded agents in a dynamic virus game. Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Principles of Distributed Systems. OPODIS: International Conference on Principles of Distributed Systems, LIPIcs, vol. 153, 21.' mla: 'Schmid, Laura, et al. “The Evolutionary Price of Anarchy: Locally Bounded Agents in a Dynamic Virus Game.” Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Principles of Distributed Systems, vol. 153, 21, Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik, 2020, doi:10.4230/LIPIcs.OPODIS.2019.21.' short: L. Schmid, K. Chatterjee, S. Schmid, in:, Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Principles of Distributed Systems, Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik, 2020. conference: end_date: 2019-12-19 location: Neuchâtel, Switzerland name: 'OPODIS: International Conference on Principles of Distributed Systems' start_date: 2019-12-17 date_created: 2020-01-21T16:00:26Z date_published: 2020-02-10T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2023-02-23T13:05:49Z day: '10' ddc: - '000' department: - _id: KrCh doi: 10.4230/LIPIcs.OPODIS.2019.21 external_id: arxiv: - '1906.00110' file: - access_level: open_access checksum: 9a91916ac2c21ab42458fcda39ef0b8d content_type: application/pdf creator: dernst date_created: 2020-03-23T09:14:06Z date_updated: 2020-07-14T12:47:56Z file_id: '7608' file_name: 2019_LIPIcS_Schmid.pdf file_size: 630752 relation: main_file file_date_updated: 2020-07-14T12:47:56Z has_accepted_license: '1' intvolume: ' 153' language: - iso: eng month: '02' oa: 1 oa_version: Preprint project: - _id: 25832EC2-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 call_identifier: FWF grant_number: S 11407_N23 name: Rigorous Systems Engineering publication: Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Principles of Distributed Systems publication_status: published publisher: Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik quality_controlled: '1' scopus_import: '1' status: public title: 'The evolutionary price of anarchy: Locally bounded agents in a dynamic virus game' tmp: image: /images/cc_by.png legal_code_url: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode name: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC-BY 4.0) short: CC BY (4.0) type: conference user_id: 2DF688A6-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 volume: 153 year: '2020' ... --- _id: '8600' abstract: - lang: eng text: 'A vector addition system with states (VASS) consists of a finite set of states and counters. A transition changes the current state to the next state, and every counter is either incremented, or decremented, or left unchanged. A state and value for each counter is a configuration; and a computation is an infinite sequence of configurations with transitions between successive configurations. A probabilistic VASS consists of a VASS along with a probability distribution over the transitions for each state. Qualitative properties such as state and configuration reachability have been widely studied for VASS. In this work we consider multi-dimensional long-run average objectives for VASS and probabilistic VASS. For a counter, the cost of a configuration is the value of the counter; and the long-run average value of a computation for the counter is the long-run average of the costs of the configurations in the computation. The multi-dimensional long-run average problem given a VASS and a threshold value for each counter, asks whether there is a computation such that for each counter the long-run average value for the counter does not exceed the respective threshold. For probabilistic VASS, instead of the existence of a computation, we consider whether the expected long-run average value for each counter does not exceed the respective threshold. Our main results are as follows: we show that the multi-dimensional long-run average problem (a) is NP-complete for integer-valued VASS; (b) is undecidable for natural-valued VASS (i.e., nonnegative counters); and (c) can be solved in polynomial time for probabilistic integer-valued VASS, and probabilistic natural-valued VASS when all computations are non-terminating.' alternative_title: - LIPIcs article_number: '23' article_processing_charge: No author: - first_name: Krishnendu full_name: Chatterjee, Krishnendu id: 2E5DCA20-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Chatterjee orcid: 0000-0002-4561-241X - first_name: Thomas A full_name: Henzinger, Thomas A id: 40876CD8-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Henzinger orcid: 0000-0002-2985-7724 - first_name: Jan full_name: Otop, Jan id: 2FC5DA74-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Otop citation: ama: 'Chatterjee K, Henzinger TA, Otop J. Multi-dimensional long-run average problems for vector addition systems with states. In: 31st International Conference on Concurrency Theory. Vol 171. Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik; 2020. doi:10.4230/LIPIcs.CONCUR.2020.23' apa: 'Chatterjee, K., Henzinger, T. A., & Otop, J. (2020). Multi-dimensional long-run average problems for vector addition systems with states. In 31st International Conference on Concurrency Theory (Vol. 171). Virtual: Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik. https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.CONCUR.2020.23' chicago: Chatterjee, Krishnendu, Thomas A Henzinger, and Jan Otop. “Multi-Dimensional Long-Run Average Problems for Vector Addition Systems with States.” In 31st International Conference on Concurrency Theory, Vol. 171. Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik, 2020. https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.CONCUR.2020.23. ieee: K. Chatterjee, T. A. Henzinger, and J. Otop, “Multi-dimensional long-run average problems for vector addition systems with states,” in 31st International Conference on Concurrency Theory, Virtual, 2020, vol. 171. ista: 'Chatterjee K, Henzinger TA, Otop J. 2020. Multi-dimensional long-run average problems for vector addition systems with states. 31st International Conference on Concurrency Theory. CONCUR: Conference on Concurrency Theory, LIPIcs, vol. 171, 23.' mla: Chatterjee, Krishnendu, et al. “Multi-Dimensional Long-Run Average Problems for Vector Addition Systems with States.” 31st International Conference on Concurrency Theory, vol. 171, 23, Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik, 2020, doi:10.4230/LIPIcs.CONCUR.2020.23. short: K. Chatterjee, T.A. Henzinger, J. Otop, in:, 31st International Conference on Concurrency Theory, Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik, 2020. conference: end_date: 2020-09-04 location: Virtual name: 'CONCUR: Conference on Concurrency Theory' start_date: 2020-09-01 date_created: 2020-10-04T22:01:36Z date_published: 2020-08-06T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2021-01-12T08:20:15Z day: '06' ddc: - '000' department: - _id: KrCh - _id: ToHe doi: 10.4230/LIPIcs.CONCUR.2020.23 external_id: arxiv: - '2007.08917' file: - access_level: open_access checksum: 5039752f644c4b72b9361d21a5e31baf content_type: application/pdf creator: dernst date_created: 2020-10-05T14:04:25Z date_updated: 2020-10-05T14:04:25Z file_id: '8610' file_name: 2020_LIPIcsCONCUR_Chatterjee.pdf file_size: 601231 relation: main_file success: 1 file_date_updated: 2020-10-05T14:04:25Z has_accepted_license: '1' intvolume: ' 171' language: - iso: eng license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ month: '08' oa: 1 oa_version: Published Version project: - _id: 25832EC2-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 call_identifier: FWF grant_number: S 11407_N23 name: Rigorous Systems Engineering - _id: 25F2ACDE-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 call_identifier: FWF grant_number: S11402-N23 name: Rigorous Systems Engineering - _id: 25F42A32-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 call_identifier: FWF grant_number: Z211 name: The Wittgenstein Prize publication: 31st International Conference on Concurrency Theory publication_identifier: isbn: - '9783959771603' issn: - '18688969' publication_status: published publisher: Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik quality_controlled: '1' scopus_import: '1' status: public title: Multi-dimensional long-run average problems for vector addition systems with states tmp: image: /images/cc_by.png legal_code_url: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/legalcode name: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0) short: CC BY (3.0) type: conference user_id: 2DF688A6-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 volume: 171 year: '2020' ... --- _id: '8533' abstract: - lang: eng text: Game of Life is a simple and elegant model to study dynamical system over networks. The model consists of a graph where every vertex has one of two types, namely, dead or alive. A configuration is a mapping of the vertices to the types. An update rule describes how the type of a vertex is updated given the types of its neighbors. In every round, all vertices are updated synchronously, which leads to a configuration update. While in general, Game of Life allows a broad range of update rules, we focus on two simple families of update rules, namely, underpopulation and overpopulation, that model several interesting dynamics studied in the literature. In both settings, a dead vertex requires at least a desired number of live neighbors to become alive. For underpopulation (resp., overpopulation), a live vertex requires at least (resp. at most) a desired number of live neighbors to remain alive. We study the basic computation problems, e.g., configuration reachability, for these two families of rules. For underpopulation rules, we show that these problems can be solved in polynomial time, whereas for overpopulation rules they are PSPACE-complete. acknowledgement: "Krishnendu Chatterjee: The research was partially supported by the Vienna Science and\r\nTechnology Fund (WWTF) Project ICT15-003.\r\nIsmaël Jecker: This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research\r\nand innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Grant Agreement No. 754411." alternative_title: - LIPIcs article_number: 22:1-22:13 article_processing_charge: No author: - first_name: Krishnendu full_name: Chatterjee, Krishnendu id: 2E5DCA20-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Chatterjee orcid: 0000-0002-4561-241X - first_name: Rasmus full_name: Ibsen-Jensen, Rasmus id: 3B699956-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Ibsen-Jensen orcid: 0000-0003-4783-0389 - first_name: Ismael R full_name: Jecker, Ismael R id: 85D7C63E-7D5D-11E9-9C0F-98C4E5697425 last_name: Jecker - first_name: Jakub full_name: Svoboda, Jakub id: 130759D2-D7DD-11E9-87D2-DE0DE6697425 last_name: Svoboda citation: ama: 'Chatterjee K, Ibsen-Jensen R, Jecker IR, Svoboda J. Simplified game of life: Algorithms and complexity. In: 45th International Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science. Vol 170. Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik; 2020. doi:10.4230/LIPIcs.MFCS.2020.22' apa: 'Chatterjee, K., Ibsen-Jensen, R., Jecker, I. R., & Svoboda, J. (2020). Simplified game of life: Algorithms and complexity. In 45th International Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science (Vol. 170). Prague, Czech Republic: Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik. https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.MFCS.2020.22' chicago: 'Chatterjee, Krishnendu, Rasmus Ibsen-Jensen, Ismael R Jecker, and Jakub Svoboda. “Simplified Game of Life: Algorithms and Complexity.” In 45th International Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science, Vol. 170. Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik, 2020. https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.MFCS.2020.22.' ieee: 'K. Chatterjee, R. Ibsen-Jensen, I. R. Jecker, and J. Svoboda, “Simplified game of life: Algorithms and complexity,” in 45th International Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science, Prague, Czech Republic, 2020, vol. 170.' ista: 'Chatterjee K, Ibsen-Jensen R, Jecker IR, Svoboda J. 2020. Simplified game of life: Algorithms and complexity. 45th International Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science. MFCS: Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science, LIPIcs, vol. 170, 22:1-22:13.' mla: 'Chatterjee, Krishnendu, et al. “Simplified Game of Life: Algorithms and Complexity.” 45th International Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science, vol. 170, 22:1-22:13, Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik, 2020, doi:10.4230/LIPIcs.MFCS.2020.22.' short: K. Chatterjee, R. Ibsen-Jensen, I.R. Jecker, J. Svoboda, in:, 45th International Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science, Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik, 2020. conference: end_date: 2020-08-28 location: Prague, Czech Republic name: 'MFCS: Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science' start_date: 2020-08-24 date_created: 2020-09-20T22:01:36Z date_published: 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2021-01-12T08:19:55Z day: '18' ddc: - '000' department: - _id: KrCh doi: 10.4230/LIPIcs.MFCS.2020.22 ec_funded: 1 external_id: arxiv: - '2007.02894' file: - access_level: open_access checksum: bbd7c4f55d45f2ff2a0a4ef0e10a77b1 content_type: application/pdf creator: dernst date_created: 2020-09-21T13:57:34Z date_updated: 2020-09-21T13:57:34Z file_id: '8550' file_name: 2020_LIPIcs_Chatterjee.pdf file_size: 491374 relation: main_file success: 1 file_date_updated: 2020-09-21T13:57:34Z has_accepted_license: '1' intvolume: ' 170' language: - iso: eng month: '08' oa: 1 oa_version: Published Version project: - _id: 25892FC0-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 grant_number: ICT15-003 name: Efficient Algorithms for Computer Aided Verification - _id: 260C2330-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 call_identifier: H2020 grant_number: '754411' name: ISTplus - Postdoctoral Fellowships publication: 45th International Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science publication_identifier: isbn: - '9783959771597' issn: - '18688969' publication_status: published publisher: Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik quality_controlled: '1' scopus_import: '1' status: public title: 'Simplified game of life: Algorithms and complexity' tmp: image: /images/cc_by.png legal_code_url: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/legalcode name: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0) short: CC BY (3.0) type: conference user_id: 2DF688A6-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 volume: 170 year: '2020' ... --- _id: '8534' abstract: - lang: eng text: A regular language L of finite words is composite if there are regular languages L₁,L₂,…,L_t such that L = ⋂_{i = 1}^t L_i and the index (number of states in a minimal DFA) of every language L_i is strictly smaller than the index of L. Otherwise, L is prime. Primality of regular languages was introduced and studied in [O. Kupferman and J. Mosheiff, 2015], where the complexity of deciding the primality of the language of a given DFA was left open, with a doubly-exponential gap between the upper and lower bounds. We study primality for unary regular languages, namely regular languages with a singleton alphabet. A unary language corresponds to a subset of ℕ, making the study of unary prime languages closer to that of primality in number theory. We show that the setting of languages is richer. In particular, while every composite number is the product of two smaller numbers, the number t of languages necessary to decompose a composite unary language induces a strict hierarchy. In addition, a primality witness for a unary language L, namely a word that is not in L but is in all products of languages that contain L and have an index smaller than L’s, may be of exponential length. Still, we are able to characterize compositionality by structural properties of a DFA for L, leading to a LogSpace algorithm for primality checking of unary DFAs. acknowledgement: "Ismaël Jecker: This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon\r\n2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Grant Agreement No.\r\n754411. Nicolas Mazzocchi: PhD fellowship FRIA from the F.R.S.-FNRS." alternative_title: - LIPIcs article_number: 51:1-51:12 article_processing_charge: No author: - first_name: Ismael R full_name: Jecker, Ismael R id: 85D7C63E-7D5D-11E9-9C0F-98C4E5697425 last_name: Jecker - first_name: Orna full_name: Kupferman, Orna last_name: Kupferman - first_name: Nicolas full_name: Mazzocchi, Nicolas last_name: Mazzocchi citation: ama: 'Jecker IR, Kupferman O, Mazzocchi N. Unary prime languages. In: 45th International Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science. Vol 170. Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik; 2020. doi:10.4230/LIPIcs.MFCS.2020.51' apa: 'Jecker, I. R., Kupferman, O., & Mazzocchi, N. (2020). Unary prime languages. In 45th International Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science (Vol. 170). Prague, Czech Republic: Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik. https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.MFCS.2020.51' chicago: Jecker, Ismael R, Orna Kupferman, and Nicolas Mazzocchi. “Unary Prime Languages.” In 45th International Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science, Vol. 170. Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik, 2020. https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.MFCS.2020.51. ieee: I. R. Jecker, O. Kupferman, and N. Mazzocchi, “Unary prime languages,” in 45th International Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science, Prague, Czech Republic, 2020, vol. 170. ista: 'Jecker IR, Kupferman O, Mazzocchi N. 2020. Unary prime languages. 45th International Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science. MFCS: Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science, LIPIcs, vol. 170, 51:1-51:12.' mla: Jecker, Ismael R., et al. “Unary Prime Languages.” 45th International Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science, vol. 170, 51:1-51:12, Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik, 2020, doi:10.4230/LIPIcs.MFCS.2020.51. short: I.R. Jecker, O. Kupferman, N. Mazzocchi, in:, 45th International Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science, Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik, 2020. conference: end_date: 2020-08-28 location: Prague, Czech Republic name: 'MFCS: Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science' start_date: 2020-08-24 date_created: 2020-09-20T22:01:36Z date_published: 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2021-01-12T08:19:56Z day: '18' ddc: - '000' department: - _id: KrCh doi: 10.4230/LIPIcs.MFCS.2020.51 ec_funded: 1 file: - access_level: open_access checksum: 2dc9e2fad6becd4563aef3e27a473f70 content_type: application/pdf creator: dernst date_created: 2020-09-21T14:17:08Z date_updated: 2020-09-21T14:17:08Z file_id: '8552' file_name: 2020_LIPIcsMFCS_Jecker.pdf file_size: 597977 relation: main_file success: 1 file_date_updated: 2020-09-21T14:17:08Z has_accepted_license: '1' intvolume: ' 170' language: - iso: eng month: '08' oa: 1 oa_version: Published Version project: - _id: 260C2330-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 call_identifier: H2020 grant_number: '754411' name: ISTplus - Postdoctoral Fellowships publication: 45th International Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science publication_identifier: isbn: - '9783959771597' issn: - '18688969' publication_status: published publisher: Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik quality_controlled: '1' scopus_import: '1' status: public title: Unary prime languages tmp: image: /images/cc_by.png legal_code_url: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/legalcode name: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0) short: CC BY (3.0) type: conference user_id: 2DF688A6-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 volume: 170 year: '2020' ... --- _id: '7955' abstract: - lang: eng text: Simple stochastic games are turn-based 2½-player games with a reachability objective. The basic question asks whether one player can ensure reaching a given target with at least a given probability. A natural extension is games with a conjunction of such conditions as objective. Despite a plethora of recent results on the analysis of systems with multiple objectives, the decidability of this basic problem remains open. In this paper, we present an algorithm approximating the Pareto frontier of the achievable values to a given precision. Moreover, it is an anytime algorithm, meaning it can be stopped at any time returning the current approximation and its error bound. acknowledgement: "Pranav Ashok, Jan Křetínský and Maximilian Weininger were funded in part by TUM IGSSE Grant 10.06 (PARSEC) and the German Research Foundation (DFG) project KR 4890/2-1\r\n“Statistical Unbounded Verification”. Krishnendu Chatterjee was supported by the ERC CoG 863818 (ForM-SMArt) and Vienna Science and Technology Fund (WWTF) Project ICT15-\r\n003. Tobias Winkler was supported by the RTG 2236 UnRAVe." article_processing_charge: No author: - first_name: Pranav full_name: Ashok, Pranav last_name: Ashok - first_name: Krishnendu full_name: Chatterjee, Krishnendu id: 2E5DCA20-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Chatterjee orcid: 0000-0002-4561-241X - first_name: Jan full_name: Kretinsky, Jan last_name: Kretinsky - first_name: Maximilian full_name: Weininger, Maximilian last_name: Weininger - first_name: Tobias full_name: Winkler, Tobias last_name: Winkler citation: ama: 'Ashok P, Chatterjee K, Kretinsky J, Weininger M, Winkler T. Approximating values of generalized-reachability stochastic games. In: Proceedings of the 35th Annual ACM/IEEE Symposium on Logic in Computer Science . Association for Computing Machinery; 2020:102-115. doi:10.1145/3373718.3394761' apa: 'Ashok, P., Chatterjee, K., Kretinsky, J., Weininger, M., & Winkler, T. (2020). Approximating values of generalized-reachability stochastic games. In Proceedings of the 35th Annual ACM/IEEE Symposium on Logic in Computer Science (pp. 102–115). Saarbrücken, Germany: Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/3373718.3394761' chicago: Ashok, Pranav, Krishnendu Chatterjee, Jan Kretinsky, Maximilian Weininger, and Tobias Winkler. “Approximating Values of Generalized-Reachability Stochastic Games.” In Proceedings of the 35th Annual ACM/IEEE Symposium on Logic in Computer Science , 102–15. Association for Computing Machinery, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1145/3373718.3394761. ieee: P. Ashok, K. Chatterjee, J. Kretinsky, M. Weininger, and T. Winkler, “Approximating values of generalized-reachability stochastic games,” in Proceedings of the 35th Annual ACM/IEEE Symposium on Logic in Computer Science , Saarbrücken, Germany, 2020, pp. 102–115. ista: 'Ashok P, Chatterjee K, Kretinsky J, Weininger M, Winkler T. 2020. Approximating values of generalized-reachability stochastic games. Proceedings of the 35th Annual ACM/IEEE Symposium on Logic in Computer Science . LICS: Symposium on Logic in Computer Science, 102–115.' mla: Ashok, Pranav, et al. “Approximating Values of Generalized-Reachability Stochastic Games.” Proceedings of the 35th Annual ACM/IEEE Symposium on Logic in Computer Science , Association for Computing Machinery, 2020, pp. 102–15, doi:10.1145/3373718.3394761. short: P. Ashok, K. Chatterjee, J. Kretinsky, M. Weininger, T. Winkler, in:, Proceedings of the 35th Annual ACM/IEEE Symposium on Logic in Computer Science , Association for Computing Machinery, 2020, pp. 102–115. conference: end_date: 2020-07-11 location: Saarbrücken, Germany name: 'LICS: Symposium on Logic in Computer Science' start_date: 2020-07-08 date_created: 2020-06-14T22:00:48Z date_published: 2020-07-08T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2023-08-21T08:24:36Z day: '08' ddc: - '000' department: - _id: KrCh doi: 10.1145/3373718.3394761 ec_funded: 1 external_id: arxiv: - '1908.05106' isi: - '000665014900010' file: - access_level: open_access checksum: d0d0288fe991dd16cf5f02598b794240 content_type: application/pdf creator: dernst date_created: 2020-11-25T09:38:14Z date_updated: 2020-11-25T09:38:14Z file_id: '8804' file_name: 2020_LICS_Ashok.pdf file_size: 1001395 relation: main_file success: 1 file_date_updated: 2020-11-25T09:38:14Z has_accepted_license: '1' isi: 1 language: - iso: eng month: '07' oa: 1 oa_version: Published Version page: 102-115 project: - _id: 0599E47C-7A3F-11EA-A408-12923DDC885E call_identifier: H2020 grant_number: '863818' name: 'Formal Methods for Stochastic Models: Algorithms and Applications' - _id: 25892FC0-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 grant_number: ICT15-003 name: Efficient Algorithms for Computer Aided Verification publication: 'Proceedings of the 35th Annual ACM/IEEE Symposium on Logic in Computer Science ' publication_identifier: isbn: - '9781450371049' publication_status: published publisher: Association for Computing Machinery quality_controlled: '1' scopus_import: '1' status: public title: Approximating values of generalized-reachability stochastic games type: conference user_id: 4359f0d1-fa6c-11eb-b949-802e58b17ae8 year: '2020' ... --- _id: '8767' abstract: - lang: eng text: Resources are rarely distributed uniformly within a population. Heterogeneity in the concentration of a drug, the quality of breeding sites, or wealth can all affect evolutionary dynamics. In this study, we represent a collection of properties affecting the fitness at a given location using a color. A green node is rich in resources while a red node is poorer. More colors can represent a broader spectrum of resource qualities. For a population evolving according to the birth-death Moran model, the first question we address is which structures, identified by graph connectivity and graph coloring, are evolutionarily equivalent. We prove that all properly two-colored, undirected, regular graphs are evolutionarily equivalent (where “properly colored” means that no two neighbors have the same color). We then compare the effects of background heterogeneity on properly two-colored graphs to those with alternative schemes in which the colors are permuted. Finally, we discuss dynamic coloring as a model for spatiotemporal resource fluctuations, and we illustrate that random dynamic colorings often diminish the effects of background heterogeneity relative to a proper two-coloring. acknowledgement: 'We thank Igor Erovenko for many helpful comments on an earlier version of this paper. : Army Research Laboratory (grant W911NF-18-2-0265) (M.A.N.); the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (grant OPP1148627) (M.A.N.); the NVIDIA Corporation (A.M.). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.' article_number: e1008402 article_processing_charge: No article_type: original author: - first_name: Kamran full_name: Kaveh, Kamran last_name: Kaveh - first_name: Alex full_name: McAvoy, Alex last_name: McAvoy - first_name: Krishnendu full_name: Chatterjee, Krishnendu id: 2E5DCA20-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Chatterjee orcid: 0000-0002-4561-241X - first_name: Martin A. full_name: Nowak, Martin A. last_name: Nowak citation: ama: Kaveh K, McAvoy A, Chatterjee K, Nowak MA. The Moran process on 2-chromatic graphs. PLOS Computational Biology. 2020;16(11). doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1008402 apa: Kaveh, K., McAvoy, A., Chatterjee, K., & Nowak, M. A. (2020). The Moran process on 2-chromatic graphs. PLOS Computational Biology. Public Library of Science. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1008402 chicago: Kaveh, Kamran, Alex McAvoy, Krishnendu Chatterjee, and Martin A. Nowak. “The Moran Process on 2-Chromatic Graphs.” PLOS Computational Biology. Public Library of Science, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1008402. ieee: K. Kaveh, A. McAvoy, K. Chatterjee, and M. A. Nowak, “The Moran process on 2-chromatic graphs,” PLOS Computational Biology, vol. 16, no. 11. Public Library of Science, 2020. ista: Kaveh K, McAvoy A, Chatterjee K, Nowak MA. 2020. The Moran process on 2-chromatic graphs. PLOS Computational Biology. 16(11), e1008402. mla: Kaveh, Kamran, et al. “The Moran Process on 2-Chromatic Graphs.” PLOS Computational Biology, vol. 16, no. 11, e1008402, Public Library of Science, 2020, doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1008402. short: K. Kaveh, A. McAvoy, K. Chatterjee, M.A. Nowak, PLOS Computational Biology 16 (2020). date_created: 2020-11-18T07:20:23Z date_published: 2020-11-05T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2023-08-22T12:49:18Z day: '05' ddc: - '000' department: - _id: KrCh doi: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1008402 external_id: isi: - '000591317200004' file: - access_level: open_access checksum: 555456dd0e47bcf9e0994bcb95577e88 content_type: application/pdf creator: dernst date_created: 2020-11-18T07:26:10Z date_updated: 2020-11-18T07:26:10Z file_id: '8768' file_name: 2020_PlosCompBio_Kaveh.pdf file_size: 2498594 relation: main_file success: 1 file_date_updated: 2020-11-18T07:26:10Z has_accepted_license: '1' intvolume: ' 16' isi: 1 issue: '11' keyword: - Ecology - Modelling and Simulation - Computational Theory and Mathematics - Genetics - Ecology - Evolution - Behavior and Systematics - Molecular Biology - Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience language: - iso: eng month: '11' oa: 1 oa_version: Published Version publication: PLOS Computational Biology publication_identifier: eissn: - 1553-7358 issn: - 1553-734X publication_status: published publisher: Public Library of Science quality_controlled: '1' scopus_import: '1' status: public title: The Moran process on 2-chromatic graphs tmp: image: /images/cc_by.png legal_code_url: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode name: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC-BY 4.0) short: CC BY (4.0) type: journal_article user_id: 4359f0d1-fa6c-11eb-b949-802e58b17ae8 volume: 16 year: '2020' ... --- _id: '8789' abstract: - lang: eng text: Cooperation is a ubiquitous and beneficial behavioural trait despite being prone to exploitation by free-riders. Hence, cooperative populations are prone to invasions by selfish individuals. However, a population consisting of only free-riders typically does not survive. Thus, cooperators and free-riders often coexist in some proportion. An evolutionary version of a Snowdrift Game proved its efficiency in analysing this phenomenon. However, what if the system has already reached its stable state but was perturbed due to a change in environmental conditions? Then, individuals may have to re-learn their effective strategies. To address this, we consider behavioural mistakes in strategic choice execution, which we refer to as incompetence. Parametrising the propensity to make such mistakes allows for a mathematical description of learning. We compare strategies based on their relative strategic advantage relying on both fitness and learning factors. When strategies are learned at distinct rates, allowing learning according to a prescribed order is optimal. Interestingly, the strategy with the lowest strategic advantage should be learnt first if we are to optimise fitness over the learning path. Then, the differences between strategies are balanced out in order to minimise the effect of behavioural uncertainty. acknowledgement: "This work was supported by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie Grant Agreement #754411, the Australian Research Council Discovery Grants DP160101236 and DP150100618, and the European Research Council Consolidator Grant 863818 (FoRM-SMArt).\r\nAuthors would like to thank Patrick McKinlay for his work on the preliminary results for this paper." article_number: '1945' article_processing_charge: No article_type: original author: - first_name: Maria full_name: Kleshnina, Maria id: 4E21749C-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Kleshnina - first_name: Sabrina full_name: Streipert, Sabrina last_name: Streipert - first_name: Jerzy full_name: Filar, Jerzy last_name: Filar - first_name: Krishnendu full_name: Chatterjee, Krishnendu id: 2E5DCA20-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Chatterjee orcid: 0000-0002-4561-241X citation: ama: Kleshnina M, Streipert S, Filar J, Chatterjee K. Prioritised learning in snowdrift-type games. Mathematics. 2020;8(11). doi:10.3390/math8111945 apa: Kleshnina, M., Streipert, S., Filar, J., & Chatterjee, K. (2020). Prioritised learning in snowdrift-type games. Mathematics. MDPI. https://doi.org/10.3390/math8111945 chicago: Kleshnina, Maria, Sabrina Streipert, Jerzy Filar, and Krishnendu Chatterjee. “Prioritised Learning in Snowdrift-Type Games.” Mathematics. MDPI, 2020. https://doi.org/10.3390/math8111945. ieee: M. Kleshnina, S. Streipert, J. Filar, and K. Chatterjee, “Prioritised learning in snowdrift-type games,” Mathematics, vol. 8, no. 11. MDPI, 2020. ista: Kleshnina M, Streipert S, Filar J, Chatterjee K. 2020. Prioritised learning in snowdrift-type games. Mathematics. 8(11), 1945. mla: Kleshnina, Maria, et al. “Prioritised Learning in Snowdrift-Type Games.” Mathematics, vol. 8, no. 11, 1945, MDPI, 2020, doi:10.3390/math8111945. short: M. Kleshnina, S. Streipert, J. Filar, K. Chatterjee, Mathematics 8 (2020). date_created: 2020-11-22T23:01:24Z date_published: 2020-11-04T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2023-08-22T13:25:45Z day: '04' ddc: - '000' department: - _id: KrCh doi: 10.3390/math8111945 ec_funded: 1 external_id: isi: - '000593962100001' file: - access_level: open_access checksum: 61cfcc3b35760656ce7a9385a4ace5d2 content_type: application/pdf creator: dernst date_created: 2020-11-23T13:06:30Z date_updated: 2020-11-23T13:06:30Z file_id: '8797' file_name: 2020_Mathematics_Kleshnina.pdf file_size: 565191 relation: main_file success: 1 file_date_updated: 2020-11-23T13:06:30Z has_accepted_license: '1' intvolume: ' 8' isi: 1 issue: '11' language: - iso: eng month: '11' oa: 1 oa_version: Published Version project: - _id: 260C2330-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 call_identifier: H2020 grant_number: '754411' name: ISTplus - Postdoctoral Fellowships - _id: 0599E47C-7A3F-11EA-A408-12923DDC885E call_identifier: H2020 grant_number: '863818' name: 'Formal Methods for Stochastic Models: Algorithms and Applications' publication: Mathematics publication_identifier: eissn: - '22277390' publication_status: published publisher: MDPI quality_controlled: '1' scopus_import: '1' status: public title: Prioritised learning in snowdrift-type games tmp: image: /images/cc_by.png legal_code_url: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode name: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC-BY 4.0) short: CC BY (4.0) type: journal_article user_id: 4359f0d1-fa6c-11eb-b949-802e58b17ae8 volume: 8 year: '2020' ... --- _id: '8788' abstract: - lang: eng text: 'We consider a real-time setting where an environment releases sequences of firm-deadline tasks, and an online scheduler chooses on-the-fly the ones to execute on a single processor so as to maximize cumulated utility. The competitive ratio is a well-known performance measure for the scheduler: it gives the worst-case ratio, among all possible choices for the environment, of the cumulated utility of the online scheduler versus an offline scheduler that knows these choices in advance. Traditionally, competitive analysis is performed by hand, while automated techniques are rare and only handle static environments with independent tasks. We present a quantitative-verification framework for precedence-aware competitive analysis, where task releases may depend on preceding scheduling choices, i.e., the environment can respond to scheduling decisions dynamically . We consider two general classes of precedences: 1) follower precedences force the release of a dependent task upon the completion of a set of precursor tasks, while and 2) pairing precedences modify the characteristics of a dependent task provided the completion of a set of precursor tasks. Precedences make competitive analysis challenging, as the online and offline schedulers operate on diverging sequences. We make a formal presentation of our framework, and use a GPU-based implementation to analyze ten well-known schedulers on precedence-based application examples taken from the existing literature: 1) a handshake protocol (HP); 2) network packet-switching; 3) query scheduling (QS); and 4) a sporadic-interrupt setting. Our experimental results show that precedences and task parameters can vary drastically the best scheduler. Our framework thus supports application designers in choosing the best scheduler among a given set automatically.' acknowledgement: 'This work was supported by the Austrian Science Foundation (FWF) under the NFN RiSE/SHiNE under Grant S11405 and Grant S11407. This article was presented in the International Conference on Embedded Software 2020 and appears as part of the ESWEEK-TCAD special issue. ' article_processing_charge: No article_type: original author: - first_name: Andreas full_name: Pavlogiannis, Andreas id: 49704004-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Pavlogiannis orcid: 0000-0002-8943-0722 - first_name: Nico full_name: Schaumberger, Nico last_name: Schaumberger - first_name: Ulrich full_name: Schmid, Ulrich last_name: Schmid - first_name: Krishnendu full_name: Chatterjee, Krishnendu id: 2E5DCA20-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Chatterjee orcid: 0000-0002-4561-241X citation: ama: Pavlogiannis A, Schaumberger N, Schmid U, Chatterjee K. Precedence-aware automated competitive analysis of real-time scheduling. IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems. 2020;39(11):3981-3992. doi:10.1109/TCAD.2020.3012803 apa: Pavlogiannis, A., Schaumberger, N., Schmid, U., & Chatterjee, K. (2020). Precedence-aware automated competitive analysis of real-time scheduling. IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems. IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/TCAD.2020.3012803 chicago: Pavlogiannis, Andreas, Nico Schaumberger, Ulrich Schmid, and Krishnendu Chatterjee. “Precedence-Aware Automated Competitive Analysis of Real-Time Scheduling.” IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems. IEEE, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1109/TCAD.2020.3012803. ieee: A. Pavlogiannis, N. Schaumberger, U. Schmid, and K. Chatterjee, “Precedence-aware automated competitive analysis of real-time scheduling,” IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems, vol. 39, no. 11. IEEE, pp. 3981–3992, 2020. ista: Pavlogiannis A, Schaumberger N, Schmid U, Chatterjee K. 2020. Precedence-aware automated competitive analysis of real-time scheduling. IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems. 39(11), 3981–3992. mla: Pavlogiannis, Andreas, et al. “Precedence-Aware Automated Competitive Analysis of Real-Time Scheduling.” IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems, vol. 39, no. 11, IEEE, 2020, pp. 3981–92, doi:10.1109/TCAD.2020.3012803. short: A. Pavlogiannis, N. Schaumberger, U. Schmid, K. Chatterjee, IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems 39 (2020) 3981–3992. date_created: 2020-11-22T23:01:24Z date_published: 2020-11-01T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2023-08-22T13:27:05Z day: '01' department: - _id: KrCh doi: 10.1109/TCAD.2020.3012803 external_id: isi: - '000587712700069' intvolume: ' 39' isi: 1 issue: '11' language: - iso: eng month: '11' oa_version: None page: 3981-3992 project: - _id: 25832EC2-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 call_identifier: FWF grant_number: S 11407_N23 name: Rigorous Systems Engineering - _id: 25863FF4-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 call_identifier: FWF grant_number: S11407 name: Game Theory publication: IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems publication_identifier: eissn: - '19374151' issn: - '02780070' publication_status: published publisher: IEEE quality_controlled: '1' scopus_import: '1' status: public title: Precedence-aware automated competitive analysis of real-time scheduling type: journal_article user_id: 4359f0d1-fa6c-11eb-b949-802e58b17ae8 volume: 39 year: '2020' ... --- _id: '9197' abstract: - lang: eng text: In this paper we introduce and study all-pay bidding games, a class of two player, zero-sum games on graphs. The game proceeds as follows. We place a token on some vertex in the graph and assign budgets to the two players. Each turn, each player submits a sealed legal bid (non-negative and below their remaining budget), which is deducted from their budget and the highest bidder moves the token onto an adjacent vertex. The game ends once a sink is reached, and Player 1 pays Player 2 the outcome that is associated with the sink. The players attempt to maximize their expected outcome. Our games model settings where effort (of no inherent value) needs to be invested in an ongoing and stateful manner. On the negative side, we show that even in simple games on DAGs, optimal strategies may require a distribution over bids with infinite support. A central quantity in bidding games is the ratio of the players budgets. On the positive side, we show a simple FPTAS for DAGs, that, for each budget ratio, outputs an approximation for the optimal strategy for that ratio. We also implement it, show that it performs well, and suggests interesting properties of these games. Then, given an outcome c, we show an algorithm for finding the necessary and sufficient initial ratio for guaranteeing outcome c with probability 1 and a strategy ensuring such. Finally, while the general case has not previously been studied, solving the specific game in which Player 1 wins iff he wins the first two auctions, has been long stated as an open question, which we solve. acknowledgement: This research was supported by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) under grants S11402-N23 (RiSE/SHiNE), Z211-N23 (Wittgenstein Award), and M 2369-N33 (Meitner fellowship). article_processing_charge: No article_type: original author: - first_name: Guy full_name: Avni, Guy id: 463C8BC2-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Avni orcid: 0000-0001-5588-8287 - first_name: Rasmus full_name: Ibsen-Jensen, Rasmus id: 3B699956-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Ibsen-Jensen orcid: 0000-0003-4783-0389 - first_name: Josef full_name: Tkadlec, Josef id: 3F24CCC8-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Tkadlec orcid: 0000-0002-1097-9684 citation: ama: Avni G, Ibsen-Jensen R, Tkadlec J. All-pay bidding games on graphs. Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence. 2020;34(02):1798-1805. doi:10.1609/aaai.v34i02.5546 apa: 'Avni, G., Ibsen-Jensen, R., & Tkadlec, J. (2020). All-pay bidding games on graphs. Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence. New York, NY, United States: Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence. https://doi.org/10.1609/aaai.v34i02.5546' chicago: Avni, Guy, Rasmus Ibsen-Jensen, and Josef Tkadlec. “All-Pay Bidding Games on Graphs.” Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1609/aaai.v34i02.5546. ieee: G. Avni, R. Ibsen-Jensen, and J. Tkadlec, “All-pay bidding games on graphs,” Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, vol. 34, no. 02. Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence, pp. 1798–1805, 2020. ista: Avni G, Ibsen-Jensen R, Tkadlec J. 2020. All-pay bidding games on graphs. Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence. 34(02), 1798–1805. mla: Avni, Guy, et al. “All-Pay Bidding Games on Graphs.” Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, vol. 34, no. 02, Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence, 2020, pp. 1798–805, doi:10.1609/aaai.v34i02.5546. short: G. Avni, R. Ibsen-Jensen, J. Tkadlec, Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence 34 (2020) 1798–1805. conference: end_date: 2020-02-12 location: New York, NY, United States name: 'AAAI: Conference on Artificial Intelligence' start_date: 2020-02-07 date_created: 2021-02-25T09:05:18Z date_published: 2020-04-03T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2023-09-05T12:40:00Z day: '03' department: - _id: ToHe - _id: KrCh doi: 10.1609/aaai.v34i02.5546 external_id: arxiv: - '1911.08360' intvolume: ' 34' issue: '02' language: - iso: eng month: '04' oa_version: Preprint page: 1798-1805 project: - _id: 25F2ACDE-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 call_identifier: FWF grant_number: S11402-N23 name: Rigorous Systems Engineering - _id: 25F42A32-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 call_identifier: FWF grant_number: Z211 name: The Wittgenstein Prize - _id: 264B3912-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 call_identifier: FWF grant_number: M02369 name: Formal Methods meets Algorithmic Game Theory publication: Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence publication_identifier: eissn: - 2374-3468 isbn: - '9781577358350' issn: - 2159-5399 publication_status: published publisher: Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence quality_controlled: '1' scopus_import: '1' status: public title: All-pay bidding games on graphs type: journal_article user_id: c635000d-4b10-11ee-a964-aac5a93f6ac1 volume: 34 year: '2020' ... --- _id: '7343' abstract: - lang: eng text: Coinfections with multiple pathogens can result in complex within‐host dynamics affecting virulence and transmission. While multiple infections are intensively studied in solitary hosts, it is so far unresolved how social host interactions interfere with pathogen competition, and if this depends on coinfection diversity. We studied how the collective disease defences of ants – their social immunity – influence pathogen competition in coinfections of same or different fungal pathogen species. Social immunity reduced virulence for all pathogen combinations, but interfered with spore production only in different‐species coinfections. Here, it decreased overall pathogen sporulation success while increasing co‐sporulation on individual cadavers and maintaining a higher pathogen diversity at the community level. Mathematical modelling revealed that host sanitary care alone can modulate competitive outcomes between pathogens, giving advantage to fast‐germinating, thus less grooming‐sensitive ones. Host social interactions can hence modulate infection dynamics in coinfected group members, thereby altering pathogen communities at the host level and population level. acknowledged_ssus: - _id: LifeSc acknowledgement: "We thank Bernhardt Steinwender and Jorgen Eilenberg for the fungal strains, Xavier Espadaler, Mireia Diaz, Christiane Wanke, Lumi Viljakainen and the Social Immunity Team at IST Austria, for help with ant collection, and Wanda Gorecka and Gertraud Stift of the IST Austria Life Science Facility for technical support. We are thankful to Dieter Ebert for input at all stages of the project, Roger Mundry for statistical advice, Hinrich Schulenburg, Paul Schmid-Hempel, Yuko\r\nUlrich and Joachim Kurtz for project discussion, Bor Kavcic for advice on growth curves, Marcus Roper for advice on modelling work and comments on the manuscript, as well as Marjon de Vos, Weini Huang and the Social Immunity Team for comments on the manuscript.\r\nThis study was funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) within the Priority Programme 1399 Host-parasite Coevolution (CR 118/3 to S.C.) and the People Programme\r\n(Marie Curie Actions) of the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013) under REA grant agreement no 291734 (ISTFELLOW to B.M.). " article_processing_charge: Yes (via OA deal) article_type: letter_note author: - first_name: Barbara full_name: Milutinovic, Barbara id: 2CDC32B8-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Milutinovic orcid: 0000-0002-8214-4758 - first_name: Miriam full_name: Stock, Miriam id: 42462816-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Stock - first_name: Anna V full_name: Grasse, Anna V id: 406F989C-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Grasse - first_name: Elisabeth full_name: Naderlinger, Elisabeth id: 31757262-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Naderlinger - first_name: Christian full_name: Hilbe, Christian id: 2FDF8F3C-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Hilbe orcid: 0000-0001-5116-955X - first_name: Sylvia full_name: Cremer, Sylvia id: 2F64EC8C-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Cremer orcid: 0000-0002-2193-3868 citation: ama: Milutinovic B, Stock M, Grasse AV, Naderlinger E, Hilbe C, Cremer S. Social immunity modulates competition between coinfecting pathogens. Ecology Letters. 2020;23(3):565-574. doi:10.1111/ele.13458 apa: Milutinovic, B., Stock, M., Grasse, A. V., Naderlinger, E., Hilbe, C., & Cremer, S. (2020). Social immunity modulates competition between coinfecting pathogens. Ecology Letters. Wiley. https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.13458 chicago: Milutinovic, Barbara, Miriam Stock, Anna V Grasse, Elisabeth Naderlinger, Christian Hilbe, and Sylvia Cremer. “Social Immunity Modulates Competition between Coinfecting Pathogens.” Ecology Letters. Wiley, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.13458. ieee: B. Milutinovic, M. Stock, A. V. Grasse, E. Naderlinger, C. Hilbe, and S. Cremer, “Social immunity modulates competition between coinfecting pathogens,” Ecology Letters, vol. 23, no. 3. Wiley, pp. 565–574, 2020. ista: Milutinovic B, Stock M, Grasse AV, Naderlinger E, Hilbe C, Cremer S. 2020. Social immunity modulates competition between coinfecting pathogens. Ecology Letters. 23(3), 565–574. mla: Milutinovic, Barbara, et al. “Social Immunity Modulates Competition between Coinfecting Pathogens.” Ecology Letters, vol. 23, no. 3, Wiley, 2020, pp. 565–74, doi:10.1111/ele.13458. short: B. Milutinovic, M. Stock, A.V. Grasse, E. Naderlinger, C. Hilbe, S. Cremer, Ecology Letters 23 (2020) 565–574. date_created: 2020-01-20T13:32:12Z date_published: 2020-03-01T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2023-09-05T16:04:49Z day: '01' ddc: - '570' department: - _id: SyCr - _id: KrCh doi: 10.1111/ele.13458 ec_funded: 1 external_id: isi: - '000507515900001' file: - access_level: open_access checksum: 0cd8be386fa219db02845b7c3991ce04 content_type: application/pdf creator: dernst date_created: 2020-11-19T11:27:10Z date_updated: 2020-11-19T11:27:10Z file_id: '8776' file_name: 2020_EcologyLetters_Milutinovic.pdf file_size: 561749 relation: main_file success: 1 file_date_updated: 2020-11-19T11:27:10Z has_accepted_license: '1' intvolume: ' 23' isi: 1 issue: '3' language: - iso: eng license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ month: '03' oa: 1 oa_version: Published Version page: 565-574 project: - _id: 25681D80-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 call_identifier: FP7 grant_number: '291734' name: International IST Postdoc Fellowship Programme - _id: 25DAF0B2-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 grant_number: CR-118/3-1 name: Host-Parasite Coevolution publication: Ecology Letters publication_identifier: eissn: - 1461-0248 issn: - 1461-023X publication_status: published publisher: Wiley quality_controlled: '1' related_material: link: - description: News on IST Homepage relation: press_release url: https://ist.ac.at/en/news/social-ants-shapes-disease-outcome/ record: - id: '13060' relation: research_data status: public scopus_import: '1' status: public title: Social immunity modulates competition between coinfecting pathogens tmp: image: /images/cc_by_nc.png legal_code_url: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode name: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0) short: CC BY-NC (4.0) type: journal_article user_id: c635000d-4b10-11ee-a964-aac5a93f6ac1 volume: 23 year: '2020' ... --- _id: '13060' abstract: - lang: eng text: Coinfections with multiple pathogens can result in complex within-host dynamics affecting virulence and transmission. Whilst multiple infections are intensively studied in solitary hosts, it is so far unresolved how social host interactions interfere with pathogen competition, and if this depends on coinfection diversity. We studied how the collective disease defenses of ants – their social immunity ­– influence pathogen competition in coinfections of same or different fungal pathogen species. Social immunity reduced virulence for all pathogen combinations, but interfered with spore production only in different-species coinfections. Here, it decreased overall pathogen sporulation success, whilst simultaneously increasing co-sporulation on individual cadavers and maintaining a higher pathogen diversity at the community-level. Mathematical modeling revealed that host sanitary care alone can modulate competitive outcomes between pathogens, giving advantage to fast-germinating, thus less grooming-sensitive ones. Host social interactions can hence modulate infection dynamics in coinfected group members, thereby altering pathogen communities at the host- and population-level. article_processing_charge: No author: - first_name: Barbara full_name: Milutinovic, Barbara id: 2CDC32B8-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Milutinovic orcid: 0000-0002-8214-4758 - first_name: Miriam full_name: Stock, Miriam id: 42462816-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Stock - first_name: Anna V full_name: Grasse, Anna V id: 406F989C-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Grasse - first_name: Elisabeth full_name: Naderlinger, Elisabeth id: 31757262-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Naderlinger - first_name: Christian full_name: Hilbe, Christian id: 2FDF8F3C-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Hilbe orcid: 0000-0001-5116-955X - first_name: Sylvia full_name: Cremer, Sylvia id: 2F64EC8C-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Cremer orcid: 0000-0002-2193-3868 citation: ama: Milutinovic B, Stock M, Grasse AV, Naderlinger E, Hilbe C, Cremer S. Social immunity modulates competition between coinfecting pathogens. 2020. doi:10.5061/DRYAD.CRJDFN318 apa: Milutinovic, B., Stock, M., Grasse, A. V., Naderlinger, E., Hilbe, C., & Cremer, S. (2020). Social immunity modulates competition between coinfecting pathogens. Dryad. https://doi.org/10.5061/DRYAD.CRJDFN318 chicago: Milutinovic, Barbara, Miriam Stock, Anna V Grasse, Elisabeth Naderlinger, Christian Hilbe, and Sylvia Cremer. “Social Immunity Modulates Competition between Coinfecting Pathogens.” Dryad, 2020. https://doi.org/10.5061/DRYAD.CRJDFN318. ieee: B. Milutinovic, M. Stock, A. V. Grasse, E. Naderlinger, C. Hilbe, and S. Cremer, “Social immunity modulates competition between coinfecting pathogens.” Dryad, 2020. ista: Milutinovic B, Stock M, Grasse AV, Naderlinger E, Hilbe C, Cremer S. 2020. Social immunity modulates competition between coinfecting pathogens, Dryad, 10.5061/DRYAD.CRJDFN318. mla: Milutinovic, Barbara, et al. Social Immunity Modulates Competition between Coinfecting Pathogens. Dryad, 2020, doi:10.5061/DRYAD.CRJDFN318. short: B. Milutinovic, M. Stock, A.V. Grasse, E. Naderlinger, C. Hilbe, S. Cremer, (2020). date_created: 2023-05-23T16:11:22Z date_published: 2020-12-19T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2023-09-05T16:04:48Z day: '19' ddc: - '570' department: - _id: SyCr - _id: KrCh doi: 10.5061/DRYAD.CRJDFN318 main_file_link: - open_access: '1' url: https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.crjdfn318 month: '12' oa: 1 oa_version: Published Version publisher: Dryad related_material: record: - id: '7343' relation: used_in_publication status: public status: public title: Social immunity modulates competition between coinfecting pathogens tmp: image: /images/cc_0.png legal_code_url: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode name: Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication (CC0 1.0) short: CC0 (1.0) type: research_data_reference user_id: 2DF688A6-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 year: '2020' ... --- _id: '8193' abstract: - lang: eng text: 'Multiple-environment Markov decision processes (MEMDPs) are MDPs equipped with not one, but multiple probabilistic transition functions, which represent the various possible unknown environments. While the previous research on MEMDPs focused on theoretical properties for long-run average payoff, we study them with discounted-sum payoff and focus on their practical advantages and applications. MEMDPs can be viewed as a special case of Partially observable and Mixed observability MDPs: the state of the system is perfectly observable, but not the environment. We show that the specific structure of MEMDPs allows for more efficient algorithmic analysis, in particular for faster belief updates. We demonstrate the applicability of MEMDPs in several domains. In particular, we formalize the sequential decision-making approach to contextual recommendation systems as MEMDPs and substantially improve over the previous MDP approach.' acknowledgement: Krishnendu Chatterjee is supported by the Austrian ScienceFund (FWF) NFN Grant No. S11407-N23 (RiSE/SHiNE),and COST Action GAMENET. Petr Novotn ́y is supported bythe Czech Science Foundation grant No. GJ19-15134Y. article_processing_charge: No author: - first_name: Krishnendu full_name: Chatterjee, Krishnendu id: 2E5DCA20-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Chatterjee orcid: 0000-0002-4561-241X - first_name: Martin full_name: Chmelik, Martin id: 3624234E-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Chmelik - first_name: Deep full_name: Karkhanis, Deep last_name: Karkhanis - first_name: Petr full_name: Novotný, Petr id: 3CC3B868-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Novotný - first_name: Amélie full_name: Royer, Amélie id: 3811D890-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Royer orcid: 0000-0002-8407-0705 citation: ama: 'Chatterjee K, Chmelik M, Karkhanis D, Novotný P, Royer A. Multiple-environment Markov decision processes: Efficient analysis and applications. In: Proceedings of the 30th International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling. Vol 30. Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence; 2020:48-56.' apa: 'Chatterjee, K., Chmelik, M., Karkhanis, D., Novotný, P., & Royer, A. (2020). Multiple-environment Markov decision processes: Efficient analysis and applications. In Proceedings of the 30th International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (Vol. 30, pp. 48–56). Nancy, France: Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence.' chicago: 'Chatterjee, Krishnendu, Martin Chmelik, Deep Karkhanis, Petr Novotný, and Amélie Royer. “Multiple-Environment Markov Decision Processes: Efficient Analysis and Applications.” In Proceedings of the 30th International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling, 30:48–56. Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence, 2020.' ieee: 'K. Chatterjee, M. Chmelik, D. Karkhanis, P. Novotný, and A. Royer, “Multiple-environment Markov decision processes: Efficient analysis and applications,” in Proceedings of the 30th International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling, Nancy, France, 2020, vol. 30, pp. 48–56.' ista: 'Chatterjee K, Chmelik M, Karkhanis D, Novotný P, Royer A. 2020. Multiple-environment Markov decision processes: Efficient analysis and applications. Proceedings of the 30th International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling. ICAPS: International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling vol. 30, 48–56.' mla: 'Chatterjee, Krishnendu, et al. “Multiple-Environment Markov Decision Processes: Efficient Analysis and Applications.” Proceedings of the 30th International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling, vol. 30, Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence, 2020, pp. 48–56.' short: K. Chatterjee, M. Chmelik, D. Karkhanis, P. Novotný, A. Royer, in:, Proceedings of the 30th International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling, Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence, 2020, pp. 48–56. conference: end_date: 2020-10-30 location: Nancy, France name: 'ICAPS: International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling' start_date: 2020-10-26 date_created: 2020-08-02T22:00:58Z date_published: 2020-06-01T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2023-09-07T13:16:18Z day: '01' department: - _id: KrCh intvolume: ' 30' language: - iso: eng month: '06' oa_version: None page: 48-56 project: - _id: 25863FF4-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 call_identifier: FWF grant_number: S11407 name: Game Theory publication: Proceedings of the 30th International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling publication_identifier: eissn: - '23340843' issn: - '23340835' publication_status: published publisher: Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence quality_controlled: '1' related_material: record: - id: '8390' relation: dissertation_contains status: public scopus_import: '1' status: public title: 'Multiple-environment Markov decision processes: Efficient analysis and applications' type: conference user_id: 2DF688A6-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 volume: 30 year: '2020' ... --- _id: '8272' abstract: - lang: eng text: We study turn-based stochastic zero-sum games with lexicographic preferences over reachability and safety objectives. Stochastic games are standard models in control, verification, and synthesis of stochastic reactive systems that exhibit both randomness as well as angelic and demonic non-determinism. Lexicographic order allows to consider multiple objectives with a strict preference order over the satisfaction of the objectives. To the best of our knowledge, stochastic games with lexicographic objectives have not been studied before. We establish determinacy of such games and present strategy and computational complexity results. For strategy complexity, we show that lexicographically optimal strategies exist that are deterministic and memory is only required to remember the already satisfied and violated objectives. For a constant number of objectives, we show that the relevant decision problem is in NP∩coNP , matching the current known bound for single objectives; and in general the decision problem is PSPACE -hard and can be solved in NEXPTIME∩coNEXPTIME . We present an algorithm that computes the lexicographically optimal strategies via a reduction to computation of optimal strategies in a sequence of single-objectives games. We have implemented our algorithm and report experimental results on various case studies. alternative_title: - LNCS article_processing_charge: No author: - first_name: Krishnendu full_name: Chatterjee, Krishnendu id: 2E5DCA20-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Chatterjee orcid: 0000-0002-4561-241X - first_name: Joost P full_name: Katoen, Joost P id: 4524F760-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Katoen - first_name: Maximilian full_name: Weininger, Maximilian last_name: Weininger - first_name: Tobias full_name: Winkler, Tobias last_name: Winkler citation: ama: 'Chatterjee K, Katoen JP, Weininger M, Winkler T. Stochastic games with lexicographic reachability-safety objectives. In: International Conference on Computer Aided Verification. Vol 12225. Springer Nature; 2020:398-420. doi:10.1007/978-3-030-53291-8_21' apa: Chatterjee, K., Katoen, J. P., Weininger, M., & Winkler, T. (2020). Stochastic games with lexicographic reachability-safety objectives. In International Conference on Computer Aided Verification (Vol. 12225, pp. 398–420). Springer Nature. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-53291-8_21 chicago: Chatterjee, Krishnendu, Joost P Katoen, Maximilian Weininger, and Tobias Winkler. “Stochastic Games with Lexicographic Reachability-Safety Objectives.” In International Conference on Computer Aided Verification, 12225:398–420. Springer Nature, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-53291-8_21. ieee: K. Chatterjee, J. P. Katoen, M. Weininger, and T. Winkler, “Stochastic games with lexicographic reachability-safety objectives,” in International Conference on Computer Aided Verification, 2020, vol. 12225, pp. 398–420. ista: 'Chatterjee K, Katoen JP, Weininger M, Winkler T. 2020. Stochastic games with lexicographic reachability-safety objectives. International Conference on Computer Aided Verification. CAV: Computer Aided Verification, LNCS, vol. 12225, 398–420.' mla: Chatterjee, Krishnendu, et al. “Stochastic Games with Lexicographic Reachability-Safety Objectives.” International Conference on Computer Aided Verification, vol. 12225, Springer Nature, 2020, pp. 398–420, doi:10.1007/978-3-030-53291-8_21. short: K. Chatterjee, J.P. Katoen, M. Weininger, T. Winkler, in:, International Conference on Computer Aided Verification, Springer Nature, 2020, pp. 398–420. conference: name: 'CAV: Computer Aided Verification' date_created: 2020-08-16T22:00:58Z date_published: 2020-07-14T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2023-10-03T11:36:13Z day: '14' ddc: - '000' department: - _id: KrCh doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-53291-8_21 ec_funded: 1 external_id: arxiv: - '2005.04018' isi: - '000695272500021' file: - access_level: open_access checksum: 093d4788d7d5b2ce0ffe64fbe7820043 content_type: application/pdf creator: dernst date_created: 2020-08-17T11:32:44Z date_updated: 2020-08-17T11:32:44Z file_id: '8276' file_name: 2020_LNCS_CAV_Chatterjee.pdf file_size: 625056 relation: main_file success: 1 file_date_updated: 2020-08-17T11:32:44Z has_accepted_license: '1' intvolume: ' 12225' isi: 1 language: - iso: eng month: '07' oa: 1 oa_version: Published Version page: 398-420 project: - _id: 0599E47C-7A3F-11EA-A408-12923DDC885E call_identifier: H2020 grant_number: '863818' name: 'Formal Methods for Stochastic Models: Algorithms and Applications' - _id: 25892FC0-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 grant_number: ICT15-003 name: Efficient Algorithms for Computer Aided Verification publication: International Conference on Computer Aided Verification publication_identifier: eissn: - '16113349' isbn: - '9783030532901' issn: - '03029743' publication_status: published publisher: Springer Nature quality_controlled: '1' related_material: record: - id: '12738' relation: later_version status: public scopus_import: '1' status: public title: Stochastic games with lexicographic reachability-safety objectives tmp: image: /images/cc_by.png legal_code_url: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode name: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC-BY 4.0) short: CC BY (4.0) type: conference user_id: 4359f0d1-fa6c-11eb-b949-802e58b17ae8 volume: 12225 year: '2020' ... --- _id: '8671' abstract: - lang: eng text: 'We study relations between evidence theory and S-approximation spaces. Both theories have their roots in the analysis of Dempsterchr(''39'')s multivalued mappings and lower and upper probabilities, and have close relations to rough sets. We show that an S-approximation space, satisfying a monotonicity condition, can induce a natural belief structure which is a fundamental block in evidence theory. We also demonstrate that one can induce a natural belief structure on one set, given a belief structure on another set, if the two sets are related by a partial monotone S-approximation space. ' acknowledgement: We are very grateful to the anonymous reviewer for detailed comments and suggestions that significantly improved the presentation of this paper. The research was partially supported by a DOC fellowship of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. article_processing_charge: No article_type: original author: - first_name: A. full_name: Shakiba, A. last_name: Shakiba - first_name: Amir Kafshdar full_name: Goharshady, Amir Kafshdar id: 391365CE-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Goharshady orcid: 0000-0003-1702-6584 - first_name: M.R. full_name: Hooshmandasl, M.R. last_name: Hooshmandasl - first_name: M. full_name: Alambardar Meybodi, M. last_name: Alambardar Meybodi citation: ama: Shakiba A, Goharshady AK, Hooshmandasl MR, Alambardar Meybodi M. A note on belief structures and s-approximation spaces. Iranian Journal of Mathematical Sciences and Informatics. 2020;15(2):117-128. doi:10.29252/ijmsi.15.2.117 apa: Shakiba, A., Goharshady, A. K., Hooshmandasl, M. R., & Alambardar Meybodi, M. (2020). A note on belief structures and s-approximation spaces. Iranian Journal of Mathematical Sciences and Informatics. Iranian Academic Center for Education, Culture and Research. https://doi.org/10.29252/ijmsi.15.2.117 chicago: Shakiba, A., Amir Kafshdar Goharshady, M.R. Hooshmandasl, and M. Alambardar Meybodi. “A Note on Belief Structures and S-Approximation Spaces.” Iranian Journal of Mathematical Sciences and Informatics. Iranian Academic Center for Education, Culture and Research, 2020. https://doi.org/10.29252/ijmsi.15.2.117. ieee: A. Shakiba, A. K. Goharshady, M. R. Hooshmandasl, and M. Alambardar Meybodi, “A note on belief structures and s-approximation spaces,” Iranian Journal of Mathematical Sciences and Informatics, vol. 15, no. 2. Iranian Academic Center for Education, Culture and Research, pp. 117–128, 2020. ista: Shakiba A, Goharshady AK, Hooshmandasl MR, Alambardar Meybodi M. 2020. A note on belief structures and s-approximation spaces. Iranian Journal of Mathematical Sciences and Informatics. 15(2), 117–128. mla: Shakiba, A., et al. “A Note on Belief Structures and S-Approximation Spaces.” Iranian Journal of Mathematical Sciences and Informatics, vol. 15, no. 2, Iranian Academic Center for Education, Culture and Research, 2020, pp. 117–28, doi:10.29252/ijmsi.15.2.117. short: A. Shakiba, A.K. Goharshady, M.R. Hooshmandasl, M. Alambardar Meybodi, Iranian Journal of Mathematical Sciences and Informatics 15 (2020) 117–128. date_created: 2020-10-18T22:01:36Z date_published: 2020-10-01T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2023-10-16T09:25:00Z day: '01' ddc: - '000' department: - _id: KrCh doi: 10.29252/ijmsi.15.2.117 external_id: arxiv: - '1805.10672' file: - access_level: open_access checksum: f299661a6d51cda6d255a76be696f48d content_type: application/pdf creator: dernst date_created: 2020-10-19T11:14:20Z date_updated: 2020-10-19T11:14:20Z file_id: '8676' file_name: 2020_ijmsi_Shakiba_accepted.pdf file_size: 261688 relation: main_file success: 1 file_date_updated: 2020-10-19T11:14:20Z has_accepted_license: '1' intvolume: ' 15' issue: '2' language: - iso: eng month: '10' oa: 1 oa_version: Submitted Version page: 117-128 project: - _id: 267066CE-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 name: Quantitative Analysis of Probablistic Systems with a focus on Crypto-currencies publication: Iranian Journal of Mathematical Sciences and Informatics publication_identifier: eissn: - 2008-9473 issn: - 1735-4463 publication_status: published publisher: Iranian Academic Center for Education, Culture and Research quality_controlled: '1' scopus_import: '1' status: public title: A note on belief structures and s-approximation spaces type: journal_article user_id: 2DF688A6-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 volume: 15 year: '2020' ... --- _id: '7212' abstract: - lang: eng text: The fixation probability of a single mutant invading a population of residents is among the most widely-studied quantities in evolutionary dynamics. Amplifiers of natural selection are population structures that increase the fixation probability of advantageous mutants, compared to well-mixed populations. Extensive studies have shown that many amplifiers exist for the Birth-death Moran process, some of them substantially increasing the fixation probability or even guaranteeing fixation in the limit of large population size. On the other hand, no amplifiers are known for the death-Birth Moran process, and computer-assisted exhaustive searches have failed to discover amplification. In this work we resolve this disparity, by showing that any amplification under death-Birth updating is necessarily bounded and transient. Our boundedness result states that even if a population structure does amplify selection, the resulting fixation probability is close to that of the well-mixed population. Our transience result states that for any population structure there exists a threshold r⋆ such that the population structure ceases to amplify selection if the mutant fitness advantage r is larger than r⋆. Finally, we also extend the above results to δ-death-Birth updating, which is a combination of Birth-death and death-Birth updating. On the positive side, we identify population structures that maintain amplification for a wide range of values r and δ. These results demonstrate that amplification of natural selection depends on the specific mechanisms of the evolutionary process. article_number: e1007494 article_processing_charge: No article_type: original author: - first_name: Josef full_name: Tkadlec, Josef id: 3F24CCC8-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Tkadlec orcid: 0000-0002-1097-9684 - first_name: Andreas full_name: Pavlogiannis, Andreas id: 49704004-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Pavlogiannis orcid: 0000-0002-8943-0722 - first_name: Krishnendu full_name: Chatterjee, Krishnendu id: 2E5DCA20-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Chatterjee orcid: 0000-0002-4561-241X - first_name: Martin A. full_name: Nowak, Martin A. last_name: Nowak citation: ama: Tkadlec J, Pavlogiannis A, Chatterjee K, Nowak MA. Limits on amplifiers of natural selection under death-Birth updating. PLoS computational biology. 2020;16. doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1007494 apa: Tkadlec, J., Pavlogiannis, A., Chatterjee, K., & Nowak, M. A. (2020). Limits on amplifiers of natural selection under death-Birth updating. PLoS Computational Biology. Public Library of Science. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1007494 chicago: Tkadlec, Josef, Andreas Pavlogiannis, Krishnendu Chatterjee, and Martin A. Nowak. “Limits on Amplifiers of Natural Selection under Death-Birth Updating.” PLoS Computational Biology. Public Library of Science, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1007494. ieee: J. Tkadlec, A. Pavlogiannis, K. Chatterjee, and M. A. Nowak, “Limits on amplifiers of natural selection under death-Birth updating,” PLoS computational biology, vol. 16. Public Library of Science, 2020. ista: Tkadlec J, Pavlogiannis A, Chatterjee K, Nowak MA. 2020. Limits on amplifiers of natural selection under death-Birth updating. PLoS computational biology. 16, e1007494. mla: Tkadlec, Josef, et al. “Limits on Amplifiers of Natural Selection under Death-Birth Updating.” PLoS Computational Biology, vol. 16, e1007494, Public Library of Science, 2020, doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1007494. short: J. Tkadlec, A. Pavlogiannis, K. Chatterjee, M.A. Nowak, PLoS Computational Biology 16 (2020). date_created: 2019-12-23T13:45:11Z date_published: 2020-01-17T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2023-10-17T12:29:47Z day: '17' ddc: - '000' department: - _id: KrCh doi: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1007494 ec_funded: 1 external_id: arxiv: - '1906.02785' isi: - '000510916500025' file: - access_level: open_access checksum: ce32ee2d2f53aed832f78bbd47e882df content_type: application/pdf creator: dernst date_created: 2020-02-03T07:32:42Z date_updated: 2020-07-14T12:47:53Z file_id: '7441' file_name: 2020_PlosCompBio_Tkadlec.pdf file_size: 1817531 relation: main_file file_date_updated: 2020-07-14T12:47:53Z has_accepted_license: '1' intvolume: ' 16' isi: 1 language: - iso: eng month: '01' oa: 1 oa_version: Published Version project: - _id: 2581B60A-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 call_identifier: FP7 grant_number: '279307' name: 'Quantitative Graph Games: Theory and Applications' - _id: 2584A770-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 call_identifier: FWF grant_number: P 23499-N23 name: Modern Graph Algorithmic Techniques in Formal Verification - _id: 25863FF4-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 call_identifier: FWF grant_number: S11407 name: Game Theory publication: PLoS computational biology publication_identifier: eissn: - '15537358' publication_status: published publisher: Public Library of Science quality_controlled: '1' related_material: record: - id: '7196' relation: part_of_dissertation status: public scopus_import: '1' status: public title: Limits on amplifiers of natural selection under death-Birth updating tmp: image: /images/cc_by.png legal_code_url: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode name: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC-BY 4.0) short: CC BY (4.0) type: journal_article user_id: 2DF688A6-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 volume: 16 year: '2020' ... --- _id: '7196' abstract: - lang: eng text: 'In this thesis we study certain mathematical aspects of evolution. The two primary forces that drive an evolutionary process are mutation and selection. Mutation generates new variants in a population. Selection chooses among the variants depending on the reproductive rates of individuals. Evolutionary processes are intrinsically random – a new mutation that is initially present in the population at low frequency can go extinct, even if it confers a reproductive advantage. The overall rate of evolution is largely determined by two quantities: the probability that an invading advantageous mutation spreads through the population (called fixation probability) and the time until it does so (called fixation time). Both those quantities crucially depend not only on the strength of the invading mutation but also on the population structure. In this thesis, we aim to understand how the underlying population structure affects the overall rate of evolution. Specifically, we study population structures that increase the fixation probability of advantageous mutants (called amplifiers of selection). Broadly speaking, our results are of three different types: We present various strong amplifiers, we identify regimes under which only limited amplification is feasible, and we propose population structures that provide different tradeoffs between high fixation probability and short fixation time.' alternative_title: - ISTA Thesis article_processing_charge: No author: - first_name: Josef full_name: Tkadlec, Josef id: 3F24CCC8-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Tkadlec orcid: 0000-0002-1097-9684 citation: ama: Tkadlec J. A role of graphs in evolutionary processes. 2020. doi:10.15479/AT:ISTA:7196 apa: Tkadlec, J. (2020). A role of graphs in evolutionary processes. Institute of Science and Technology Austria. https://doi.org/10.15479/AT:ISTA:7196 chicago: Tkadlec, Josef. “A Role of Graphs in Evolutionary Processes.” Institute of Science and Technology Austria, 2020. https://doi.org/10.15479/AT:ISTA:7196. ieee: J. Tkadlec, “A role of graphs in evolutionary processes,” Institute of Science and Technology Austria, 2020. ista: Tkadlec J. 2020. A role of graphs in evolutionary processes. Institute of Science and Technology Austria. mla: Tkadlec, Josef. A Role of Graphs in Evolutionary Processes. Institute of Science and Technology Austria, 2020, doi:10.15479/AT:ISTA:7196. short: J. Tkadlec, A Role of Graphs in Evolutionary Processes, Institute of Science and Technology Austria, 2020. date_created: 2019-12-20T12:26:36Z date_published: 2020-01-12T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2023-10-17T12:29:46Z day: '12' ddc: - '519' degree_awarded: PhD department: - _id: KrCh - _id: GradSch doi: 10.15479/AT:ISTA:7196 file: - access_level: closed checksum: 451f8e64b0eb26bf297644ac72bfcbe9 content_type: application/zip creator: jtkadlec date_created: 2020-01-12T11:49:49Z date_updated: 2020-07-14T12:47:52Z file_id: '7255' file_name: thesis.zip file_size: 21100497 relation: source_file - access_level: open_access checksum: d8c44cbc4f939c49a8efc9d4b8bb3985 content_type: application/pdf creator: dernst date_created: 2020-01-28T07:32:42Z date_updated: 2020-07-14T12:47:52Z file_id: '7367' file_name: 2020_Tkadlec_Thesis.pdf file_size: 11670983 relation: main_file file_date_updated: 2020-07-14T12:47:52Z has_accepted_license: '1' language: - iso: eng month: '01' oa: 1 oa_version: Published Version page: '144' publication_identifier: eissn: - 2663-337X publication_status: published publisher: Institute of Science and Technology Austria related_material: record: - id: '7210' relation: dissertation_contains status: public - id: '5751' relation: dissertation_contains status: public - id: '7212' relation: dissertation_contains status: public status: public supervisor: - first_name: Krishnendu full_name: Chatterjee, Krishnendu id: 2E5DCA20-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Chatterjee orcid: 0000-0002-4561-241X title: A role of graphs in evolutionary processes type: dissertation user_id: c635000d-4b10-11ee-a964-aac5a93f6ac1 year: '2020' ... --- _id: '9814' abstract: - lang: eng text: Data and mathematica notebooks for plotting figures from Language learning with communication between learners article_processing_charge: No author: - first_name: Rasmus full_name: Ibsen-Jensen, Rasmus id: 3B699956-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Ibsen-Jensen orcid: 0000-0003-4783-0389 - first_name: Josef full_name: Tkadlec, Josef id: 3F24CCC8-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Tkadlec orcid: 0000-0002-1097-9684 - first_name: Krishnendu full_name: Chatterjee, Krishnendu id: 2E5DCA20-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Chatterjee orcid: 0000-0002-4561-241X - first_name: Martin full_name: Nowak, Martin last_name: Nowak citation: ama: Ibsen-Jensen R, Tkadlec J, Chatterjee K, Nowak M. Data and mathematica notebooks for plotting figures from language learning with communication between learners from language acquisition with communication between learners. 2020. doi:10.6084/m9.figshare.5973013.v1 apa: Ibsen-Jensen, R., Tkadlec, J., Chatterjee, K., & Nowak, M. (2020). Data and mathematica notebooks for plotting figures from language learning with communication between learners from language acquisition with communication between learners. Royal Society. https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.5973013.v1 chicago: Ibsen-Jensen, Rasmus, Josef Tkadlec, Krishnendu Chatterjee, and Martin Nowak. “Data and Mathematica Notebooks for Plotting Figures from Language Learning with Communication between Learners from Language Acquisition with Communication between Learners.” Royal Society, 2020. https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.5973013.v1. ieee: R. Ibsen-Jensen, J. Tkadlec, K. Chatterjee, and M. Nowak, “Data and mathematica notebooks for plotting figures from language learning with communication between learners from language acquisition with communication between learners.” Royal Society, 2020. ista: Ibsen-Jensen R, Tkadlec J, Chatterjee K, Nowak M. 2020. Data and mathematica notebooks for plotting figures from language learning with communication between learners from language acquisition with communication between learners, Royal Society, 10.6084/m9.figshare.5973013.v1. mla: Ibsen-Jensen, Rasmus, et al. Data and Mathematica Notebooks for Plotting Figures from Language Learning with Communication between Learners from Language Acquisition with Communication between Learners. Royal Society, 2020, doi:10.6084/m9.figshare.5973013.v1. short: R. Ibsen-Jensen, J. Tkadlec, K. Chatterjee, M. Nowak, (2020). date_created: 2021-08-06T13:09:57Z date_published: 2020-10-15T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2023-10-18T06:36:00Z day: '15' department: - _id: KrCh doi: 10.6084/m9.figshare.5973013.v1 main_file_link: - open_access: '1' url: https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.5973013.v1 month: '10' oa: 1 oa_version: Published Version publisher: Royal Society related_material: record: - id: '198' relation: used_in_publication status: public status: public title: Data and mathematica notebooks for plotting figures from language learning with communication between learners from language acquisition with communication between learners type: research_data_reference user_id: 6785fbc1-c503-11eb-8a32-93094b40e1cf year: '2020' ... --- _id: '8324' abstract: - lang: eng text: The notion of program sensitivity (aka Lipschitz continuity) specifies that changes in the program input result in proportional changes to the program output. For probabilistic programs the notion is naturally extended to expected sensitivity. A previous approach develops a relational program logic framework for proving expected sensitivity of probabilistic while loops, where the number of iterations is fixed and bounded. In this work, we consider probabilistic while loops where the number of iterations is not fixed, but randomized and depends on the initial input values. We present a sound approach for proving expected sensitivity of such programs. Our sound approach is martingale-based and can be automated through existing martingale-synthesis algorithms. Furthermore, our approach is compositional for sequential composition of while loops under a mild side condition. We demonstrate the effectiveness of our approach on several classical examples from Gambler's Ruin, stochastic hybrid systems and stochastic gradient descent. We also present experimental results showing that our automated approach can handle various probabilistic programs in the literature. acknowledgement: We thank anonymous reviewers for helpful comments, especially for pointing to us a scenario of piecewise-linear approximation (Remark5). The research was partially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) under Grant No. 61802254, 61672229, 61832015,61772336,11871221 and Austrian Science Fund (FWF) NFN under Grant No. S11407-N23 (RiSE/SHiNE). We thank Prof. Yuxi Fu, director of the BASICS Lab at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, for his support. article_number: '25' article_processing_charge: No author: - first_name: Peixin full_name: Wang, Peixin last_name: Wang - first_name: Hongfei full_name: Fu, Hongfei last_name: Fu - first_name: Krishnendu full_name: Chatterjee, Krishnendu id: 2E5DCA20-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Chatterjee orcid: 0000-0002-4561-241X - first_name: Yuxin full_name: Deng, Yuxin last_name: Deng - first_name: Ming full_name: Xu, Ming last_name: Xu citation: ama: 'Wang P, Fu H, Chatterjee K, Deng Y, Xu M. Proving expected sensitivity of probabilistic programs with randomized variable-dependent termination time. In: Proceedings of the ACM on Programming Languages. Vol 4. ACM; 2020. doi:10.1145/3371093' apa: Wang, P., Fu, H., Chatterjee, K., Deng, Y., & Xu, M. (2020). Proving expected sensitivity of probabilistic programs with randomized variable-dependent termination time. In Proceedings of the ACM on Programming Languages (Vol. 4). ACM. https://doi.org/10.1145/3371093 chicago: Wang, Peixin, Hongfei Fu, Krishnendu Chatterjee, Yuxin Deng, and Ming Xu. “Proving Expected Sensitivity of Probabilistic Programs with Randomized Variable-Dependent Termination Time.” In Proceedings of the ACM on Programming Languages, Vol. 4. ACM, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1145/3371093. ieee: P. Wang, H. Fu, K. Chatterjee, Y. Deng, and M. Xu, “Proving expected sensitivity of probabilistic programs with randomized variable-dependent termination time,” in Proceedings of the ACM on Programming Languages, 2020, vol. 4, no. POPL. ista: Wang P, Fu H, Chatterjee K, Deng Y, Xu M. 2020. Proving expected sensitivity of probabilistic programs with randomized variable-dependent termination time. Proceedings of the ACM on Programming Languages. vol. 4, 25. mla: Wang, Peixin, et al. “Proving Expected Sensitivity of Probabilistic Programs with Randomized Variable-Dependent Termination Time.” Proceedings of the ACM on Programming Languages, vol. 4, no. POPL, 25, ACM, 2020, doi:10.1145/3371093. short: P. Wang, H. Fu, K. Chatterjee, Y. Deng, M. Xu, in:, Proceedings of the ACM on Programming Languages, ACM, 2020. date_created: 2020-08-30T22:01:12Z date_published: 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2024-02-22T15:16:45Z day: '01' ddc: - '004' department: - _id: KrCh doi: 10.1145/3371093 external_id: arxiv: - '1902.04744' file: - access_level: open_access checksum: c6193d109ff4ecb17e7a6513d8eb34c0 content_type: application/pdf creator: cziletti date_created: 2020-09-01T11:12:58Z date_updated: 2020-09-01T11:12:58Z file_id: '8328' file_name: 2019_ACM_POPL_Wang.pdf file_size: 564151 relation: main_file success: 1 file_date_updated: 2020-09-01T11:12:58Z has_accepted_license: '1' intvolume: ' 4' issue: POPL language: - iso: eng month: '01' oa: 1 oa_version: Published Version project: - _id: 25863FF4-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 call_identifier: FWF grant_number: S11407 name: Game Theory publication: Proceedings of the ACM on Programming Languages publication_identifier: eissn: - 2475-1421 publication_status: published publisher: ACM quality_controlled: '1' related_material: link: - relation: software url: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3533633 scopus_import: '1' status: public title: Proving expected sensitivity of probabilistic programs with randomized variable-dependent termination time tmp: image: /images/cc_by.png legal_code_url: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode name: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC-BY 4.0) short: CC BY (4.0) type: conference user_id: 3E5EF7F0-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 volume: 4 year: '2020' ... --- _id: '15055' abstract: - lang: eng text: Markov decision processes (MDPs) are the defacto framework for sequential decision making in the presence of stochastic uncertainty. A classical optimization criterion for MDPs is to maximize the expected discounted-sum payoff, which ignores low probability catastrophic events with highly negative impact on the system. On the other hand, risk-averse policies require the probability of undesirable events to be below a given threshold, but they do not account for optimization of the expected payoff. We consider MDPs with discounted-sum payoff with failure states which represent catastrophic outcomes. The objective of risk-constrained planning is to maximize the expected discounted-sum payoff among risk-averse policies that ensure the probability to encounter a failure state is below a desired threshold. Our main contribution is an efficient risk-constrained planning algorithm that combines UCT-like search with a predictor learned through interaction with the MDP (in the style of AlphaZero) and with a risk-constrained action selection via linear programming. We demonstrate the effectiveness of our approach with experiments on classical MDPs from the literature, including benchmarks with an order of 106 states. acknowledgement: Krishnendu Chatterjee is supported by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) NFN Grant No. S11407-N23 (RiSE/SHiNE), and COST Action GAMENET. Tomas Brazdil is supported by the Grant Agency of Masaryk University grant no. MUNI/G/0739/2017 and by the Czech Science Foundation grant No. 18-11193S. Petr Novotny and Jirı Vahala are supported by the Czech Science Foundation grant No. GJ19-15134Y. article_processing_charge: No article_type: original author: - first_name: Tomáš full_name: Brázdil, Tomáš last_name: Brázdil - first_name: Krishnendu full_name: Chatterjee, Krishnendu id: 2E5DCA20-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Chatterjee orcid: 0000-0002-4561-241X - first_name: Petr full_name: Novotný, Petr last_name: Novotný - first_name: Jiří full_name: Vahala, Jiří last_name: Vahala citation: ama: Brázdil T, Chatterjee K, Novotný P, Vahala J. Reinforcement learning of risk-constrained policies in Markov decision processes. Proceedings of the 34th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence. 2020;34(06):9794-9801. doi:10.1609/aaai.v34i06.6531 apa: 'Brázdil, T., Chatterjee, K., Novotný, P., & Vahala, J. (2020). Reinforcement learning of risk-constrained policies in Markov decision processes. Proceedings of the 34th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence. New York, NY, United States: Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence. https://doi.org/10.1609/aaai.v34i06.6531' chicago: Brázdil, Tomáš, Krishnendu Chatterjee, Petr Novotný, and Jiří Vahala. “Reinforcement Learning of Risk-Constrained Policies in Markov Decision Processes.” Proceedings of the 34th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1609/aaai.v34i06.6531. ieee: T. Brázdil, K. Chatterjee, P. Novotný, and J. Vahala, “Reinforcement learning of risk-constrained policies in Markov decision processes,” Proceedings of the 34th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, vol. 34, no. 06. Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence, pp. 9794–9801, 2020. ista: Brázdil T, Chatterjee K, Novotný P, Vahala J. 2020. Reinforcement learning of risk-constrained policies in Markov decision processes. Proceedings of the 34th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence. 34(06), 9794–9801. mla: Brázdil, Tomáš, et al. “Reinforcement Learning of Risk-Constrained Policies in Markov Decision Processes.” Proceedings of the 34th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, vol. 34, no. 06, Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence, 2020, pp. 9794–801, doi:10.1609/aaai.v34i06.6531. short: T. Brázdil, K. Chatterjee, P. Novotný, J. Vahala, Proceedings of the 34th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence 34 (2020) 9794–9801. conference: end_date: 2020-02-12 location: New York, NY, United States name: 'AAAI: Conference on Artificial Intelligence' start_date: 2020-02-07 date_created: 2024-03-04T08:07:22Z date_published: 2020-04-03T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2024-03-04T08:30:16Z day: '03' department: - _id: KrCh doi: 10.1609/aaai.v34i06.6531 external_id: arxiv: - '2002.12086' intvolume: ' 34' issue: '06' keyword: - General Medicine language: - iso: eng main_file_link: - open_access: '1' url: https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2002.12086 month: '04' oa: 1 oa_version: Preprint page: 9794-9801 project: - _id: 25863FF4-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 call_identifier: FWF grant_number: S11407 name: Game Theory publication: Proceedings of the 34th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence publication_identifier: issn: - 2374-3468 publication_status: published publisher: Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence quality_controlled: '1' status: public title: Reinforcement learning of risk-constrained policies in Markov decision processes type: journal_article user_id: 2DF688A6-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 volume: 34 year: '2020' ... --- _id: '15082' abstract: - lang: eng text: "Two plane drawings of geometric graphs on the same set of points are called disjoint compatible if their union is plane and they do not have an edge in common. For a given set S of 2n points two plane drawings of perfect matchings M1 and M2 (which do not need to be disjoint nor compatible) are disjoint tree-compatible if there exists a plane drawing of a spanning tree T on S which is disjoint compatible to both M1 and M2.\r\nWe show that the graph of all disjoint tree-compatible perfect geometric matchings on 2n points in convex position is connected if and only if 2n ≥ 10. Moreover, in that case the diameter\r\nof this graph is either 4 or 5, independent of n." acknowledgement: Research on this work was initiated at the 6th Austrian-Japanese-Mexican-Spanish Workshop on Discrete Geometry and continued during the 16th European Geometric Graph-Week, both held near Strobl, Austria. We are grateful to the participants for the inspiring atmosphere. We especially thank Alexander Pilz for bringing this class of problems to our attention and Birgit Vogtenhuber for inspiring discussions. D.P. is partially supported by the FWF grant I 3340-N35 (Collaborative DACH project Arrangements and Drawings). The research stay of P.P. at IST Austria is funded by the project CZ.02.2.69/0.0/0.0/17_050/0008466 Improvement of internationalization in the field of research and development at Charles University, through the support of quality projects MSCA-IF. This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No 734922. article_number: '56' article_processing_charge: No author: - first_name: Oswin full_name: Aichholzer, Oswin last_name: Aichholzer - first_name: Julia full_name: Obmann, Julia last_name: Obmann - first_name: Pavel full_name: Patak, Pavel id: B593B804-1035-11EA-B4F1-947645A5BB83 last_name: Patak - first_name: Daniel full_name: Perz, Daniel last_name: Perz - first_name: Josef full_name: Tkadlec, Josef id: 3F24CCC8-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Tkadlec orcid: 0000-0002-1097-9684 citation: ama: 'Aichholzer O, Obmann J, Patak P, Perz D, Tkadlec J. Disjoint tree-compatible plane perfect matchings. In: 36th European Workshop on Computational Geometry. ; 2020.' apa: Aichholzer, O., Obmann, J., Patak, P., Perz, D., & Tkadlec, J. (2020). Disjoint tree-compatible plane perfect matchings. In 36th European Workshop on Computational Geometry. Würzburg, Germany, Virtual. chicago: Aichholzer, Oswin, Julia Obmann, Pavel Patak, Daniel Perz, and Josef Tkadlec. “Disjoint Tree-Compatible Plane Perfect Matchings.” In 36th European Workshop on Computational Geometry, 2020. ieee: O. Aichholzer, J. Obmann, P. Patak, D. Perz, and J. Tkadlec, “Disjoint tree-compatible plane perfect matchings,” in 36th European Workshop on Computational Geometry, Würzburg, Germany, Virtual, 2020. ista: 'Aichholzer O, Obmann J, Patak P, Perz D, Tkadlec J. 2020. Disjoint tree-compatible plane perfect matchings. 36th European Workshop on Computational Geometry. EuroCG: European Workshop on Computational Geometry, 56.' mla: Aichholzer, Oswin, et al. “Disjoint Tree-Compatible Plane Perfect Matchings.” 36th European Workshop on Computational Geometry, 56, 2020. short: O. Aichholzer, J. Obmann, P. Patak, D. Perz, J. Tkadlec, in:, 36th European Workshop on Computational Geometry, 2020. conference: end_date: 2020-03-18 location: Würzburg, Germany, Virtual name: 'EuroCG: European Workshop on Computational Geometry' start_date: 2020-03-16 date_created: 2024-03-05T08:57:17Z date_published: 2020-04-01T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2024-03-05T09:00:07Z day: '01' department: - _id: KrCh - _id: UlWa language: - iso: eng main_file_link: - open_access: '1' url: https://www1.pub.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de/eurocg2020/data/uploads/papers/eurocg20_paper_56.pdf month: '04' oa: 1 oa_version: Published Version publication: 36th European Workshop on Computational Geometry publication_status: published quality_controlled: '1' status: public title: Disjoint tree-compatible plane perfect matchings type: conference user_id: 2DF688A6-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 year: '2020' ... --- _id: '7810' abstract: - lang: eng text: "Interprocedural data-flow analyses form an expressive and useful paradigm of numerous static analysis applications, such as live variables analysis, alias analysis and null pointers analysis. The most widely-used framework for interprocedural data-flow analysis is IFDS, which encompasses distributive data-flow functions over a finite domain. On-demand data-flow analyses restrict the focus of the analysis on specific program locations and data facts. This setting provides a natural split between (i) an offline (or preprocessing) phase, where the program is partially analyzed and analysis summaries are created, and (ii) an online (or query) phase, where analysis queries arrive on demand and the summaries are used to speed up answering queries.\r\nIn this work, we consider on-demand IFDS analyses where the queries concern program locations of the same procedure (aka same-context queries). We exploit the fact that flow graphs of programs have low treewidth to develop faster algorithms that are space and time optimal for many common data-flow analyses, in both the preprocessing and the query phase. We also use treewidth to develop query solutions that are embarrassingly parallelizable, i.e. the total work for answering each query is split to a number of threads such that each thread performs only a constant amount of work. Finally, we implement a static analyzer based on our algorithms, and perform a series of on-demand analysis experiments on standard benchmarks. Our experimental results show a drastic speed-up of the queries after only a lightweight preprocessing phase, which significantly outperforms existing techniques." alternative_title: - LNCS article_processing_charge: No author: - first_name: Krishnendu full_name: Chatterjee, Krishnendu id: 2E5DCA20-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Chatterjee orcid: 0000-0002-4561-241X - first_name: Amir Kafshdar full_name: Goharshady, Amir Kafshdar id: 391365CE-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Goharshady orcid: 0000-0003-1702-6584 - first_name: Rasmus full_name: Ibsen-Jensen, Rasmus id: 3B699956-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Ibsen-Jensen orcid: 0000-0003-4783-0389 - first_name: Andreas full_name: Pavlogiannis, Andreas id: 49704004-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Pavlogiannis orcid: 0000-0002-8943-0722 citation: ama: 'Chatterjee K, Goharshady AK, Ibsen-Jensen R, Pavlogiannis A. Optimal and perfectly parallel algorithms for on-demand data-flow analysis. In: European Symposium on Programming. Vol 12075. Springer Nature; 2020:112-140. doi:10.1007/978-3-030-44914-8_5' apa: 'Chatterjee, K., Goharshady, A. K., Ibsen-Jensen, R., & Pavlogiannis, A. (2020). Optimal and perfectly parallel algorithms for on-demand data-flow analysis. In European Symposium on Programming (Vol. 12075, pp. 112–140). Dublin, Ireland: Springer Nature. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-44914-8_5' chicago: Chatterjee, Krishnendu, Amir Kafshdar Goharshady, Rasmus Ibsen-Jensen, and Andreas Pavlogiannis. “Optimal and Perfectly Parallel Algorithms for On-Demand Data-Flow Analysis.” In European Symposium on Programming, 12075:112–40. Springer Nature, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-44914-8_5. ieee: K. Chatterjee, A. K. Goharshady, R. Ibsen-Jensen, and A. Pavlogiannis, “Optimal and perfectly parallel algorithms for on-demand data-flow analysis,” in European Symposium on Programming, Dublin, Ireland, 2020, vol. 12075, pp. 112–140. ista: 'Chatterjee K, Goharshady AK, Ibsen-Jensen R, Pavlogiannis A. 2020. Optimal and perfectly parallel algorithms for on-demand data-flow analysis. European Symposium on Programming. ESOP: Programming Languages and Systems, LNCS, vol. 12075, 112–140.' mla: Chatterjee, Krishnendu, et al. “Optimal and Perfectly Parallel Algorithms for On-Demand Data-Flow Analysis.” European Symposium on Programming, vol. 12075, Springer Nature, 2020, pp. 112–40, doi:10.1007/978-3-030-44914-8_5. short: K. Chatterjee, A.K. Goharshady, R. Ibsen-Jensen, A. Pavlogiannis, in:, European Symposium on Programming, Springer Nature, 2020, pp. 112–140. conference: end_date: 2020-04-30 location: Dublin, Ireland name: 'ESOP: Programming Languages and Systems' start_date: 2020-04-25 date_created: 2020-05-10T22:00:50Z date_published: 2020-04-18T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2024-03-28T23:30:34Z day: '18' ddc: - '000' department: - _id: KrCh doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-44914-8_5 external_id: isi: - '000681656800005' file: - access_level: open_access checksum: 8618b80f4cf7b39a60e61a6445ad9807 content_type: application/pdf creator: dernst date_created: 2020-05-26T13:34:48Z date_updated: 2020-07-14T12:48:03Z file_id: '7895' file_name: 2020_LNCS_Chatterjee.pdf file_size: 651250 relation: main_file file_date_updated: 2020-07-14T12:48:03Z has_accepted_license: '1' intvolume: ' 12075' isi: 1 language: - iso: eng month: '04' oa: 1 oa_version: Published Version page: 112-140 project: - _id: 25832EC2-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 call_identifier: FWF grant_number: S 11407_N23 name: Rigorous Systems Engineering - _id: 25892FC0-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 grant_number: ICT15-003 name: Efficient Algorithms for Computer Aided Verification - _id: 266EEEC0-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 name: Quantitative Game-theoretic Analysis of Blockchain Applications and Smart Contracts - _id: 267066CE-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 name: Quantitative Analysis of Probablistic Systems with a focus on Crypto-currencies publication: European Symposium on Programming publication_identifier: eissn: - '16113349' isbn: - '9783030449131' issn: - '03029743' publication_status: published publisher: Springer Nature quality_controlled: '1' related_material: record: - id: '8934' relation: dissertation_contains status: public scopus_import: '1' status: public title: Optimal and perfectly parallel algorithms for on-demand data-flow analysis tmp: image: /images/cc_by.png legal_code_url: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode name: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC-BY 4.0) short: CC BY (4.0) type: conference user_id: 4359f0d1-fa6c-11eb-b949-802e58b17ae8 volume: 12075 year: '2020' ... --- _id: '8728' abstract: - lang: eng text: Discrete-time Markov Chains (MCs) and Markov Decision Processes (MDPs) are two standard formalisms in system analysis. Their main associated quantitative objectives are hitting probabilities, discounted sum, and mean payoff. Although there are many techniques for computing these objectives in general MCs/MDPs, they have not been thoroughly studied in terms of parameterized algorithms, particularly when treewidth is used as the parameter. This is in sharp contrast to qualitative objectives for MCs, MDPs and graph games, for which treewidth-based algorithms yield significant complexity improvements. In this work, we show that treewidth can also be used to obtain faster algorithms for the quantitative problems. For an MC with n states and m transitions, we show that each of the classical quantitative objectives can be computed in O((n+m)⋅t2) time, given a tree decomposition of the MC with width t. Our results also imply a bound of O(κ⋅(n+m)⋅t2) for each objective on MDPs, where κ is the number of strategy-iteration refinements required for the given input and objective. Finally, we make an experimental evaluation of our new algorithms on low-treewidth MCs and MDPs obtained from the DaCapo benchmark suite. Our experiments show that on low-treewidth MCs and MDPs, our algorithms outperform existing well-established methods by one or more orders of magnitude. alternative_title: - LNCS article_processing_charge: No author: - first_name: Ali full_name: Asadi, Ali last_name: Asadi - first_name: Krishnendu full_name: Chatterjee, Krishnendu id: 2E5DCA20-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Chatterjee orcid: 0000-0002-4561-241X - first_name: Amir Kafshdar full_name: Goharshady, Amir Kafshdar id: 391365CE-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Goharshady orcid: 0000-0003-1702-6584 - first_name: Kiarash full_name: Mohammadi, Kiarash last_name: Mohammadi - first_name: Andreas full_name: Pavlogiannis, Andreas id: 49704004-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Pavlogiannis orcid: 0000-0002-8943-0722 citation: ama: 'Asadi A, Chatterjee K, Goharshady AK, Mohammadi K, Pavlogiannis A. Faster algorithms for quantitative analysis of MCs and MDPs with small treewidth. In: Automated Technology for Verification and Analysis. Vol 12302. Springer Nature; 2020:253-270. doi:10.1007/978-3-030-59152-6_14' apa: 'Asadi, A., Chatterjee, K., Goharshady, A. K., Mohammadi, K., & Pavlogiannis, A. (2020). Faster algorithms for quantitative analysis of MCs and MDPs with small treewidth. In Automated Technology for Verification and Analysis (Vol. 12302, pp. 253–270). Hanoi, Vietnam: Springer Nature. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-59152-6_14' chicago: Asadi, Ali, Krishnendu Chatterjee, Amir Kafshdar Goharshady, Kiarash Mohammadi, and Andreas Pavlogiannis. “Faster Algorithms for Quantitative Analysis of MCs and MDPs with Small Treewidth.” In Automated Technology for Verification and Analysis, 12302:253–70. Springer Nature, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-59152-6_14. ieee: A. Asadi, K. Chatterjee, A. K. Goharshady, K. Mohammadi, and A. Pavlogiannis, “Faster algorithms for quantitative analysis of MCs and MDPs with small treewidth,” in Automated Technology for Verification and Analysis, Hanoi, Vietnam, 2020, vol. 12302, pp. 253–270. ista: 'Asadi A, Chatterjee K, Goharshady AK, Mohammadi K, Pavlogiannis A. 2020. Faster algorithms for quantitative analysis of MCs and MDPs with small treewidth. Automated Technology for Verification and Analysis. ATVA: Automated Technology for Verification and Analysis, LNCS, vol. 12302, 253–270.' mla: Asadi, Ali, et al. “Faster Algorithms for Quantitative Analysis of MCs and MDPs with Small Treewidth.” Automated Technology for Verification and Analysis, vol. 12302, Springer Nature, 2020, pp. 253–70, doi:10.1007/978-3-030-59152-6_14. short: A. Asadi, K. Chatterjee, A.K. Goharshady, K. Mohammadi, A. Pavlogiannis, in:, Automated Technology for Verification and Analysis, Springer Nature, 2020, pp. 253–270. conference: end_date: 2020-10-23 location: Hanoi, Vietnam name: 'ATVA: Automated Technology for Verification and Analysis' start_date: 2020-10-19 date_created: 2020-11-06T07:30:05Z date_published: 2020-10-12T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2024-03-28T23:30:34Z day: '12' ddc: - '000' department: - _id: KrCh doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-59152-6_14 external_id: isi: - '000723555700014' file: - access_level: open_access checksum: ae83f27e5b189d5abc2e7514f1b7e1b5 content_type: application/pdf creator: dernst date_created: 2020-11-06T07:41:03Z date_updated: 2020-11-06T07:41:03Z file_id: '8729' file_name: 2020_LNCS_ATVA_Asadi_accepted.pdf file_size: 726648 relation: main_file success: 1 file_date_updated: 2020-11-06T07:41:03Z has_accepted_license: '1' intvolume: ' 12302' isi: 1 language: - iso: eng month: '10' oa: 1 oa_version: Submitted Version page: 253-270 project: - _id: 25832EC2-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 call_identifier: FWF grant_number: S 11407_N23 name: Rigorous Systems Engineering - _id: 25892FC0-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 grant_number: ICT15-003 name: Efficient Algorithms for Computer Aided Verification - _id: 267066CE-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 name: Quantitative Analysis of Probablistic Systems with a focus on Crypto-currencies publication: Automated Technology for Verification and Analysis publication_identifier: eisbn: - '9783030591526' eissn: - 1611-3349 isbn: - '9783030591519' issn: - 0302-9743 publication_status: published publisher: Springer Nature quality_controlled: '1' related_material: record: - id: '8934' relation: dissertation_contains status: public scopus_import: '1' status: public title: Faster algorithms for quantitative analysis of MCs and MDPs with small treewidth type: conference user_id: c635000d-4b10-11ee-a964-aac5a93f6ac1 volume: 12302 year: '2020' ... --- _id: '8089' abstract: - lang: eng text: "We consider the classical problem of invariant generation for programs with polynomial assignments and focus on synthesizing invariants that are a conjunction of strict polynomial inequalities. We present a sound and semi-complete method based on positivstellensaetze, i.e. theorems in semi-algebraic geometry that characterize positive polynomials over a semi-algebraic set.\r\n\r\nOn the theoretical side, the worst-case complexity of our approach is subexponential, whereas the worst-case complexity of the previous complete method (Kapur, ACA 2004) is doubly-exponential. Even when restricted to linear invariants, the best previous complexity for complete invariant generation is exponential (Colon et al, CAV 2003). On the practical side, we reduce the invariant generation problem to quadratic programming (QCLP), which is a classical optimization problem with many industrial solvers. We demonstrate the applicability of our approach by providing experimental results on several academic benchmarks. To the best of our knowledge, the only previous invariant generation method that provides completeness guarantees for invariants consisting of polynomial inequalities is (Kapur, ACA 2004), which relies on quantifier elimination and cannot even handle toy programs such as our running example." article_processing_charge: No author: - first_name: Krishnendu full_name: Chatterjee, Krishnendu id: 2E5DCA20-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Chatterjee orcid: 0000-0002-4561-241X - first_name: Hongfei full_name: Fu, Hongfei id: 3AAD03D6-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Fu - first_name: Amir Kafshdar full_name: Goharshady, Amir Kafshdar id: 391365CE-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Goharshady orcid: 0000-0003-1702-6584 - first_name: Ehsan Kafshdar full_name: Goharshady, Ehsan Kafshdar last_name: Goharshady citation: ama: 'Chatterjee K, Fu H, Goharshady AK, Goharshady EK. Polynomial invariant generation for non-deterministic recursive programs. In: Proceedings of the 41st ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation. Association for Computing Machinery; 2020:672-687. doi:10.1145/3385412.3385969' apa: 'Chatterjee, K., Fu, H., Goharshady, A. K., & Goharshady, E. K. (2020). Polynomial invariant generation for non-deterministic recursive programs. In Proceedings of the 41st ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation (pp. 672–687). London, United Kingdom: Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/3385412.3385969' chicago: Chatterjee, Krishnendu, Hongfei Fu, Amir Kafshdar Goharshady, and Ehsan Kafshdar Goharshady. “Polynomial Invariant Generation for Non-Deterministic Recursive Programs.” In Proceedings of the 41st ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation, 672–87. Association for Computing Machinery, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1145/3385412.3385969. ieee: K. Chatterjee, H. Fu, A. K. Goharshady, and E. K. Goharshady, “Polynomial invariant generation for non-deterministic recursive programs,” in Proceedings of the 41st ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation, London, United Kingdom, 2020, pp. 672–687. ista: 'Chatterjee K, Fu H, Goharshady AK, Goharshady EK. 2020. Polynomial invariant generation for non-deterministic recursive programs. Proceedings of the 41st ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation. PLDI: Programming Language Design and Implementation, 672–687.' mla: Chatterjee, Krishnendu, et al. “Polynomial Invariant Generation for Non-Deterministic Recursive Programs.” Proceedings of the 41st ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation, Association for Computing Machinery, 2020, pp. 672–87, doi:10.1145/3385412.3385969. short: K. Chatterjee, H. Fu, A.K. Goharshady, E.K. Goharshady, in:, Proceedings of the 41st ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation, Association for Computing Machinery, 2020, pp. 672–687. conference: end_date: 2020-06-20 location: London, United Kingdom name: 'PLDI: Programming Language Design and Implementation' start_date: 2020-06-15 date_created: 2020-07-05T22:00:45Z date_published: 2020-06-11T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2024-03-28T23:30:34Z day: '11' department: - _id: KrCh doi: 10.1145/3385412.3385969 external_id: arxiv: - '1902.04373' isi: - '000614622300045' isi: 1 language: - iso: eng main_file_link: - open_access: '1' url: https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.04373 month: '06' oa: 1 oa_version: Preprint page: 672-687 project: - _id: 25832EC2-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 call_identifier: FWF grant_number: S 11407_N23 name: Rigorous Systems Engineering - _id: 25892FC0-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 grant_number: ICT15-003 name: Efficient Algorithms for Computer Aided Verification publication: Proceedings of the 41st ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation publication_identifier: isbn: - '9781450376136' publication_status: published publisher: Association for Computing Machinery quality_controlled: '1' related_material: record: - id: '8934' relation: dissertation_contains status: public scopus_import: '1' status: public title: Polynomial invariant generation for non-deterministic recursive programs type: conference user_id: 2DF688A6-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 year: '2020' ... --- _id: '6918' abstract: - lang: eng text: "We consider the classic problem of Network Reliability. A network is given together with a source vertex, one or more target vertices, and probabilities assigned to each of the edges. Each edge of the network is operable with its associated probability and the problem is to determine the probability of having at least one source-to-target path that is entirely composed of operable edges. This problem is known to be NP-hard.\r\n\r\nWe provide a novel scalable algorithm to solve the Network Reliability problem when the treewidth of the underlying network is small. We also show our algorithm’s applicability for real-world transit networks that have small treewidth, including the metro networks of major cities, such as London and Tokyo. Our algorithm leverages tree decompositions to shrink the original graph into much smaller graphs, for which reliability can be efficiently and exactly computed using a brute force method. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first exact algorithm for Network Reliability that can scale to handle real-world instances of the problem." acknowledgement: We are grateful to the anonymous reviewers for their comments, which significantly improved the present work. The research was partially supported by the EPSRC Early Career Fellowship EP/R023379/1, grant no. SC7-1718-01 of the London Mathematical Society, an IBM PhD Fellowship, and a DOC Fellowship of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW). article_number: '106665' article_processing_charge: No article_type: original author: - first_name: Amir Kafshdar full_name: Goharshady, Amir Kafshdar id: 391365CE-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Goharshady orcid: 0000-0003-1702-6584 - first_name: Fatemeh full_name: Mohammadi, Fatemeh last_name: Mohammadi citation: ama: Goharshady AK, Mohammadi F. An efficient algorithm for computing network reliability in small treewidth. Reliability Engineering and System Safety. 2020;193. doi:10.1016/j.ress.2019.106665 apa: Goharshady, A. K., & Mohammadi, F. (2020). An efficient algorithm for computing network reliability in small treewidth. Reliability Engineering and System Safety. Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ress.2019.106665 chicago: Goharshady, Amir Kafshdar, and Fatemeh Mohammadi. “An Efficient Algorithm for Computing Network Reliability in Small Treewidth.” Reliability Engineering and System Safety. Elsevier, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ress.2019.106665. ieee: A. K. Goharshady and F. Mohammadi, “An efficient algorithm for computing network reliability in small treewidth,” Reliability Engineering and System Safety, vol. 193. Elsevier, 2020. ista: Goharshady AK, Mohammadi F. 2020. An efficient algorithm for computing network reliability in small treewidth. Reliability Engineering and System Safety. 193, 106665. mla: Goharshady, Amir Kafshdar, and Fatemeh Mohammadi. “An Efficient Algorithm for Computing Network Reliability in Small Treewidth.” Reliability Engineering and System Safety, vol. 193, 106665, Elsevier, 2020, doi:10.1016/j.ress.2019.106665. short: A.K. Goharshady, F. Mohammadi, Reliability Engineering and System Safety 193 (2020). date_created: 2019-09-29T22:00:44Z date_published: 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2024-03-28T23:30:34Z day: '01' department: - _id: KrCh doi: 10.1016/j.ress.2019.106665 external_id: arxiv: - '1712.09692' isi: - '000501641400050' intvolume: ' 193' isi: 1 language: - iso: eng main_file_link: - open_access: '1' url: https://arxiv.org/abs/1712.09692 month: '01' oa: 1 oa_version: Preprint project: - _id: 266EEEC0-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 name: Quantitative Game-theoretic Analysis of Blockchain Applications and Smart Contracts publication: Reliability Engineering and System Safety publication_identifier: issn: - '09518320' publication_status: published publisher: Elsevier quality_controlled: '1' related_material: record: - id: '8934' relation: dissertation_contains status: public scopus_import: '1' status: public title: An efficient algorithm for computing network reliability in small treewidth type: journal_article user_id: 4359f0d1-fa6c-11eb-b949-802e58b17ae8 volume: 193 year: '2020' ... --- _id: '6887' abstract: - lang: eng text: 'The fundamental model-checking problem, given as input a model and a specification, asks for the algorithmic verification of whether the model satisfies the specification. Two classical models for reactive systems are graphs and Markov decision processes (MDPs). A basic specification formalism in the verification of reactive systems is the strong fairness (aka Streett) objective, where given different types of requests and corresponding grants, the requirement is that for each type, if the request event happens infinitely often, then the corresponding grant event must also happen infinitely often. All omega-regular objectives can be expressed as Streett objectives and hence they are canonical in verification. Consider graphs/MDPs with n vertices, m edges, and a Streett objectives with k pairs, and let b denote the size of the description of the Streett objective for the sets of requests and grants. The current best-known algorithm for the problem requires time O(min(n^2, m sqrt{m log n}) + b log n). In this work we present randomized near-linear time algorithms, with expected running time O~(m + b), where the O~ notation hides poly-log factors. Our randomized algorithms are near-linear in the size of the input, and hence optimal up to poly-log factors. ' alternative_title: - LIPIcs article_number: '7' article_processing_charge: No author: - first_name: Krishnendu full_name: Chatterjee, Krishnendu id: 2E5DCA20-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Chatterjee orcid: 0000-0002-4561-241X - first_name: Wolfgang full_name: Dvorák, Wolfgang last_name: Dvorák - first_name: Monika H full_name: Henzinger, Monika H id: 540c9bbd-f2de-11ec-812d-d04a5be85630 last_name: Henzinger orcid: 0000-0002-5008-6530 - first_name: Alexander full_name: Svozil, Alexander last_name: Svozil citation: ama: 'Chatterjee K, Dvorák W, Henzinger MH, Svozil A. Near-linear time algorithms for Streett objectives in graphs and MDPs. In: Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics. Vol 140. Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik; 2019. doi:10.4230/LIPICS.CONCUR.2019.7' apa: 'Chatterjee, K., Dvorák, W., Henzinger, M. H., & Svozil, A. (2019). Near-linear time algorithms for Streett objectives in graphs and MDPs. In Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (Vol. 140). Amsterdam, Netherlands: Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik. https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPICS.CONCUR.2019.7' chicago: Chatterjee, Krishnendu, Wolfgang Dvorák, Monika H Henzinger, and Alexander Svozil. “Near-Linear Time Algorithms for Streett Objectives in Graphs and MDPs.” In Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics, Vol. 140. Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik, 2019. https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPICS.CONCUR.2019.7. ieee: K. Chatterjee, W. Dvorák, M. H. Henzinger, and A. Svozil, “Near-linear time algorithms for Streett objectives in graphs and MDPs,” in Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 2019, vol. 140. ista: 'Chatterjee K, Dvorák W, Henzinger MH, Svozil A. 2019. Near-linear time algorithms for Streett objectives in graphs and MDPs. Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics. CONCUR: International Conference on Concurrency Theory, LIPIcs, vol. 140, 7.' mla: Chatterjee, Krishnendu, et al. “Near-Linear Time Algorithms for Streett Objectives in Graphs and MDPs.” Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics, vol. 140, 7, Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik, 2019, doi:10.4230/LIPICS.CONCUR.2019.7. short: K. Chatterjee, W. Dvorák, M.H. Henzinger, A. Svozil, in:, Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics, Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik, 2019. conference: end_date: 2019-08-30 location: Amsterdam, Netherlands name: 'CONCUR: International Conference on Concurrency Theory' start_date: 2019-08-27 date_created: 2019-09-18T08:07:58Z date_published: 2019-08-01T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2022-08-12T10:54:34Z day: '01' ddc: - '000' department: - _id: KrCh doi: 10.4230/LIPICS.CONCUR.2019.7 ec_funded: 1 file: - access_level: open_access checksum: e1f0e4061212454574f34a1368d018ec content_type: application/pdf creator: kschuh date_created: 2019-10-01T08:20:30Z date_updated: 2020-07-14T12:47:43Z file_id: '6922' file_name: 2019_LIPIcs_Chatterjee.pdf file_size: 730112 relation: main_file file_date_updated: 2020-07-14T12:47:43Z has_accepted_license: '1' intvolume: ' 140' language: - iso: eng month: '08' oa: 1 oa_version: Published Version project: - _id: 25863FF4-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 call_identifier: FWF grant_number: S11407 name: Game Theory - _id: 2581B60A-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 call_identifier: FP7 grant_number: '279307' name: 'Quantitative Graph Games: Theory and Applications' publication: Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics publication_status: published publisher: Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik quality_controlled: '1' scopus_import: '1' status: public title: Near-linear time algorithms for Streett objectives in graphs and MDPs tmp: image: /images/cc_by.png legal_code_url: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode name: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC-BY 4.0) short: CC BY (4.0) type: conference user_id: 6785fbc1-c503-11eb-8a32-93094b40e1cf volume: 140 year: '2019' ... --- _id: '6885' abstract: - lang: eng text: 'A vector addition system with states (VASS) consists of a finite set of states and counters. A configuration is a state and a value for each counter; a transition changes the state and each counter is incremented, decremented, or left unchanged. While qualitative properties such as state and configuration reachability have been studied for VASS, we consider the long-run average cost of infinite computations of VASS. The cost of a configuration is for each state, a linear combination of the counter values. In the special case of uniform cost functions, the linear combination is the same for all states. The (regular) long-run emptiness problem is, given a VASS, a cost function, and a threshold value, if there is a (lasso-shaped) computation such that the long-run average value of the cost function does not exceed the threshold. For uniform cost functions, we show that the regular long-run emptiness problem is (a) decidable in polynomial time for integer-valued VASS, and (b) decidable but nonelementarily hard for natural-valued VASS (i.e., nonnegative counters). For general cost functions, we show that the problem is (c) NP-complete for integer-valued VASS, and (d) undecidable for natural-valued VASS. Our most interesting result is for (c) integer-valued VASS with general cost functions, where we establish a connection between the regular long-run emptiness problem and quadratic Diophantine inequalities. The general (nonregular) long-run emptiness problem is equally hard as the regular problem in all cases except (c), where it remains open. ' alternative_title: - LIPIcs article_number: '27' author: - first_name: Krishnendu full_name: Chatterjee, Krishnendu id: 2E5DCA20-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Chatterjee orcid: 0000-0002-4561-241X - first_name: Thomas A full_name: Henzinger, Thomas A id: 40876CD8-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Henzinger orcid: 0000−0002−2985−7724 - first_name: Jan full_name: Otop, Jan last_name: Otop citation: ama: 'Chatterjee K, Henzinger TA, Otop J. Long-run average behavior of vector addition systems with states. In: Vol 140. Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik; 2019. doi:10.4230/LIPICS.CONCUR.2019.27' apa: 'Chatterjee, K., Henzinger, T. A., & Otop, J. (2019). Long-run average behavior of vector addition systems with states (Vol. 140). Presented at the CONCUR: International Conference on Concurrency Theory, Amsterdam, Netherlands: Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik. https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPICS.CONCUR.2019.27' chicago: Chatterjee, Krishnendu, Thomas A Henzinger, and Jan Otop. “Long-Run Average Behavior of Vector Addition Systems with States,” Vol. 140. Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik, 2019. https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPICS.CONCUR.2019.27. ieee: 'K. Chatterjee, T. A. Henzinger, and J. Otop, “Long-run average behavior of vector addition systems with states,” presented at the CONCUR: International Conference on Concurrency Theory, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 2019, vol. 140.' ista: 'Chatterjee K, Henzinger TA, Otop J. 2019. Long-run average behavior of vector addition systems with states. CONCUR: International Conference on Concurrency Theory, LIPIcs, vol. 140, 27.' mla: Chatterjee, Krishnendu, et al. Long-Run Average Behavior of Vector Addition Systems with States. Vol. 140, 27, Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik, 2019, doi:10.4230/LIPICS.CONCUR.2019.27. short: K. Chatterjee, T.A. Henzinger, J. Otop, in:, Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik, 2019. conference: end_date: 2019-08-30 location: Amsterdam, Netherlands name: 'CONCUR: International Conference on Concurrency Theory' start_date: 2019-08-27 date_created: 2019-09-18T08:06:14Z date_published: 2019-08-01T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2021-01-12T08:09:27Z day: '01' ddc: - '000' department: - _id: ToHe - _id: KrCh doi: 10.4230/LIPICS.CONCUR.2019.27 file: - access_level: open_access checksum: 4985e26e1572d1575d64d38acabd71d6 content_type: application/pdf creator: kschuh date_created: 2019-09-27T12:09:35Z date_updated: 2020-07-14T12:47:43Z file_id: '6914' file_name: 2019_LIPIcs_Chatterjee.pdf file_size: 538120 relation: main_file file_date_updated: 2020-07-14T12:47:43Z has_accepted_license: '1' intvolume: ' 140' language: - iso: eng month: '08' oa: 1 oa_version: Published Version project: - _id: 25863FF4-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 call_identifier: FWF grant_number: S11407 name: Game Theory - _id: 25F2ACDE-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 call_identifier: FWF grant_number: S11402-N23 name: Rigorous Systems Engineering publication_status: published publisher: Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik quality_controlled: '1' scopus_import: 1 status: public title: Long-run average behavior of vector addition systems with states tmp: image: /images/cc_by.png legal_code_url: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode name: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC-BY 4.0) short: CC BY (4.0) type: conference user_id: 3E5EF7F0-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 volume: 140 year: '2019' ... --- _id: '6889' abstract: - lang: eng text: 'We study Markov decision processes and turn-based stochastic games with parity conditions. There are three qualitative winning criteria, namely, sure winning, which requires all paths to satisfy the condition, almost-sure winning, which requires the condition to be satisfied with probability 1, and limit-sure winning, which requires the condition to be satisfied with probability arbitrarily close to 1. We study the combination of two of these criteria for parity conditions, e.g., there are two parity conditions one of which must be won surely, and the other almost-surely. The problem has been studied recently by Berthon et al. for MDPs with combination of sure and almost-sure winning, under infinite-memory strategies, and the problem has been established to be in NP cap co-NP. Even in MDPs there is a difference between finite-memory and infinite-memory strategies. Our main results for combination of sure and almost-sure winning are as follows: (a) we show that for MDPs with finite-memory strategies the problem is in NP cap co-NP; (b) we show that for turn-based stochastic games the problem is co-NP-complete, both for finite-memory and infinite-memory strategies; and (c) we present algorithmic results for the finite-memory case, both for MDPs and turn-based stochastic games, by reduction to non-stochastic parity games. In addition we show that all the above complexity results also carry over to combination of sure and limit-sure winning, and results for all other combinations can be derived from existing results in the literature. Thus we present a complete picture for the study of combinations of two qualitative winning criteria for parity conditions in MDPs and turn-based stochastic games. ' alternative_title: - LIPIcs article_number: '6' author: - first_name: Krishnendu full_name: Chatterjee, Krishnendu id: 2E5DCA20-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Chatterjee orcid: 0000-0002-4561-241X - first_name: Nir full_name: Piterman, Nir last_name: Piterman citation: ama: 'Chatterjee K, Piterman N. Combinations of Qualitative Winning for Stochastic Parity Games. In: Vol 140. Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik; 2019. doi:10.4230/LIPICS.CONCUR.2019.6' apa: 'Chatterjee, K., & Piterman, N. (2019). Combinations of Qualitative Winning for Stochastic Parity Games (Vol. 140). Presented at the CONCUR: International Conference on Concurrency Theory, Amsterdam, Netherlands: Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik. https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPICS.CONCUR.2019.6' chicago: Chatterjee, Krishnendu, and Nir Piterman. “Combinations of Qualitative Winning for Stochastic Parity Games,” Vol. 140. Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik, 2019. https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPICS.CONCUR.2019.6. ieee: 'K. Chatterjee and N. Piterman, “Combinations of Qualitative Winning for Stochastic Parity Games,” presented at the CONCUR: International Conference on Concurrency Theory, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 2019, vol. 140.' ista: 'Chatterjee K, Piterman N. 2019. Combinations of Qualitative Winning for Stochastic Parity Games. CONCUR: International Conference on Concurrency Theory, LIPIcs, vol. 140, 6.' mla: Chatterjee, Krishnendu, and Nir Piterman. Combinations of Qualitative Winning for Stochastic Parity Games. Vol. 140, 6, Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik, 2019, doi:10.4230/LIPICS.CONCUR.2019.6. short: K. Chatterjee, N. Piterman, in:, Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik, 2019. conference: end_date: 2019-08-30 location: Amsterdam, Netherlands name: 'CONCUR: International Conference on Concurrency Theory' start_date: 2019-08-27 date_created: 2019-09-18T08:11:43Z date_published: 2019-08-01T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2021-01-12T08:09:28Z day: '01' ddc: - '000' department: - _id: KrCh doi: 10.4230/LIPICS.CONCUR.2019.6 file: - access_level: open_access checksum: 7b2ecfd4d9d02360308c0ca986fc10a7 content_type: application/pdf creator: kschuh date_created: 2019-10-01T08:49:45Z date_updated: 2020-07-14T12:47:43Z file_id: '6923' file_name: 2019_LIPIcs_Chatterjee.pdf file_size: 509163 relation: main_file file_date_updated: 2020-07-14T12:47:43Z has_accepted_license: '1' intvolume: ' 140' language: - iso: eng month: '08' oa: 1 oa_version: Published Version project: - _id: 25863FF4-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 call_identifier: FWF grant_number: S11407 name: Game Theory - _id: 25892FC0-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 grant_number: ICT15-003 name: Efficient Algorithms for Computer Aided Verification publication_status: published publisher: Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik quality_controlled: '1' scopus_import: 1 status: public title: Combinations of Qualitative Winning for Stochastic Parity Games tmp: image: /images/cc_by.png legal_code_url: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode name: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC-BY 4.0) short: CC BY (4.0) type: conference user_id: 3E5EF7F0-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 volume: 140 year: '2019' ... --- _id: '6884' abstract: - lang: eng text: 'In two-player games on graphs, the players move a token through a graph to produce a finite or infinite path, which determines the qualitative winner or quantitative payoff of the game. We study bidding games in which the players bid for the right to move the token. Several bidding rules were studied previously. In Richman bidding, in each round, the players simultaneously submit bids, and the higher bidder moves the token and pays the other player. Poorman bidding is similar except that the winner of the bidding pays the "bank" rather than the other player. Taxman bidding spans the spectrum between Richman and poorman bidding. They are parameterized by a constant tau in [0,1]: portion tau of the winning bid is paid to the other player, and portion 1-tau to the bank. While finite-duration (reachability) taxman games have been studied before, we present, for the first time, results on infinite-duration taxman games. It was previously shown that both Richman and poorman infinite-duration games with qualitative objectives reduce to reachability games, and we show a similar result here. Our most interesting results concern quantitative taxman games, namely mean-payoff games, where poorman and Richman bidding differ significantly. A central quantity in these games is the ratio between the two players'' initial budgets. While in poorman mean-payoff games, the optimal payoff of a player depends on the initial ratio, in Richman bidding, the payoff depends only on the structure of the game. In both games the optimal payoffs can be found using (different) probabilistic connections with random-turn games in which in each turn, instead of bidding, a coin is tossed to determine which player moves. While the value with Richman bidding equals the value of a random-turn game with an un-biased coin, with poorman bidding, the bias in the coin is the initial ratio of the budgets. We give a complete classification of mean-payoff taxman games that is based on a probabilistic connection: the value of a taxman bidding game with parameter tau and initial ratio r, equals the value of a random-turn game that uses a coin with bias F(tau, r) = (r+tau * (1-r))/(1+tau). Thus, we show that Richman bidding is the exception; namely, for every tau <1, the value of the game depends on the initial ratio. Our proof technique simplifies and unifies the previous proof techniques for both Richman and poorman bidding. ' alternative_title: - LIPIcs article_number: '11' author: - first_name: Guy full_name: Avni, Guy id: 463C8BC2-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Avni orcid: 0000-0001-5588-8287 - first_name: Thomas A full_name: Henzinger, Thomas A id: 40876CD8-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Henzinger orcid: 0000−0002−2985−7724 - first_name: Dorde full_name: Zikelic, Dorde id: 294AA7A6-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Zikelic citation: ama: 'Avni G, Henzinger TA, Zikelic D. Bidding mechanisms in graph games. In: Vol 138. Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik; 2019. doi:10.4230/LIPICS.MFCS.2019.11' apa: 'Avni, G., Henzinger, T. A., & Zikelic, D. (2019). Bidding mechanisms in graph games (Vol. 138). Presented at the MFCS: nternational Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science, Aachen, Germany: Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik. https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPICS.MFCS.2019.11' chicago: Avni, Guy, Thomas A Henzinger, and Dorde Zikelic. “Bidding Mechanisms in Graph Games,” Vol. 138. Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik, 2019. https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPICS.MFCS.2019.11. ieee: 'G. Avni, T. A. Henzinger, and D. Zikelic, “Bidding mechanisms in graph games,” presented at the MFCS: nternational Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science, Aachen, Germany, 2019, vol. 138.' ista: 'Avni G, Henzinger TA, Zikelic D. 2019. Bidding mechanisms in graph games. MFCS: nternational Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science, LIPIcs, vol. 138, 11.' mla: Avni, Guy, et al. Bidding Mechanisms in Graph Games. Vol. 138, 11, Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik, 2019, doi:10.4230/LIPICS.MFCS.2019.11. short: G. Avni, T.A. Henzinger, D. Zikelic, in:, Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik, 2019. conference: end_date: 2019-08-30 location: Aachen, Germany name: 'MFCS: nternational Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science' start_date: 2019-08-26 date_created: 2019-09-18T08:04:26Z date_published: 2019-08-01T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2023-08-07T14:08:34Z day: '01' ddc: - '004' department: - _id: ToHe - _id: KrCh doi: 10.4230/LIPICS.MFCS.2019.11 ec_funded: 1 external_id: arxiv: - '1905.03835' file: - access_level: open_access checksum: 6346e116a4f4ed1414174d96d2c4fbd7 content_type: application/pdf creator: kschuh date_created: 2019-09-27T11:45:15Z date_updated: 2020-07-14T12:47:42Z file_id: '6913' file_name: 2019_LIPIcs_Avni.pdf file_size: 554457 relation: main_file file_date_updated: 2020-07-14T12:47:42Z has_accepted_license: '1' intvolume: ' 138' language: - iso: eng month: '08' oa: 1 oa_version: Published Version project: - _id: 2564DBCA-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 call_identifier: H2020 grant_number: '665385' name: International IST Doctoral Program - _id: 264B3912-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 call_identifier: FWF grant_number: M02369 name: Formal Methods meets Algorithmic Game Theory - _id: 25F42A32-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 call_identifier: FWF grant_number: Z211 name: The Wittgenstein Prize - _id: 25F2ACDE-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 call_identifier: FWF grant_number: S11402-N23 name: Rigorous Systems Engineering publication_status: published publisher: Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik quality_controlled: '1' related_material: record: - id: '9239' relation: later_version status: public scopus_import: 1 status: public title: Bidding mechanisms in graph games tmp: image: /images/cc_by.png legal_code_url: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode name: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC-BY 4.0) short: CC BY (4.0) type: conference user_id: 3E5EF7F0-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 volume: 138 year: '2019' ... --- _id: '5948' abstract: - lang: eng text: We study the termination problem for nondeterministic probabilistic programs. We consider the bounded termination problem that asks whether the supremum of the expected termination time over all schedulers is bounded. First, we show that ranking supermartingales (RSMs) are both sound and complete for proving bounded termination over nondeterministic probabilistic programs. For nondeterministic probabilistic programs a previous result claimed that RSMs are not complete for bounded termination, whereas our result corrects the previous flaw and establishes completeness with a rigorous proof. Second, we present the first sound approach to establish lower bounds on expected termination time through RSMs. alternative_title: - LNCS article_processing_charge: No author: - first_name: Hongfei full_name: Fu, Hongfei last_name: Fu - first_name: Krishnendu full_name: Chatterjee, Krishnendu id: 2E5DCA20-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Chatterjee orcid: 0000-0002-4561-241X citation: ama: 'Fu H, Chatterjee K. Termination of nondeterministic probabilistic programs. In: International Conference on Verification, Model Checking, and Abstract Interpretation. Vol 11388. Springer Nature; 2019:468-490. doi:10.1007/978-3-030-11245-5_22' apa: 'Fu, H., & Chatterjee, K. (2019). Termination of nondeterministic probabilistic programs. In International Conference on Verification, Model Checking, and Abstract Interpretation (Vol. 11388, pp. 468–490). Cascais, Portugal: Springer Nature. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-11245-5_22' chicago: Fu, Hongfei, and Krishnendu Chatterjee. “Termination of Nondeterministic Probabilistic Programs.” In International Conference on Verification, Model Checking, and Abstract Interpretation, 11388:468–90. Springer Nature, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-11245-5_22. ieee: H. Fu and K. Chatterjee, “Termination of nondeterministic probabilistic programs,” in International Conference on Verification, Model Checking, and Abstract Interpretation, Cascais, Portugal, 2019, vol. 11388, pp. 468–490. ista: 'Fu H, Chatterjee K. 2019. Termination of nondeterministic probabilistic programs. International Conference on Verification, Model Checking, and Abstract Interpretation. VMCAI: Verification, Model Checking, and Abstract Interpretation, LNCS, vol. 11388, 468–490.' mla: Fu, Hongfei, and Krishnendu Chatterjee. “Termination of Nondeterministic Probabilistic Programs.” International Conference on Verification, Model Checking, and Abstract Interpretation, vol. 11388, Springer Nature, 2019, pp. 468–90, doi:10.1007/978-3-030-11245-5_22. short: H. Fu, K. Chatterjee, in:, International Conference on Verification, Model Checking, and Abstract Interpretation, Springer Nature, 2019, pp. 468–490. conference: end_date: 2019-01-15 location: Cascais, Portugal name: 'VMCAI: Verification, Model Checking, and Abstract Interpretation' start_date: 2019-01-13 date_created: 2019-02-10T22:59:17Z date_published: 2019-01-11T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2023-08-24T14:42:22Z day: '11' department: - _id: KrCh doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-11245-5_22 external_id: arxiv: - '1701.02944' isi: - '000931943000022' intvolume: ' 11388' isi: 1 language: - iso: eng main_file_link: - url: https://arxiv.org/abs/1701.02944 month: '01' oa_version: Preprint page: 468-490 project: - _id: 25892FC0-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 grant_number: ICT15-003 name: Efficient Algorithms for Computer Aided Verification - _id: 25832EC2-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 call_identifier: FWF grant_number: S 11407_N23 name: Rigorous Systems Engineering publication: International Conference on Verification, Model Checking, and Abstract Interpretation publication_status: published publisher: Springer Nature quality_controlled: '1' scopus_import: '1' status: public title: Termination of nondeterministic probabilistic programs type: conference user_id: 4359f0d1-fa6c-11eb-b949-802e58b17ae8 volume: 11388 year: '2019' ... --- _id: '6462' abstract: - lang: eng text: A controller is a device that interacts with a plant. At each time point,it reads the plant’s state and issues commands with the goal that the plant oper-ates optimally. Constructing optimal controllers is a fundamental and challengingproblem. Machine learning techniques have recently been successfully applied totrain controllers, yet they have limitations. Learned controllers are monolithic andhard to reason about. In particular, it is difficult to add features without retraining,to guarantee any level of performance, and to achieve acceptable performancewhen encountering untrained scenarios. These limitations can be addressed bydeploying quantitative run-timeshieldsthat serve as a proxy for the controller.At each time point, the shield reads the command issued by the controller andmay choose to alter it before passing it on to the plant. We show how optimalshields that interfere as little as possible while guaranteeing a desired level ofcontroller performance, can be generated systematically and automatically usingreactive synthesis. First, we abstract the plant by building a stochastic model.Second, we consider the learned controller to be a black box. Third, we mea-surecontroller performanceandshield interferenceby two quantitative run-timemeasures that are formally defined using weighted automata. Then, the problemof constructing a shield that guarantees maximal performance with minimal inter-ference is the problem of finding an optimal strategy in a stochastic2-player game“controller versus shield” played on the abstract state space of the plant with aquantitative objective obtained from combining the performance and interferencemeasures. We illustrate the effectiveness of our approach by automatically con-structing lightweight shields for learned traffic-light controllers in various roadnetworks. The shields we generate avoid liveness bugs, improve controller per-formance in untrained and changing traffic situations, and add features to learnedcontrollers, such as giving priority to emergency vehicles. alternative_title: - LNCS article_processing_charge: No author: - first_name: Guy full_name: Avni, Guy id: 463C8BC2-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Avni orcid: 0000-0001-5588-8287 - first_name: Roderick full_name: Bloem, Roderick last_name: Bloem - first_name: Krishnendu full_name: Chatterjee, Krishnendu id: 2E5DCA20-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Chatterjee orcid: 0000-0002-4561-241X - first_name: Thomas A full_name: Henzinger, Thomas A id: 40876CD8-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Henzinger orcid: 0000−0002−2985−7724 - first_name: Bettina full_name: Konighofer, Bettina last_name: Konighofer - first_name: Stefan full_name: Pranger, Stefan last_name: Pranger citation: ama: 'Avni G, Bloem R, Chatterjee K, Henzinger TA, Konighofer B, Pranger S. Run-time optimization for learned controllers through quantitative games. In: 31st International Conference on Computer-Aided Verification. Vol 11561. Springer; 2019:630-649. doi:10.1007/978-3-030-25540-4_36' apa: 'Avni, G., Bloem, R., Chatterjee, K., Henzinger, T. A., Konighofer, B., & Pranger, S. (2019). Run-time optimization for learned controllers through quantitative games. In 31st International Conference on Computer-Aided Verification (Vol. 11561, pp. 630–649). New York, NY, United States: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-25540-4_36' chicago: Avni, Guy, Roderick Bloem, Krishnendu Chatterjee, Thomas A Henzinger, Bettina Konighofer, and Stefan Pranger. “Run-Time Optimization for Learned Controllers through Quantitative Games.” In 31st International Conference on Computer-Aided Verification, 11561:630–49. Springer, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-25540-4_36. ieee: G. Avni, R. Bloem, K. Chatterjee, T. A. Henzinger, B. Konighofer, and S. Pranger, “Run-time optimization for learned controllers through quantitative games,” in 31st International Conference on Computer-Aided Verification, New York, NY, United States, 2019, vol. 11561, pp. 630–649. ista: 'Avni G, Bloem R, Chatterjee K, Henzinger TA, Konighofer B, Pranger S. 2019. Run-time optimization for learned controllers through quantitative games. 31st International Conference on Computer-Aided Verification. CAV: Computer Aided Verification, LNCS, vol. 11561, 630–649.' mla: Avni, Guy, et al. “Run-Time Optimization for Learned Controllers through Quantitative Games.” 31st International Conference on Computer-Aided Verification, vol. 11561, Springer, 2019, pp. 630–49, doi:10.1007/978-3-030-25540-4_36. short: G. Avni, R. Bloem, K. Chatterjee, T.A. Henzinger, B. Konighofer, S. Pranger, in:, 31st International Conference on Computer-Aided Verification, Springer, 2019, pp. 630–649. conference: end_date: 2019-07-18 location: New York, NY, United States name: 'CAV: Computer Aided Verification' start_date: 2019-07-13 date_created: 2019-05-16T11:22:30Z date_published: 2019-07-12T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2023-08-25T10:33:27Z day: '12' ddc: - '000' department: - _id: ToHe - _id: KrCh doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-25540-4_36 external_id: isi: - '000491468000036' file: - access_level: open_access checksum: c231579f2485c6fd4df17c9443a4d80b content_type: application/pdf creator: dernst date_created: 2019-08-14T09:35:24Z date_updated: 2020-07-14T12:47:31Z file_id: '6816' file_name: 2019_CAV_Avni.pdf file_size: 659766 relation: main_file file_date_updated: 2020-07-14T12:47:31Z has_accepted_license: '1' intvolume: ' 11561' isi: 1 language: - iso: eng month: '07' oa: 1 oa_version: Published Version page: 630-649 project: - _id: 264B3912-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 call_identifier: FWF grant_number: M02369 name: Formal Methods meets Algorithmic Game Theory - _id: 25F42A32-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 call_identifier: FWF grant_number: Z211 name: The Wittgenstein Prize - _id: 25832EC2-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 call_identifier: FWF grant_number: S 11407_N23 name: Rigorous Systems Engineering publication: 31st International Conference on Computer-Aided Verification publication_identifier: isbn: - '9783030255398' issn: - 0302-9743 publication_status: published publisher: Springer quality_controlled: '1' scopus_import: '1' status: public title: Run-time optimization for learned controllers through quantitative games tmp: image: /images/cc_by.png legal_code_url: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode name: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC-BY 4.0) short: CC BY (4.0) type: conference user_id: 4359f0d1-fa6c-11eb-b949-802e58b17ae8 volume: 11561 year: '2019' ... --- _id: '6836' abstract: - lang: eng text: Direct reciprocity is a powerful mechanism for the evolution of cooperation on the basis of repeated interactions1,2,3,4. It requires that interacting individuals are sufficiently equal, such that everyone faces similar consequences when they cooperate or defect. Yet inequality is ubiquitous among humans5,6 and is generally considered to undermine cooperation and welfare7,8,9,10. Most previous models of reciprocity do not include inequality11,12,13,14,15. These models assume that individuals are the same in all relevant aspects. Here we introduce a general framework to study direct reciprocity among unequal individuals. Our model allows for multiple sources of inequality. Subjects can differ in their endowments, their productivities and in how much they benefit from public goods. We find that extreme inequality prevents cooperation. But if subjects differ in productivity, some endowment inequality can be necessary for cooperation to prevail. Our mathematical predictions are supported by a behavioural experiment in which we vary the endowments and productivities of the subjects. We observe that overall welfare is maximized when the two sources of heterogeneity are aligned, such that more productive individuals receive higher endowments. By contrast, when endowments and productivities are misaligned, cooperation quickly breaks down. Our findings have implications for policy-makers concerned with equity, efficiency and the provisioning of public goods. article_processing_charge: No article_type: letter_note author: - first_name: Oliver P. full_name: Hauser, Oliver P. last_name: Hauser - first_name: Christian full_name: Hilbe, Christian id: 2FDF8F3C-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Hilbe orcid: 0000-0001-5116-955X - first_name: Krishnendu full_name: Chatterjee, Krishnendu id: 2E5DCA20-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Chatterjee orcid: 0000-0002-4561-241X - first_name: Martin A. full_name: Nowak, Martin A. last_name: Nowak citation: ama: Hauser OP, Hilbe C, Chatterjee K, Nowak MA. Social dilemmas among unequals. Nature. 2019;572(7770):524-527. doi:10.1038/s41586-019-1488-5 apa: Hauser, O. P., Hilbe, C., Chatterjee, K., & Nowak, M. A. (2019). Social dilemmas among unequals. Nature. Springer Nature. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-019-1488-5 chicago: Hauser, Oliver P., Christian Hilbe, Krishnendu Chatterjee, and Martin A. Nowak. “Social Dilemmas among Unequals.” Nature. Springer Nature, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-019-1488-5. ieee: O. P. Hauser, C. Hilbe, K. Chatterjee, and M. A. Nowak, “Social dilemmas among unequals,” Nature, vol. 572, no. 7770. Springer Nature, pp. 524–527, 2019. ista: Hauser OP, Hilbe C, Chatterjee K, Nowak MA. 2019. Social dilemmas among unequals. Nature. 572(7770), 524–527. mla: Hauser, Oliver P., et al. “Social Dilemmas among Unequals.” Nature, vol. 572, no. 7770, Springer Nature, 2019, pp. 524–27, doi:10.1038/s41586-019-1488-5. short: O.P. Hauser, C. Hilbe, K. Chatterjee, M.A. Nowak, Nature 572 (2019) 524–527. date_created: 2019-09-01T22:00:56Z date_published: 2019-08-22T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2023-08-29T07:42:54Z day: '22' ddc: - '000' department: - _id: KrCh doi: 10.1038/s41586-019-1488-5 ec_funded: 1 external_id: isi: - '000482219600045' file: - access_level: open_access checksum: a6e0e3168bf62de624e7772cdfaeb26f content_type: application/pdf creator: dernst date_created: 2020-05-14T10:00:32Z date_updated: 2020-07-14T12:47:42Z file_id: '7828' file_name: 2019_Nature_Hauser.pdf file_size: 18577756 relation: main_file file_date_updated: 2020-07-14T12:47:42Z has_accepted_license: '1' intvolume: ' 572' isi: 1 issue: '7770' language: - iso: eng month: '08' oa: 1 oa_version: Submitted Version page: 524-527 project: - _id: 2581B60A-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 call_identifier: FP7 grant_number: '279307' name: 'Quantitative Graph Games: Theory and Applications' - _id: 25832EC2-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 call_identifier: FWF grant_number: S 11407_N23 name: Rigorous Systems Engineering - _id: 25681D80-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 call_identifier: FP7 grant_number: '291734' name: International IST Postdoc Fellowship Programme publication: Nature publication_identifier: eissn: - '14764687' issn: - '00280836' publication_status: published publisher: Springer Nature quality_controlled: '1' related_material: link: - description: News on IST Homepage relation: press_release url: https://ist.ac.at/en/news/too-much-inequality-impedes-support-for-public-goods-according-to-research-published-in-nature/ scopus_import: '1' status: public title: Social dilemmas among unequals type: journal_article user_id: 4359f0d1-fa6c-11eb-b949-802e58b17ae8 volume: 572 year: '2019' ... --- _id: '6942' abstract: - lang: eng text: "Graph games and Markov decision processes (MDPs) are standard models in reactive synthesis and verification of probabilistic systems with nondeterminism. The class of \U0001D714 -regular winning conditions; e.g., safety, reachability, liveness, parity conditions; provides a robust and expressive specification formalism for properties that arise in analysis of reactive systems. The resolutions of nondeterminism in games and MDPs are represented as strategies, and we consider succinct representation of such strategies. The decision-tree data structure from machine learning retains the flavor of decisions of strategies and allows entropy-based minimization to obtain succinct trees. However, in contrast to traditional machine-learning problems where small errors are allowed, for winning strategies in graph games and MDPs no error is allowed, and the decision tree must represent the entire strategy. In this work we propose decision trees with linear classifiers for representation of strategies in graph games and MDPs. We have implemented strategy representation using this data structure and we present experimental results for problems on graph games and MDPs, which show that this new data structure presents a much more efficient strategy representation as compared to standard decision trees." alternative_title: - LNCS article_processing_charge: No author: - first_name: Pranav full_name: Ashok, Pranav last_name: Ashok - first_name: Tomáš full_name: Brázdil, Tomáš last_name: Brázdil - first_name: Krishnendu full_name: Chatterjee, Krishnendu id: 2E5DCA20-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Chatterjee orcid: 0000-0002-4561-241X - first_name: Jan full_name: Křetínský, Jan last_name: Křetínský - first_name: Christoph full_name: Lampert, Christoph id: 40C20FD2-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Lampert orcid: 0000-0001-8622-7887 - first_name: Viktor full_name: Toman, Viktor id: 3AF3DA7C-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Toman orcid: 0000-0001-9036-063X citation: ama: 'Ashok P, Brázdil T, Chatterjee K, Křetínský J, Lampert C, Toman V. Strategy representation by decision trees with linear classifiers. In: 16th International Conference on Quantitative Evaluation of Systems. Vol 11785. Springer Nature; 2019:109-128. doi:10.1007/978-3-030-30281-8_7' apa: 'Ashok, P., Brázdil, T., Chatterjee, K., Křetínský, J., Lampert, C., & Toman, V. (2019). Strategy representation by decision trees with linear classifiers. In 16th International Conference on Quantitative Evaluation of Systems (Vol. 11785, pp. 109–128). Glasgow, United Kingdom: Springer Nature. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-30281-8_7' chicago: Ashok, Pranav, Tomáš Brázdil, Krishnendu Chatterjee, Jan Křetínský, Christoph Lampert, and Viktor Toman. “Strategy Representation by Decision Trees with Linear Classifiers.” In 16th International Conference on Quantitative Evaluation of Systems, 11785:109–28. Springer Nature, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-30281-8_7. ieee: P. Ashok, T. Brázdil, K. Chatterjee, J. Křetínský, C. Lampert, and V. Toman, “Strategy representation by decision trees with linear classifiers,” in 16th International Conference on Quantitative Evaluation of Systems, Glasgow, United Kingdom, 2019, vol. 11785, pp. 109–128. ista: 'Ashok P, Brázdil T, Chatterjee K, Křetínský J, Lampert C, Toman V. 2019. Strategy representation by decision trees with linear classifiers. 16th International Conference on Quantitative Evaluation of Systems. QEST: Quantitative Evaluation of Systems, LNCS, vol. 11785, 109–128.' mla: Ashok, Pranav, et al. “Strategy Representation by Decision Trees with Linear Classifiers.” 16th International Conference on Quantitative Evaluation of Systems, vol. 11785, Springer Nature, 2019, pp. 109–28, doi:10.1007/978-3-030-30281-8_7. short: P. Ashok, T. Brázdil, K. Chatterjee, J. Křetínský, C. Lampert, V. Toman, in:, 16th International Conference on Quantitative Evaluation of Systems, Springer Nature, 2019, pp. 109–128. conference: end_date: 2019-09-12 location: Glasgow, United Kingdom name: 'QEST: Quantitative Evaluation of Systems' start_date: 2019-09-10 date_created: 2019-10-14T06:57:49Z date_published: 2019-09-04T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2023-08-30T06:59:36Z day: '04' department: - _id: KrCh - _id: ChLa doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-30281-8_7 external_id: arxiv: - '1906.08178' isi: - '000679281300007' intvolume: ' 11785' isi: 1 language: - iso: eng main_file_link: - open_access: '1' url: https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.08178 month: '09' oa: 1 oa_version: Preprint page: 109-128 project: - _id: 25863FF4-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 call_identifier: FWF grant_number: S11407 name: Game Theory - _id: 25F2ACDE-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 call_identifier: FWF grant_number: S11402-N23 name: Rigorous Systems Engineering - _id: 25892FC0-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 grant_number: ICT15-003 name: Efficient Algorithms for Computer Aided Verification publication: 16th International Conference on Quantitative Evaluation of Systems publication_identifier: eisbn: - '9783030302818' isbn: - '9783030302801' issn: - 0302-9743 publication_status: published publisher: Springer Nature quality_controlled: '1' scopus_import: '1' status: public title: Strategy representation by decision trees with linear classifiers type: conference user_id: 4359f0d1-fa6c-11eb-b949-802e58b17ae8 volume: 11785 year: '2019' ... --- _id: '7183' abstract: - lang: eng text: 'A probabilistic vector addition system with states (pVASS) is a finite state Markov process augmented with non-negative integer counters that can be incremented or decremented during each state transition, blocking any behaviour that would cause a counter to decrease below zero. The pVASS can be used as abstractions of probabilistic programs with many decidable properties. The use of pVASS as abstractions requires the presence of nondeterminism in the model. In this paper, we develop techniques for checking fast termination of pVASS with nondeterminism. That is, for every initial configuration of size n, we consider the worst expected number of transitions needed to reach a configuration with some counter negative (the expected termination time). We show that the problem whether the asymptotic expected termination time is linear is decidable in polynomial time for a certain natural class of pVASS with nondeterminism. Furthermore, we show the following dichotomy: if the asymptotic expected termination time is not linear, then it is at least quadratic, i.e., in Ω(n2).' alternative_title: - LNCS article_processing_charge: No author: - first_name: Tomás full_name: Brázdil, Tomás last_name: Brázdil - first_name: Krishnendu full_name: Chatterjee, Krishnendu id: 2E5DCA20-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Chatterjee orcid: 0000-0002-4561-241X - first_name: Antonín full_name: Kucera, Antonín last_name: Kucera - first_name: Petr full_name: Novotný, Petr id: 3CC3B868-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Novotný - first_name: Dominik full_name: Velan, Dominik last_name: Velan citation: ama: 'Brázdil T, Chatterjee K, Kucera A, Novotný P, Velan D. Deciding fast termination for probabilistic VASS with nondeterminism. In: International Symposium on Automated Technology for Verification and Analysis. Vol 11781. Springer Nature; 2019:462-478. doi:10.1007/978-3-030-31784-3_27' apa: 'Brázdil, T., Chatterjee, K., Kucera, A., Novotný, P., & Velan, D. (2019). Deciding fast termination for probabilistic VASS with nondeterminism. In International Symposium on Automated Technology for Verification and Analysis (Vol. 11781, pp. 462–478). Taipei, Taiwan: Springer Nature. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-31784-3_27' chicago: Brázdil, Tomás, Krishnendu Chatterjee, Antonín Kucera, Petr Novotný, and Dominik Velan. “Deciding Fast Termination for Probabilistic VASS with Nondeterminism.” In International Symposium on Automated Technology for Verification and Analysis, 11781:462–78. Springer Nature, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-31784-3_27. ieee: T. Brázdil, K. Chatterjee, A. Kucera, P. Novotný, and D. Velan, “Deciding fast termination for probabilistic VASS with nondeterminism,” in International Symposium on Automated Technology for Verification and Analysis, Taipei, Taiwan, 2019, vol. 11781, pp. 462–478. ista: 'Brázdil T, Chatterjee K, Kucera A, Novotný P, Velan D. 2019. Deciding fast termination for probabilistic VASS with nondeterminism. International Symposium on Automated Technology for Verification and Analysis. ATVA: Automated TEchnology for Verification and Analysis, LNCS, vol. 11781, 462–478.' mla: Brázdil, Tomás, et al. “Deciding Fast Termination for Probabilistic VASS with Nondeterminism.” International Symposium on Automated Technology for Verification and Analysis, vol. 11781, Springer Nature, 2019, pp. 462–78, doi:10.1007/978-3-030-31784-3_27. short: T. Brázdil, K. Chatterjee, A. Kucera, P. Novotný, D. Velan, in:, International Symposium on Automated Technology for Verification and Analysis, Springer Nature, 2019, pp. 462–478. conference: end_date: 2019-10-31 location: Taipei, Taiwan name: 'ATVA: Automated TEchnology for Verification and Analysis' start_date: 2019-10-28 date_created: 2019-12-15T23:00:44Z date_published: 2019-10-21T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2023-09-06T12:40:58Z day: '21' department: - _id: KrCh doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-31784-3_27 external_id: arxiv: - '1907.11010' isi: - '000723515700027' intvolume: ' 11781' isi: 1 language: - iso: eng main_file_link: - open_access: '1' url: https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.11010 month: '10' oa: 1 oa_version: Preprint page: 462-478 project: - _id: 25832EC2-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 call_identifier: FWF grant_number: S 11407_N23 name: Rigorous Systems Engineering publication: International Symposium on Automated Technology for Verification and Analysis publication_identifier: eissn: - '16113349' isbn: - '9783030317836' issn: - '03029743' publication_status: published publisher: Springer Nature quality_controlled: '1' scopus_import: '1' status: public title: Deciding fast termination for probabilistic VASS with nondeterminism type: conference user_id: c635000d-4b10-11ee-a964-aac5a93f6ac1 volume: 11781 year: '2019' ... --- _id: '7210' abstract: - lang: eng text: The rate of biological evolution depends on the fixation probability and on the fixation time of new mutants. Intensive research has focused on identifying population structures that augment the fixation probability of advantageous mutants. But these amplifiers of natural selection typically increase fixation time. Here we study population structures that achieve a tradeoff between fixation probability and time. First, we show that no amplifiers can have an asymptotically lower absorption time than the well-mixed population. Then we design population structures that substantially augment the fixation probability with just a minor increase in fixation time. Finally, we show that those structures enable higher effective rate of evolution than the well-mixed population provided that the rate of generating advantageous mutants is relatively low. Our work sheds light on how population structure affects the rate of evolution. Moreover, our structures could be useful for lab-based, medical, or industrial applications of evolutionary optimization. article_number: '138' article_processing_charge: No article_type: original author: - first_name: Josef full_name: Tkadlec, Josef id: 3F24CCC8-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Tkadlec orcid: 0000-0002-1097-9684 - first_name: Andreas full_name: Pavlogiannis, Andreas id: 49704004-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Pavlogiannis orcid: 0000-0002-8943-0722 - first_name: Krishnendu full_name: Chatterjee, Krishnendu id: 2E5DCA20-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Chatterjee orcid: 0000-0002-4561-241X - first_name: Martin A. full_name: Nowak, Martin A. last_name: Nowak citation: ama: Tkadlec J, Pavlogiannis A, Chatterjee K, Nowak MA. Population structure determines the tradeoff between fixation probability and fixation time. Communications Biology. 2019;2. doi:10.1038/s42003-019-0373-y apa: Tkadlec, J., Pavlogiannis, A., Chatterjee, K., & Nowak, M. A. (2019). Population structure determines the tradeoff between fixation probability and fixation time. Communications Biology. Springer Nature. https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-019-0373-y chicago: Tkadlec, Josef, Andreas Pavlogiannis, Krishnendu Chatterjee, and Martin A. Nowak. “Population Structure Determines the Tradeoff between Fixation Probability and Fixation Time.” Communications Biology. Springer Nature, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-019-0373-y. ieee: J. Tkadlec, A. Pavlogiannis, K. Chatterjee, and M. A. Nowak, “Population structure determines the tradeoff between fixation probability and fixation time,” Communications Biology, vol. 2. Springer Nature, 2019. ista: Tkadlec J, Pavlogiannis A, Chatterjee K, Nowak MA. 2019. Population structure determines the tradeoff between fixation probability and fixation time. Communications Biology. 2, 138. mla: Tkadlec, Josef, et al. “Population Structure Determines the Tradeoff between Fixation Probability and Fixation Time.” Communications Biology, vol. 2, 138, Springer Nature, 2019, doi:10.1038/s42003-019-0373-y. short: J. Tkadlec, A. Pavlogiannis, K. Chatterjee, M.A. Nowak, Communications Biology 2 (2019). date_created: 2019-12-23T13:36:50Z date_published: 2019-04-23T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2023-09-07T13:19:22Z day: '23' ddc: - '000' department: - _id: KrCh doi: 10.1038/s42003-019-0373-y ec_funded: 1 external_id: isi: - '000465425700006' pmid: - '31044163' file: - access_level: open_access checksum: d1a69bfe73767e4246f0a38e4e1554dd content_type: application/pdf creator: dernst date_created: 2019-12-23T13:39:30Z date_updated: 2020-07-14T12:47:53Z file_id: '7211' file_name: 2019_CommBio_Tkadlec.pdf file_size: 1670274 relation: main_file file_date_updated: 2020-07-14T12:47:53Z has_accepted_license: '1' intvolume: ' 2' isi: 1 language: - iso: eng month: '04' oa: 1 oa_version: Published Version pmid: 1 project: - _id: 2581B60A-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 call_identifier: FP7 grant_number: '279307' name: 'Quantitative Graph Games: Theory and Applications' - _id: 2584A770-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 call_identifier: FWF grant_number: P 23499-N23 name: Modern Graph Algorithmic Techniques in Formal Verification - _id: 25832EC2-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 call_identifier: FWF grant_number: S 11407_N23 name: Rigorous Systems Engineering publication: Communications Biology publication_identifier: issn: - 2399-3642 publication_status: published publisher: Springer Nature quality_controlled: '1' related_material: record: - id: '7196' relation: part_of_dissertation status: public scopus_import: '1' status: public title: Population structure determines the tradeoff between fixation probability and fixation time tmp: image: /images/cc_by.png legal_code_url: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode name: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC-BY 4.0) short: CC BY (4.0) type: journal_article user_id: c635000d-4b10-11ee-a964-aac5a93f6ac1 volume: 2 year: '2019' ... --- _id: '10190' abstract: - lang: eng text: 'The verification of concurrent programs remains an open challenge, as thread interaction has to be accounted for, which leads to state-space explosion. Stateless model checking battles this problem by exploring traces rather than states of the program. As there are exponentially many traces, dynamic partial-order reduction (DPOR) techniques are used to partition the trace space into equivalence classes, and explore a few representatives from each class. The standard equivalence that underlies most DPOR techniques is the happens-before equivalence, however recent works have spawned a vivid interest towards coarser equivalences. The efficiency of such approaches is a product of two parameters: (i) the size of the partitioning induced by the equivalence, and (ii) the time spent by the exploration algorithm in each class of the partitioning. In this work, we present a new equivalence, called value-happens-before and show that it has two appealing features. First, value-happens-before is always at least as coarse as the happens-before equivalence, and can be even exponentially coarser. Second, the value-happens-before partitioning is efficiently explorable when the number of threads is bounded. We present an algorithm called value-centric DPOR (VCDPOR), which explores the underlying partitioning using polynomial time per class. Finally, we perform an experimental evaluation of VCDPOR on various benchmarks, and compare it against other state-of-the-art approaches. Our results show that value-happens-before typically induces a significant reduction in the size of the underlying partitioning, which leads to a considerable reduction in the running time for exploring the whole partitioning.' acknowledgement: "The authors would also like to thank anonymous referees for their valuable comments and helpful suggestions. This work is supported by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) NFN grants S11407-N23 (RiSE/SHiNE) and S11402-N23 (RiSE/SHiNE), by the Vienna Science and Technology Fund (WWTF) Project ICT15-003, and by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) Schrodinger grant J-4220.\r\n" article_number: '124' article_processing_charge: No author: - first_name: Krishnendu full_name: Chatterjee, Krishnendu id: 2E5DCA20-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Chatterjee orcid: 0000-0002-4561-241X - first_name: Andreas full_name: Pavlogiannis, Andreas id: 49704004-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Pavlogiannis orcid: 0000-0002-8943-0722 - first_name: Viktor full_name: Toman, Viktor id: 3AF3DA7C-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Toman orcid: 0000-0001-9036-063X citation: ama: 'Chatterjee K, Pavlogiannis A, Toman V. Value-centric dynamic partial order reduction. In: Proceedings of the 34th ACM International Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages, and Applications. Vol 3. ACM; 2019. doi:10.1145/3360550' apa: 'Chatterjee, K., Pavlogiannis, A., & Toman, V. (2019). Value-centric dynamic partial order reduction. In Proceedings of the 34th ACM International Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages, and Applications (Vol. 3). Athens, Greece: ACM. https://doi.org/10.1145/3360550' chicago: Chatterjee, Krishnendu, Andreas Pavlogiannis, and Viktor Toman. “Value-Centric Dynamic Partial Order Reduction.” In Proceedings of the 34th ACM International Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages, and Applications, Vol. 3. ACM, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1145/3360550. ieee: K. Chatterjee, A. Pavlogiannis, and V. Toman, “Value-centric dynamic partial order reduction,” in Proceedings of the 34th ACM International Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages, and Applications, Athens, Greece, 2019, vol. 3. ista: 'Chatterjee K, Pavlogiannis A, Toman V. 2019. Value-centric dynamic partial order reduction. Proceedings of the 34th ACM International Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages, and Applications. OOPSLA: Object-oriented Programming, Systems, Languages and Applications vol. 3, 124.' mla: Chatterjee, Krishnendu, et al. “Value-Centric Dynamic Partial Order Reduction.” Proceedings of the 34th ACM International Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages, and Applications, vol. 3, 124, ACM, 2019, doi:10.1145/3360550. short: K. Chatterjee, A. Pavlogiannis, V. Toman, in:, Proceedings of the 34th ACM International Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages, and Applications, ACM, 2019. conference: end_date: 2019-10-25 location: Athens, Greece name: 'OOPSLA: Object-oriented Programming, Systems, Languages and Applications' start_date: 2019-10-23 date_created: 2021-10-27T14:57:06Z date_published: 2019-10-10T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2023-09-07T13:30:27Z day: '10' ddc: - '000' department: - _id: GradSch - _id: KrCh doi: 10.1145/3360550 external_id: arxiv: - '1909.00989' file: - access_level: open_access checksum: 2149979c46964c4d117af06ccb6c0834 content_type: application/pdf creator: cchlebak date_created: 2021-11-12T11:41:56Z date_updated: 2021-11-12T11:41:56Z file_id: '10278' file_name: 2019_ACM_Chatterjee.pdf file_size: 570829 relation: main_file success: 1 file_date_updated: 2021-11-12T11:41:56Z has_accepted_license: '1' intvolume: ' 3' keyword: - safety - risk - reliability and quality - software language: - iso: eng main_file_link: - open_access: '1' url: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3360550 month: '10' oa: 1 oa_version: Published Version project: - _id: 25892FC0-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 grant_number: ICT15-003 name: Efficient Algorithms for Computer Aided Verification - _id: 25863FF4-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 call_identifier: FWF grant_number: S11407 name: Game Theory - _id: 25832EC2-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 call_identifier: FWF grant_number: S 11407_N23 name: Rigorous Systems Engineering - _id: 25F5A88A-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 call_identifier: FWF grant_number: S11402-N23 name: Moderne Concurrency Paradigms publication: Proceedings of the 34th ACM International Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages, and Applications publication_identifier: eissn: - 2475-1421 publication_status: published publisher: ACM quality_controlled: '1' related_material: record: - id: '10199' relation: dissertation_contains status: public status: public title: Value-centric dynamic partial order reduction tmp: image: /images/cc_by.png legal_code_url: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode name: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC-BY 4.0) short: CC BY (4.0) type: conference user_id: 8b945eb4-e2f2-11eb-945a-df72226e66a9 volume: 3 year: '2019' ... --- _id: '7402' abstract: - lang: eng text: Graph planning gives rise to fundamental algorithmic questions such as shortest path, traveling salesman problem, etc. A classical problem in discrete planning is to consider a weighted graph and construct a path that maximizes the sum of weights for a given time horizon T. However, in many scenarios, the time horizon is not fixed, but the stopping time is chosen according to some distribution such that the expected stopping time is T. If the stopping time distribution is not known, then to ensure robustness, the distribution is chosen by an adversary, to represent the worst-case scenario. A stationary plan for every vertex always chooses the same outgoing edge. For fixed horizon or fixed stopping-time distribution, stationary plans are not sufficient for optimality. Quite surprisingly we show that when an adversary chooses the stopping-time distribution with expected stopping time T, then stationary plans are sufficient. While computing optimal stationary plans for fixed horizon is NP-complete, we show that computing optimal stationary plans under adversarial stopping-time distribution can be achieved in polynomial time. Consequently, our polynomial-time algorithm for adversarial stopping time also computes an optimal plan among all possible plans. article_processing_charge: No author: - first_name: Krishnendu full_name: Chatterjee, Krishnendu id: 2E5DCA20-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Chatterjee orcid: 0000-0002-4561-241X - first_name: Laurent full_name: Doyen, Laurent last_name: Doyen citation: ama: 'Chatterjee K, Doyen L. Graph planning with expected finite horizon. In: 34th Annual ACM/IEEE Symposium on Logic in Computer Science. IEEE; 2019:1-13. doi:10.1109/lics.2019.8785706' apa: 'Chatterjee, K., & Doyen, L. (2019). Graph planning with expected finite horizon. In 34th Annual ACM/IEEE Symposium on Logic in Computer Science (pp. 1–13). Vancouver, BC, Canada: IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/lics.2019.8785706' chicago: Chatterjee, Krishnendu, and Laurent Doyen. “Graph Planning with Expected Finite Horizon.” In 34th Annual ACM/IEEE Symposium on Logic in Computer Science, 1–13. IEEE, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1109/lics.2019.8785706. ieee: K. Chatterjee and L. Doyen, “Graph planning with expected finite horizon,” in 34th Annual ACM/IEEE Symposium on Logic in Computer Science, Vancouver, BC, Canada, 2019, pp. 1–13. ista: 'Chatterjee K, Doyen L. 2019. Graph planning with expected finite horizon. 34th Annual ACM/IEEE Symposium on Logic in Computer Science. LICS: Symposium on Logic in Computer Science, 1–13.' mla: Chatterjee, Krishnendu, and Laurent Doyen. “Graph Planning with Expected Finite Horizon.” 34th Annual ACM/IEEE Symposium on Logic in Computer Science, IEEE, 2019, pp. 1–13, doi:10.1109/lics.2019.8785706. short: K. Chatterjee, L. Doyen, in:, 34th Annual ACM/IEEE Symposium on Logic in Computer Science, IEEE, 2019, pp. 1–13. conference: end_date: 2019-06-27 location: Vancouver, BC, Canada name: 'LICS: Symposium on Logic in Computer Science' start_date: 2019-06-24 date_created: 2020-01-29T16:18:33Z date_published: 2019-06-01T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2023-09-07T14:48:11Z day: '01' department: - _id: KrCh doi: 10.1109/lics.2019.8785706 external_id: arxiv: - '1802.03642' isi: - '000805002800001' isi: 1 language: - iso: eng main_file_link: - open_access: '1' url: https://arxiv.org/abs/1802.03642 month: '06' oa: 1 oa_version: Preprint page: 1-13 publication: 34th Annual ACM/IEEE Symposium on Logic in Computer Science publication_identifier: isbn: - '9781728136080' publication_status: published publisher: IEEE quality_controlled: '1' related_material: record: - id: '11402' relation: later_version status: public scopus_import: '1' status: public title: Graph planning with expected finite horizon type: conference user_id: c635000d-4b10-11ee-a964-aac5a93f6ac1 year: '2019' ... --- _id: '7950' abstract: - lang: eng text: "The input to the token swapping problem is a graph with vertices v1, v2, . . . , vn, and n tokens with labels 1,2, . . . , n, one on each vertex. The goal is to get token i to vertex vi for all i= 1, . . . , n using a minimum number of swaps, where a swap exchanges the tokens on the endpoints of an edge.Token swapping on a tree, also known as “sorting with a transposition tree,” is not known to be in P nor NP-complete. We present some partial results:\r\n1. An optimum swap sequence may need to perform a swap on a leaf vertex that has the correct token (a “happy leaf”), disproving a conjecture of Vaughan.\r\n2. Any algorithm that fixes happy leaves—as all known approximation algorithms for the problem do—has approximation factor at least 4/3. Furthermore, the two best-known 2-approximation algorithms have approximation factor exactly 2.\r\n3. A generalized problem—weighted coloured token swapping—is NP-complete on trees, but solvable in polynomial time on paths and stars. In this version, tokens and vertices \ have colours, and colours have weights. The goal is to get every token to a vertex of the same colour, and the cost of a swap is the sum of the weights of the two tokens involved." article_number: '1903.06981' article_processing_charge: No author: - first_name: Ahmad full_name: Biniaz, Ahmad last_name: Biniaz - first_name: Kshitij full_name: Jain, Kshitij last_name: Jain - first_name: Anna full_name: Lubiw, Anna last_name: Lubiw - first_name: Zuzana full_name: Masárová, Zuzana id: 45CFE238-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Masárová orcid: 0000-0002-6660-1322 - first_name: Tillmann full_name: Miltzow, Tillmann last_name: Miltzow - first_name: Debajyoti full_name: Mondal, Debajyoti last_name: Mondal - first_name: Anurag Murty full_name: Naredla, Anurag Murty last_name: Naredla - first_name: Josef full_name: Tkadlec, Josef id: 3F24CCC8-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Tkadlec orcid: 0000-0002-1097-9684 - first_name: Alexi full_name: Turcotte, Alexi last_name: Turcotte citation: ama: Biniaz A, Jain K, Lubiw A, et al. Token swapping on trees. arXiv. apa: Biniaz, A., Jain, K., Lubiw, A., Masárová, Z., Miltzow, T., Mondal, D., … Turcotte, A. (n.d.). Token swapping on trees. arXiv. chicago: Biniaz, Ahmad, Kshitij Jain, Anna Lubiw, Zuzana Masárová, Tillmann Miltzow, Debajyoti Mondal, Anurag Murty Naredla, Josef Tkadlec, and Alexi Turcotte. “Token Swapping on Trees.” ArXiv, n.d. ieee: A. Biniaz et al., “Token swapping on trees,” arXiv. . ista: Biniaz A, Jain K, Lubiw A, Masárová Z, Miltzow T, Mondal D, Naredla AM, Tkadlec J, Turcotte A. Token swapping on trees. arXiv, 1903.06981. mla: Biniaz, Ahmad, et al. “Token Swapping on Trees.” ArXiv, 1903.06981. short: A. Biniaz, K. Jain, A. Lubiw, Z. Masárová, T. Miltzow, D. Mondal, A.M. Naredla, J. Tkadlec, A. Turcotte, ArXiv (n.d.). date_created: 2020-06-08T12:25:25Z date_published: 2019-03-16T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2024-01-04T12:42:08Z day: '16' department: - _id: HeEd - _id: UlWa - _id: KrCh external_id: arxiv: - '1903.06981' language: - iso: eng main_file_link: - open_access: '1' url: https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.06981 month: '03' oa: 1 oa_version: Preprint publication: arXiv publication_status: submitted related_material: record: - id: '7944' relation: dissertation_contains status: public - id: '12833' relation: later_version status: public status: public title: Token swapping on trees type: preprint user_id: 2DF688A6-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 year: '2019' ... --- _id: '6780' abstract: - lang: eng text: "In this work, we consider the almost-sure termination problem for probabilistic programs that asks whether a\r\ngiven probabilistic program terminates with probability 1. Scalable approaches for program analysis often\r\nrely on modularity as their theoretical basis. In non-probabilistic programs, the classical variant rule (V-rule)\r\nof Floyd-Hoare logic provides the foundation for modular analysis. Extension of this rule to almost-sure\r\ntermination of probabilistic programs is quite tricky, and a probabilistic variant was proposed in [16]. While the\r\nproposed probabilistic variant cautiously addresses the key issue of integrability, we show that the proposed\r\nmodular rule is still not sound for almost-sure termination of probabilistic programs.\r\nBesides establishing unsoundness of the previous rule, our contributions are as follows: First, we present a\r\nsound modular rule for almost-sure termination of probabilistic programs. Our approach is based on a novel\r\nnotion of descent supermartingales. Second, for algorithmic approaches, we consider descent supermartingales\r\nthat are linear and show that they can be synthesized in polynomial time. Finally, we present experimental\r\nresults on a variety of benchmarks and several natural examples that model various types of nested while\r\nloops in probabilistic programs and demonstrate that our approach is able to efficiently prove their almost-sure\r\ntermination property" article_number: '129' article_processing_charge: No author: - first_name: Mingzhang full_name: Huang, Mingzhang last_name: Huang - first_name: Hongfei full_name: Fu, Hongfei last_name: Fu - first_name: Krishnendu full_name: Chatterjee, Krishnendu id: 2E5DCA20-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Chatterjee orcid: 0000-0002-4561-241X - first_name: Amir Kafshdar full_name: Goharshady, Amir Kafshdar id: 391365CE-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Goharshady orcid: 0000-0003-1702-6584 citation: ama: 'Huang M, Fu H, Chatterjee K, Goharshady AK. Modular verification for almost-sure termination of probabilistic programs. In: Proceedings of the 34th ACM International Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages, and Applications . Vol 3. ACM; 2019. doi:10.1145/3360555' apa: 'Huang, M., Fu, H., Chatterjee, K., & Goharshady, A. K. (2019). Modular verification for almost-sure termination of probabilistic programs. In Proceedings of the 34th ACM International Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages, and Applications (Vol. 3). Athens, Greece: ACM. https://doi.org/10.1145/3360555' chicago: Huang, Mingzhang, Hongfei Fu, Krishnendu Chatterjee, and Amir Kafshdar Goharshady. “Modular Verification for Almost-Sure Termination of Probabilistic Programs.” In Proceedings of the 34th ACM International Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages, and Applications , Vol. 3. ACM, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1145/3360555. ieee: M. Huang, H. Fu, K. Chatterjee, and A. K. Goharshady, “Modular verification for almost-sure termination of probabilistic programs,” in Proceedings of the 34th ACM International Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages, and Applications , Athens, Greece, 2019, vol. 3. ista: 'Huang M, Fu H, Chatterjee K, Goharshady AK. 2019. Modular verification for almost-sure termination of probabilistic programs. Proceedings of the 34th ACM International Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages, and Applications . OOPSLA: Object-oriented Programming, Systems, Languages and Applications vol. 3, 129.' mla: Huang, Mingzhang, et al. “Modular Verification for Almost-Sure Termination of Probabilistic Programs.” Proceedings of the 34th ACM International Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages, and Applications , vol. 3, 129, ACM, 2019, doi:10.1145/3360555. short: M. Huang, H. Fu, K. Chatterjee, A.K. Goharshady, in:, Proceedings of the 34th ACM International Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages, and Applications , ACM, 2019. conference: end_date: 2019-10-25 location: Athens, Greece name: 'OOPSLA: Object-oriented Programming, Systems, Languages and Applications' start_date: 2019-10-23 date_created: 2019-08-09T09:54:20Z date_published: 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2024-03-28T23:30:34Z day: '01' ddc: - '000' department: - _id: KrCh doi: 10.1145/3360555 ec_funded: 1 external_id: arxiv: - '1901.06087' file: - access_level: open_access checksum: 3482d8ace6fb4991eb7810e3b70f1b9f content_type: application/pdf creator: akafshda date_created: 2019-08-12T15:40:57Z date_updated: 2020-07-14T12:47:40Z file_id: '6807' file_name: oopsla-2019.pdf file_size: 1024643 relation: main_file - access_level: open_access checksum: 4e5a6fb2b59a75222a4e8335a5a60eac content_type: application/pdf creator: dernst date_created: 2020-05-12T15:15:14Z date_updated: 2020-07-14T12:47:40Z file_id: '7821' file_name: 2019_ACM_Huang.pdf file_size: 538579 relation: main_file file_date_updated: 2020-07-14T12:47:40Z has_accepted_license: '1' intvolume: ' 3' language: - iso: eng month: '10' oa: 1 oa_version: Published Version project: - _id: 25892FC0-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 grant_number: ICT15-003 name: Efficient Algorithms for Computer Aided Verification - _id: 25863FF4-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 call_identifier: FWF grant_number: S11407 name: Game Theory - _id: 2581B60A-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 call_identifier: FP7 grant_number: '279307' name: 'Quantitative Graph Games: Theory and Applications' - _id: 267066CE-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 name: Quantitative Analysis of Probablistic Systems with a focus on Crypto-currencies - _id: 266EEEC0-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 name: Quantitative Game-theoretic Analysis of Blockchain Applications and Smart Contracts publication: 'Proceedings of the 34th ACM International Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages, and Applications ' publication_status: published publisher: ACM quality_controlled: '1' related_material: record: - id: '8934' relation: dissertation_contains status: public status: public title: Modular verification for almost-sure termination of probabilistic programs tmp: image: /images/cc_by_nc.png legal_code_url: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode name: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0) short: CC BY-NC (4.0) type: conference user_id: 8b945eb4-e2f2-11eb-945a-df72226e66a9 volume: 3 year: '2019' ... --- _id: '6380' abstract: - lang: eng text: 'There is a huge gap between the speeds of modern caches and main memories, and therefore cache misses account for a considerable loss of efficiency in programs. The predominant technique to address this issue has been Data Packing: data elements that are frequently accessed within time proximity are packed into the same cache block, thereby minimizing accesses to the main memory. We consider the algorithmic problem of Data Packing on a two-level memory system. Given a reference sequence R of accesses to data elements, the task is to partition the elements into cache blocks such that the number of cache misses on R is minimized. The problem is notoriously difficult: it is NP-hard even when the cache has size 1, and is hard to approximate for any cache size larger than 4. Therefore, all existing techniques for Data Packing are based on heuristics and lack theoretical guarantees. In this work, we present the first positive theoretical results for Data Packing, along with new and stronger negative results. We consider the problem under the lens of the underlying access hypergraphs, which are hypergraphs of affinities between the data elements, where the order of an access hypergraph corresponds to the size of the affinity group. We study the problem parameterized by the treewidth of access hypergraphs, which is a standard notion in graph theory to measure the closeness of a graph to a tree. Our main results are as follows: We show there is a number q* depending on the cache parameters such that (a) if the access hypergraph of order q* has constant treewidth, then there is a linear-time algorithm for Data Packing; (b)the Data Packing problem remains NP-hard even if the access hypergraph of order q*-1 has constant treewidth. Thus, we establish a fine-grained dichotomy depending on a single parameter, namely, the highest order among access hypegraphs that have constant treewidth; and establish the optimal value q* of this parameter. Finally, we present an experimental evaluation of a prototype implementation of our algorithm. Our results demonstrate that, in practice, access hypergraphs of many commonly-used algorithms have small treewidth. We compare our approach with several state-of-the-art heuristic-based algorithms and show that our algorithm leads to significantly fewer cache-misses. ' article_number: '53' author: - first_name: Krishnendu full_name: Chatterjee, Krishnendu id: 2E5DCA20-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Chatterjee orcid: 0000-0002-4561-241X - first_name: Amir Kafshdar full_name: Goharshady, Amir Kafshdar id: 391365CE-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Goharshady orcid: 0000-0003-1702-6584 - first_name: Nastaran full_name: Okati, Nastaran last_name: Okati - first_name: Andreas full_name: Pavlogiannis, Andreas id: 49704004-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Pavlogiannis orcid: 0000-0002-8943-0722 citation: ama: Chatterjee K, Goharshady AK, Okati N, Pavlogiannis A. Efficient parameterized algorithms for data packing. Proceedings of the ACM on Programming Languages. 2019;3(POPL). doi:10.1145/3290366 apa: Chatterjee, K., Goharshady, A. K., Okati, N., & Pavlogiannis, A. (2019). Efficient parameterized algorithms for data packing. Proceedings of the ACM on Programming Languages. ACM. https://doi.org/10.1145/3290366 chicago: Chatterjee, Krishnendu, Amir Kafshdar Goharshady, Nastaran Okati, and Andreas Pavlogiannis. “Efficient Parameterized Algorithms for Data Packing.” Proceedings of the ACM on Programming Languages. ACM, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1145/3290366. ieee: K. Chatterjee, A. K. Goharshady, N. Okati, and A. Pavlogiannis, “Efficient parameterized algorithms for data packing,” Proceedings of the ACM on Programming Languages, vol. 3, no. POPL. ACM, 2019. ista: Chatterjee K, Goharshady AK, Okati N, Pavlogiannis A. 2019. Efficient parameterized algorithms for data packing. Proceedings of the ACM on Programming Languages. 3(POPL), 53. mla: Chatterjee, Krishnendu, et al. “Efficient Parameterized Algorithms for Data Packing.” Proceedings of the ACM on Programming Languages, vol. 3, no. POPL, 53, ACM, 2019, doi:10.1145/3290366. short: K. Chatterjee, A.K. Goharshady, N. Okati, A. Pavlogiannis, Proceedings of the ACM on Programming Languages 3 (2019). date_created: 2019-05-06T12:18:17Z date_published: 2019-01-01T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2024-03-28T23:30:33Z day: '01' ddc: - '004' department: - _id: KrCh doi: 10.1145/3290366 ec_funded: 1 file: - access_level: open_access checksum: c157752f96877b36685ad7063ada4524 content_type: application/pdf creator: dernst date_created: 2019-05-06T12:23:11Z date_updated: 2020-07-14T12:47:29Z file_id: '6381' file_name: 2019_ACM_POPL_Chatterjee.pdf file_size: 1294962 relation: main_file file_date_updated: 2020-07-14T12:47:29Z has_accepted_license: '1' intvolume: ' 3' issue: POPL language: - iso: eng month: '01' oa: 1 oa_version: Published Version project: - _id: 25892FC0-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 grant_number: ICT15-003 name: Efficient Algorithms for Computer Aided Verification - _id: 25832EC2-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 call_identifier: FWF grant_number: S 11407_N23 name: Rigorous Systems Engineering - _id: 2581B60A-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 call_identifier: FP7 grant_number: '279307' name: 'Quantitative Graph Games: Theory and Applications' publication: Proceedings of the ACM on Programming Languages publication_identifier: issn: - 2475-1421 publication_status: published publisher: ACM pubrep_id: '1056' quality_controlled: '1' related_material: record: - id: '8934' relation: dissertation_contains status: public status: public title: Efficient parameterized algorithms for data packing tmp: image: /images/cc_by.png legal_code_url: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode name: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC-BY 4.0) short: CC BY (4.0) type: journal_article user_id: 2DF688A6-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 volume: 3 year: '2019' ... --- _id: '6056' abstract: - lang: eng text: In today's programmable blockchains, smart contracts are limited to being deterministic and non-probabilistic. This lack of randomness is a consequential limitation, given that a wide variety of real-world financial contracts, such as casino games and lotteries, depend entirely on randomness. As a result, several ad-hoc random number generation approaches have been developed to be used in smart contracts. These include ideas such as using an oracle or relying on the block hash. However, these approaches are manipulatable, i.e. their output can be tampered with by parties who might not be neutral, such as the owner of the oracle or the miners.We propose a novel game-theoretic approach for generating provably unmanipulatable pseudorandom numbers on the blockchain. Our approach allows smart contracts to access a trustworthy source of randomness that does not rely on potentially compromised miners or oracles, hence enabling the creation of a new generation of smart contracts that are not limited to being non-probabilistic and can be drawn from the much more general class of probabilistic programs. article_number: '8751326' author: - first_name: Krishnendu full_name: Chatterjee, Krishnendu id: 2E5DCA20-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Chatterjee orcid: 0000-0002-4561-241X - first_name: Amir Kafshdar full_name: Goharshady, Amir Kafshdar id: 391365CE-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Goharshady orcid: 0000-0003-1702-6584 - first_name: Arash full_name: Pourdamghani, Arash last_name: Pourdamghani citation: ama: 'Chatterjee K, Goharshady AK, Pourdamghani A. Probabilistic smart contracts: Secure randomness on the blockchain. In: IEEE International Conference on Blockchain and Cryptocurrency. IEEE; 2019. doi:10.1109/BLOC.2019.8751326' apa: 'Chatterjee, K., Goharshady, A. K., & Pourdamghani, A. (2019). Probabilistic smart contracts: Secure randomness on the blockchain. In IEEE International Conference on Blockchain and Cryptocurrency. Seoul, Korea: IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/BLOC.2019.8751326' chicago: 'Chatterjee, Krishnendu, Amir Kafshdar Goharshady, and Arash Pourdamghani. “Probabilistic Smart Contracts: Secure Randomness on the Blockchain.” In IEEE International Conference on Blockchain and Cryptocurrency. IEEE, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1109/BLOC.2019.8751326.' ieee: 'K. Chatterjee, A. K. Goharshady, and A. Pourdamghani, “Probabilistic smart contracts: Secure randomness on the blockchain,” in IEEE International Conference on Blockchain and Cryptocurrency, Seoul, Korea, 2019.' ista: 'Chatterjee K, Goharshady AK, Pourdamghani A. 2019. Probabilistic smart contracts: Secure randomness on the blockchain. IEEE International Conference on Blockchain and Cryptocurrency. IEEE International Conference on Blockchain and Cryptocurrency, 8751326.' mla: 'Chatterjee, Krishnendu, et al. “Probabilistic Smart Contracts: Secure Randomness on the Blockchain.” IEEE International Conference on Blockchain and Cryptocurrency, 8751326, IEEE, 2019, doi:10.1109/BLOC.2019.8751326.' short: K. Chatterjee, A.K. Goharshady, A. Pourdamghani, in:, IEEE International Conference on Blockchain and Cryptocurrency, IEEE, 2019. conference: end_date: 2019-05-17 location: Seoul, Korea name: IEEE International Conference on Blockchain and Cryptocurrency start_date: 2019-05-14 date_created: 2019-02-26T09:03:15Z date_published: 2019-05-01T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2024-03-28T23:30:33Z day: '01' department: - _id: KrCh doi: 10.1109/BLOC.2019.8751326 ec_funded: 1 external_id: arxiv: - '1902.07986' language: - iso: eng main_file_link: - open_access: '1' url: https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.07986 month: '05' oa: 1 oa_version: Preprint project: - _id: 25892FC0-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 grant_number: ICT15-003 name: Efficient Algorithms for Computer Aided Verification - _id: 25832EC2-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 call_identifier: FWF grant_number: S 11407_N23 name: Rigorous Systems Engineering - _id: 2581B60A-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 call_identifier: FP7 grant_number: '279307' name: 'Quantitative Graph Games: Theory and Applications' - _id: 266EEEC0-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 name: Quantitative Game-theoretic Analysis of Blockchain Applications and Smart Contracts - _id: 267066CE-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 name: Quantitative Analysis of Probablistic Systems with a focus on Crypto-currencies publication: IEEE International Conference on Blockchain and Cryptocurrency publication_status: published publisher: IEEE quality_controlled: '1' related_material: record: - id: '8934' relation: dissertation_contains status: public scopus_import: 1 status: public title: 'Probabilistic smart contracts: Secure randomness on the blockchain' type: conference user_id: 3E5EF7F0-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 year: '2019' ... --- _id: '6378' abstract: - lang: eng text: 'In today''s cryptocurrencies, Hashcash proof of work is the most commonly-adopted approach to mining. In Hashcash, when a miner decides to add a block to the chain, she has to solve the difficult computational puzzle of inverting a hash function. While Hashcash has been successfully adopted in both Bitcoin and Ethereum, it has attracted significant and harsh criticism due to its massive waste of electricity, its carbon footprint and environmental effects, and the inherent lack of usefulness in inverting a hash function. Various other mining protocols have been suggested, including proof of stake, in which a miner''s chance of adding the next block is proportional to her current balance. However, such protocols lead to a higher entry cost for new miners who might not still have any stake in the cryptocurrency, and can in the worst case lead to an oligopoly, where the rich have complete control over mining. In this paper, we propose Hybrid Mining: a new mining protocol that combines solving real-world useful problems with Hashcash. Our protocol allows new miners to join the network by taking part in Hashcash mining without having to own an initial stake. It also allows nodes of the network to submit hard computational problems whose solutions are of interest in the real world, e.g.~protein folding problems. Then, miners can choose to compete in solving these problems, in lieu of Hashcash, for adding a new block. Hence, Hybrid Mining incentivizes miners to solve useful problems, such as hard computational problems arising in biology, in a distributed manner. It also gives researchers in other areas an easy-to-use tool to outsource their hard computations to the blockchain network, which has enormous computational power, by paying a reward to the miner who solves the problem for them. Moreover, our protocol provides strong security guarantees and is at least as resilient to double spending as Bitcoin.' article_processing_charge: No author: - first_name: Krishnendu full_name: Chatterjee, Krishnendu id: 2E5DCA20-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Chatterjee orcid: 0000-0002-4561-241X - first_name: Amir Kafshdar full_name: Goharshady, Amir Kafshdar id: 391365CE-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Goharshady orcid: 0000-0003-1702-6584 - first_name: Arash full_name: Pourdamghani, Arash last_name: Pourdamghani citation: ama: 'Chatterjee K, Goharshady AK, Pourdamghani A. Hybrid Mining: Exploiting blockchain’s computational power for distributed problem solving. In: Proceedings of the 34th ACM Symposium on Applied Computing. Vol Part F147772. ACM; 2019:374-381. doi:10.1145/3297280.3297319' apa: 'Chatterjee, K., Goharshady, A. K., & Pourdamghani, A. (2019). Hybrid Mining: Exploiting blockchain’s computational power for distributed problem solving. In Proceedings of the 34th ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (Vol. Part F147772, pp. 374–381). Limassol, Cyprus: ACM. https://doi.org/10.1145/3297280.3297319' chicago: 'Chatterjee, Krishnendu, Amir Kafshdar Goharshady, and Arash Pourdamghani. “Hybrid Mining: Exploiting Blockchain’s Computational Power for Distributed Problem Solving.” In Proceedings of the 34th ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, Part F147772:374–81. ACM, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1145/3297280.3297319.' ieee: 'K. Chatterjee, A. K. Goharshady, and A. Pourdamghani, “Hybrid Mining: Exploiting blockchain’s computational power for distributed problem solving,” in Proceedings of the 34th ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, Limassol, Cyprus, 2019, vol. Part F147772, pp. 374–381.' ista: 'Chatterjee K, Goharshady AK, Pourdamghani A. 2019. Hybrid Mining: Exploiting blockchain’s computational power for distributed problem solving. Proceedings of the 34th ACM Symposium on Applied Computing. ACM Symposium on Applied Computing vol. Part F147772, 374–381.' mla: 'Chatterjee, Krishnendu, et al. “Hybrid Mining: Exploiting Blockchain’s Computational Power for Distributed Problem Solving.” Proceedings of the 34th ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, vol. Part F147772, ACM, 2019, pp. 374–81, doi:10.1145/3297280.3297319.' short: K. Chatterjee, A.K. Goharshady, A. Pourdamghani, in:, Proceedings of the 34th ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, ACM, 2019, pp. 374–381. conference: end_date: 2019-04-12 location: Limassol, Cyprus name: ACM Symposium on Applied Computing start_date: 2019-04-08 date_created: 2019-05-06T12:11:36Z date_published: 2019-04-01T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2024-03-28T23:30:34Z day: '01' ddc: - '004' department: - _id: KrCh doi: 10.1145/3297280.3297319 ec_funded: 1 external_id: isi: - '000474685800049' file: - access_level: open_access checksum: fbfbcd5a0c7a743862bfc3045539a614 content_type: application/pdf creator: dernst date_created: 2019-05-06T12:09:27Z date_updated: 2020-07-14T12:47:29Z file_id: '6379' file_name: 2019_ACM_Chatterjee.pdf file_size: 1023934 relation: main_file file_date_updated: 2020-07-14T12:47:29Z has_accepted_license: '1' isi: 1 language: - iso: eng month: '04' oa: 1 oa_version: Submitted Version page: 374-381 project: - _id: 2581B60A-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 call_identifier: FP7 grant_number: '279307' name: 'Quantitative Graph Games: Theory and Applications' - _id: 25892FC0-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 grant_number: ICT15-003 name: Efficient Algorithms for Computer Aided Verification - _id: 25832EC2-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 call_identifier: FWF grant_number: S 11407_N23 name: Rigorous Systems Engineering publication: Proceedings of the 34th ACM Symposium on Applied Computing publication_identifier: isbn: - '9781450359337' publication_status: published publisher: ACM pubrep_id: '1069' quality_controlled: '1' related_material: record: - id: '8934' relation: dissertation_contains status: public scopus_import: '1' status: public title: 'Hybrid Mining: Exploiting blockchain’s computational power for distributed problem solving' type: conference user_id: 4359f0d1-fa6c-11eb-b949-802e58b17ae8 volume: Part F147772 year: '2019' ... --- _id: '6175' abstract: - lang: eng text: "We consider the problem of expected cost analysis over nondeterministic probabilistic programs,\r\nwhich aims at automated methods for analyzing the resource-usage of such programs.\r\nPrevious approaches for this problem could only handle nonnegative bounded costs.\r\nHowever, in many scenarios, such as queuing networks or analysis of cryptocurrency protocols,\r\nboth positive and negative costs are necessary and the costs are unbounded as well.\r\n\r\nIn this work, we present a sound and efficient approach to obtain polynomial bounds on the\r\nexpected accumulated cost of nondeterministic probabilistic programs.\r\nOur approach can handle (a) general positive and negative costs with bounded updates in\r\nvariables; and (b) nonnegative costs with general updates to variables.\r\nWe show that several natural examples which could not be\r\nhandled by previous approaches are captured in our framework.\r\n\r\nMoreover, our approach leads to an efficient polynomial-time algorithm, while no\r\nprevious approach for cost analysis of probabilistic programs could guarantee polynomial runtime.\r\nFinally, we show the effectiveness of our approach using experimental results on a variety of programs for which we efficiently synthesize tight resource-usage bounds." article_processing_charge: No author: - first_name: Peixin full_name: Wang, Peixin last_name: Wang - first_name: Hongfei full_name: Fu, Hongfei id: 3AAD03D6-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Fu - first_name: Amir Kafshdar full_name: Goharshady, Amir Kafshdar id: 391365CE-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Goharshady orcid: 0000-0003-1702-6584 - first_name: Krishnendu full_name: Chatterjee, Krishnendu id: 2E5DCA20-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Chatterjee orcid: 0000-0002-4561-241X - first_name: Xudong full_name: Qin, Xudong last_name: Qin - first_name: Wenjun full_name: Shi, Wenjun last_name: Shi citation: ama: 'Wang P, Fu H, Goharshady AK, Chatterjee K, Qin X, Shi W. Cost analysis of nondeterministic probabilistic programs. In: PLDI 2019: Proceedings of the 40th ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation. Association for Computing Machinery; 2019:204-220. doi:10.1145/3314221.3314581' apa: 'Wang, P., Fu, H., Goharshady, A. K., Chatterjee, K., Qin, X., & Shi, W. (2019). Cost analysis of nondeterministic probabilistic programs. In PLDI 2019: Proceedings of the 40th ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation (pp. 204–220). Phoenix, AZ, United States: Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/3314221.3314581' chicago: 'Wang, Peixin, Hongfei Fu, Amir Kafshdar Goharshady, Krishnendu Chatterjee, Xudong Qin, and Wenjun Shi. “Cost Analysis of Nondeterministic Probabilistic Programs.” In PLDI 2019: Proceedings of the 40th ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation, 204–20. Association for Computing Machinery, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1145/3314221.3314581.' ieee: 'P. Wang, H. Fu, A. K. Goharshady, K. Chatterjee, X. Qin, and W. Shi, “Cost analysis of nondeterministic probabilistic programs,” in PLDI 2019: Proceedings of the 40th ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation, Phoenix, AZ, United States, 2019, pp. 204–220.' ista: 'Wang P, Fu H, Goharshady AK, Chatterjee K, Qin X, Shi W. 2019. Cost analysis of nondeterministic probabilistic programs. PLDI 2019: Proceedings of the 40th ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation. PLDI: Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation, 204–220.' mla: 'Wang, Peixin, et al. “Cost Analysis of Nondeterministic Probabilistic Programs.” PLDI 2019: Proceedings of the 40th ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation, Association for Computing Machinery, 2019, pp. 204–20, doi:10.1145/3314221.3314581.' short: 'P. Wang, H. Fu, A.K. Goharshady, K. Chatterjee, X. Qin, W. Shi, in:, PLDI 2019: Proceedings of the 40th ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation, Association for Computing Machinery, 2019, pp. 204–220.' conference: end_date: 2019-06-26 location: Phoenix, AZ, United States name: 'PLDI: Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation' start_date: 2019-06-22 date_created: 2019-03-25T10:13:25Z date_published: 2019-06-08T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2024-03-28T23:30:34Z day: '08' ddc: - '000' department: - _id: KrCh doi: 10.1145/3314221.3314581 ec_funded: 1 external_id: arxiv: - '1902.04659' isi: - '000523190300014' file: - access_level: open_access checksum: 703a5e9b8c8587f2a44085ffd9a4db64 content_type: application/pdf creator: akafshda date_created: 2019-03-25T10:11:22Z date_updated: 2020-07-14T12:47:20Z file_id: '6176' file_name: paper.pdf file_size: 4051066 relation: main_file file_date_updated: 2020-07-14T12:47:20Z has_accepted_license: '1' isi: 1 keyword: - Program Cost Analysis - Program Termination - Probabilistic Programs - Martingales language: - iso: eng month: '06' oa: 1 oa_version: Submitted Version page: 204-220 project: - _id: 25892FC0-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 grant_number: ICT15-003 name: Efficient Algorithms for Computer Aided Verification - _id: 25863FF4-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 call_identifier: FWF grant_number: S11407 name: Game Theory - _id: 25832EC2-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 call_identifier: FWF grant_number: S 11407_N23 name: Rigorous Systems Engineering - _id: 2581B60A-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 call_identifier: FP7 grant_number: '279307' name: 'Quantitative Graph Games: Theory and Applications' - _id: 266EEEC0-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 name: Quantitative Game-theoretic Analysis of Blockchain Applications and Smart Contracts publication: 'PLDI 2019: Proceedings of the 40th ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation' publication_status: published publisher: Association for Computing Machinery quality_controlled: '1' related_material: record: - id: '5457' relation: earlier_version status: public - id: '8934' relation: dissertation_contains status: public scopus_import: '1' status: public title: Cost analysis of nondeterministic probabilistic programs type: conference user_id: 4359f0d1-fa6c-11eb-b949-802e58b17ae8 year: '2019' ... --- _id: '6490' abstract: - lang: eng text: "Smart contracts are programs that are stored and executed on the Blockchain and can receive, manage and transfer money (cryptocurrency units). Two important problems regarding smart contracts are formal analysis and compiler optimization. Formal analysis is extremely important, because smart contracts hold funds worth billions of dollars and their code is immutable after deployment. Hence, an undetected bug can cause significant financial losses. Compiler optimization is also crucial, because every action of a smart contract has to be executed by every node in the Blockchain network. Therefore, optimizations in compiling smart contracts can lead to significant savings in computation, time and energy.\r\n\r\nTwo classical approaches in program analysis and compiler optimization are intraprocedural and interprocedural analysis. In intraprocedural analysis, each function is analyzed separately, while interprocedural analysis considers the entire program. In both cases, the analyses are usually reduced to graph problems over the control flow graph (CFG) of the program. These graph problems are often computationally expensive. Hence, there has been ample research on exploiting structural properties of CFGs for efficient algorithms. One such well-studied property is the treewidth, which is a measure of tree-likeness of graphs. It is known that intraprocedural CFGs of structured programs have treewidth at most 6, whereas the interprocedural treewidth cannot be bounded. This result has been used as a basis for many efficient intraprocedural analyses.\r\n\r\nIn this paper, we explore the idea of exploiting the treewidth of smart contracts for formal analysis and compiler optimization. First, similar to classical programs, we show that the intraprocedural treewidth of structured Solidity and Vyper smart contracts is at most 9. Second, for global analysis, we prove that the interprocedural treewidth of structured smart contracts is bounded by 10 and, in sharp contrast with classical programs, treewidth-based algorithms can be easily applied for interprocedural analysis. Finally, we supplement our theoretical results with experiments using a tool we implemented for computing treewidth of smart contracts and show that the treewidth is much lower in practice. We use 36,764 real-world Ethereum smart contracts as benchmarks and find that they have an average treewidth of at most 3.35 for the intraprocedural case and 3.65 for the interprocedural case.\r\n" article_processing_charge: No author: - first_name: Krishnendu full_name: Chatterjee, Krishnendu id: 2E5DCA20-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Chatterjee orcid: 0000-0002-4561-241X - first_name: Amir Kafshdar full_name: Goharshady, Amir Kafshdar id: 391365CE-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Goharshady orcid: 0000-0003-1702-6584 - first_name: Ehsan Kafshdar full_name: Goharshady, Ehsan Kafshdar last_name: Goharshady citation: ama: 'Chatterjee K, Goharshady AK, Goharshady EK. The treewidth of smart contracts. In: Proceedings of the 34th ACM Symposium on Applied Computing. Vol Part F147772. ACM; :400-408. doi:10.1145/3297280.3297322' apa: 'Chatterjee, K., Goharshady, A. K., & Goharshady, E. K. (n.d.). The treewidth of smart contracts. In Proceedings of the 34th ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (Vol. Part F147772, pp. 400–408). Limassol, Cyprus: ACM. https://doi.org/10.1145/3297280.3297322' chicago: Chatterjee, Krishnendu, Amir Kafshdar Goharshady, and Ehsan Kafshdar Goharshady. “The Treewidth of Smart Contracts.” In Proceedings of the 34th ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, Part F147772:400–408. ACM, n.d. https://doi.org/10.1145/3297280.3297322. ieee: K. Chatterjee, A. K. Goharshady, and E. K. Goharshady, “The treewidth of smart contracts,” in Proceedings of the 34th ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, Limassol, Cyprus, vol. Part F147772, pp. 400–408. ista: 'Chatterjee K, Goharshady AK, Goharshady EK. The treewidth of smart contracts. Proceedings of the 34th ACM Symposium on Applied Computing. SAC: Symposium on Applied Computing vol. Part F147772, 400–408.' mla: Chatterjee, Krishnendu, et al. “The Treewidth of Smart Contracts.” Proceedings of the 34th ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, vol. Part F147772, ACM, pp. 400–08, doi:10.1145/3297280.3297322. short: K. Chatterjee, A.K. Goharshady, E.K. Goharshady, in:, Proceedings of the 34th ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, ACM, n.d., pp. 400–408. conference: end_date: 2019-04-12 location: Limassol, Cyprus name: 'SAC: Symposium on Applied Computing' start_date: 2019-04-08 date_created: 2019-05-26T21:59:15Z date_published: 2019-04-01T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2024-03-28T23:30:34Z day: '01' ddc: - '000' department: - _id: KrCh doi: 10.1145/3297280.3297322 external_id: isi: - '000474685800052' file: - access_level: open_access checksum: dddc20f6d9881f23b8755eb720ec9d6f content_type: application/pdf creator: dernst date_created: 2020-05-14T09:50:11Z date_updated: 2020-07-14T12:47:32Z file_id: '7827' file_name: 2019_ACM_Chatterjee.pdf file_size: 6937138 relation: main_file file_date_updated: 2020-07-14T12:47:32Z has_accepted_license: '1' isi: 1 language: - iso: eng month: '04' oa: 1 oa_version: Submitted Version page: 400-408 publication: Proceedings of the 34th ACM Symposium on Applied Computing publication_identifier: isbn: - '9781450359337' publication_status: submitted publisher: ACM pubrep_id: '1070' quality_controlled: '1' related_material: record: - id: '8934' relation: dissertation_contains status: public scopus_import: '1' status: public title: The treewidth of smart contracts type: conference user_id: 4359f0d1-fa6c-11eb-b949-802e58b17ae8 volume: Part F147772 year: '2019' ... --- _id: '7158' abstract: - lang: eng text: "Interprocedural analysis is at the heart of numerous applications in programming languages, such as alias analysis, constant propagation, and so on. Recursive state machines (RSMs) are standard models for interprocedural analysis. We consider a general framework with RSMs where the transitions are labeled from a semiring and path properties are algebraic with semiring operations. RSMs with algebraic path properties can model interprocedural dataflow analysis problems, the shortest path problem, the most probable path problem, and so on. The traditional algorithms for interprocedural analysis focus on path properties where the starting point is fixed as the entry point of a specific method. In this work, we consider possible multiple queries as required in many applications such as in alias analysis. The study of multiple queries allows us to bring in an important algorithmic distinction between the resource usage of the one-time preprocessing vs for each individual query. The second aspect we consider is that the control flow graphs for most programs have constant treewidth.\r\n\r\nOur main contributions are simple and implementable algorithms that support multiple queries for algebraic path properties for RSMs that have constant treewidth. Our theoretical results show that our algorithms have small additional one-time preprocessing but can answer subsequent queries significantly faster as compared to the current algorithmic solutions for interprocedural dataflow analysis. We have also implemented our algorithms and evaluated their performance for performing on-demand interprocedural dataflow analysis on various domains, such as for live variable analysis and reaching definitions, on a standard benchmark set. Our experimental results align with our theoretical statements and show that after a lightweight preprocessing, on-demand queries are answered much faster than the standard existing algorithmic approaches.\r\n" article_number: '23' article_processing_charge: No article_type: original author: - first_name: Krishnendu full_name: Chatterjee, Krishnendu id: 2E5DCA20-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Chatterjee orcid: 0000-0002-4561-241X - first_name: Amir Kafshdar full_name: Goharshady, Amir Kafshdar id: 391365CE-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Goharshady orcid: 0000-0003-1702-6584 - first_name: Prateesh full_name: Goyal, Prateesh last_name: Goyal - first_name: Rasmus full_name: Ibsen-Jensen, Rasmus id: 3B699956-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Ibsen-Jensen orcid: 0000-0003-4783-0389 - first_name: Andreas full_name: Pavlogiannis, Andreas id: 49704004-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Pavlogiannis orcid: 0000-0002-8943-0722 citation: ama: Chatterjee K, Goharshady AK, Goyal P, Ibsen-Jensen R, Pavlogiannis A. Faster algorithms for dynamic algebraic queries in basic RSMs with constant treewidth. ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems. 2019;41(4). doi:10.1145/3363525 apa: Chatterjee, K., Goharshady, A. K., Goyal, P., Ibsen-Jensen, R., & Pavlogiannis, A. (2019). Faster algorithms for dynamic algebraic queries in basic RSMs with constant treewidth. ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems. ACM. https://doi.org/10.1145/3363525 chicago: Chatterjee, Krishnendu, Amir Kafshdar Goharshady, Prateesh Goyal, Rasmus Ibsen-Jensen, and Andreas Pavlogiannis. “Faster Algorithms for Dynamic Algebraic Queries in Basic RSMs with Constant Treewidth.” ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems. ACM, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1145/3363525. ieee: K. Chatterjee, A. K. Goharshady, P. Goyal, R. Ibsen-Jensen, and A. Pavlogiannis, “Faster algorithms for dynamic algebraic queries in basic RSMs with constant treewidth,” ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems, vol. 41, no. 4. ACM, 2019. ista: Chatterjee K, Goharshady AK, Goyal P, Ibsen-Jensen R, Pavlogiannis A. 2019. Faster algorithms for dynamic algebraic queries in basic RSMs with constant treewidth. ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems. 41(4), 23. mla: Chatterjee, Krishnendu, et al. “Faster Algorithms for Dynamic Algebraic Queries in Basic RSMs with Constant Treewidth.” ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems, vol. 41, no. 4, 23, ACM, 2019, doi:10.1145/3363525. short: K. Chatterjee, A.K. Goharshady, P. Goyal, R. Ibsen-Jensen, A. Pavlogiannis, ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems 41 (2019). date_created: 2019-12-09T08:33:33Z date_published: 2019-11-01T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2024-03-28T23:30:34Z day: '01' ddc: - '000' department: - _id: KrCh doi: 10.1145/3363525 ec_funded: 1 external_id: isi: - '000564108400004' file: - access_level: open_access checksum: 291cc86a07bd010d4815e177dac57b70 content_type: application/pdf creator: dernst date_created: 2020-10-08T12:58:10Z date_updated: 2020-10-08T12:58:10Z file_id: '8632' file_name: 2019_ACMTransactions_Chatterjee.pdf file_size: 667357 relation: main_file success: 1 file_date_updated: 2020-10-08T12:58:10Z has_accepted_license: '1' intvolume: ' 41' isi: 1 issue: '4' language: - iso: eng month: '11' oa: 1 oa_version: Submitted Version project: - _id: 2584A770-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 call_identifier: FWF grant_number: P 23499-N23 name: Modern Graph Algorithmic Techniques in Formal Verification - _id: 25863FF4-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 call_identifier: FWF grant_number: S11407 name: Game Theory - _id: 2581B60A-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 call_identifier: FP7 grant_number: '279307' name: 'Quantitative Graph Games: Theory and Applications' publication: ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems publication_identifier: issn: - 0164-0925 publication_status: published publisher: ACM quality_controlled: '1' related_material: record: - id: '8934' relation: dissertation_contains status: public scopus_import: '1' status: public title: Faster algorithms for dynamic algebraic queries in basic RSMs with constant treewidth type: journal_article user_id: c635000d-4b10-11ee-a964-aac5a93f6ac1 volume: 41 year: '2019' ... --- _id: '7014' abstract: - lang: eng text: "We study the problem of developing efficient approaches for proving\r\nworst-case bounds of non-deterministic recursive programs. Ranking functions\r\nare sound and complete for proving termination and worst-case bounds of\r\nnonrecursive programs. First, we apply ranking functions to recursion,\r\nresulting in measure functions. We show that measure functions provide a sound\r\nand complete approach to prove worst-case bounds of non-deterministic recursive\r\nprograms. Our second contribution is the synthesis of measure functions in\r\nnonpolynomial forms. We show that non-polynomial measure functions with\r\nlogarithm and exponentiation can be synthesized through abstraction of\r\nlogarithmic or exponentiation terms, Farkas' Lemma, and Handelman's Theorem\r\nusing linear programming. While previous methods obtain worst-case polynomial\r\nbounds, our approach can synthesize bounds of the form $\\mathcal{O}(n\\log n)$\r\nas well as $\\mathcal{O}(n^r)$ where $r$ is not an integer. We present\r\nexperimental results to demonstrate that our approach can obtain efficiently\r\nworst-case bounds of classical recursive algorithms such as (i) Merge-Sort, the\r\ndivide-and-conquer algorithm for the Closest-Pair problem, where we obtain\r\n$\\mathcal{O}(n \\log n)$ worst-case bound, and (ii) Karatsuba's algorithm for\r\npolynomial multiplication and Strassen's algorithm for matrix multiplication,\r\nwhere we obtain $\\mathcal{O}(n^r)$ bound such that $r$ is not an integer and\r\nclose to the best-known bounds for the respective algorithms." article_number: '20' article_processing_charge: No article_type: original author: - first_name: Krishnendu full_name: Chatterjee, Krishnendu id: 2E5DCA20-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Chatterjee orcid: 0000-0002-4561-241X - first_name: Hongfei full_name: Fu, Hongfei last_name: Fu - first_name: Amir Kafshdar full_name: Goharshady, Amir Kafshdar id: 391365CE-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Goharshady orcid: 0000-0003-1702-6584 citation: ama: Chatterjee K, Fu H, Goharshady AK. Non-polynomial worst-case analysis of recursive programs. ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems. 2019;41(4). doi:10.1145/3339984 apa: Chatterjee, K., Fu, H., & Goharshady, A. K. (2019). Non-polynomial worst-case analysis of recursive programs. ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems. ACM. https://doi.org/10.1145/3339984 chicago: Chatterjee, Krishnendu, Hongfei Fu, and Amir Kafshdar Goharshady. “Non-Polynomial Worst-Case Analysis of Recursive Programs.” ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems. ACM, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1145/3339984. ieee: K. Chatterjee, H. Fu, and A. K. Goharshady, “Non-polynomial worst-case analysis of recursive programs,” ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems, vol. 41, no. 4. ACM, 2019. ista: Chatterjee K, Fu H, Goharshady AK. 2019. Non-polynomial worst-case analysis of recursive programs. ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems. 41(4), 20. mla: Chatterjee, Krishnendu, et al. “Non-Polynomial Worst-Case Analysis of Recursive Programs.” ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems, vol. 41, no. 4, 20, ACM, 2019, doi:10.1145/3339984. short: K. Chatterjee, H. Fu, A.K. Goharshady, ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems 41 (2019). date_created: 2019-11-13T08:33:43Z date_published: 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2024-03-28T23:30:34Z day: '01' department: - _id: KrCh doi: 10.1145/3339984 ec_funded: 1 external_id: arxiv: - '1705.00317' isi: - '000564108400001' intvolume: ' 41' isi: 1 issue: '4' language: - iso: eng main_file_link: - open_access: '1' url: https://arxiv.org/abs/1705.00317 month: '10' oa: 1 oa_version: Preprint project: - _id: 25892FC0-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 grant_number: ICT15-003 name: Efficient Algorithms for Computer Aided Verification - _id: 25832EC2-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 call_identifier: FWF grant_number: S 11407_N23 name: Rigorous Systems Engineering - _id: 2581B60A-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 call_identifier: FP7 grant_number: '279307' name: 'Quantitative Graph Games: Theory and Applications' - _id: 267066CE-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 name: Quantitative Analysis of Probablistic Systems with a focus on Crypto-currencies - _id: 266EEEC0-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 name: Quantitative Game-theoretic Analysis of Blockchain Applications and Smart Contracts publication: ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems publication_status: published publisher: ACM quality_controlled: '1' related_material: record: - id: '639' relation: earlier_version status: public - id: '8934' relation: dissertation_contains status: public scopus_import: '1' status: public title: Non-polynomial worst-case analysis of recursive programs type: journal_article user_id: 4359f0d1-fa6c-11eb-b949-802e58b17ae8 volume: 41 year: '2019' ... --- _id: '10883' abstract: - lang: eng text: 'Solving parity games, which are equivalent to modal μ-calculus model checking, is a central algorithmic problem in formal methods, with applications in reactive synthesis, program repair, verification of branching-time properties, etc. Besides the standard compu- tation model with the explicit representation of games, another important theoretical model of computation is that of set-based symbolic algorithms. Set-based symbolic algorithms use basic set operations and one-step predecessor operations on the implicit description of games, rather than the explicit representation. The significance of symbolic algorithms is that they provide scalable algorithms for large finite-state systems, as well as for infinite-state systems with finite quotient. Consider parity games on graphs with n vertices and parity conditions with d priorities. While there is a rich literature of explicit algorithms for parity games, the main results for set-based symbolic algorithms are as follows: (a) the basic algorithm that requires O(nd) symbolic operations and O(d) symbolic space; and (b) an improved algorithm that requires O(nd/3+1) symbolic operations and O(n) symbolic space. In this work, our contributions are as follows: (1) We present a black-box set-based symbolic algorithm based on the explicit progress measure algorithm. Two important consequences of our algorithm are as follows: (a) a set-based symbolic algorithm for parity games that requires quasi-polynomially many symbolic operations and O(n) symbolic space; and (b) any future improvement in progress measure based explicit algorithms immediately imply an efficiency improvement in our set-based symbolic algorithm for parity games. (2) We present a set-based symbolic algorithm that requires quasi-polynomially many symbolic operations and O(d · log n) symbolic space. Moreover, for the important special case of d ≤ log n, our algorithm requires only polynomially many symbolic operations and poly-logarithmic symbolic space.' acknowledgement: 'A. S. is fully supported by the Vienna Science and Technology Fund (WWTF) through project ICT15-003. K.C. is supported by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) NFN Grant No S11407-N23 (RiSE/SHiNE) and an ERC Starting grant (279307: Graph Games). For M.H the research leading to these results has received funding from the European Research Council under the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme (FP/2007-2013) /ERC Grant Agreement no. 340506.' alternative_title: - EPiC Series in Computing article_processing_charge: No author: - first_name: Krishnendu full_name: Chatterjee, Krishnendu id: 2E5DCA20-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Chatterjee orcid: 0000-0002-4561-241X - first_name: Wolfgang full_name: Dvořák, Wolfgang last_name: Dvořák - first_name: Monika H full_name: Henzinger, Monika H id: 540c9bbd-f2de-11ec-812d-d04a5be85630 last_name: Henzinger orcid: 0000-0002-5008-6530 - first_name: Alexander full_name: Svozil, Alexander last_name: Svozil citation: ama: 'Chatterjee K, Dvořák W, Henzinger MH, Svozil A. Quasipolynomial set-based symbolic algorithms for parity games. In: 22nd International Conference on Logic for Programming, Artificial Intelligence and Reasoning. Vol 57. EasyChair; 2018:233-253. doi:10.29007/5z5k' apa: 'Chatterjee, K., Dvořák, W., Henzinger, M. H., & Svozil, A. (2018). Quasipolynomial set-based symbolic algorithms for parity games. In 22nd International Conference on Logic for Programming, Artificial Intelligence and Reasoning (Vol. 57, pp. 233–253). Awassa, Ethiopia: EasyChair. https://doi.org/10.29007/5z5k' chicago: Chatterjee, Krishnendu, Wolfgang Dvořák, Monika H Henzinger, and Alexander Svozil. “Quasipolynomial Set-Based Symbolic Algorithms for Parity Games.” In 22nd International Conference on Logic for Programming, Artificial Intelligence and Reasoning, 57:233–53. EasyChair, 2018. https://doi.org/10.29007/5z5k. ieee: K. Chatterjee, W. Dvořák, M. H. Henzinger, and A. Svozil, “Quasipolynomial set-based symbolic algorithms for parity games,” in 22nd International Conference on Logic for Programming, Artificial Intelligence and Reasoning, Awassa, Ethiopia, 2018, vol. 57, pp. 233–253. ista: 'Chatterjee K, Dvořák W, Henzinger MH, Svozil A. 2018. Quasipolynomial set-based symbolic algorithms for parity games. 22nd International Conference on Logic for Programming, Artificial Intelligence and Reasoning. LPAR: Conference on Logic for Programming, Artificial Intelligence and Reasoning, EPiC Series in Computing, vol. 57, 233–253.' mla: Chatterjee, Krishnendu, et al. “Quasipolynomial Set-Based Symbolic Algorithms for Parity Games.” 22nd International Conference on Logic for Programming, Artificial Intelligence and Reasoning, vol. 57, EasyChair, 2018, pp. 233–53, doi:10.29007/5z5k. short: K. Chatterjee, W. Dvořák, M.H. Henzinger, A. Svozil, in:, 22nd International Conference on Logic for Programming, Artificial Intelligence and Reasoning, EasyChair, 2018, pp. 233–253. conference: end_date: 2018-11-21 location: Awassa, Ethiopia name: 'LPAR: Conference on Logic for Programming, Artificial Intelligence and Reasoning' start_date: 2018-11-17 date_created: 2022-03-18T12:46:32Z date_published: 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2022-07-29T09:24:31Z day: '23' ddc: - '000' department: - _id: KrCh doi: 10.29007/5z5k ec_funded: 1 external_id: arxiv: - '1909.04983' file: - access_level: open_access checksum: 1229aa8640bd6db610c85decf2265480 content_type: application/pdf creator: dernst date_created: 2022-05-17T07:51:08Z date_updated: 2022-05-17T07:51:08Z file_id: '11392' file_name: 2018_EPiCs_Chatterjee.pdf file_size: 720893 relation: main_file success: 1 file_date_updated: 2022-05-17T07:51:08Z has_accepted_license: '1' intvolume: ' 57' language: - iso: eng month: '10' oa: 1 oa_version: Published Version page: 233-253 project: - _id: 25863FF4-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 call_identifier: FWF grant_number: S11407 name: Game Theory - _id: 2581B60A-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 call_identifier: FP7 grant_number: '279307' name: 'Quantitative Graph Games: Theory and Applications' publication: 22nd International Conference on Logic for Programming, Artificial Intelligence and Reasoning publication_identifier: issn: - 2398-7340 publication_status: published publisher: EasyChair quality_controlled: '1' scopus_import: '1' status: public title: Quasipolynomial set-based symbolic algorithms for parity games type: conference user_id: 72615eeb-f1f3-11ec-aa25-d4573ddc34fd volume: 57 year: '2018' ... --- _id: '325' abstract: - lang: eng text: Probabilistic programs extend classical imperative programs with real-valued random variables and random branching. The most basic liveness property for such programs is the termination property. The qualitative (aka almost-sure) termination problem asks whether a given program program terminates with probability 1. While ranking functions provide a sound and complete method for non-probabilistic programs, the extension of them to probabilistic programs is achieved via ranking supermartingales (RSMs). Although deep theoretical results have been established about RSMs, their application to probabilistic programs with nondeterminism has been limited only to programs of restricted control-flow structure. For non-probabilistic programs, lexicographic ranking functions provide a compositional and practical approach for termination analysis of real-world programs. In this work we introduce lexicographic RSMs and show that they present a sound method for almost-sure termination of probabilistic programs with nondeterminism. We show that lexicographic RSMs provide a tool for compositional reasoning about almost-sure termination, and for probabilistic programs with linear arithmetic they can be synthesized efficiently (in polynomial time). We also show that with additional restrictions even asymptotic bounds on expected termination time can be obtained through lexicographic RSMs. Finally, we present experimental results on benchmarks adapted from previous work to demonstrate the effectiveness of our approach. article_number: '34' author: - first_name: Sheshansh full_name: Agrawal, Sheshansh last_name: Agrawal - first_name: Krishnendu full_name: Chatterjee, Krishnendu id: 2E5DCA20-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Chatterjee orcid: 0000-0002-4561-241X - first_name: Petr full_name: Novotny, Petr id: 3CC3B868-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Novotny citation: ama: 'Agrawal S, Chatterjee K, Novotný P. Lexicographic ranking supermartingales: an efficient approach to termination of probabilistic programs. In: Vol 2. ACM; 2018. doi:10.1145/3158122' apa: 'Agrawal, S., Chatterjee, K., & Novotný, P. (2018). Lexicographic ranking supermartingales: an efficient approach to termination of probabilistic programs (Vol. 2). Presented at the POPL: Principles of Programming Languages, Los Angeles, CA, USA: ACM. https://doi.org/10.1145/3158122' chicago: 'Agrawal, Sheshansh, Krishnendu Chatterjee, and Petr Novotný. “Lexicographic Ranking Supermartingales: An Efficient Approach to Termination of Probabilistic Programs,” Vol. 2. ACM, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1145/3158122.' ieee: 'S. Agrawal, K. Chatterjee, and P. Novotný, “Lexicographic ranking supermartingales: an efficient approach to termination of probabilistic programs,” presented at the POPL: Principles of Programming Languages, Los Angeles, CA, USA, 2018, vol. 2, no. POPL.' ista: 'Agrawal S, Chatterjee K, Novotný P. 2018. Lexicographic ranking supermartingales: an efficient approach to termination of probabilistic programs. POPL: Principles of Programming Languages vol. 2, 34.' mla: 'Agrawal, Sheshansh, et al. Lexicographic Ranking Supermartingales: An Efficient Approach to Termination of Probabilistic Programs. Vol. 2, no. POPL, 34, ACM, 2018, doi:10.1145/3158122.' short: S. Agrawal, K. Chatterjee, P. Novotný, in:, ACM, 2018. conference: end_date: 2018-01-13 location: Los Angeles, CA, USA name: 'POPL: Principles of Programming Languages' start_date: 2018-01-07 date_created: 2018-12-11T11:45:50Z date_published: 2018-01-01T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2021-01-12T07:42:07Z day: '01' department: - _id: KrCh doi: 10.1145/3158122 external_id: arxiv: - '1709.04037' intvolume: ' 2' issue: POPL language: - iso: eng main_file_link: - open_access: '1' url: https://arxiv.org/abs/1709.04037 month: '01' oa: 1 oa_version: Preprint project: - _id: 25832EC2-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 call_identifier: FWF grant_number: S 11407_N23 name: Rigorous Systems Engineering publication_status: published publisher: ACM publist_id: '7540' quality_controlled: '1' status: public title: 'Lexicographic ranking supermartingales: an efficient approach to termination of probabilistic programs' type: conference user_id: 2DF688A6-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 volume: 2 year: '2018' ... --- _id: '59' abstract: - lang: eng text: Graph-based games are an important tool in computer science. They have applications in synthesis, verification, refinement, and far beyond. We review graphbased games with objectives on infinite plays. We give definitions and algorithms to solve the games and to give a winning strategy. The objectives we consider are mostly Boolean, but we also look at quantitative graph-based games and their objectives. Synthesis aims to turn temporal logic specifications into correct reactive systems. We explain the reduction of synthesis to graph-based games (or equivalently tree automata) using synthesis of LTL specifications as an example. We treat the classical approach that uses determinization of parity automata and more modern approaches. author: - first_name: Roderick full_name: Bloem, Roderick last_name: Bloem - first_name: Krishnendu full_name: Chatterjee, Krishnendu id: 2E5DCA20-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Chatterjee orcid: 0000-0002-4561-241X - first_name: Barbara full_name: Jobstmann, Barbara last_name: Jobstmann citation: ama: 'Bloem R, Chatterjee K, Jobstmann B. Graph games and reactive synthesis. In: Henzinger TA, Clarke EM, Veith H, Bloem R, eds. Handbook of Model Checking. 1st ed. Springer; 2018:921-962. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-10575-8_27' apa: Bloem, R., Chatterjee, K., & Jobstmann, B. (2018). Graph games and reactive synthesis. In T. A. Henzinger, E. M. Clarke, H. Veith, & R. Bloem (Eds.), Handbook of Model Checking (1st ed., pp. 921–962). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-10575-8_27 chicago: Bloem, Roderick, Krishnendu Chatterjee, and Barbara Jobstmann. “Graph Games and Reactive Synthesis.” In Handbook of Model Checking, edited by Thomas A Henzinger, Edmund M. Clarke, Helmut Veith, and Roderick Bloem, 1st ed., 921–62. Springer, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-10575-8_27. ieee: R. Bloem, K. Chatterjee, and B. Jobstmann, “Graph games and reactive synthesis,” in Handbook of Model Checking, 1st ed., T. A. Henzinger, E. M. Clarke, H. Veith, and R. Bloem, Eds. Springer, 2018, pp. 921–962. ista: 'Bloem R, Chatterjee K, Jobstmann B. 2018.Graph games and reactive synthesis. In: Handbook of Model Checking. , 921–962.' mla: Bloem, Roderick, et al. “Graph Games and Reactive Synthesis.” Handbook of Model Checking, edited by Thomas A Henzinger et al., 1st ed., Springer, 2018, pp. 921–62, doi:10.1007/978-3-319-10575-8_27. short: R. Bloem, K. Chatterjee, B. Jobstmann, in:, T.A. Henzinger, E.M. Clarke, H. Veith, R. Bloem (Eds.), Handbook of Model Checking, 1st ed., Springer, 2018, pp. 921–962. date_created: 2018-12-11T11:44:24Z date_published: 2018-05-19T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2021-01-12T08:05:10Z day: '19' department: - _id: KrCh doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-10575-8_27 edition: '1' editor: - first_name: Thomas A full_name: Henzinger, Thomas A id: 40876CD8-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Henzinger orcid: 0000−0002−2985−7724 - first_name: Edmund M. full_name: Clarke, Edmund M. last_name: Clarke - first_name: Helmut full_name: Veith, Helmut last_name: Veith - first_name: Roderick full_name: Bloem, Roderick last_name: Bloem language: - iso: eng month: '05' oa_version: None page: 921 - 962 publication: Handbook of Model Checking publication_identifier: isbn: - 978-3-319-10574-1 publication_status: published publisher: Springer publist_id: '7995' quality_controlled: '1' scopus_import: 1 status: public title: Graph games and reactive synthesis type: book_chapter user_id: 2DF688A6-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 year: '2018' ... --- _id: '86' abstract: - lang: eng text: Responsiveness—the requirement that every request to a system be eventually handled—is one of the fundamental liveness properties of a reactive system. Average response time is a quantitative measure for the responsiveness requirement used commonly in performance evaluation. We show how average response time can be computed on state-transition graphs, on Markov chains, and on game graphs. In all three cases, we give polynomial-time algorithms. acknowledgement: 'This research was supported in part by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) under grants S11402-N23, S11407-N23 (RiSE/SHiNE) and Z211-N23 (Wittgenstein Award), ERC Start grant (279307: Graph Games), Vienna Science and Technology Fund (WWTF) through project ICT15-003 and by the National Science Centre (NCN), Poland under grant 2014/15/D/ST6/04543.' alternative_title: - LNCS author: - first_name: Krishnendu full_name: Chatterjee, Krishnendu id: 2E5DCA20-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Chatterjee orcid: 0000-0002-4561-241X - first_name: Thomas A full_name: Henzinger, Thomas A id: 40876CD8-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Henzinger orcid: 0000−0002−2985−7724 - first_name: Jan full_name: Otop, Jan id: 2FC5DA74-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Otop citation: ama: 'Chatterjee K, Henzinger TA, Otop J. Computing average response time. In: Lohstroh M, Derler P, Sirjani M, eds. Principles of Modeling. Vol 10760. Springer; 2018:143-161. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-95246-8_9' apa: Chatterjee, K., Henzinger, T. A., & Otop, J. (2018). Computing average response time. In M. Lohstroh, P. Derler, & M. Sirjani (Eds.), Principles of Modeling (Vol. 10760, pp. 143–161). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-95246-8_9 chicago: Chatterjee, Krishnendu, Thomas A Henzinger, and Jan Otop. “Computing Average Response Time.” In Principles of Modeling, edited by Marten Lohstroh, Patricia Derler, and Marjan Sirjani, 10760:143–61. Springer, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-95246-8_9. ieee: K. Chatterjee, T. A. Henzinger, and J. Otop, “Computing average response time,” in Principles of Modeling, vol. 10760, M. Lohstroh, P. Derler, and M. Sirjani, Eds. Springer, 2018, pp. 143–161. ista: 'Chatterjee K, Henzinger TA, Otop J. 2018.Computing average response time. In: Principles of Modeling. LNCS, vol. 10760, 143–161.' mla: Chatterjee, Krishnendu, et al. “Computing Average Response Time.” Principles of Modeling, edited by Marten Lohstroh et al., vol. 10760, Springer, 2018, pp. 143–61, doi:10.1007/978-3-319-95246-8_9. short: K. Chatterjee, T.A. Henzinger, J. Otop, in:, M. Lohstroh, P. Derler, M. Sirjani (Eds.), Principles of Modeling, Springer, 2018, pp. 143–161. date_created: 2018-12-11T11:44:33Z date_published: 2018-07-20T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2021-01-12T08:20:14Z day: '20' ddc: - '000' department: - _id: KrCh - _id: ToHe doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-95246-8_9 ec_funded: 1 editor: - first_name: Marten full_name: Lohstroh, Marten last_name: Lohstroh - first_name: Patricia full_name: Derler, Patricia last_name: Derler - first_name: Marjan full_name: Sirjani, Marjan last_name: Sirjani file: - access_level: open_access checksum: 9995c6ce6957333baf616fc4f20be597 content_type: application/pdf creator: dernst date_created: 2019-11-19T08:22:18Z date_updated: 2020-07-14T12:48:14Z file_id: '7053' file_name: 2018_PrinciplesModeling_Chatterjee.pdf file_size: 516307 relation: main_file file_date_updated: 2020-07-14T12:48:14Z has_accepted_license: '1' intvolume: ' 10760' language: - iso: eng month: '07' oa: 1 oa_version: Submitted Version page: 143 - 161 project: - _id: 25832EC2-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 call_identifier: FWF grant_number: S 11407_N23 name: Rigorous Systems Engineering - _id: 25863FF4-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 call_identifier: FWF grant_number: S11407 name: Game Theory - _id: 25F42A32-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 call_identifier: FWF grant_number: Z211 name: The Wittgenstein Prize - _id: 2581B60A-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 call_identifier: FP7 grant_number: '279307' name: 'Quantitative Graph Games: Theory and Applications' - _id: 25892FC0-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 grant_number: ICT15-003 name: Efficient Algorithms for Computer Aided Verification publication: Principles of Modeling publication_status: published publisher: Springer publist_id: '7968' quality_controlled: '1' scopus_import: 1 status: public title: Computing average response time type: book_chapter user_id: 2DF688A6-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 volume: 10760 year: '2018' ... --- _id: '454' abstract: - lang: eng text: Direct reciprocity is a mechanism for cooperation among humans. Many of our daily interactions are repeated. We interact repeatedly with our family, friends, colleagues, members of the local and even global community. In the theory of repeated games, it is a tacit assumption that the various games that a person plays simultaneously have no effect on each other. Here we introduce a general framework that allows us to analyze “crosstalk” between a player’s concurrent games. In the presence of crosstalk, the action a person experiences in one game can alter the person’s decision in another. We find that crosstalk impedes the maintenance of cooperation and requires stronger levels of forgiveness. The magnitude of the effect depends on the population structure. In more densely connected social groups, crosstalk has a stronger effect. A harsh retaliator, such as Tit-for-Tat, is unable to counteract crosstalk. The crosstalk framework provides a unified interpretation of direct and upstream reciprocity in the context of repeated games. acknowledgement: "This work was supported by the European Research Council (ERC) start grant 279307: Graph Games (C.K.), Austrian Science Fund (FWF) grant no P23499-N23 (C.K.), FWF\r\nNFN grant no S11407-N23 RiSE/SHiNE (C.K.), Office of Naval Research grant N00014-16-1-2914 (M.A.N.), National Cancer Institute grant CA179991 (M.A.N.) and by the John Templeton Foundation. J.G.R. is supported by an Erwin Schrödinger fellowship\r\n(Austrian Science Fund FWF J-3996). C.H. acknowledges generous support from the\r\nISTFELLOW program. The Program for Evolutionary Dynamics is supported in part by\r\na gift from B Wu and Eric Larson." article_number: '555' article_processing_charge: No author: - first_name: Johannes full_name: Reiter, Johannes id: 4A918E98-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Reiter orcid: 0000-0002-0170-7353 - first_name: Christian full_name: Hilbe, Christian id: 2FDF8F3C-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Hilbe orcid: 0000-0001-5116-955X - first_name: David full_name: Rand, David last_name: Rand - first_name: Krishnendu full_name: Chatterjee, Krishnendu id: 2E5DCA20-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Chatterjee orcid: 0000-0002-4561-241X - first_name: Martin full_name: Nowak, Martin last_name: Nowak citation: ama: Reiter J, Hilbe C, Rand D, Chatterjee K, Nowak M. Crosstalk in concurrent repeated games impedes direct reciprocity and requires stronger levels of forgiveness. Nature Communications. 2018;9(1). doi:10.1038/s41467-017-02721-8 apa: Reiter, J., Hilbe, C., Rand, D., Chatterjee, K., & Nowak, M. (2018). Crosstalk in concurrent repeated games impedes direct reciprocity and requires stronger levels of forgiveness. Nature Communications. Nature Publishing Group. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-02721-8 chicago: Reiter, Johannes, Christian Hilbe, David Rand, Krishnendu Chatterjee, and Martin Nowak. “Crosstalk in Concurrent Repeated Games Impedes Direct Reciprocity and Requires Stronger Levels of Forgiveness.” Nature Communications. Nature Publishing Group, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-02721-8. ieee: J. Reiter, C. Hilbe, D. Rand, K. Chatterjee, and M. Nowak, “Crosstalk in concurrent repeated games impedes direct reciprocity and requires stronger levels of forgiveness,” Nature Communications, vol. 9, no. 1. Nature Publishing Group, 2018. ista: Reiter J, Hilbe C, Rand D, Chatterjee K, Nowak M. 2018. Crosstalk in concurrent repeated games impedes direct reciprocity and requires stronger levels of forgiveness. Nature Communications. 9(1), 555. mla: Reiter, Johannes, et al. “Crosstalk in Concurrent Repeated Games Impedes Direct Reciprocity and Requires Stronger Levels of Forgiveness.” Nature Communications, vol. 9, no. 1, 555, Nature Publishing Group, 2018, doi:10.1038/s41467-017-02721-8. short: J. Reiter, C. Hilbe, D. Rand, K. Chatterjee, M. Nowak, Nature Communications 9 (2018). date_created: 2018-12-11T11:46:34Z date_published: 2018-02-07T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2023-09-11T12:51:03Z day: '07' ddc: - '004' department: - _id: KrCh doi: 10.1038/s41467-017-02721-8 ec_funded: 1 external_id: isi: - '000424318200001' file: - access_level: open_access checksum: b6b90367545b4c615891c960ab0567f1 content_type: application/pdf creator: system date_created: 2018-12-12T10:09:18Z date_updated: 2020-07-14T12:46:31Z file_id: '4741' file_name: IST-2018-964-v1+1_2018_Hilbe_Crosstalk_in.pdf file_size: 843646 relation: main_file file_date_updated: 2020-07-14T12:46:31Z has_accepted_license: '1' intvolume: ' 9' isi: 1 issue: '1' language: - iso: eng month: '02' oa: 1 oa_version: Published Version project: - _id: 2581B60A-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 call_identifier: FP7 grant_number: '279307' name: 'Quantitative Graph Games: Theory and Applications' - _id: 2584A770-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 call_identifier: FWF grant_number: P 23499-N23 name: Modern Graph Algorithmic Techniques in Formal Verification - _id: 25863FF4-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 call_identifier: FWF grant_number: S11407 name: Game Theory - _id: 25681D80-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 call_identifier: FP7 grant_number: '291734' name: International IST Postdoc Fellowship Programme publication: Nature Communications publication_status: published publisher: Nature Publishing Group publist_id: '7368' pubrep_id: '964' quality_controlled: '1' scopus_import: '1' status: public title: Crosstalk in concurrent repeated games impedes direct reciprocity and requires stronger levels of forgiveness tmp: image: /images/cc_by.png legal_code_url: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode name: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC-BY 4.0) short: CC BY (4.0) type: journal_article user_id: c635000d-4b10-11ee-a964-aac5a93f6ac1 volume: 9 year: '2018' ... --- _id: '143' abstract: - lang: eng text: 'Vector Addition Systems with States (VASS) provide a well-known and fundamental model for the analysis of concurrent processes, parameterized systems, and are also used as abstract models of programs in resource bound analysis. In this paper we study the problem of obtaining asymptotic bounds on the termination time of a given VASS. In particular, we focus on the practically important case of obtaining polynomial bounds on termination time. Our main contributions are as follows: First, we present a polynomial-time algorithm for deciding whether a given VASS has a linear asymptotic complexity. We also show that if the complexity of a VASS is not linear, it is at least quadratic. Second, we classify VASS according to quantitative properties of their cycles. We show that certain singularities in these properties are the key reason for non-polynomial asymptotic complexity of VASS. In absence of singularities, we show that the asymptotic complexity is always polynomial and of the form Θ(nk), for some integer k d, where d is the dimension of the VASS. We present a polynomial-time algorithm computing the optimal k. For general VASS, the same algorithm, which is based on a complete technique for the construction of ranking functions in VASS, produces a valid lower bound, i.e., a k such that the termination complexity is (nk). Our results are based on new insights into the geometry of VASS dynamics, which hold the potential for further applicability to VASS analysis.' alternative_title: - ACM/IEEE Symposium on Logic in Computer Science article_processing_charge: No author: - first_name: Tomáš full_name: Brázdil, Tomáš last_name: Brázdil - first_name: Krishnendu full_name: Chatterjee, Krishnendu id: 2E5DCA20-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Chatterjee orcid: 0000-0002-4561-241X - first_name: Antonín full_name: Kučera, Antonín last_name: Kučera - first_name: Petr full_name: Novotny, Petr id: 3CC3B868-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Novotny - first_name: Dominik full_name: Velan, Dominik last_name: Velan - first_name: Florian full_name: Zuleger, Florian last_name: Zuleger citation: ama: 'Brázdil T, Chatterjee K, Kučera A, Novotný P, Velan D, Zuleger F. Efficient algorithms for asymptotic bounds on termination time in VASS. In: Vol F138033. IEEE; 2018:185-194. doi:10.1145/3209108.3209191' apa: 'Brázdil, T., Chatterjee, K., Kučera, A., Novotný, P., Velan, D., & Zuleger, F. (2018). Efficient algorithms for asymptotic bounds on termination time in VASS (Vol. F138033, pp. 185–194). Presented at the LICS: Logic in Computer Science, Oxford, United Kingdom: IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1145/3209108.3209191' chicago: Brázdil, Tomáš, Krishnendu Chatterjee, Antonín Kučera, Petr Novotný, Dominik Velan, and Florian Zuleger. “Efficient Algorithms for Asymptotic Bounds on Termination Time in VASS,” F138033:185–94. IEEE, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1145/3209108.3209191. ieee: 'T. Brázdil, K. Chatterjee, A. Kučera, P. Novotný, D. Velan, and F. Zuleger, “Efficient algorithms for asymptotic bounds on termination time in VASS,” presented at the LICS: Logic in Computer Science, Oxford, United Kingdom, 2018, vol. F138033, pp. 185–194.' ista: 'Brázdil T, Chatterjee K, Kučera A, Novotný P, Velan D, Zuleger F. 2018. Efficient algorithms for asymptotic bounds on termination time in VASS. LICS: Logic in Computer Science, ACM/IEEE Symposium on Logic in Computer Science, vol. F138033, 185–194.' mla: Brázdil, Tomáš, et al. Efficient Algorithms for Asymptotic Bounds on Termination Time in VASS. Vol. F138033, IEEE, 2018, pp. 185–94, doi:10.1145/3209108.3209191. short: T. Brázdil, K. Chatterjee, A. Kučera, P. Novotný, D. Velan, F. Zuleger, in:, IEEE, 2018, pp. 185–194. conference: end_date: 2018-07-12 location: Oxford, United Kingdom name: 'LICS: Logic in Computer Science' start_date: 2018-07-09 date_created: 2018-12-11T11:44:51Z date_published: 2018-07-09T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2023-09-11T13:23:42Z day: '09' department: - _id: KrCh doi: 10.1145/3209108.3209191 ec_funded: 1 external_id: isi: - '000545262800020' isi: 1 language: - iso: eng main_file_link: - open_access: '1' url: https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.10985 month: '07' oa: 1 oa_version: Preprint page: 185 - 194 project: - _id: 25892FC0-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 grant_number: ICT15-003 name: Efficient Algorithms for Computer Aided Verification - _id: 2581B60A-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 call_identifier: FP7 grant_number: '279307' name: 'Quantitative Graph Games: Theory and Applications' - _id: 25832EC2-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 call_identifier: FWF grant_number: S 11407_N23 name: Rigorous Systems Engineering publication_identifier: isbn: - 978-1-4503-5583-4 publication_status: published publisher: IEEE publist_id: '7780' quality_controlled: '1' scopus_import: '1' status: public title: Efficient algorithms for asymptotic bounds on termination time in VASS type: conference user_id: c635000d-4b10-11ee-a964-aac5a93f6ac1 volume: F138033 year: '2018' ... --- _id: '157' abstract: - lang: eng text: 'Social dilemmas occur when incentives for individuals are misaligned with group interests 1-7 . According to the ''tragedy of the commons'', these misalignments can lead to overexploitation and collapse of public resources. The resulting behaviours can be analysed with the tools of game theory 8 . The theory of direct reciprocity 9-15 suggests that repeated interactions can alleviate such dilemmas, but previous work has assumed that the public resource remains constant over time. Here we introduce the idea that the public resource is instead changeable and depends on the strategic choices of individuals. An intuitive scenario is that cooperation increases the public resource, whereas defection decreases it. Thus, cooperation allows the possibility of playing a more valuable game with higher payoffs, whereas defection leads to a less valuable game. We analyse this idea using the theory of stochastic games 16-19 and evolutionary game theory. We find that the dependence of the public resource on previous interactions can greatly enhance the propensity for cooperation. For these results, the interaction between reciprocity and payoff feedback is crucial: neither repeated interactions in a constant environment nor single interactions in a changing environment yield similar cooperation rates. Our framework shows which feedbacks between exploitation and environment - either naturally occurring or designed - help to overcome social dilemmas.' acknowledgement: "European Research Council Start Grant 279307, Austrian Science Fund (FWF) grant P23499-N23, \r\nC.H. acknowledges support from the ISTFELLOW programme." article_processing_charge: No author: - first_name: Christian full_name: Hilbe, Christian id: 2FDF8F3C-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Hilbe orcid: 0000-0001-5116-955X - first_name: Štepán full_name: Šimsa, Štepán last_name: Šimsa - first_name: Krishnendu full_name: Chatterjee, Krishnendu id: 2E5DCA20-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Chatterjee orcid: 0000-0002-4561-241X - first_name: Martin full_name: Nowak, Martin last_name: Nowak citation: ama: Hilbe C, Šimsa Š, Chatterjee K, Nowak M. Evolution of cooperation in stochastic games. Nature. 2018;559(7713):246-249. doi:10.1038/s41586-018-0277-x apa: Hilbe, C., Šimsa, Š., Chatterjee, K., & Nowak, M. (2018). Evolution of cooperation in stochastic games. Nature. Nature Publishing Group. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-018-0277-x chicago: Hilbe, Christian, Štepán Šimsa, Krishnendu Chatterjee, and Martin Nowak. “Evolution of Cooperation in Stochastic Games.” Nature. Nature Publishing Group, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-018-0277-x. ieee: C. Hilbe, Š. Šimsa, K. Chatterjee, and M. Nowak, “Evolution of cooperation in stochastic games,” Nature, vol. 559, no. 7713. Nature Publishing Group, pp. 246–249, 2018. ista: Hilbe C, Šimsa Š, Chatterjee K, Nowak M. 2018. Evolution of cooperation in stochastic games. Nature. 559(7713), 246–249. mla: Hilbe, Christian, et al. “Evolution of Cooperation in Stochastic Games.” Nature, vol. 559, no. 7713, Nature Publishing Group, 2018, pp. 246–49, doi:10.1038/s41586-018-0277-x. short: C. Hilbe, Š. Šimsa, K. Chatterjee, M. Nowak, Nature 559 (2018) 246–249. date_created: 2018-12-11T11:44:56Z date_published: 2018-07-04T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2023-09-11T13:43:22Z day: '04' ddc: - '000' department: - _id: KrCh doi: 10.1038/s41586-018-0277-x ec_funded: 1 external_id: isi: - '000438240900054' file: - access_level: open_access checksum: 011ab905cf9a410bc2b96f15174d654d content_type: application/pdf creator: dernst date_created: 2019-11-19T08:09:57Z date_updated: 2020-07-14T12:45:02Z file_id: '7049' file_name: 2018_Nature_Hilbe.pdf file_size: 2834442 relation: main_file file_date_updated: 2020-07-14T12:45:02Z has_accepted_license: '1' intvolume: ' 559' isi: 1 issue: '7713' language: - iso: eng month: '07' oa: 1 oa_version: Submitted Version page: 246 - 249 project: - _id: 25863FF4-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 call_identifier: FWF grant_number: S11407 name: Game Theory - _id: 2581B60A-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 call_identifier: FP7 grant_number: '279307' name: 'Quantitative Graph Games: Theory and Applications' - _id: 2584A770-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 call_identifier: FWF grant_number: P 23499-N23 name: Modern Graph Algorithmic Techniques in Formal Verification - _id: 25832EC2-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 call_identifier: FWF grant_number: S 11407_N23 name: Rigorous Systems Engineering - _id: 25681D80-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 call_identifier: FP7 grant_number: '291734' name: International IST Postdoc Fellowship Programme publication: Nature publication_status: published publisher: Nature Publishing Group publist_id: '7764' quality_controlled: '1' related_material: link: - description: News on IST Homepage relation: press_release url: https://ist.ac.at/en/news/engineering-cooperation/ scopus_import: '1' status: public title: Evolution of cooperation in stochastic games type: journal_article user_id: c635000d-4b10-11ee-a964-aac5a93f6ac1 volume: 559 year: '2018' ... --- _id: '310' abstract: - lang: eng text: A model of computation that is widely used in the formal analysis of reactive systems is symbolic algorithms. In this model the access to the input graph is restricted to consist of symbolic operations, which are expensive in comparison to the standard RAM operations. We give lower bounds on the number of symbolic operations for basic graph problems such as the computation of the strongly connected components and of the approximate diameter as well as for fundamental problems in model checking such as safety, liveness, and coliveness. Our lower bounds are linear in the number of vertices of the graph, even for constant-diameter graphs. For none of these problems lower bounds on the number of symbolic operations were known before. The lower bounds show an interesting separation of these problems from the reachability problem, which can be solved with O(D) symbolic operations, where D is the diameter of the graph. Additionally we present an approximation algorithm for the graph diameter which requires Õ(n/D) symbolic steps to achieve a (1 +ϵ)-approximation for any constant > 0. This compares to O(n/D) symbolic steps for the (naive) exact algorithm and O(D) symbolic steps for a 2-approximation. Finally we also give a refined analysis of the strongly connected components algorithms of [15], showing that it uses an optimal number of symbolic steps that is proportional to the sum of the diameters of the strongly connected components. article_processing_charge: No author: - first_name: Krishnendu full_name: Chatterjee, Krishnendu id: 2E5DCA20-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Chatterjee orcid: 0000-0002-4561-241X - first_name: Wolfgang full_name: Dvorák, Wolfgang last_name: Dvorák - first_name: Monika H full_name: Henzinger, Monika H id: 540c9bbd-f2de-11ec-812d-d04a5be85630 last_name: Henzinger orcid: 0000-0002-5008-6530 - first_name: Veronika full_name: Loitzenbauer, Veronika last_name: Loitzenbauer citation: ama: 'Chatterjee K, Dvorák W, Henzinger MH, Loitzenbauer V. Lower bounds for symbolic computation on graphs: Strongly connected components, liveness, safety, and diameter. In: ACM; 2018:2341-2356. doi:10.1137/1.9781611975031.151' apa: 'Chatterjee, K., Dvorák, W., Henzinger, M. H., & Loitzenbauer, V. (2018). Lower bounds for symbolic computation on graphs: Strongly connected components, liveness, safety, and diameter (pp. 2341–2356). Presented at the SODA: Symposium on Discrete Algorithms, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States: ACM. https://doi.org/10.1137/1.9781611975031.151' chicago: 'Chatterjee, Krishnendu, Wolfgang Dvorák, Monika H Henzinger, and Veronika Loitzenbauer. “Lower Bounds for Symbolic Computation on Graphs: Strongly Connected Components, Liveness, Safety, and Diameter,” 2341–56. ACM, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1137/1.9781611975031.151.' ieee: 'K. Chatterjee, W. Dvorák, M. H. Henzinger, and V. Loitzenbauer, “Lower bounds for symbolic computation on graphs: Strongly connected components, liveness, safety, and diameter,” presented at the SODA: Symposium on Discrete Algorithms, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States, 2018, pp. 2341–2356.' ista: 'Chatterjee K, Dvorák W, Henzinger MH, Loitzenbauer V. 2018. Lower bounds for symbolic computation on graphs: Strongly connected components, liveness, safety, and diameter. SODA: Symposium on Discrete Algorithms, 2341–2356.' mla: 'Chatterjee, Krishnendu, et al. Lower Bounds for Symbolic Computation on Graphs: Strongly Connected Components, Liveness, Safety, and Diameter. ACM, 2018, pp. 2341–56, doi:10.1137/1.9781611975031.151.' short: K. Chatterjee, W. Dvorák, M.H. Henzinger, V. Loitzenbauer, in:, ACM, 2018, pp. 2341–2356. conference: end_date: 2018-01-10 location: New Orleans, Louisiana, United States name: 'SODA: Symposium on Discrete Algorithms' start_date: 2018-01-07 date_created: 2018-12-11T11:45:45Z date_published: 2018-01-01T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2023-09-13T08:50:16Z day: '01' department: - _id: KrCh doi: 10.1137/1.9781611975031.151 ec_funded: 1 external_id: arxiv: - '1711.09148' isi: - '000483921200152' isi: 1 language: - iso: eng main_file_link: - open_access: '1' url: https://arxiv.org/abs/1711.09148 month: '01' oa: 1 oa_version: Preprint page: 2341 - 2356 project: - _id: 25832EC2-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 call_identifier: FWF grant_number: S 11407_N23 name: Rigorous Systems Engineering - _id: 2581B60A-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 call_identifier: FP7 grant_number: '279307' name: 'Quantitative Graph Games: Theory and Applications' - _id: 25892FC0-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 grant_number: ICT15-003 name: Efficient Algorithms for Computer Aided Verification publication_status: published publisher: ACM publist_id: '7555' quality_controlled: '1' scopus_import: '1' status: public title: 'Lower bounds for symbolic computation on graphs: Strongly connected components, liveness, safety, and diameter' type: conference user_id: c635000d-4b10-11ee-a964-aac5a93f6ac1 year: '2018' ... --- _id: '5679' abstract: - lang: eng text: We study the almost-sure termination problem for probabilistic programs. First, we show that supermartingales with lower bounds on conditional absolute difference provide a sound approach for the almost-sure termination problem. Moreover, using this approach we can obtain explicit optimal bounds on tail probabilities of non-termination within a given number of steps. Second, we present a new approach based on Central Limit Theorem for the almost-sure termination problem, and show that this approach can establish almost-sure termination of programs which none of the existing approaches can handle. Finally, we discuss algorithmic approaches for the two above methods that lead to automated analysis techniques for almost-sure termination of probabilistic programs. alternative_title: - LNCS article_processing_charge: No author: - first_name: Mingzhang full_name: Huang, Mingzhang last_name: Huang - first_name: Hongfei full_name: Fu, Hongfei last_name: Fu - first_name: Krishnendu full_name: Chatterjee, Krishnendu id: 2E5DCA20-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Chatterjee orcid: 0000-0002-4561-241X citation: ama: 'Huang M, Fu H, Chatterjee K. New approaches for almost-sure termination of probabilistic programs. In: Ryu S, ed. Vol 11275. Springer; 2018:181-201. doi:10.1007/978-3-030-02768-1_11' apa: 'Huang, M., Fu, H., & Chatterjee, K. (2018). New approaches for almost-sure termination of probabilistic programs. In S. Ryu (Ed.) (Vol. 11275, pp. 181–201). Presented at the 16th Asian Symposium on Programming Languages and Systems, APLAS, Wellington, New Zealand: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-02768-1_11' chicago: Huang, Mingzhang, Hongfei Fu, and Krishnendu Chatterjee. “New Approaches for Almost-Sure Termination of Probabilistic Programs.” edited by Sukyoung Ryu, 11275:181–201. Springer, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-02768-1_11. ieee: M. Huang, H. Fu, and K. Chatterjee, “New approaches for almost-sure termination of probabilistic programs,” presented at the 16th Asian Symposium on Programming Languages and Systems, APLAS, Wellington, New Zealand, 2018, vol. 11275, pp. 181–201. ista: Huang M, Fu H, Chatterjee K. 2018. New approaches for almost-sure termination of probabilistic programs. 16th Asian Symposium on Programming Languages and Systems, APLAS, LNCS, vol. 11275, 181–201. mla: Huang, Mingzhang, et al. New Approaches for Almost-Sure Termination of Probabilistic Programs. Edited by Sukyoung Ryu, vol. 11275, Springer, 2018, pp. 181–201, doi:10.1007/978-3-030-02768-1_11. short: M. Huang, H. Fu, K. Chatterjee, in:, S. Ryu (Ed.), Springer, 2018, pp. 181–201. conference: end_date: 2018-12-06 location: Wellington, New Zealand name: 16th Asian Symposium on Programming Languages and Systems, APLAS start_date: 2018-12-02 date_created: 2018-12-16T22:59:20Z date_published: 2018-12-01T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2023-09-13T09:02:22Z day: '01' department: - _id: KrCh doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-02768-1_11 editor: - first_name: Sukyoung full_name: Ryu, Sukyoung last_name: Ryu external_id: arxiv: - '1806.06683' isi: - '000916310900011' intvolume: ' 11275' isi: 1 language: - iso: eng main_file_link: - open_access: '1' url: http://arxiv.org/abs/1806.06683 month: '12' oa: 1 oa_version: Preprint page: 181-201 project: - _id: 25832EC2-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 call_identifier: FWF grant_number: S 11407_N23 name: Rigorous Systems Engineering - _id: 25892FC0-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 grant_number: ICT15-003 name: Efficient Algorithms for Computer Aided Verification publication_identifier: isbn: - '9783030027674' issn: - '03029743' publisher: Springer quality_controlled: '1' scopus_import: '1' status: public title: New approaches for almost-sure termination of probabilistic programs type: conference user_id: c635000d-4b10-11ee-a964-aac5a93f6ac1 volume: 11275 year: '2018' ... --- _id: '419' abstract: - lang: eng text: 'Reciprocity is a major factor in human social life and accounts for a large part of cooperation in our communities. Direct reciprocity arises when repeated interactions occur between the same individuals. The framework of iterated games formalizes this phenomenon. Despite being introduced more than five decades ago, the concept keeps offering beautiful surprises. Recent theoretical research driven by new mathematical tools has proposed a remarkable dichotomy among the crucial strategies: successful individuals either act as partners or as rivals. Rivals strive for unilateral advantages by applying selfish or extortionate strategies. Partners aim to share the payoff for mutual cooperation, but are ready to fight back when being exploited. Which of these behaviours evolves depends on the environment. Whereas small population sizes and a limited number of rounds favour rivalry, partner strategies are selected when populations are large and relationships stable. Only partners allow for evolution of cooperation, while the rivals’ attempt to put themselves first leads to defection. Hilbe et al. synthesize recent theoretical work on zero-determinant and ‘rival’ versus ‘partner’ strategies in social dilemmas. They describe the environments under which these contrasting selfish or cooperative strategies emerge in evolution.' article_processing_charge: No article_type: review author: - first_name: Christian full_name: Hilbe, Christian id: 2FDF8F3C-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Hilbe orcid: 0000-0001-5116-955X - first_name: Krishnendu full_name: Chatterjee, Krishnendu id: 2E5DCA20-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Chatterjee orcid: 0000-0002-4561-241X - first_name: Martin full_name: Nowak, Martin last_name: Nowak citation: ama: Hilbe C, Chatterjee K, Nowak M. Partners and rivals in direct reciprocity. Nature Human Behaviour. 2018;2:469–477. doi:10.1038/s41562-018-0320-9 apa: Hilbe, C., Chatterjee, K., & Nowak, M. (2018). Partners and rivals in direct reciprocity. Nature Human Behaviour. Nature Publishing Group. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-018-0320-9 chicago: Hilbe, Christian, Krishnendu Chatterjee, and Martin Nowak. “Partners and Rivals in Direct Reciprocity.” Nature Human Behaviour. Nature Publishing Group, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-018-0320-9. ieee: C. Hilbe, K. Chatterjee, and M. Nowak, “Partners and rivals in direct reciprocity,” Nature Human Behaviour, vol. 2. Nature Publishing Group, pp. 469–477, 2018. ista: Hilbe C, Chatterjee K, Nowak M. 2018. Partners and rivals in direct reciprocity. Nature Human Behaviour. 2, 469–477. mla: Hilbe, Christian, et al. “Partners and Rivals in Direct Reciprocity.” Nature Human Behaviour, vol. 2, Nature Publishing Group, 2018, pp. 469–477, doi:10.1038/s41562-018-0320-9. short: C. Hilbe, K. Chatterjee, M. Nowak, Nature Human Behaviour 2 (2018) 469–477. date_created: 2018-12-11T11:46:22Z date_published: 2018-03-19T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2023-09-13T09:38:54Z day: '19' ddc: - '000' department: - _id: KrCh doi: 10.1038/s41562-018-0320-9 ec_funded: 1 external_id: isi: - '000446612000016' file: - access_level: open_access checksum: 571b8cc0ba14e8d5d8b18e439a9835eb content_type: application/pdf creator: dernst date_created: 2019-11-19T08:19:51Z date_updated: 2020-07-14T12:46:25Z file_id: '7052' file_name: 2018_NatureHumanBeh_Hilbe.pdf file_size: 598033 relation: main_file file_date_updated: 2020-07-14T12:46:25Z has_accepted_license: '1' intvolume: ' 2' isi: 1 language: - iso: eng month: '03' oa: 1 oa_version: Submitted Version page: 469–477 project: - _id: 2581B60A-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 call_identifier: FP7 grant_number: '279307' name: 'Quantitative Graph Games: Theory and Applications' - _id: 2584A770-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 call_identifier: FWF grant_number: P 23499-N23 name: Modern Graph Algorithmic Techniques in Formal Verification - _id: 25832EC2-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 call_identifier: FWF grant_number: S 11407_N23 name: Rigorous Systems Engineering - _id: 25681D80-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 call_identifier: FP7 grant_number: '291734' name: International IST Postdoc Fellowship Programme publication: Nature Human Behaviour publication_status: published publisher: Nature Publishing Group publist_id: '7404' quality_controlled: '1' related_material: link: - relation: erratum url: http://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-018-0342-3 scopus_import: '1' status: public title: Partners and rivals in direct reciprocity type: journal_article user_id: c635000d-4b10-11ee-a964-aac5a93f6ac1 volume: 2 year: '2018' ... --- _id: '79' abstract: - lang: eng text: 'Markov Decision Processes (MDPs) are a popular class of models suitable for solving control decision problems in probabilistic reactive systems. We consider parametric MDPs (pMDPs) that include parameters in some of the transition probabilities to account for stochastic uncertainties of the environment such as noise or input disturbances. We study pMDPs with reachability objectives where the parameter values are unknown and impossible to measure directly during execution, but there is a probability distribution known over the parameter values. We study for the first time computing parameter-independent strategies that are expectation optimal, i.e., optimize the expected reachability probability under the probability distribution over the parameters. We present an encoding of our problem to partially observable MDPs (POMDPs), i.e., a reduction of our problem to computing optimal strategies in POMDPs. We evaluate our method experimentally on several benchmarks: a motivating (repeated) learner model; a series of benchmarks of varying configurations of a robot moving on a grid; and a consensus protocol.' alternative_title: - LNCS article_processing_charge: No author: - first_name: Sebastian full_name: Arming, Sebastian last_name: Arming - first_name: Ezio full_name: Bartocci, Ezio last_name: Bartocci - first_name: Krishnendu full_name: Chatterjee, Krishnendu id: 2E5DCA20-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Chatterjee orcid: 0000-0002-4561-241X - first_name: Joost P full_name: Katoen, Joost P id: 4524F760-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Katoen - first_name: Ana full_name: Sokolova, Ana last_name: Sokolova citation: ama: 'Arming S, Bartocci E, Chatterjee K, Katoen JP, Sokolova A. Parameter-independent strategies for pMDPs via POMDPs. In: Vol 11024. Springer; 2018:53-70. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-99154-2_4' apa: 'Arming, S., Bartocci, E., Chatterjee, K., Katoen, J. P., & Sokolova, A. (2018). Parameter-independent strategies for pMDPs via POMDPs (Vol. 11024, pp. 53–70). Presented at the QEST: Quantitative Evaluation of Systems, Beijing, China: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-99154-2_4' chicago: Arming, Sebastian, Ezio Bartocci, Krishnendu Chatterjee, Joost P Katoen, and Ana Sokolova. “Parameter-Independent Strategies for PMDPs via POMDPs,” 11024:53–70. Springer, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-99154-2_4. ieee: 'S. Arming, E. Bartocci, K. Chatterjee, J. P. Katoen, and A. Sokolova, “Parameter-independent strategies for pMDPs via POMDPs,” presented at the QEST: Quantitative Evaluation of Systems, Beijing, China, 2018, vol. 11024, pp. 53–70.' ista: 'Arming S, Bartocci E, Chatterjee K, Katoen JP, Sokolova A. 2018. Parameter-independent strategies for pMDPs via POMDPs. QEST: Quantitative Evaluation of Systems, LNCS, vol. 11024, 53–70.' mla: Arming, Sebastian, et al. Parameter-Independent Strategies for PMDPs via POMDPs. Vol. 11024, Springer, 2018, pp. 53–70, doi:10.1007/978-3-319-99154-2_4. short: S. Arming, E. Bartocci, K. Chatterjee, J.P. Katoen, A. Sokolova, in:, Springer, 2018, pp. 53–70. conference: end_date: 2018-09-07 location: Beijing, China name: 'QEST: Quantitative Evaluation of Systems' start_date: 2018-09-04 date_created: 2018-12-11T11:44:31Z date_published: 2018-08-15T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2023-09-13T09:38:28Z day: '15' department: - _id: KrCh - _id: ToHe doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-99154-2_4 external_id: arxiv: - '1806.05126' isi: - '000548912200004' intvolume: ' 11024' isi: 1 language: - iso: eng main_file_link: - open_access: '1' url: https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.05126 month: '08' oa: 1 oa_version: Preprint page: 53-70 publication_status: published publisher: Springer publist_id: '7975' quality_controlled: '1' scopus_import: '1' status: public title: Parameter-independent strategies for pMDPs via POMDPs type: conference user_id: c635000d-4b10-11ee-a964-aac5a93f6ac1 volume: 11024 year: '2018' ... --- _id: '297' abstract: - lang: eng text: Graph games played by two players over finite-state graphs are central in many problems in computer science. In particular, graph games with ω -regular winning conditions, specified as parity objectives, which can express properties such as safety, liveness, fairness, are the basic framework for verification and synthesis of reactive systems. The decisions for a player at various states of the graph game are represented as strategies. While the algorithmic problem for solving graph games with parity objectives has been widely studied, the most prominent data-structure for strategy representation in graph games has been binary decision diagrams (BDDs). However, due to the bit-level representation, BDDs do not retain the inherent flavor of the decisions of strategies, and are notoriously hard to minimize to obtain succinct representation. In this work we propose decision trees for strategy representation in graph games. Decision trees retain the flavor of decisions of strategies and allow entropy-based minimization to obtain succinct trees. However, decision trees work in settings (e.g., probabilistic models) where errors are allowed, and overfitting of data is typically avoided. In contrast, for strategies in graph games no error is allowed, and the decision tree must represent the entire strategy. We develop new techniques to extend decision trees to overcome the above obstacles, while retaining the entropy-based techniques to obtain succinct trees. We have implemented our techniques to extend the existing decision tree solvers. We present experimental results for problems in reactive synthesis to show that decision trees provide a much more efficient data-structure for strategy representation as compared to BDDs. alternative_title: - LNCS article_processing_charge: No author: - first_name: Tomáš full_name: Brázdil, Tomáš last_name: Brázdil - first_name: Krishnendu full_name: Chatterjee, Krishnendu id: 2E5DCA20-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Chatterjee orcid: 0000-0002-4561-241X - first_name: Jan full_name: Kretinsky, Jan id: 44CEF464-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Kretinsky orcid: 0000-0002-8122-2881 - first_name: Viktor full_name: Toman, Viktor id: 3AF3DA7C-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Toman orcid: 0000-0001-9036-063X citation: ama: 'Brázdil T, Chatterjee K, Kretinsky J, Toman V. Strategy representation by decision trees in reactive synthesis. In: Vol 10805. Springer; 2018:385-407. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-89960-2_21' apa: 'Brázdil, T., Chatterjee, K., Kretinsky, J., & Toman, V. (2018). Strategy representation by decision trees in reactive synthesis (Vol. 10805, pp. 385–407). Presented at the TACAS 2018: Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems, Thessaloniki, Greece: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-89960-2_21' chicago: Brázdil, Tomáš, Krishnendu Chatterjee, Jan Kretinsky, and Viktor Toman. “Strategy Representation by Decision Trees in Reactive Synthesis,” 10805:385–407. Springer, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-89960-2_21. ieee: 'T. Brázdil, K. Chatterjee, J. Kretinsky, and V. Toman, “Strategy representation by decision trees in reactive synthesis,” presented at the TACAS 2018: Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems, Thessaloniki, Greece, 2018, vol. 10805, pp. 385–407.' ista: 'Brázdil T, Chatterjee K, Kretinsky J, Toman V. 2018. Strategy representation by decision trees in reactive synthesis. TACAS 2018: Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems, LNCS, vol. 10805, 385–407.' mla: Brázdil, Tomáš, et al. Strategy Representation by Decision Trees in Reactive Synthesis. Vol. 10805, Springer, 2018, pp. 385–407, doi:10.1007/978-3-319-89960-2_21. short: T. Brázdil, K. Chatterjee, J. Kretinsky, V. Toman, in:, Springer, 2018, pp. 385–407. conference: end_date: 2018-04-20 location: Thessaloniki, Greece name: 'TACAS 2018: Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems' start_date: 2018-04-14 date_created: 2018-12-11T11:45:41Z date_published: 2018-04-12T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2023-09-19T09:57:08Z day: '12' ddc: - '000' department: - _id: KrCh - _id: ToHe doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-89960-2_21 ec_funded: 1 external_id: isi: - '000546326300021' file: - access_level: open_access checksum: b13874ffb114932ad9cc2586b7469db4 content_type: application/pdf creator: dernst date_created: 2018-12-17T16:29:08Z date_updated: 2020-07-14T12:45:57Z file_id: '5723' file_name: 2018_LNCS_Brazdil.pdf file_size: 1829940 relation: main_file file_date_updated: 2020-07-14T12:45:57Z has_accepted_license: '1' intvolume: ' 10805' isi: 1 language: - iso: eng month: '04' oa: 1 oa_version: Published Version page: 385 - 407 project: - _id: 25892FC0-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 grant_number: ICT15-003 name: Efficient Algorithms for Computer Aided Verification - _id: 25832EC2-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 call_identifier: FWF grant_number: S 11407_N23 name: Rigorous Systems Engineering - _id: 2581B60A-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 call_identifier: FP7 grant_number: '279307' name: 'Quantitative Graph Games: Theory and Applications' - _id: 2564DBCA-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 call_identifier: H2020 grant_number: '665385' name: International IST Doctoral Program publication_status: published publisher: Springer publist_id: '7584' quality_controlled: '1' scopus_import: '1' status: public title: Strategy representation by decision trees in reactive synthesis tmp: image: /images/cc_by.png legal_code_url: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode name: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC-BY 4.0) short: CC BY (4.0) type: conference user_id: c635000d-4b10-11ee-a964-aac5a93f6ac1 volume: 10805 year: '2018' ... --- _id: '141' abstract: - lang: eng text: 'Given a model and a specification, the fundamental model-checking problem asks for algorithmic verification of whether the model satisfies the specification. We consider graphs and Markov decision processes (MDPs), which are fundamental models for reactive systems. One of the very basic specifications that arise in verification of reactive systems is the strong fairness (aka Streett) objective. Given different types of requests and corresponding grants, the objective requires that for each type, if the request event happens infinitely often, then the corresponding grant event must also happen infinitely often. All ω -regular objectives can be expressed as Streett objectives and hence they are canonical in verification. To handle the state-space explosion, symbolic algorithms are required that operate on a succinct implicit representation of the system rather than explicitly accessing the system. While explicit algorithms for graphs and MDPs with Streett objectives have been widely studied, there has been no improvement of the basic symbolic algorithms. The worst-case numbers of symbolic steps required for the basic symbolic algorithms are as follows: quadratic for graphs and cubic for MDPs. In this work we present the first sub-quadratic symbolic algorithm for graphs with Streett objectives, and our algorithm is sub-quadratic even for MDPs. Based on our algorithmic insights we present an implementation of the new symbolic approach and show that it improves the existing approach on several academic benchmark examples.' acknowledgement: 'Acknowledgements. K. C. and M. H. are partially supported by the Vienna Science and Technology Fund (WWTF) grant ICT15-003. K. C. is partially supported by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF): S11407-N23 (RiSE/SHiNE), and an ERC Start Grant (279307: Graph Games). V. T. is partially supported by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Sk lodowska-Curie Grant Agreement No. 665385.' alternative_title: - LNCS article_processing_charge: No author: - first_name: Krishnendu full_name: Chatterjee, Krishnendu id: 2E5DCA20-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Chatterjee orcid: 0000-0002-4561-241X - first_name: Monika H full_name: Henzinger, Monika H id: 540c9bbd-f2de-11ec-812d-d04a5be85630 last_name: Henzinger orcid: 0000-0002-5008-6530 - first_name: Veronika full_name: Loitzenbauer, Veronika last_name: Loitzenbauer - first_name: Simin full_name: Oraee, Simin last_name: Oraee - first_name: Viktor full_name: Toman, Viktor id: 3AF3DA7C-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Toman orcid: 0000-0001-9036-063X citation: ama: 'Chatterjee K, Henzinger MH, Loitzenbauer V, Oraee S, Toman V. Symbolic algorithms for graphs and Markov decision processes with fairness objectives. In: Vol 10982. Springer; 2018:178-197. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-96142-2_13' apa: 'Chatterjee, K., Henzinger, M. H., Loitzenbauer, V., Oraee, S., & Toman, V. (2018). Symbolic algorithms for graphs and Markov decision processes with fairness objectives (Vol. 10982, pp. 178–197). Presented at the CAV: Computer Aided Verification, Oxford, United Kingdom: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-96142-2_13' chicago: Chatterjee, Krishnendu, Monika H Henzinger, Veronika Loitzenbauer, Simin Oraee, and Viktor Toman. “Symbolic Algorithms for Graphs and Markov Decision Processes with Fairness Objectives,” 10982:178–97. Springer, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-96142-2_13. ieee: 'K. Chatterjee, M. H. Henzinger, V. Loitzenbauer, S. Oraee, and V. Toman, “Symbolic algorithms for graphs and Markov decision processes with fairness objectives,” presented at the CAV: Computer Aided Verification, Oxford, United Kingdom, 2018, vol. 10982, pp. 178–197.' ista: 'Chatterjee K, Henzinger MH, Loitzenbauer V, Oraee S, Toman V. 2018. Symbolic algorithms for graphs and Markov decision processes with fairness objectives. CAV: Computer Aided Verification, LNCS, vol. 10982, 178–197.' mla: Chatterjee, Krishnendu, et al. Symbolic Algorithms for Graphs and Markov Decision Processes with Fairness Objectives. Vol. 10982, Springer, 2018, pp. 178–97, doi:10.1007/978-3-319-96142-2_13. short: K. Chatterjee, M.H. Henzinger, V. Loitzenbauer, S. Oraee, V. Toman, in:, Springer, 2018, pp. 178–197. conference: end_date: 2018-07-17 location: Oxford, United Kingdom name: 'CAV: Computer Aided Verification' start_date: 2018-07-14 date_created: 2018-12-11T11:44:51Z date_published: 2018-07-18T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2023-09-19T09:59:55Z day: '18' ddc: - '000' department: - _id: KrCh doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-96142-2_13 ec_funded: 1 external_id: isi: - '000491469700013' file: - access_level: open_access checksum: 1a6ffa4febe8bb8ac28be3adb3eafebc content_type: application/pdf creator: dernst date_created: 2018-12-18T08:52:38Z date_updated: 2020-07-14T12:44:53Z file_id: '5737' file_name: 2018_LNCS_Chatterjee.pdf file_size: 675606 relation: main_file file_date_updated: 2020-07-14T12:44:53Z has_accepted_license: '1' intvolume: ' 10982' isi: 1 language: - iso: eng month: '07' oa: 1 oa_version: Published Version page: 178-197 project: - _id: 2581B60A-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 call_identifier: FP7 grant_number: '279307' name: 'Quantitative Graph Games: Theory and Applications' - _id: 25892FC0-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 grant_number: ICT15-003 name: Efficient Algorithms for Computer Aided Verification - _id: 25832EC2-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 call_identifier: FWF grant_number: S 11407_N23 name: Rigorous Systems Engineering - _id: 2564DBCA-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 call_identifier: H2020 grant_number: '665385' name: International IST Doctoral Program publication_status: published publisher: Springer publist_id: '7782' quality_controlled: '1' related_material: record: - id: '10199' relation: dissertation_contains status: public scopus_import: '1' status: public title: Symbolic algorithms for graphs and Markov decision processes with fairness objectives tmp: image: /images/cc_by.png legal_code_url: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode name: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC-BY 4.0) short: CC BY (4.0) type: conference user_id: c635000d-4b10-11ee-a964-aac5a93f6ac1 volume: 10982 year: '2018' ... --- _id: '293' abstract: - lang: eng text: People sometimes make their admirable deeds and accomplishments hard to spot, such as by giving anonymously or avoiding bragging. Such ‘buried’ signals are hard to reconcile with standard models of signalling or indirect reciprocity, which motivate costly pro-social behaviour by reputational gains. To explain these phenomena, we design a simple game theory model, which we call the signal-burying game. This game has the feature that senders can bury their signal by deliberately reducing the probability of the signal being observed. If the signal is observed, however, it is identified as having been buried. We show under which conditions buried signals can be maintained, using static equilibrium concepts and calculations of the evolutionary dynamics. We apply our analysis to shed light on a number of otherwise puzzling social phenomena, including modesty, anonymous donations, subtlety in art and fashion, and overeagerness. acknowledgement: This work was supported by a grant from the John Templeton Foundation and by the Office of Naval Research Grant N00014-16-1-2914 (M.A.N.). C.H. acknowledges generous support from the ISTFELLOW programme and by the Schrödinger scholarship of the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) J3475. article_processing_charge: No article_type: original author: - first_name: Moshe full_name: Hoffman, Moshe last_name: Hoffman - first_name: Christian full_name: Hilbe, Christian id: 2FDF8F3C-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Hilbe orcid: 0000-0001-5116-955X - first_name: Martin full_name: Nowak, Martin last_name: Nowak citation: ama: Hoffman M, Hilbe C, Nowak M. The signal-burying game can explain why we obscure positive traits and good deeds. Nature Human Behaviour. 2018;2:397-404. doi:10.1038/s41562-018-0354-z apa: Hoffman, M., Hilbe, C., & Nowak, M. (2018). The signal-burying game can explain why we obscure positive traits and good deeds. Nature Human Behaviour. Nature Publishing Group. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-018-0354-z chicago: Hoffman, Moshe, Christian Hilbe, and Martin Nowak. “The Signal-Burying Game Can Explain Why We Obscure Positive Traits and Good Deeds.” Nature Human Behaviour. Nature Publishing Group, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-018-0354-z. ieee: M. Hoffman, C. Hilbe, and M. Nowak, “The signal-burying game can explain why we obscure positive traits and good deeds,” Nature Human Behaviour, vol. 2. Nature Publishing Group, pp. 397–404, 2018. ista: Hoffman M, Hilbe C, Nowak M. 2018. The signal-burying game can explain why we obscure positive traits and good deeds. Nature Human Behaviour. 2, 397–404. mla: Hoffman, Moshe, et al. “The Signal-Burying Game Can Explain Why We Obscure Positive Traits and Good Deeds.” Nature Human Behaviour, vol. 2, Nature Publishing Group, 2018, pp. 397–404, doi:10.1038/s41562-018-0354-z. short: M. Hoffman, C. Hilbe, M. Nowak, Nature Human Behaviour 2 (2018) 397–404. date_created: 2018-12-11T11:45:39Z date_published: 2018-05-28T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2023-09-19T10:12:03Z day: '28' ddc: - '000' department: - _id: KrCh doi: 10.1038/s41562-018-0354-z ec_funded: 1 external_id: isi: - '000435551300009' file: - access_level: open_access checksum: 32efaf06a597495c184df91b3fbb19c0 content_type: application/pdf creator: dernst date_created: 2019-11-19T08:17:23Z date_updated: 2020-07-14T12:45:54Z file_id: '7051' file_name: 2018_NatureHumanBeh_Hoffman.pdf file_size: 194734 relation: main_file file_date_updated: 2020-07-14T12:45:54Z has_accepted_license: '1' intvolume: ' 2' isi: 1 language: - iso: eng month: '05' oa: 1 oa_version: Submitted Version page: 397 - 404 project: - _id: 25681D80-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 call_identifier: FP7 grant_number: '291734' name: International IST Postdoc Fellowship Programme publication: Nature Human Behaviour publication_status: published publisher: Nature Publishing Group publist_id: '7588' quality_controlled: '1' related_material: link: - description: News on IST Homepage relation: press_release url: https://ist.ac.at/en/news/the-logic-of-modesty-why-it-pays-to-be-humble/ scopus_import: '1' status: public title: The signal-burying game can explain why we obscure positive traits and good deeds type: journal_article user_id: c635000d-4b10-11ee-a964-aac5a93f6ac1 volume: 2 year: '2018' ... --- _id: '5967' abstract: - lang: eng text: "The Big Match is a multi-stage two-player game. In each stage Player 1 hides one or two pebbles in his hand, and his opponent has to guess that number; Player 1 loses a point if Player 2 is correct, and otherwise he wins a point. As soon as Player 1 hides one pebble, the players cannot change their choices in any future stage.\r\nBlackwell and Ferguson (1968) give an ε-optimal strategy for Player 1 that hides, in each stage, one pebble with a probability that depends on the entire past history. Any strategy that depends just on the clock or on a finite memory is worthless. The long-standing natural open problem has been whether every strategy that depends just on the clock and a finite memory is worthless. We prove that there is such a strategy that is ε-optimal. In fact, we show that just two states of memory are sufficient.\r\n" article_processing_charge: No author: - first_name: Kristoffer Arnsfelt full_name: Hansen, Kristoffer Arnsfelt last_name: Hansen - first_name: Rasmus full_name: Ibsen-Jensen, Rasmus id: 3B699956-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Ibsen-Jensen orcid: 0000-0003-4783-0389 - first_name: Abraham full_name: Neyman, Abraham last_name: Neyman citation: ama: 'Hansen KA, Ibsen-Jensen R, Neyman A. The Big Match with a clock and a bit of memory. In: Proceedings of the 2018 ACM Conference on Economics and Computation  - EC ’18. ACM Press; 2018:149-150. doi:10.1145/3219166.3219198' apa: 'Hansen, K. A., Ibsen-Jensen, R., & Neyman, A. (2018). The Big Match with a clock and a bit of memory. In Proceedings of the 2018 ACM Conference on Economics and Computation  - EC ’18 (pp. 149–150). Ithaca, NY, United States: ACM Press. https://doi.org/10.1145/3219166.3219198' chicago: Hansen, Kristoffer Arnsfelt, Rasmus Ibsen-Jensen, and Abraham Neyman. “The Big Match with a Clock and a Bit of Memory.” In Proceedings of the 2018 ACM Conference on Economics and Computation  - EC ’18, 149–50. ACM Press, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1145/3219166.3219198. ieee: K. A. Hansen, R. Ibsen-Jensen, and A. Neyman, “The Big Match with a clock and a bit of memory,” in Proceedings of the 2018 ACM Conference on Economics and Computation  - EC ’18, Ithaca, NY, United States, 2018, pp. 149–150. ista: 'Hansen KA, Ibsen-Jensen R, Neyman A. 2018. The Big Match with a clock and a bit of memory. Proceedings of the 2018 ACM Conference on Economics and Computation  - EC ’18. EC: Conference on Economics and Computation, 149–150.' mla: Hansen, Kristoffer Arnsfelt, et al. “The Big Match with a Clock and a Bit of Memory.” Proceedings of the 2018 ACM Conference on Economics and Computation  - EC ’18, ACM Press, 2018, pp. 149–50, doi:10.1145/3219166.3219198. short: K.A. Hansen, R. Ibsen-Jensen, A. Neyman, in:, Proceedings of the 2018 ACM Conference on Economics and Computation  - EC ’18, ACM Press, 2018, pp. 149–150. conference: end_date: 2018-06-22 location: Ithaca, NY, United States name: 'EC: Conference on Economics and Computation' start_date: 2018-06-18 date_created: 2019-02-13T10:31:41Z date_published: 2018-06-18T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2023-09-19T10:45:15Z day: '18' ddc: - '000' department: - _id: KrCh doi: 10.1145/3219166.3219198 external_id: isi: - '000492755100020' file: - access_level: open_access checksum: bb52683e349cfd864f4769a8f38f2798 content_type: application/pdf creator: dernst date_created: 2019-11-19T08:24:24Z date_updated: 2020-07-14T12:47:14Z file_id: '7054' file_name: 2018_EC18_Hansen.pdf file_size: 302539 relation: main_file file_date_updated: 2020-07-14T12:47:14Z has_accepted_license: '1' isi: 1 language: - iso: eng month: '06' oa: 1 oa_version: Submitted Version page: 149-150 publication: Proceedings of the 2018 ACM Conference on Economics and Computation - EC '18 publication_identifier: isbn: - '9781450358293' publication_status: published publisher: ACM Press quality_controlled: '1' scopus_import: '1' status: public title: The Big Match with a clock and a bit of memory type: conference user_id: c635000d-4b10-11ee-a964-aac5a93f6ac1 year: '2018' ... --- _id: '5993' abstract: - lang: eng text: 'In this article, we consider the termination problem of probabilistic programs with real-valued variables. Thequestions concerned are: qualitative ones that ask (i) whether the program terminates with probability 1(almost-sure termination) and (ii) whether the expected termination time is finite (finite termination); andquantitative ones that ask (i) to approximate the expected termination time (expectation problem) and (ii) tocompute a boundBsuch that the probability not to terminate afterBsteps decreases exponentially (con-centration problem). To solve these questions, we utilize the notion of ranking supermartingales, which isa powerful approach for proving termination of probabilistic programs. In detail, we focus on algorithmicsynthesis of linear ranking-supermartingales over affine probabilistic programs (Apps) with both angelic anddemonic non-determinism. An important subclass of Apps is LRApp which is defined as the class of all Appsover which a linear ranking-supermartingale exists.Our main contributions are as follows. Firstly, we show that the membership problem of LRApp (i) canbe decided in polynomial time for Apps with at most demonic non-determinism, and (ii) isNP-hard and inPSPACEfor Apps with angelic non-determinism. Moreover, theNP-hardness result holds already for Appswithout probability and demonic non-determinism. Secondly, we show that the concentration problem overLRApp can be solved in the same complexity as for the membership problem of LRApp. Finally, we show thatthe expectation problem over LRApp can be solved in2EXPTIMEand isPSPACE-hard even for Apps withoutprobability and non-determinism (i.e., deterministic programs). Our experimental results demonstrate theeffectiveness of our approach to answer the qualitative and quantitative questions over Apps with at mostdemonic non-determinism.' article_number: '7' article_processing_charge: No author: - first_name: Krishnendu full_name: Chatterjee, Krishnendu id: 2E5DCA20-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Chatterjee orcid: 0000-0002-4561-241X - first_name: Hongfei full_name: Fu, Hongfei id: 3AAD03D6-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Fu - first_name: Petr full_name: Novotný, Petr id: 3CC3B868-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Novotný - first_name: Rouzbeh full_name: Hasheminezhad, Rouzbeh last_name: Hasheminezhad citation: ama: Chatterjee K, Fu H, Novotný P, Hasheminezhad R. Algorithmic analysis of qualitative and quantitative termination problems for affine probabilistic programs. ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems. 2018;40(2). doi:10.1145/3174800 apa: Chatterjee, K., Fu, H., Novotný, P., & Hasheminezhad, R. (2018). Algorithmic analysis of qualitative and quantitative termination problems for affine probabilistic programs. ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems. Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). https://doi.org/10.1145/3174800 chicago: Chatterjee, Krishnendu, Hongfei Fu, Petr Novotný, and Rouzbeh Hasheminezhad. “Algorithmic Analysis of Qualitative and Quantitative Termination Problems for Affine Probabilistic Programs.” ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems. Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2018. https://doi.org/10.1145/3174800. ieee: K. Chatterjee, H. Fu, P. Novotný, and R. Hasheminezhad, “Algorithmic analysis of qualitative and quantitative termination problems for affine probabilistic programs,” ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems, vol. 40, no. 2. Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2018. ista: Chatterjee K, Fu H, Novotný P, Hasheminezhad R. 2018. Algorithmic analysis of qualitative and quantitative termination problems for affine probabilistic programs. ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems. 40(2), 7. mla: Chatterjee, Krishnendu, et al. “Algorithmic Analysis of Qualitative and Quantitative Termination Problems for Affine Probabilistic Programs.” ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems, vol. 40, no. 2, 7, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2018, doi:10.1145/3174800. short: K. Chatterjee, H. Fu, P. Novotný, R. Hasheminezhad, ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems 40 (2018). date_created: 2019-02-14T12:29:10Z date_published: 2018-06-01T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2023-09-19T14:38:42Z day: '01' department: - _id: KrCh doi: 10.1145/3174800 ec_funded: 1 external_id: arxiv: - '1510.08517' isi: - '000434634500003' intvolume: ' 40' isi: 1 issue: '2' language: - iso: eng main_file_link: - open_access: '1' url: https://arxiv.org/abs/1510.08517 month: '06' oa: 1 oa_version: Submitted Version project: - _id: 2584A770-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 call_identifier: FWF grant_number: P 23499-N23 name: Modern Graph Algorithmic Techniques in Formal Verification - _id: 25832EC2-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 call_identifier: FWF grant_number: S 11407_N23 name: Rigorous Systems Engineering - _id: 2581B60A-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 call_identifier: FP7 grant_number: '279307' name: 'Quantitative Graph Games: Theory and Applications' - _id: 25681D80-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 call_identifier: FP7 grant_number: '291734' name: International IST Postdoc Fellowship Programme publication: ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems publication_identifier: issn: - 0164-0925 publication_status: published publisher: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) quality_controlled: '1' related_material: record: - id: '1438' relation: earlier_version status: public scopus_import: '1' status: public title: Algorithmic analysis of qualitative and quantitative termination problems for affine probabilistic programs type: journal_article user_id: c635000d-4b10-11ee-a964-aac5a93f6ac1 volume: 40 year: '2018' ... --- _id: '25' abstract: - lang: eng text: 'Partially observable Markov decision processes (POMDPs) are the standard models for planning under uncertainty with both finite and infinite horizon. Besides the well-known discounted-sum objective, indefinite-horizon objective (aka Goal-POMDPs) is another classical objective for POMDPs. In this case, given a set of target states and a positive cost for each transition, the optimization objective is to minimize the expected total cost until a target state is reached. In the literature, RTDP-Bel or heuristic search value iteration (HSVI) have been used for solving Goal-POMDPs. Neither of these algorithms has theoretical convergence guarantees, and HSVI may even fail to terminate its trials. We give the following contributions: (1) We discuss the challenges introduced in Goal-POMDPs and illustrate how they prevent the original HSVI from converging. (2) We present a novel algorithm inspired by HSVI, termed Goal-HSVI, and show that our algorithm has convergence guarantees. (3) We show that Goal-HSVI outperforms RTDP-Bel on a set of well-known examples.' acknowledgement: '∗This work has been supported by Vienna Science and Technology Fund (WWTF) Project ICT15-003, Austrian Science Fund (FWF) NFN Grant No S11407-N23 (RiSE/SHiNE), and ERC Starting grant (279307: Graph Games). This research was sponsored by the Army Research Laboratory and was accomplished under Cooperative Agreement Number W911NF-13-2-0045 (ARL Cyber Security CRA). ' article_processing_charge: No author: - first_name: Karel full_name: Horák, Karel last_name: Horák - first_name: Branislav full_name: Bošanský, Branislav last_name: Bošanský - first_name: Krishnendu full_name: Chatterjee, Krishnendu id: 2E5DCA20-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Chatterjee orcid: 0000-0002-4561-241X citation: ama: 'Horák K, Bošanský B, Chatterjee K. Goal-HSVI: Heuristic search value iteration for goal-POMDPs. In: Proceedings of the Twenty-Seventh International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Vol 2018-July. IJCAI; 2018:4764-4770. doi:10.24963/ijcai.2018/662' apa: 'Horák, K., Bošanský, B., & Chatterjee, K. (2018). Goal-HSVI: Heuristic search value iteration for goal-POMDPs. In Proceedings of the Twenty-Seventh International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (Vol. 2018–July, pp. 4764–4770). Stockholm, Sweden: IJCAI. https://doi.org/10.24963/ijcai.2018/662' chicago: 'Horák, Karel, Branislav Bošanský, and Krishnendu Chatterjee. “Goal-HSVI: Heuristic Search Value Iteration for Goal-POMDPs.” In Proceedings of the Twenty-Seventh International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2018–July:4764–70. IJCAI, 2018. https://doi.org/10.24963/ijcai.2018/662.' ieee: 'K. Horák, B. Bošanský, and K. Chatterjee, “Goal-HSVI: Heuristic search value iteration for goal-POMDPs,” in Proceedings of the Twenty-Seventh International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Stockholm, Sweden, 2018, vol. 2018–July, pp. 4764–4770.' ista: 'Horák K, Bošanský B, Chatterjee K. 2018. Goal-HSVI: Heuristic search value iteration for goal-POMDPs. Proceedings of the Twenty-Seventh International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence. IJCAI: International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence vol. 2018–July, 4764–4770.' mla: 'Horák, Karel, et al. “Goal-HSVI: Heuristic Search Value Iteration for Goal-POMDPs.” Proceedings of the Twenty-Seventh International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, vol. 2018–July, IJCAI, 2018, pp. 4764–70, doi:10.24963/ijcai.2018/662.' short: K. Horák, B. Bošanský, K. Chatterjee, in:, Proceedings of the Twenty-Seventh International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, IJCAI, 2018, pp. 4764–4770. conference: end_date: 2018-07-19 location: Stockholm, Sweden name: 'IJCAI: International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence' start_date: 2018-07-13 date_created: 2018-12-11T11:44:13Z date_published: 2018-07-01T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2023-09-19T14:44:59Z day: '01' department: - _id: KrCh doi: 10.24963/ijcai.2018/662 ec_funded: 1 external_id: isi: - '000764175404127' isi: 1 language: - iso: eng main_file_link: - open_access: '1' url: https://doi.org/10.24963/ijcai.2018/662 month: '07' oa: 1 oa_version: Published Version page: 4764 - 4770 project: - _id: 25892FC0-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 grant_number: ICT15-003 name: Efficient Algorithms for Computer Aided Verification - _id: 25832EC2-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 call_identifier: FWF grant_number: S 11407_N23 name: Rigorous Systems Engineering - _id: 2581B60A-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 call_identifier: FP7 grant_number: '279307' name: 'Quantitative Graph Games: Theory and Applications' publication: Proceedings of the Twenty-Seventh International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence publication_status: published publisher: IJCAI publist_id: '8030' quality_controlled: '1' scopus_import: '1' status: public title: 'Goal-HSVI: Heuristic search value iteration for goal-POMDPs' type: conference user_id: c635000d-4b10-11ee-a964-aac5a93f6ac1 volume: 2018-July year: '2018' ... --- _id: '24' abstract: - lang: eng text: Partially-observable Markov decision processes (POMDPs) with discounted-sum payoff are a standard framework to model a wide range of problems related to decision making under uncertainty. Traditionally, the goal has been to obtain policies that optimize the expectation of the discounted-sum payoff. A key drawback of the expectation measure is that even low probability events with extreme payoff can significantly affect the expectation, and thus the obtained policies are not necessarily risk-averse. An alternate approach is to optimize the probability that the payoff is above a certain threshold, which allows obtaining risk-averse policies, but ignores optimization of the expectation. We consider the expectation optimization with probabilistic guarantee (EOPG) problem, where the goal is to optimize the expectation ensuring that the payoff is above a given threshold with at least a specified probability. We present several results on the EOPG problem, including the first algorithm to solve it. acknowledgement: "This research was supported by the Vienna Science and Technology Fund (WWTF) grant ICT15-003; Austrian Science Fund (FWF): S11407-N23(RiSE/SHiNE);and an ERC Start Grant (279307:Graph Games).\r\n" article_processing_charge: No author: - first_name: Krishnendu full_name: Chatterjee, Krishnendu id: 2E5DCA20-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Chatterjee orcid: 0000-0002-4561-241X - first_name: Adrian full_name: Elgyütt, Adrian id: 4A2E9DBA-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Elgyütt - first_name: Petr full_name: Novotny, Petr id: 3CC3B868-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Novotny - first_name: Owen full_name: Rouillé, Owen last_name: Rouillé citation: ama: 'Chatterjee K, Elgyütt A, Novotný P, Rouillé O. Expectation optimization with probabilistic guarantees in POMDPs with discounted-sum objectives. In: Vol 2018. IJCAI; 2018:4692-4699. doi:10.24963/ijcai.2018/652' apa: 'Chatterjee, K., Elgyütt, A., Novotný, P., & Rouillé, O. (2018). Expectation optimization with probabilistic guarantees in POMDPs with discounted-sum objectives (Vol. 2018, pp. 4692–4699). Presented at the IJCAI: International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Stockholm, Sweden: IJCAI. https://doi.org/10.24963/ijcai.2018/652' chicago: Chatterjee, Krishnendu, Adrian Elgyütt, Petr Novotný, and Owen Rouillé. “Expectation Optimization with Probabilistic Guarantees in POMDPs with Discounted-Sum Objectives,” 2018:4692–99. IJCAI, 2018. https://doi.org/10.24963/ijcai.2018/652. ieee: 'K. Chatterjee, A. Elgyütt, P. Novotný, and O. Rouillé, “Expectation optimization with probabilistic guarantees in POMDPs with discounted-sum objectives,” presented at the IJCAI: International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Stockholm, Sweden, 2018, vol. 2018, pp. 4692–4699.' ista: 'Chatterjee K, Elgyütt A, Novotný P, Rouillé O. 2018. Expectation optimization with probabilistic guarantees in POMDPs with discounted-sum objectives. IJCAI: International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence vol. 2018, 4692–4699.' mla: Chatterjee, Krishnendu, et al. Expectation Optimization with Probabilistic Guarantees in POMDPs with Discounted-Sum Objectives. Vol. 2018, IJCAI, 2018, pp. 4692–99, doi:10.24963/ijcai.2018/652. short: K. Chatterjee, A. Elgyütt, P. Novotný, O. Rouillé, in:, IJCAI, 2018, pp. 4692–4699. conference: end_date: 2018-07-19 location: Stockholm, Sweden name: 'IJCAI: International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence' start_date: 2018-07-13 date_created: 2018-12-11T11:44:13Z date_published: 2018-07-01T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2023-09-19T14:45:48Z day: '01' department: - _id: KrCh - _id: ToHe doi: 10.24963/ijcai.2018/652 ec_funded: 1 external_id: arxiv: - '1804.10601' isi: - '000764175404117' intvolume: ' 2018' isi: 1 language: - iso: eng main_file_link: - open_access: '1' url: https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.10601 month: '07' oa: 1 oa_version: Preprint page: 4692 - 4699 project: - _id: 25892FC0-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 grant_number: ICT15-003 name: Efficient Algorithms for Computer Aided Verification - _id: 25832EC2-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 call_identifier: FWF grant_number: S 11407_N23 name: Rigorous Systems Engineering - _id: 2581B60A-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 call_identifier: FP7 grant_number: '279307' name: 'Quantitative Graph Games: Theory and Applications' publication_status: published publisher: IJCAI publist_id: '8031' quality_controlled: '1' scopus_import: '1' status: public title: Expectation optimization with probabilistic guarantees in POMDPs with discounted-sum objectives type: conference user_id: c635000d-4b10-11ee-a964-aac5a93f6ac1 volume: 2018 year: '2018' ... --- _id: '34' abstract: - lang: eng text: Partially observable Markov decision processes (POMDPs) are widely used in probabilistic planning problems in which an agent interacts with an environment using noisy and imprecise sensors. We study a setting in which the sensors are only partially defined and the goal is to synthesize “weakest” additional sensors, such that in the resulting POMDP, there is a small-memory policy for the agent that almost-surely (with probability 1) satisfies a reachability objective. We show that the problem is NP-complete, and present a symbolic algorithm by encoding the problem into SAT instances. We illustrate trade-offs between the amount of memory of the policy and the number of additional sensors on a simple example. We have implemented our approach and consider three classical POMDP examples from the literature, and show that in all the examples the number of sensors can be significantly decreased (as compared to the existing solutions in the literature) without increasing the complexity of the policies. alternative_title: - ICAPS article_processing_charge: No author: - first_name: Krishnendu full_name: Chatterjee, Krishnendu id: 2E5DCA20-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Chatterjee orcid: 0000-0002-4561-241X - first_name: Martin full_name: Chemlík, Martin last_name: Chemlík - first_name: Ufuk full_name: Topcu, Ufuk last_name: Topcu citation: ama: 'Chatterjee K, Chemlík M, Topcu U. Sensor synthesis for POMDPs with reachability objectives. In: Vol 2018. AAAI Press; 2018:47-55.' apa: 'Chatterjee, K., Chemlík, M., & Topcu, U. (2018). Sensor synthesis for POMDPs with reachability objectives (Vol. 2018, pp. 47–55). Presented at the ICAPS: International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling, Delft, Netherlands: AAAI Press.' chicago: Chatterjee, Krishnendu, Martin Chemlík, and Ufuk Topcu. “Sensor Synthesis for POMDPs with Reachability Objectives,” 2018:47–55. AAAI Press, 2018. ieee: 'K. Chatterjee, M. Chemlík, and U. Topcu, “Sensor synthesis for POMDPs with reachability objectives,” presented at the ICAPS: International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling, Delft, Netherlands, 2018, vol. 2018, pp. 47–55.' ista: 'Chatterjee K, Chemlík M, Topcu U. 2018. Sensor synthesis for POMDPs with reachability objectives. ICAPS: International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling, ICAPS, vol. 2018, 47–55.' mla: Chatterjee, Krishnendu, et al. Sensor Synthesis for POMDPs with Reachability Objectives. Vol. 2018, AAAI Press, 2018, pp. 47–55. short: K. Chatterjee, M. Chemlík, U. Topcu, in:, AAAI Press, 2018, pp. 47–55. conference: end_date: 2018-06-29 location: Delft, Netherlands name: 'ICAPS: International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling' start_date: 2018-06-24 date_created: 2018-12-11T11:44:16Z date_published: 2018-06-01T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2023-09-19T14:44:14Z day: '01' department: - _id: KrCh ec_funded: 1 external_id: arxiv: - '1710.00675' isi: - '000492986200006' intvolume: ' 2018' isi: 1 language: - iso: eng main_file_link: - open_access: '1' url: https://arxiv.org/abs/1710.00675 month: '06' oa: 1 oa_version: Preprint page: 47 - 55 project: - _id: 2584A770-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 call_identifier: FWF grant_number: P 23499-N23 name: Modern Graph Algorithmic Techniques in Formal Verification - _id: 2581B60A-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 call_identifier: FP7 grant_number: '279307' name: 'Quantitative Graph Games: Theory and Applications' - _id: 25832EC2-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 call_identifier: FWF grant_number: S 11407_N23 name: Rigorous Systems Engineering - _id: 2587B514-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 name: Microsoft Research Faculty Fellowship publication_status: published publisher: AAAI Press publist_id: '8021' quality_controlled: '1' scopus_import: '1' status: public title: Sensor synthesis for POMDPs with reachability objectives type: conference user_id: c635000d-4b10-11ee-a964-aac5a93f6ac1 volume: 2018 year: '2018' ... --- _id: '35' abstract: - lang: eng text: 'We consider planning problems for graphs, Markov decision processes (MDPs), and games on graphs. While graphs represent the most basic planning model, MDPs represent interaction with nature and games on graphs represent interaction with an adversarial environment. We consider two planning problems where there are k different target sets, and the problems are as follows: (a) the coverage problem asks whether there is a plan for each individual target set; and (b) the sequential target reachability problem asks whether the targets can be reached in sequence. For the coverage problem, we present a linear-time algorithm for graphs, and quadratic conditional lower bound for MDPs and games on graphs. For the sequential target problem, we present a linear-time algorithm for graphs, a sub-quadratic algorithm for MDPs, and a quadratic conditional lower bound for games on graphs. Our results with conditional lower bounds establish (i) model-separation results showing that for the coverage problem MDPs and games on graphs are harder than graphs and for the sequential reachability problem games on graphs are harder than MDPs and graphs; and (ii) objective-separation results showing that for MDPs the coverage problem is harder than the sequential target problem.' article_processing_charge: No author: - first_name: Krishnendu full_name: Chatterjee, Krishnendu id: 2E5DCA20-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Chatterjee orcid: 0000-0002-4561-241X - first_name: Wolfgang full_name: Dvorák, Wolfgang last_name: Dvorák - first_name: Monika H full_name: Henzinger, Monika H id: 540c9bbd-f2de-11ec-812d-d04a5be85630 last_name: Henzinger orcid: 0000-0002-5008-6530 - first_name: Alexander full_name: Svozil, Alexander last_name: Svozil citation: ama: 'Chatterjee K, Dvorák W, Henzinger MH, Svozil A. Algorithms and conditional lower bounds for planning problems. In: 28th International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling . AAAI Press; 2018.' apa: 'Chatterjee, K., Dvorák, W., Henzinger, M. H., & Svozil, A. (2018). Algorithms and conditional lower bounds for planning problems. In 28th International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling . Delft, Netherlands: AAAI Press.' chicago: Chatterjee, Krishnendu, Wolfgang Dvorák, Monika H Henzinger, and Alexander Svozil. “Algorithms and Conditional Lower Bounds for Planning Problems.” In 28th International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling . AAAI Press, 2018. ieee: K. Chatterjee, W. Dvorák, M. H. Henzinger, and A. Svozil, “Algorithms and conditional lower bounds for planning problems,” in 28th International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling , Delft, Netherlands, 2018. ista: 'Chatterjee K, Dvorák W, Henzinger MH, Svozil A. 2018. Algorithms and conditional lower bounds for planning problems. 28th International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling . ICAPS: International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling.' mla: Chatterjee, Krishnendu, et al. “Algorithms and Conditional Lower Bounds for Planning Problems.” 28th International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling , AAAI Press, 2018. short: K. Chatterjee, W. Dvorák, M.H. Henzinger, A. Svozil, in:, 28th International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling , AAAI Press, 2018. conference: end_date: 2018-06-29 location: Delft, Netherlands name: 'ICAPS: International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling' start_date: 2018-06-24 date_created: 2018-12-11T11:44:17Z date_published: 2018-06-01T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2023-09-26T10:41:41Z day: '01' department: - _id: KrCh ec_funded: 1 external_id: arxiv: - '1804.07031' isi: - '000492986200007' isi: 1 language: - iso: eng main_file_link: - open_access: '1' url: https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.07031 month: '06' oa: 1 oa_version: None project: - _id: 25832EC2-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 call_identifier: FWF grant_number: S 11407_N23 name: Rigorous Systems Engineering - _id: 2581B60A-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 call_identifier: FP7 grant_number: '279307' name: 'Quantitative Graph Games: Theory and Applications' publication: '28th International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling ' publication_status: published publisher: AAAI Press publist_id: '8020' quality_controlled: '1' related_material: record: - id: '9293' relation: later_version status: public scopus_import: '1' status: public title: Algorithms and conditional lower bounds for planning problems type: conference user_id: c635000d-4b10-11ee-a964-aac5a93f6ac1 year: '2018' ... --- _id: '738' abstract: - lang: eng text: 'This paper is devoted to automatic competitive analysis of real-time scheduling algorithms for firm-deadline tasksets, where only completed tasks con- tribute some utility to the system. Given such a taskset T , the competitive ratio of an on-line scheduling algorithm A for T is the worst-case utility ratio of A over the utility achieved by a clairvoyant algorithm. We leverage the theory of quantitative graph games to address the competitive analysis and competitive synthesis problems. For the competitive analysis case, given any taskset T and any finite-memory on- line scheduling algorithm A , we show that the competitive ratio of A in T can be computed in polynomial time in the size of the state space of A . Our approach is flexible as it also provides ways to model meaningful constraints on the released task sequences that determine the competitive ratio. We provide an experimental study of many well-known on-line scheduling algorithms, which demonstrates the feasibility of our competitive analysis approach that effectively replaces human ingenuity (required Preliminary versions of this paper have appeared in Chatterjee et al. ( 2013 , 2014 ). B Andreas Pavlogiannis pavlogiannis@ist.ac.at Krishnendu Chatterjee krish.chat@ist.ac.at Alexander Kößler koe@ecs.tuwien.ac.at Ulrich Schmid s@ecs.tuwien.ac.at 1 IST Austria (Institute of Science and Technology Austria), Am Campus 1, 3400 Klosterneuburg, Austria 2 Embedded Computing Systems Group, Vienna University of Technology, Treitlstrasse 3, 1040 Vienna, Austria 123 Real-Time Syst for finding worst-case scenarios) by computing power. For the competitive synthesis case, we are just given a taskset T , and the goal is to automatically synthesize an opti- mal on-line scheduling algorithm A , i.e., one that guarantees the largest competitive ratio possible for T . We show how the competitive synthesis problem can be reduced to a two-player graph game with partial information, and establish that the compu- tational complexity of solving this game is Np -complete. The competitive synthesis problem is hence in Np in the size of the state space of the non-deterministic labeled transition system encoding the taskset. Overall, the proposed framework assists in the selection of suitable scheduling algorithms for a given taskset, which is in fact the most common situation in real-time systems design. ' article_processing_charge: No author: - first_name: Krishnendu full_name: Chatterjee, Krishnendu id: 2E5DCA20-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Chatterjee orcid: 0000-0002-4561-241X - first_name: Andreas full_name: Pavlogiannis, Andreas id: 49704004-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Pavlogiannis orcid: 0000-0002-8943-0722 - first_name: Alexander full_name: Kößler, Alexander last_name: Kößler - first_name: Ulrich full_name: Schmid, Ulrich last_name: Schmid citation: ama: Chatterjee K, Pavlogiannis A, Kößler A, Schmid U. Automated competitive analysis of real time scheduling with graph games. Real-Time Systems. 2018;54(1):166-207. doi:10.1007/s11241-017-9293-4 apa: Chatterjee, K., Pavlogiannis, A., Kößler, A., & Schmid, U. (2018). Automated competitive analysis of real time scheduling with graph games. Real-Time Systems. Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11241-017-9293-4 chicago: Chatterjee, Krishnendu, Andreas Pavlogiannis, Alexander Kößler, and Ulrich Schmid. “Automated Competitive Analysis of Real Time Scheduling with Graph Games.” Real-Time Systems. Springer, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11241-017-9293-4. ieee: K. Chatterjee, A. Pavlogiannis, A. Kößler, and U. Schmid, “Automated competitive analysis of real time scheduling with graph games,” Real-Time Systems, vol. 54, no. 1. Springer, pp. 166–207, 2018. ista: Chatterjee K, Pavlogiannis A, Kößler A, Schmid U. 2018. Automated competitive analysis of real time scheduling with graph games. Real-Time Systems. 54(1), 166–207. mla: Chatterjee, Krishnendu, et al. “Automated Competitive Analysis of Real Time Scheduling with Graph Games.” Real-Time Systems, vol. 54, no. 1, Springer, 2018, pp. 166–207, doi:10.1007/s11241-017-9293-4. short: K. Chatterjee, A. Pavlogiannis, A. Kößler, U. Schmid, Real-Time Systems 54 (2018) 166–207. date_created: 2018-12-11T11:48:14Z date_published: 2018-01-01T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2023-09-27T12:52:38Z day: '01' ddc: - '000' department: - _id: KrCh doi: 10.1007/s11241-017-9293-4 ec_funded: 1 external_id: isi: - '000419955500006' file: - access_level: open_access checksum: c2590ef160709d8054cf29ee173f1454 content_type: application/pdf creator: system date_created: 2018-12-12T10:17:14Z date_updated: 2020-07-14T12:47:56Z file_id: '5267' file_name: IST-2018-960-v1+1_2017_Chatterjee_Automated_competetive.pdf file_size: 1163507 relation: main_file file_date_updated: 2020-07-14T12:47:56Z has_accepted_license: '1' intvolume: ' 54' isi: 1 issue: '1' language: - iso: eng month: '01' oa: 1 oa_version: Published Version page: 166 - 207 project: - _id: 25832EC2-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 call_identifier: FWF grant_number: S 11407_N23 name: Rigorous Systems Engineering - _id: 25863FF4-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 call_identifier: FWF grant_number: S11407 name: Game Theory - _id: 2584A770-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 call_identifier: FWF grant_number: P 23499-N23 name: Modern Graph Algorithmic Techniques in Formal Verification - _id: 2581B60A-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 call_identifier: FP7 grant_number: '279307' name: 'Quantitative Graph Games: Theory and Applications' - _id: 2587B514-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 name: Microsoft Research Faculty Fellowship publication: Real-Time Systems publication_status: published publisher: Springer publist_id: '6929' pubrep_id: '960' quality_controlled: '1' related_material: record: - id: '2820' relation: earlier_version status: public scopus_import: '1' status: public title: Automated competitive analysis of real time scheduling with graph games tmp: image: /images/cc_by.png legal_code_url: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode name: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC-BY 4.0) short: CC BY (4.0) type: journal_article user_id: c635000d-4b10-11ee-a964-aac5a93f6ac1 volume: 54 year: '2018' ... --- _id: '198' abstract: - lang: eng text: We consider a class of students learning a language from a teacher. The situation can be interpreted as a group of child learners receiving input from the linguistic environment. The teacher provides sample sentences. The students try to learn the grammar from the teacher. In addition to just listening to the teacher, the students can also communicate with each other. The students hold hypotheses about the grammar and change them if they receive counter evidence. The process stops when all students have converged to the correct grammar. We study how the time to convergence depends on the structure of the classroom by introducing and evaluating various complexity measures. We find that structured communication between students, although potentially introducing confusion, can greatly reduce some of the complexity measures. Our theory can also be interpreted as applying to the scientific process, where nature is the teacher and the scientists are the students. article_number: '20180073' article_processing_charge: No article_type: original author: - first_name: Rasmus full_name: Ibsen-Jensen, Rasmus id: 3B699956-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Ibsen-Jensen orcid: 0000-0003-4783-0389 - first_name: Josef full_name: Tkadlec, Josef id: 3F24CCC8-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Tkadlec orcid: 0000-0002-1097-9684 - first_name: Krishnendu full_name: Chatterjee, Krishnendu id: 2E5DCA20-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Chatterjee orcid: 0000-0002-4561-241X - first_name: Martin full_name: Nowak, Martin last_name: Nowak citation: ama: Ibsen-Jensen R, Tkadlec J, Chatterjee K, Nowak M. Language acquisition with communication between learners. Journal of the Royal Society Interface. 2018;15(140). doi:10.1098/rsif.2018.0073 apa: Ibsen-Jensen, R., Tkadlec, J., Chatterjee, K., & Nowak, M. (2018). Language acquisition with communication between learners. Journal of the Royal Society Interface. The Royal Society. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsif.2018.0073 chicago: Ibsen-Jensen, Rasmus, Josef Tkadlec, Krishnendu Chatterjee, and Martin Nowak. “Language Acquisition with Communication between Learners.” Journal of the Royal Society Interface. The Royal Society, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsif.2018.0073. ieee: R. Ibsen-Jensen, J. Tkadlec, K. Chatterjee, and M. Nowak, “Language acquisition with communication between learners,” Journal of the Royal Society Interface, vol. 15, no. 140. The Royal Society, 2018. ista: Ibsen-Jensen R, Tkadlec J, Chatterjee K, Nowak M. 2018. Language acquisition with communication between learners. Journal of the Royal Society Interface. 15(140), 20180073. mla: Ibsen-Jensen, Rasmus, et al. “Language Acquisition with Communication between Learners.” Journal of the Royal Society Interface, vol. 15, no. 140, 20180073, The Royal Society, 2018, doi:10.1098/rsif.2018.0073. short: R. Ibsen-Jensen, J. Tkadlec, K. Chatterjee, M. Nowak, Journal of the Royal Society Interface 15 (2018). date_created: 2018-12-11T11:45:09Z date_published: 2018-03-01T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2023-10-18T06:36:00Z day: '01' ddc: - '000' department: - _id: KrCh doi: 10.1098/rsif.2018.0073 ec_funded: 1 external_id: isi: - '000428576200023' pmid: - '29593089' file: - access_level: open_access checksum: 444e1a9d98eb0e780671be82b13025f3 content_type: application/pdf creator: dernst date_created: 2019-02-12T07:54:37Z date_updated: 2020-07-14T12:45:22Z file_id: '5955' file_name: 2018_RS_IbsenJensen.pdf file_size: 219837 relation: main_file file_date_updated: 2020-07-14T12:45:22Z has_accepted_license: '1' intvolume: ' 15' isi: 1 issue: '140' language: - iso: eng month: '03' oa: 1 oa_version: Submitted Version pmid: 1 project: - _id: 2581B60A-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 call_identifier: FP7 grant_number: '279307' name: 'Quantitative Graph Games: Theory and Applications' - _id: 2584A770-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 call_identifier: FWF grant_number: P 23499-N23 name: Modern Graph Algorithmic Techniques in Formal Verification - _id: 25832EC2-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 call_identifier: FWF grant_number: S 11407_N23 name: Rigorous Systems Engineering publication: Journal of the Royal Society Interface publication_identifier: eissn: - 1742-5662 publication_status: published publisher: The Royal Society publist_id: '7715' quality_controlled: '1' related_material: link: - relation: supplementary_material url: https://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.c.4028971 record: - id: '9814' relation: research_data status: public scopus_import: '1' status: public title: Language acquisition with communication between learners type: journal_article user_id: 2DF688A6-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 volume: 15 year: '2018' ... --- _id: '5751' abstract: - lang: eng text: 'Because of the intrinsic randomness of the evolutionary process, a mutant with a fitness advantage has some chance to be selected but no certainty. Any experiment that searches for advantageous mutants will lose many of them due to random drift. It is therefore of great interest to find population structures that improve the odds of advantageous mutants. Such structures are called amplifiers of natural selection: they increase the probability that advantageous mutants are selected. Arbitrarily strong amplifiers guarantee the selection of advantageous mutants, even for very small fitness advantage. Despite intensive research over the past decade, arbitrarily strong amplifiers have remained rare. Here we show how to construct a large variety of them. Our amplifiers are so simple that they could be useful in biotechnology, when optimizing biological molecules, or as a diagnostic tool, when searching for faster dividing cells or viruses. They could also occur in natural population structures.' article_number: '71' article_processing_charge: No author: - first_name: Andreas full_name: Pavlogiannis, Andreas id: 49704004-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Pavlogiannis orcid: 0000-0002-8943-0722 - first_name: Josef full_name: Tkadlec, Josef id: 3F24CCC8-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Tkadlec orcid: 0000-0002-1097-9684 - first_name: Krishnendu full_name: Chatterjee, Krishnendu id: 2E5DCA20-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Chatterjee orcid: 0000-0002-4561-241X - first_name: Martin A. full_name: Nowak, Martin A. last_name: Nowak citation: ama: Pavlogiannis A, Tkadlec J, Chatterjee K, Nowak MA. Construction of arbitrarily strong amplifiers of natural selection using evolutionary graph theory. Communications Biology. 2018;1(1). doi:10.1038/s42003-018-0078-7 apa: Pavlogiannis, A., Tkadlec, J., Chatterjee, K., & Nowak, M. A. (2018). Construction of arbitrarily strong amplifiers of natural selection using evolutionary graph theory. Communications Biology. Springer Nature. https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-018-0078-7 chicago: Pavlogiannis, Andreas, Josef Tkadlec, Krishnendu Chatterjee, and Martin A. Nowak. “Construction of Arbitrarily Strong Amplifiers of Natural Selection Using Evolutionary Graph Theory.” Communications Biology. Springer Nature, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-018-0078-7. ieee: A. Pavlogiannis, J. Tkadlec, K. Chatterjee, and M. A. Nowak, “Construction of arbitrarily strong amplifiers of natural selection using evolutionary graph theory,” Communications Biology, vol. 1, no. 1. Springer Nature, 2018. ista: Pavlogiannis A, Tkadlec J, Chatterjee K, Nowak MA. 2018. Construction of arbitrarily strong amplifiers of natural selection using evolutionary graph theory. Communications Biology. 1(1), 71. mla: Pavlogiannis, Andreas, et al. “Construction of Arbitrarily Strong Amplifiers of Natural Selection Using Evolutionary Graph Theory.” Communications Biology, vol. 1, no. 1, 71, Springer Nature, 2018, doi:10.1038/s42003-018-0078-7. short: A. Pavlogiannis, J. Tkadlec, K. Chatterjee, M.A. Nowak, Communications Biology 1 (2018). date_created: 2018-12-18T13:22:58Z date_published: 2018-06-14T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2024-02-21T13:48:42Z day: '14' ddc: - '004' - '519' - '576' department: - _id: KrCh doi: 10.1038/s42003-018-0078-7 ec_funded: 1 external_id: isi: - '000461126500071' file: - access_level: open_access checksum: a9db825fa3b64a51ff3de035ec973b3e content_type: application/pdf creator: dernst date_created: 2018-12-18T13:37:04Z date_updated: 2020-07-14T12:47:10Z file_id: '5752' file_name: 2018_CommBiology_Pavlogiannis.pdf file_size: 1804194 relation: main_file file_date_updated: 2020-07-14T12:47:10Z has_accepted_license: '1' intvolume: ' 1' isi: 1 issue: '1' language: - iso: eng month: '06' oa: 1 oa_version: Published Version project: - _id: 2581B60A-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 call_identifier: FP7 grant_number: '279307' name: 'Quantitative Graph Games: Theory and Applications' - _id: 2584A770-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 call_identifier: FWF grant_number: P 23499-N23 name: Modern Graph Algorithmic Techniques in Formal Verification - _id: 25832EC2-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 call_identifier: FWF grant_number: S 11407_N23 name: Rigorous Systems Engineering publication: Communications Biology publication_identifier: issn: - 2399-3642 publication_status: published publisher: Springer Nature pubrep_id: '1045' quality_controlled: '1' related_material: record: - id: '7196' relation: part_of_dissertation status: public - id: '5559' relation: popular_science status: public scopus_import: '1' status: public title: Construction of arbitrarily strong amplifiers of natural selection using evolutionary graph theory tmp: image: /images/cc_by.png legal_code_url: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode name: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC-BY 4.0) short: CC BY (4.0) type: journal_article user_id: c635000d-4b10-11ee-a964-aac5a93f6ac1 volume: 1 year: '2018' ... --- _id: '66' abstract: - lang: eng text: 'Crypto-currencies are digital assets designed to work as a medium of exchange, e.g., Bitcoin, but they are susceptible to attacks (dishonest behavior of participants). A framework for the analysis of attacks in crypto-currencies requires (a) modeling of game-theoretic aspects to analyze incentives for deviation from honest behavior; (b) concurrent interactions between participants; and (c) analysis of long-term monetary gains. Traditional game-theoretic approaches for the analysis of security protocols consider either qualitative temporal properties such as safety and termination, or the very special class of one-shot (stateless) games. However, to analyze general attacks on protocols for crypto-currencies, both stateful analysis and quantitative objectives are necessary. In this work our main contributions are as follows: (a) we show how a class of concurrent mean-payo games, namely ergodic games, can model various attacks that arise naturally in crypto-currencies; (b) we present the first practical implementation of algorithms for ergodic games that scales to model realistic problems for crypto-currencies; and (c) we present experimental results showing that our framework can handle games with thousands of states and millions of transitions.' alternative_title: - LIPIcs article_number: '11' article_processing_charge: No author: - first_name: Krishnendu full_name: Chatterjee, Krishnendu id: 2E5DCA20-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Chatterjee orcid: 0000-0002-4561-241X - first_name: Amir full_name: Goharshady, Amir id: 391365CE-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Goharshady orcid: 0000-0003-1702-6584 - first_name: Rasmus full_name: Ibsen-Jensen, Rasmus id: 3B699956-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Ibsen-Jensen orcid: 0000-0003-4783-0389 - first_name: Yaron full_name: Velner, Yaron last_name: Velner citation: ama: 'Chatterjee K, Goharshady AK, Ibsen-Jensen R, Velner Y. Ergodic mean-payoff games for the analysis of attacks in crypto-currencies. In: Vol 118. Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik; 2018. doi:10.4230/LIPIcs.CONCUR.2018.11' apa: 'Chatterjee, K., Goharshady, A. K., Ibsen-Jensen, R., & Velner, Y. (2018). Ergodic mean-payoff games for the analysis of attacks in crypto-currencies (Vol. 118). Presented at the CONCUR: Conference on Concurrency Theory, Beijing, China: Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik. https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.CONCUR.2018.11' chicago: Chatterjee, Krishnendu, Amir Kafshdar Goharshady, Rasmus Ibsen-Jensen, and Yaron Velner. “Ergodic Mean-Payoff Games for the Analysis of Attacks in Crypto-Currencies,” Vol. 118. Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik, 2018. https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.CONCUR.2018.11. ieee: 'K. Chatterjee, A. K. Goharshady, R. Ibsen-Jensen, and Y. Velner, “Ergodic mean-payoff games for the analysis of attacks in crypto-currencies,” presented at the CONCUR: Conference on Concurrency Theory, Beijing, China, 2018, vol. 118.' ista: 'Chatterjee K, Goharshady AK, Ibsen-Jensen R, Velner Y. 2018. Ergodic mean-payoff games for the analysis of attacks in crypto-currencies. CONCUR: Conference on Concurrency Theory, LIPIcs, vol. 118, 11.' mla: Chatterjee, Krishnendu, et al. Ergodic Mean-Payoff Games for the Analysis of Attacks in Crypto-Currencies. Vol. 118, 11, Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik, 2018, doi:10.4230/LIPIcs.CONCUR.2018.11. short: K. Chatterjee, A.K. Goharshady, R. Ibsen-Jensen, Y. Velner, in:, Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik, 2018. conference: end_date: 2018-09-07 location: Beijing, China name: 'CONCUR: Conference on Concurrency Theory' start_date: 2018-09-04 date_created: 2018-12-11T11:44:27Z date_published: 2018-09-01T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2024-03-28T23:30:34Z day: '01' ddc: - '000' department: - _id: KrCh doi: 10.4230/LIPIcs.CONCUR.2018.11 ec_funded: 1 external_id: arxiv: - '1806.03108' file: - access_level: open_access checksum: 68a055b1aaa241cc38375083cf832a7d content_type: application/pdf creator: dernst date_created: 2018-12-17T12:08:00Z date_updated: 2020-07-14T12:47:34Z file_id: '5696' file_name: 2018_CONCUR_Chatterjee.pdf file_size: 1078309 relation: main_file file_date_updated: 2020-07-14T12:47:34Z has_accepted_license: '1' intvolume: ' 118' language: - iso: eng month: '09' oa: 1 oa_version: Published Version project: - _id: 25892FC0-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 grant_number: ICT15-003 name: Efficient Algorithms for Computer Aided Verification - _id: 2581B60A-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 call_identifier: FP7 grant_number: '279307' name: 'Quantitative Graph Games: Theory and Applications' - _id: 25832EC2-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 call_identifier: FWF grant_number: S 11407_N23 name: Rigorous Systems Engineering - _id: 266EEEC0-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 name: Quantitative Game-theoretic Analysis of Blockchain Applications and Smart Contracts publication_identifier: isbn: - 978-3-95977-087-3 publication_status: published publisher: Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik publist_id: '7988' quality_controlled: '1' related_material: record: - id: '8934' relation: dissertation_contains status: public scopus_import: '1' status: public title: Ergodic mean-payoff games for the analysis of attacks in crypto-currencies tmp: image: /images/cc_by.png legal_code_url: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode name: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC-BY 4.0) short: CC BY (4.0) type: conference user_id: 2DF688A6-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 volume: 118 year: '2018' ... --- _id: '311' abstract: - lang: eng text: 'Smart contracts are computer programs that are executed by a network of mutually distrusting agents, without the need of an external trusted authority. Smart contracts handle and transfer assets of considerable value (in the form of crypto-currency like Bitcoin). Hence, it is crucial that their implementation is bug-free. We identify the utility (or expected payoff) of interacting with such smart contracts as the basic and canonical quantitative property for such contracts. We present a framework for such quantitative analysis of smart contracts. Such a formal framework poses new and novel research challenges in programming languages, as it requires modeling of game-theoretic aspects to analyze incentives for deviation from honest behavior and modeling utilities which are not specified as standard temporal properties such as safety and termination. While game-theoretic incentives have been analyzed in the security community, their analysis has been restricted to the very special case of stateless games. However, to analyze smart contracts, stateful analysis is required as it must account for the different program states of the protocol. Our main contributions are as follows: we present (i)~a simplified programming language for smart contracts; (ii)~an automatic translation of the programs to state-based games; (iii)~an abstraction-refinement approach to solve such games; and (iv)~experimental results on real-world-inspired smart contracts.' acknowledgement: 'The research was partially supported by Vienna Science and Technology Fund (WWTF) Project ICT15-003, Austrian Science Fund (FWF) NFN Grant No S11407-N23 (RiSE/SHiNE), and ERC Starting grant (279307: Graph Games).' alternative_title: - LNCS article_processing_charge: No author: - first_name: Krishnendu full_name: Chatterjee, Krishnendu id: 2E5DCA20-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Chatterjee orcid: 0000-0002-4561-241X - first_name: Amir full_name: Goharshady, Amir id: 391365CE-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Goharshady orcid: 0000-0003-1702-6584 - first_name: Yaron full_name: Velner, Yaron last_name: Velner citation: ama: 'Chatterjee K, Goharshady AK, Velner Y. Quantitative analysis of smart contracts. In: Vol 10801. Springer; 2018:739-767. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-89884-1_26' apa: 'Chatterjee, K., Goharshady, A. K., & Velner, Y. (2018). Quantitative analysis of smart contracts (Vol. 10801, pp. 739–767). Presented at the ESOP: European Symposium on Programming, Thessaloniki, Greece: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-89884-1_26' chicago: Chatterjee, Krishnendu, Amir Kafshdar Goharshady, and Yaron Velner. “Quantitative Analysis of Smart Contracts,” 10801:739–67. Springer, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-89884-1_26. ieee: 'K. Chatterjee, A. K. Goharshady, and Y. Velner, “Quantitative analysis of smart contracts,” presented at the ESOP: European Symposium on Programming, Thessaloniki, Greece, 2018, vol. 10801, pp. 739–767.' ista: 'Chatterjee K, Goharshady AK, Velner Y. 2018. Quantitative analysis of smart contracts. ESOP: European Symposium on Programming, LNCS, vol. 10801, 739–767.' mla: Chatterjee, Krishnendu, et al. Quantitative Analysis of Smart Contracts. Vol. 10801, Springer, 2018, pp. 739–67, doi:10.1007/978-3-319-89884-1_26. short: K. Chatterjee, A.K. Goharshady, Y. Velner, in:, Springer, 2018, pp. 739–767. conference: end_date: 2018-04-19 location: Thessaloniki, Greece name: 'ESOP: European Symposium on Programming' start_date: 2018-04-16 date_created: 2018-12-11T11:45:45Z date_published: 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2024-03-28T23:30:33Z day: '01' ddc: - '000' department: - _id: KrCh doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-89884-1_26 ec_funded: 1 file: - access_level: open_access checksum: 9c8a8338c571903b599b6ca93abd2cce content_type: application/pdf creator: dernst date_created: 2018-12-17T15:45:49Z date_updated: 2020-07-14T12:46:00Z file_id: '5716' file_name: 2018_ESOP_Chatterjee.pdf file_size: 1394993 relation: main_file file_date_updated: 2020-07-14T12:46:00Z has_accepted_license: '1' intvolume: ' 10801' language: - iso: eng month: '04' oa: 1 oa_version: Published Version page: 739 - 767 project: - _id: 25892FC0-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 grant_number: ICT15-003 name: Efficient Algorithms for Computer Aided Verification - _id: 25832EC2-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 call_identifier: FWF grant_number: S 11407_N23 name: Rigorous Systems Engineering - _id: 2581B60A-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 call_identifier: FP7 grant_number: '279307' name: 'Quantitative Graph Games: Theory and Applications' publication_status: published publisher: Springer publist_id: '7554' quality_controlled: '1' related_material: record: - id: '8934' relation: dissertation_contains status: public scopus_import: '1' status: public title: Quantitative analysis of smart contracts tmp: image: /images/cc_by.png legal_code_url: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode name: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC-BY 4.0) short: CC BY (4.0) type: conference user_id: 2DF688A6-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 volume: 10801 year: '2018' ... --- _id: '6340' abstract: - lang: eng text: We present a secure approach for maintaining andreporting credit history records on the Blockchain. Our ap-proach removes third-parties such as credit reporting agen-cies from the lending process and replaces them with smartcontracts. This allows customers to interact directly with thelenders or banks while ensuring the integrity, unmalleabilityand privacy of their credit data. Additionally, each customerhas full control over complete or selective disclosure of hercredit records, eliminating the risk of privacy violations or databreaches. Moreover, our approach provides strong guaranteesfor the lenders as well. A lender can check both correctness andcompleteness of the credit data disclosed to her. This is the firstapproach that can perform all credit reporting tasks withouta central authority or changing the financial mechanisms*. article_processing_charge: No author: - first_name: Amir Kafshdar full_name: Goharshady, Amir Kafshdar id: 391365CE-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Goharshady orcid: 0000-0003-1702-6584 - first_name: Ali full_name: Behrouz, Ali last_name: Behrouz - first_name: Krishnendu full_name: Chatterjee, Krishnendu id: 2E5DCA20-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Chatterjee orcid: 0000-0002-4561-241X citation: ama: 'Goharshady AK, Behrouz A, Chatterjee K. Secure Credit Reporting on the Blockchain. In: Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Blockchain. IEEE; 2018:1343-1348. doi:10.1109/Cybermatics_2018.2018.00231' apa: 'Goharshady, A. K., Behrouz, A., & Chatterjee, K. (2018). Secure Credit Reporting on the Blockchain. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Blockchain (pp. 1343–1348). Halifax, Canada: IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/Cybermatics_2018.2018.00231' chicago: Goharshady, Amir Kafshdar, Ali Behrouz, and Krishnendu Chatterjee. “Secure Credit Reporting on the Blockchain.” In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Blockchain, 1343–48. IEEE, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1109/Cybermatics_2018.2018.00231. ieee: A. K. Goharshady, A. Behrouz, and K. Chatterjee, “Secure Credit Reporting on the Blockchain,” in Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Blockchain, Halifax, Canada, 2018, pp. 1343–1348. ista: Goharshady AK, Behrouz A, Chatterjee K. 2018. Secure Credit Reporting on the Blockchain. Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Blockchain. IEEE International Conference on Blockchain, 1343–1348. mla: Goharshady, Amir Kafshdar, et al. “Secure Credit Reporting on the Blockchain.” Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Blockchain, IEEE, 2018, pp. 1343–48, doi:10.1109/Cybermatics_2018.2018.00231. short: A.K. Goharshady, A. Behrouz, K. Chatterjee, in:, Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Blockchain, IEEE, 2018, pp. 1343–1348. conference: end_date: 2018-08-03 location: Halifax, Canada name: IEEE International Conference on Blockchain start_date: 2018-07-30 date_created: 2019-04-18T10:37:35Z date_published: 2018-09-01T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2024-03-28T23:30:34Z day: '01' ddc: - '000' department: - _id: KrCh doi: 10.1109/Cybermatics_2018.2018.00231 ec_funded: 1 external_id: arxiv: - '1805.09104' isi: - '000481634500196' file: - access_level: open_access checksum: b25c9bb7cf6e7e6634e692d26d41ead8 content_type: application/pdf creator: akafshda date_created: 2019-04-18T10:36:39Z date_updated: 2020-07-14T12:47:27Z file_id: '6341' file_name: blockchain2018.pdf file_size: 624338 relation: main_file file_date_updated: 2020-07-14T12:47:27Z has_accepted_license: '1' isi: 1 language: - iso: eng month: '09' oa: 1 oa_version: Submitted Version page: 1343-1348 project: - _id: 25892FC0-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 grant_number: ICT15-003 name: Efficient Algorithms for Computer Aided Verification - _id: 266EEEC0-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 name: Quantitative Game-theoretic Analysis of Blockchain Applications and Smart Contracts - _id: 2581B60A-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 call_identifier: FP7 grant_number: '279307' name: 'Quantitative Graph Games: Theory and Applications' - _id: 25832EC2-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 call_identifier: FWF grant_number: S 11407_N23 name: Rigorous Systems Engineering publication: Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Blockchain publication_identifier: isbn: - '978-1-5386-7975-3 ' publication_status: published publisher: IEEE quality_controlled: '1' related_material: record: - id: '8934' relation: dissertation_contains status: public scopus_import: '1' status: public title: Secure Credit Reporting on the Blockchain tmp: image: /images/cc_by_nc_nd.png legal_code_url: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/legalcode name: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) short: CC BY-NC-ND (4.0) type: conference user_id: c635000d-4b10-11ee-a964-aac5a93f6ac1 year: '2018' ... --- _id: '6009' abstract: - lang: eng text: "We study algorithmic questions wrt algebraic path properties in concurrent systems, where the transitions of the system are labeled from a complete, closed semiring. The algebraic path properties can model dataflow analysis problems, the shortest path problem, and many other natural problems that arise in program analysis. We consider that each component of the concurrent system is a graph with constant treewidth, a property satisfied by the controlflow graphs of most programs. We allow for multiple possible queries, which arise naturally in demand driven dataflow analysis. The study of multiple queries allows us to consider the tradeoff between the resource usage of the one-time preprocessing and for each individual query. The traditional approach constructs the product graph of all components and applies the best-known graph algorithm on the product. In this approach, even the answer to a single query requires the transitive closure (i.e., the results of all possible queries), which provides no room for tradeoff between preprocessing and query time.\r\nOur main contributions are algorithms that significantly improve the worst-case running time of the traditional approach, and provide various tradeoffs depending on the number of queries. For example, in a concurrent system of two components, the traditional approach requires hexic time in the worst case for answering one query as well as computing the transitive closure, whereas we show that with one-time preprocessing in almost cubic time, each subsequent query can be answered in at most linear time, and even the transitive closure can be computed in almost quartic time. Furthermore, we establish conditional optimality results showing that the worst-case running time of our algorithms cannot be improved without achieving major breakthroughs in graph algorithms (i.e., improving the worst-case bound for the shortest path problem in general graphs). Preliminary experimental results show that our algorithms perform favorably on several benchmarks.\r\n" article_number: '9' article_processing_charge: No author: - first_name: Krishnendu full_name: Chatterjee, Krishnendu id: 2E5DCA20-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Chatterjee orcid: 0000-0002-4561-241X - first_name: Rasmus full_name: Ibsen-Jensen, Rasmus id: 3B699956-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Ibsen-Jensen orcid: 0000-0003-4783-0389 - first_name: Amir Kafshdar full_name: Goharshady, Amir Kafshdar id: 391365CE-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Goharshady orcid: 0000-0003-1702-6584 - first_name: Andreas full_name: Pavlogiannis, Andreas id: 49704004-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Pavlogiannis orcid: 0000-0002-8943-0722 citation: ama: Chatterjee K, Ibsen-Jensen R, Goharshady AK, Pavlogiannis A. Algorithms for algebraic path properties in concurrent systems of constant treewidth components. ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems. 2018;40(3). doi:10.1145/3210257 apa: Chatterjee, K., Ibsen-Jensen, R., Goharshady, A. K., & Pavlogiannis, A. (2018). Algorithms for algebraic path properties in concurrent systems of constant treewidth components. ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems. Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). https://doi.org/10.1145/3210257 chicago: Chatterjee, Krishnendu, Rasmus Ibsen-Jensen, Amir Kafshdar Goharshady, and Andreas Pavlogiannis. “Algorithms for Algebraic Path Properties in Concurrent Systems of Constant Treewidth Components.” ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems. Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2018. https://doi.org/10.1145/3210257. ieee: K. Chatterjee, R. Ibsen-Jensen, A. K. Goharshady, and A. Pavlogiannis, “Algorithms for algebraic path properties in concurrent systems of constant treewidth components,” ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems, vol. 40, no. 3. Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2018. ista: Chatterjee K, Ibsen-Jensen R, Goharshady AK, Pavlogiannis A. 2018. Algorithms for algebraic path properties in concurrent systems of constant treewidth components. ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems. 40(3), 9. mla: Chatterjee, Krishnendu, et al. “Algorithms for Algebraic Path Properties in Concurrent Systems of Constant Treewidth Components.” ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems, vol. 40, no. 3, 9, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2018, doi:10.1145/3210257. short: K. Chatterjee, R. Ibsen-Jensen, A.K. Goharshady, A. Pavlogiannis, ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems 40 (2018). date_created: 2019-02-14T14:31:52Z date_published: 2018-08-01T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2024-03-28T23:30:34Z day: '01' department: - _id: KrCh doi: 10.1145/3210257 ec_funded: 1 external_id: arxiv: - '1510.07565' isi: - '000444694800001' intvolume: ' 40' isi: 1 issue: '3' language: - iso: eng main_file_link: - open_access: '1' url: https://arxiv.org/abs/1510.07565 month: '08' oa: 1 oa_version: Preprint project: - _id: 2584A770-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 call_identifier: FWF grant_number: P 23499-N23 name: Modern Graph Algorithmic Techniques in Formal Verification - _id: 25832EC2-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 call_identifier: FWF grant_number: S 11407_N23 name: Rigorous Systems Engineering - _id: 2581B60A-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 call_identifier: FP7 grant_number: '279307' name: 'Quantitative Graph Games: Theory and Applications' publication: ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems publication_identifier: issn: - 0164-0925 publication_status: published publisher: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) quality_controlled: '1' related_material: record: - id: '1437' relation: earlier_version status: public - id: '5441' relation: earlier_version status: public - id: '5442' relation: earlier_version status: public - id: '8934' relation: dissertation_contains status: public scopus_import: '1' status: public title: Algorithms for algebraic path properties in concurrent systems of constant treewidth components type: journal_article user_id: c635000d-4b10-11ee-a964-aac5a93f6ac1 volume: 40 year: '2018' ... --- _id: '5977' abstract: - lang: eng text: 'We consider the stochastic shortest path (SSP)problem for succinct Markov decision processes(MDPs), where the MDP consists of a set of vari-ables, and a set of nondeterministic rules that up-date the variables. First, we show that several ex-amples from the AI literature can be modeled assuccinct MDPs. Then we present computationalapproaches for upper and lower bounds for theSSP problem: (a) for computing upper bounds, ourmethod is polynomial-time in the implicit descrip-tion of the MDP; (b) for lower bounds, we present apolynomial-time (in the size of the implicit descrip-tion) reduction to quadratic programming. Our ap-proach is applicable even to infinite-state MDPs.Finally, we present experimental results to demon-strate the effectiveness of our approach on severalclassical examples from the AI literature.' article_processing_charge: No author: - first_name: Krishnendu full_name: Chatterjee, Krishnendu id: 2E5DCA20-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Chatterjee orcid: 0000-0002-4561-241X - first_name: Hongfei full_name: Fu, Hongfei id: 3AAD03D6-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Fu - first_name: Amir full_name: Goharshady, Amir id: 391365CE-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Goharshady orcid: 0000-0003-1702-6584 - first_name: Nastaran full_name: Okati, Nastaran last_name: Okati citation: ama: 'Chatterjee K, Fu H, Goharshady AK, Okati N. Computational approaches for stochastic shortest path on succinct MDPs. In: Proceedings of the Twenty-Seventh International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Vol 2018. IJCAI; 2018:4700-4707. doi:10.24963/ijcai.2018/653' apa: 'Chatterjee, K., Fu, H., Goharshady, A. K., & Okati, N. (2018). Computational approaches for stochastic shortest path on succinct MDPs. In Proceedings of the Twenty-Seventh International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (Vol. 2018, pp. 4700–4707). Stockholm, Sweden: IJCAI. https://doi.org/10.24963/ijcai.2018/653' chicago: Chatterjee, Krishnendu, Hongfei Fu, Amir Kafshdar Goharshady, and Nastaran Okati. “Computational Approaches for Stochastic Shortest Path on Succinct MDPs.” In Proceedings of the Twenty-Seventh International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2018:4700–4707. IJCAI, 2018. https://doi.org/10.24963/ijcai.2018/653. ieee: K. Chatterjee, H. Fu, A. K. Goharshady, and N. Okati, “Computational approaches for stochastic shortest path on succinct MDPs,” in Proceedings of the Twenty-Seventh International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Stockholm, Sweden, 2018, vol. 2018, pp. 4700–4707. ista: 'Chatterjee K, Fu H, Goharshady AK, Okati N. 2018. Computational approaches for stochastic shortest path on succinct MDPs. Proceedings of the Twenty-Seventh International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence. IJCAI: International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence vol. 2018, 4700–4707.' mla: Chatterjee, Krishnendu, et al. “Computational Approaches for Stochastic Shortest Path on Succinct MDPs.” Proceedings of the Twenty-Seventh International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, vol. 2018, IJCAI, 2018, pp. 4700–07, doi:10.24963/ijcai.2018/653. short: K. Chatterjee, H. Fu, A.K. Goharshady, N. Okati, in:, Proceedings of the Twenty-Seventh International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, IJCAI, 2018, pp. 4700–4707. conference: end_date: 2018-07-19 location: Stockholm, Sweden name: 'IJCAI: International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence' start_date: 2018-07-13 date_created: 2019-02-13T13:26:27Z date_published: 2018-07-17T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2024-03-28T23:30:34Z day: '17' department: - _id: KrCh doi: 10.24963/ijcai.2018/653 ec_funded: 1 external_id: arxiv: - '1804.08984' isi: - '000764175404118' intvolume: ' 2018' isi: 1 language: - iso: eng main_file_link: - open_access: '1' url: https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.08984 month: '07' oa: 1 oa_version: Preprint page: 4700-4707 project: - _id: 25892FC0-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 grant_number: ICT15-003 name: Efficient Algorithms for Computer Aided Verification - _id: 25832EC2-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 call_identifier: FWF grant_number: S 11407_N23 name: Rigorous Systems Engineering - _id: 2581B60A-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 call_identifier: FP7 grant_number: '279307' name: 'Quantitative Graph Games: Theory and Applications' publication: Proceedings of the Twenty-Seventh International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence publication_identifier: isbn: - 978-099924112-7 issn: - '10450823' publication_status: published publisher: IJCAI quality_controlled: '1' related_material: record: - id: '8934' relation: dissertation_contains status: public scopus_import: '1' status: public title: Computational approaches for stochastic shortest path on succinct MDPs type: conference user_id: c635000d-4b10-11ee-a964-aac5a93f6ac1 volume: 2018 year: '2018' ... --- _id: '2' abstract: - lang: eng text: Indirect reciprocity explores how humans act when their reputation is at stake, and which social norms they use to assess the actions of others. A crucial question in indirect reciprocity is which social norms can maintain stable cooperation in a society. Past research has highlighted eight such norms, called “leading-eight” strategies. This past research, however, is based on the assumption that all relevant information about other population members is publicly available and that everyone agrees on who is good or bad. Instead, here we explore the reputation dynamics when information is private and noisy. We show that under these conditions, most leading-eight strategies fail to evolve. Those leading-eight strategies that do evolve are unable to sustain full cooperation.Indirect reciprocity is a mechanism for cooperation based on shared moral systems and individual reputations. It assumes that members of a community routinely observe and assess each other and that they use this information to decide who is good or bad, and who deserves cooperation. When information is transmitted publicly, such that all community members agree on each other’s reputation, previous research has highlighted eight crucial moral systems. These “leading-eight” strategies can maintain cooperation and resist invasion by defectors. However, in real populations individuals often hold their own private views of others. Once two individuals disagree about their opinion of some third party, they may also see its subsequent actions in a different light. Their opinions may further diverge over time. Herein, we explore indirect reciprocity when information transmission is private and noisy. We find that in the presence of perception errors, most leading-eight strategies cease to be stable. Even if a leading-eight strategy evolves, cooperation rates may drop considerably when errors are common. Our research highlights the role of reliable information and synchronized reputations to maintain stable moral systems. article_processing_charge: No author: - first_name: Christian full_name: Hilbe, Christian id: 2FDF8F3C-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Hilbe orcid: 0000-0001-5116-955X - first_name: Laura full_name: Schmid, Laura id: 38B437DE-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Schmid orcid: 0000-0002-6978-7329 - first_name: Josef full_name: Tkadlec, Josef id: 3F24CCC8-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Tkadlec orcid: 0000-0002-1097-9684 - first_name: Krishnendu full_name: Chatterjee, Krishnendu id: 2E5DCA20-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Chatterjee orcid: 0000-0002-4561-241X - first_name: Martin full_name: Nowak, Martin last_name: Nowak citation: ama: Hilbe C, Schmid L, Tkadlec J, Chatterjee K, Nowak M. Indirect reciprocity with private, noisy, and incomplete information. PNAS. 2018;115(48):12241-12246. doi:10.1073/pnas.1810565115 apa: Hilbe, C., Schmid, L., Tkadlec, J., Chatterjee, K., & Nowak, M. (2018). Indirect reciprocity with private, noisy, and incomplete information. PNAS. National Academy of Sciences. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1810565115 chicago: Hilbe, Christian, Laura Schmid, Josef Tkadlec, Krishnendu Chatterjee, and Martin Nowak. “Indirect Reciprocity with Private, Noisy, and Incomplete Information.” PNAS. National Academy of Sciences, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1810565115. ieee: C. Hilbe, L. Schmid, J. Tkadlec, K. Chatterjee, and M. Nowak, “Indirect reciprocity with private, noisy, and incomplete information,” PNAS, vol. 115, no. 48. National Academy of Sciences, pp. 12241–12246, 2018. ista: Hilbe C, Schmid L, Tkadlec J, Chatterjee K, Nowak M. 2018. Indirect reciprocity with private, noisy, and incomplete information. PNAS. 115(48), 12241–12246. mla: Hilbe, Christian, et al. “Indirect Reciprocity with Private, Noisy, and Incomplete Information.” PNAS, vol. 115, no. 48, National Academy of Sciences, 2018, pp. 12241–46, doi:10.1073/pnas.1810565115. short: C. Hilbe, L. Schmid, J. Tkadlec, K. Chatterjee, M. Nowak, PNAS 115 (2018) 12241–12246. date_created: 2018-12-11T11:44:05Z date_published: 2018-11-27T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2024-03-28T23:30:45Z day: '27' department: - _id: KrCh doi: 10.1073/pnas.1810565115 ec_funded: 1 external_id: isi: - '000451351000063' pmid: - '30429320' intvolume: ' 115' isi: 1 issue: '48' language: - iso: eng main_file_link: - open_access: '1' url: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30429320 month: '11' oa: 1 oa_version: Submitted Version page: 12241-12246 pmid: 1 project: - _id: 2581B60A-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 call_identifier: FP7 grant_number: '279307' name: 'Quantitative Graph Games: Theory and Applications' - _id: 2584A770-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 call_identifier: FWF grant_number: P 23499-N23 name: Modern Graph Algorithmic Techniques in Formal Verification - _id: 25832EC2-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 call_identifier: FWF grant_number: S 11407_N23 name: Rigorous Systems Engineering - _id: 25681D80-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 call_identifier: FP7 grant_number: '291734' name: International IST Postdoc Fellowship Programme publication: PNAS publication_status: published publisher: National Academy of Sciences quality_controlled: '1' related_material: link: - description: News on IST Homepage relation: press_release url: https://ist.ac.at/en/news/no-cooperation-without-open-communication/ record: - id: '10293' relation: dissertation_contains status: public scopus_import: '1' status: public title: Indirect reciprocity with private, noisy, and incomplete information type: journal_article user_id: c635000d-4b10-11ee-a964-aac5a93f6ac1 volume: 115 year: '2018' ... --- _id: '10418' abstract: - lang: eng text: We present a new proof rule for proving almost-sure termination of probabilistic programs, including those that contain demonic non-determinism. An important question for a probabilistic program is whether the probability mass of all its diverging runs is zero, that is that it terminates "almost surely". Proving that can be hard, and this paper presents a new method for doing so. It applies directly to the program's source code, even if the program contains demonic choice. Like others, we use variant functions (a.k.a. "super-martingales") that are real-valued and decrease randomly on each loop iteration; but our key innovation is that the amount as well as the probability of the decrease are parametric. We prove the soundness of the new rule, indicate where its applicability goes beyond existing rules, and explain its connection to classical results on denumerable (non-demonic) Markov chains. acknowledgement: "McIver and Morgan are grateful to David Basin and the Information Security Group at ETH Zürich for hosting a six-month stay in Switzerland, during part of which this work began. And thanks particularly to Andreas Lochbihler, who shared with us the probabilistic termination problem that led to it. They acknowledge the support of ARC grant DP140101119. Part of this work was carried out during the Workshop on Probabilistic Programming Semantics\r\nat McGill University’s Bellairs Research Institute on Barbados organised by Alexandra Silva and\r\nPrakash Panangaden. Kaminski and Katoen are grateful to Sebastian Junges for spotting a flaw in §5.4." article_number: '33' article_processing_charge: No article_type: original author: - first_name: Annabelle full_name: Mciver, Annabelle last_name: Mciver - first_name: Carroll full_name: Morgan, Carroll last_name: Morgan - first_name: Benjamin Lucien full_name: Kaminski, Benjamin Lucien last_name: Kaminski - first_name: Joost P full_name: Katoen, Joost P id: 4524F760-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Katoen citation: ama: Mciver A, Morgan C, Kaminski BL, Katoen JP. A new proof rule for almost-sure termination. Proceedings of the ACM on Programming Languages. 2017;2(POPL). doi:10.1145/3158121 apa: 'Mciver, A., Morgan, C., Kaminski, B. L., & Katoen, J. P. (2017). A new proof rule for almost-sure termination. Proceedings of the ACM on Programming Languages. Los Angeles, CA, United States: Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/3158121' chicago: Mciver, Annabelle, Carroll Morgan, Benjamin Lucien Kaminski, and Joost P Katoen. “A New Proof Rule for Almost-Sure Termination.” Proceedings of the ACM on Programming Languages. Association for Computing Machinery, 2017. https://doi.org/10.1145/3158121. ieee: A. Mciver, C. Morgan, B. L. Kaminski, and J. P. Katoen, “A new proof rule for almost-sure termination,” Proceedings of the ACM on Programming Languages, vol. 2, no. POPL. Association for Computing Machinery, 2017. ista: Mciver A, Morgan C, Kaminski BL, Katoen JP. 2017. A new proof rule for almost-sure termination. Proceedings of the ACM on Programming Languages. 2(POPL), 33. mla: Mciver, Annabelle, et al. “A New Proof Rule for Almost-Sure Termination.” Proceedings of the ACM on Programming Languages, vol. 2, no. POPL, 33, Association for Computing Machinery, 2017, doi:10.1145/3158121. short: A. Mciver, C. Morgan, B.L. Kaminski, J.P. Katoen, Proceedings of the ACM on Programming Languages 2 (2017). conference: end_date: 2018-01-13 location: Los Angeles, CA, United States name: 'POPL: Programming Languages' start_date: 2018-01-07 date_created: 2021-12-05T23:01:49Z date_published: 2017-12-07T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2021-12-07T08:04:14Z day: '07' department: - _id: KrCh - _id: ToHe doi: 10.1145/3158121 external_id: arxiv: - '1711.03588' intvolume: ' 2' issue: POPL language: - iso: eng main_file_link: - open_access: '1' url: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3158121 month: '12' oa: 1 oa_version: Published Version publication: Proceedings of the ACM on Programming Languages publication_identifier: eissn: - 2475-1421 publication_status: published publisher: Association for Computing Machinery quality_controlled: '1' scopus_import: '1' status: public title: A new proof rule for almost-sure termination type: journal_article user_id: 8b945eb4-e2f2-11eb-945a-df72226e66a9 volume: 2 year: '2017' ... --- _id: '464' abstract: - lang: eng text: The computation of the winning set for parity objectives and for Streett objectives in graphs as well as in game graphs are central problems in computer-aided verification, with application to the verification of closed systems with strong fairness conditions, the verification of open systems, checking interface compatibility, well-formedness of specifications, and the synthesis of reactive systems. We show how to compute the winning set on n vertices for (1) parity-3 (aka one-pair Streett) objectives in game graphs in time O(n5/2) and for (2) k-pair Streett objectives in graphs in time O(n2+nklogn). For both problems this gives faster algorithms for dense graphs and represents the first improvement in asymptotic running time in 15 years. article_number: '26' article_processing_charge: No author: - first_name: Krishnendu full_name: Chatterjee, Krishnendu id: 2E5DCA20-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Chatterjee orcid: 0000-0002-4561-241X - first_name: Monika H full_name: Henzinger, Monika H id: 540c9bbd-f2de-11ec-812d-d04a5be85630 last_name: Henzinger orcid: 0000-0002-5008-6530 - first_name: Veronika full_name: Loitzenbauer, Veronika last_name: Loitzenbauer citation: ama: Chatterjee K, Henzinger MH, Loitzenbauer V. Improved algorithms for parity and Streett objectives. Logical Methods in Computer Science. 2017;13(3). doi:10.23638/LMCS-13(3:26)2017 apa: Chatterjee, K., Henzinger, M. H., & Loitzenbauer, V. (2017). Improved algorithms for parity and Streett objectives. Logical Methods in Computer Science. International Federation of Computational Logic. https://doi.org/10.23638/LMCS-13(3:26)2017 chicago: Chatterjee, Krishnendu, Monika H Henzinger, and Veronika Loitzenbauer. “Improved Algorithms for Parity and Streett Objectives.” Logical Methods in Computer Science. International Federation of Computational Logic, 2017. https://doi.org/10.23638/LMCS-13(3:26)2017. ieee: K. Chatterjee, M. H. Henzinger, and V. Loitzenbauer, “Improved algorithms for parity and Streett objectives,” Logical Methods in Computer Science, vol. 13, no. 3. International Federation of Computational Logic, 2017. ista: Chatterjee K, Henzinger MH, Loitzenbauer V. 2017. Improved algorithms for parity and Streett objectives. Logical Methods in Computer Science. 13(3), 26. mla: Chatterjee, Krishnendu, et al. “Improved Algorithms for Parity and Streett Objectives.” Logical Methods in Computer Science, vol. 13, no. 3, 26, International Federation of Computational Logic, 2017, doi:10.23638/LMCS-13(3:26)2017. short: K. Chatterjee, M.H. Henzinger, V. Loitzenbauer, Logical Methods in Computer Science 13 (2017). date_created: 2018-12-11T11:46:37Z date_published: 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2023-02-23T10:08:55Z day: '26' ddc: - '004' department: - _id: KrCh doi: 10.23638/LMCS-13(3:26)2017 ec_funded: 1 external_id: arxiv: - '1410.0833' file: - access_level: open_access checksum: 12d469ae69b80361333d7dead965cf5d content_type: application/pdf creator: system date_created: 2018-12-12T10:13:27Z date_updated: 2020-07-14T12:46:32Z file_id: '5010' file_name: IST-2018-956-v1+1_2017_Chatterjee_Improved_algorithms.pdf file_size: 582940 relation: main_file file_date_updated: 2020-07-14T12:46:32Z has_accepted_license: '1' intvolume: ' 13' issue: '3' language: - iso: eng license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/ month: '09' oa: 1 oa_version: Published Version project: - _id: 2584A770-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 call_identifier: FWF grant_number: P 23499-N23 name: Modern Graph Algorithmic Techniques in Formal Verification - _id: 25863FF4-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 call_identifier: FWF grant_number: S11407 name: Game Theory - _id: 25892FC0-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 grant_number: ICT15-003 name: Efficient Algorithms for Computer Aided Verification - _id: 2581B60A-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 call_identifier: FP7 grant_number: '279307' name: 'Quantitative Graph Games: Theory and Applications' publication: Logical Methods in Computer Science publication_identifier: issn: - 1860-5974 publication_status: published publisher: International Federation of Computational Logic publist_id: '7357' pubrep_id: '956' quality_controlled: '1' related_material: record: - id: '1661' relation: earlier_version status: public scopus_import: '1' status: public title: Improved algorithms for parity and Streett objectives tmp: image: /image/cc_by_nd.png legal_code_url: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/legalcode name: Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-ND 4.0) short: CC BY-ND (4.0) type: journal_article user_id: 2DF688A6-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 volume: 13 year: '2017' ... --- _id: '466' abstract: - lang: eng text: 'We consider Markov decision processes (MDPs) with multiple limit-average (or mean-payoff) objectives. There exist two different views: (i) the expectation semantics, where the goal is to optimize the expected mean-payoff objective, and (ii) the satisfaction semantics, where the goal is to maximize the probability of runs such that the mean-payoff value stays above a given vector. We consider optimization with respect to both objectives at once, thus unifying the existing semantics. Precisely, the goal is to optimize the expectation while ensuring the satisfaction constraint. Our problem captures the notion of optimization with respect to strategies that are risk-averse (i.e., ensure certain probabilistic guarantee). Our main results are as follows: First, we present algorithms for the decision problems which are always polynomial in the size of the MDP. We also show that an approximation of the Pareto-curve can be computed in time polynomial in the size of the MDP, and the approximation factor, but exponential in the number of dimensions. Second, we present a complete characterization of the strategy complexity (in terms of memory bounds and randomization) required to solve our problem. ' article_number: '15' author: - first_name: Krishnendu full_name: Chatterjee, Krishnendu id: 2E5DCA20-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Chatterjee orcid: 0000-0002-4561-241X - first_name: Zuzana full_name: Křetínská, Zuzana last_name: Křetínská - first_name: Jan full_name: Kretinsky, Jan id: 44CEF464-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Kretinsky orcid: 0000-0002-8122-2881 citation: ama: Chatterjee K, Křetínská Z, Kretinsky J. Unifying two views on multiple mean-payoff objectives in Markov decision processes. Logical Methods in Computer Science. 2017;13(2). doi:10.23638/LMCS-13(2:15)2017 apa: Chatterjee, K., Křetínská, Z., & Kretinsky, J. (2017). Unifying two views on multiple mean-payoff objectives in Markov decision processes. Logical Methods in Computer Science. International Federation of Computational Logic. https://doi.org/10.23638/LMCS-13(2:15)2017 chicago: Chatterjee, Krishnendu, Zuzana Křetínská, and Jan Kretinsky. “Unifying Two Views on Multiple Mean-Payoff Objectives in Markov Decision Processes.” Logical Methods in Computer Science. International Federation of Computational Logic, 2017. https://doi.org/10.23638/LMCS-13(2:15)2017. ieee: K. Chatterjee, Z. Křetínská, and J. Kretinsky, “Unifying two views on multiple mean-payoff objectives in Markov decision processes,” Logical Methods in Computer Science, vol. 13, no. 2. International Federation of Computational Logic, 2017. ista: Chatterjee K, Křetínská Z, Kretinsky J. 2017. Unifying two views on multiple mean-payoff objectives in Markov decision processes. Logical Methods in Computer Science. 13(2), 15. mla: Chatterjee, Krishnendu, et al. “Unifying Two Views on Multiple Mean-Payoff Objectives in Markov Decision Processes.” Logical Methods in Computer Science, vol. 13, no. 2, 15, International Federation of Computational Logic, 2017, doi:10.23638/LMCS-13(2:15)2017. short: K. Chatterjee, Z. Křetínská, J. Kretinsky, Logical Methods in Computer Science 13 (2017). date_created: 2018-12-11T11:46:38Z date_published: 2017-07-03T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2023-02-23T12:26:16Z day: '03' ddc: - '004' department: - _id: KrCh doi: 10.23638/LMCS-13(2:15)2017 ec_funded: 1 file: - access_level: open_access checksum: bfa405385ec6229ad5ead89ab5751639 content_type: application/pdf creator: system date_created: 2018-12-12T10:18:32Z date_updated: 2020-07-14T12:46:33Z file_id: '5354' file_name: IST-2018-957-v1+1_2017_Chatterjee_Unifying_two.pdf file_size: 511832 relation: main_file file_date_updated: 2020-07-14T12:46:33Z has_accepted_license: '1' intvolume: ' 13' issue: '2' language: - iso: eng month: '07' oa: 1 oa_version: Published Version project: - _id: 25681D80-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 call_identifier: FP7 grant_number: '291734' name: International IST Postdoc Fellowship Programme - _id: 2584A770-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 call_identifier: FWF grant_number: P 23499-N23 name: Modern Graph Algorithmic Techniques in Formal Verification - _id: 2581B60A-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 call_identifier: FP7 grant_number: '279307' name: 'Quantitative Graph Games: Theory and Applications' - _id: 2590DB08-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 call_identifier: H2020 grant_number: '701309' name: Atomic-Resolution Structures of Mitochondrial Respiratory Chain Supercomplexes (H2020) publication: Logical Methods in Computer Science publication_identifier: issn: - '18605974' publication_status: published publisher: International Federation of Computational Logic publist_id: '7355' pubrep_id: '957' quality_controlled: '1' related_material: record: - id: '1657' relation: earlier_version status: public - id: '5429' relation: earlier_version status: public - id: '5435' relation: earlier_version status: public scopus_import: 1 status: public title: Unifying two views on multiple mean-payoff objectives in Markov decision processes tmp: image: /image/cc_by_nd.png legal_code_url: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/legalcode name: Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-ND 4.0) short: CC BY-ND (4.0) type: journal_article user_id: 2DF688A6-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 volume: 13 year: '2017' ... --- _id: '467' abstract: - lang: eng text: Recently there has been a significant effort to handle quantitative properties in formal verification and synthesis. While weighted automata over finite and infinite words provide a natural and flexible framework to express quantitative properties, perhaps surprisingly, some basic system properties such as average response time cannot be expressed using weighted automata or in any other known decidable formalism. In this work, we introduce nested weighted automata as a natural extension of weighted automata, which makes it possible to express important quantitative properties such as average response time. In nested weighted automata, a master automaton spins off and collects results from weighted slave automata, each of which computes a quantity along a finite portion of an infinite word. Nested weighted automata can be viewed as the quantitative analogue of monitor automata, which are used in runtime verification. We establish an almost-complete decidability picture for the basic decision problems about nested weighted automata and illustrate their applicability in several domains. In particular, nested weighted automata can be used to decide average response time properties. article_number: '31' author: - first_name: Krishnendu full_name: Chatterjee, Krishnendu id: 2E5DCA20-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Chatterjee orcid: 0000-0002-4561-241X - first_name: Thomas A full_name: Henzinger, Thomas A id: 40876CD8-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Henzinger orcid: 0000−0002−2985−7724 - first_name: Jan full_name: Otop, Jan id: 2FC5DA74-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Otop citation: ama: Chatterjee K, Henzinger TA, Otop J. Nested weighted automata. ACM Transactions on Computational Logic (TOCL). 2017;18(4). doi:10.1145/3152769 apa: Chatterjee, K., Henzinger, T. A., & Otop, J. (2017). Nested weighted automata. ACM Transactions on Computational Logic (TOCL). ACM. https://doi.org/10.1145/3152769 chicago: Chatterjee, Krishnendu, Thomas A Henzinger, and Jan Otop. “Nested Weighted Automata.” ACM Transactions on Computational Logic (TOCL). ACM, 2017. https://doi.org/10.1145/3152769. ieee: K. Chatterjee, T. A. Henzinger, and J. Otop, “Nested weighted automata,” ACM Transactions on Computational Logic (TOCL), vol. 18, no. 4. ACM, 2017. ista: Chatterjee K, Henzinger TA, Otop J. 2017. Nested weighted automata. ACM Transactions on Computational Logic (TOCL). 18(4), 31. mla: Chatterjee, Krishnendu, et al. “Nested Weighted Automata.” ACM Transactions on Computational Logic (TOCL), vol. 18, no. 4, 31, ACM, 2017, doi:10.1145/3152769. short: K. Chatterjee, T.A. Henzinger, J. Otop, ACM Transactions on Computational Logic (TOCL) 18 (2017). date_created: 2018-12-11T11:46:38Z date_published: 2017-12-01T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2023-02-23T12:26:19Z day: '01' department: - _id: KrCh - _id: ToHe doi: 10.1145/3152769 ec_funded: 1 external_id: arxiv: - '1606.03598' intvolume: ' 18' issue: '4' language: - iso: eng main_file_link: - open_access: '1' url: https://arxiv.org/abs/1606.03598 month: '12' oa: 1 oa_version: Preprint project: - _id: 25832EC2-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 call_identifier: FWF grant_number: S 11407_N23 name: Rigorous Systems Engineering - _id: 25F42A32-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 call_identifier: FWF grant_number: Z211 name: The Wittgenstein Prize - _id: 2584A770-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 call_identifier: FWF grant_number: P 23499-N23 name: Modern Graph Algorithmic Techniques in Formal Verification - _id: 2581B60A-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 call_identifier: FP7 grant_number: '279307' name: 'Quantitative Graph Games: Theory and Applications' - _id: 2587B514-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 name: Microsoft Research Faculty Fellowship publication: ACM Transactions on Computational Logic (TOCL) publication_identifier: issn: - '15293785' publication_status: published publisher: ACM publist_id: '7354' quality_controlled: '1' related_material: record: - id: '1656' relation: earlier_version status: public - id: '5415' relation: earlier_version status: public - id: '5436' relation: earlier_version status: public scopus_import: 1 status: public title: Nested weighted automata type: journal_article user_id: 2DF688A6-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 volume: 18 year: '2017' ... --- _id: '465' abstract: - lang: eng text: 'The edit distance between two words w 1 , w 2 is the minimal number of word operations (letter insertions, deletions, and substitutions) necessary to transform w 1 to w 2 . The edit distance generalizes to languages L 1 , L 2 , where the edit distance from L 1 to L 2 is the minimal number k such that for every word from L 1 there exists a word in L 2 with edit distance at most k . We study the edit distance computation problem between pushdown automata and their subclasses. The problem of computing edit distance to a pushdown automaton is undecidable, and in practice, the interesting question is to compute the edit distance from a pushdown automaton (the implementation, a standard model for programs with recursion) to a regular language (the specification). In this work, we present a complete picture of decidability and complexity for the following problems: (1) deciding whether, for a given threshold k , the edit distance from a pushdown automaton to a finite automaton is at most k , and (2) deciding whether the edit distance from a pushdown automaton to a finite automaton is finite. ' author: - first_name: Krishnendu full_name: Chatterjee, Krishnendu id: 2E5DCA20-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Chatterjee orcid: 0000-0002-4561-241X - first_name: Thomas A full_name: Henzinger, Thomas A id: 40876CD8-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Henzinger orcid: 0000−0002−2985−7724 - first_name: Rasmus full_name: Ibsen-Jensen, Rasmus id: 3B699956-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Ibsen-Jensen orcid: 0000-0003-4783-0389 - first_name: Jan full_name: Otop, Jan last_name: Otop citation: ama: Chatterjee K, Henzinger TA, Ibsen-Jensen R, Otop J. Edit distance for pushdown automata. Logical Methods in Computer Science. 2017;13(3). doi:10.23638/LMCS-13(3:23)2017 apa: Chatterjee, K., Henzinger, T. A., Ibsen-Jensen, R., & Otop, J. (2017). Edit distance for pushdown automata. Logical Methods in Computer Science. International Federation of Computational Logic. https://doi.org/10.23638/LMCS-13(3:23)2017 chicago: Chatterjee, Krishnendu, Thomas A Henzinger, Rasmus Ibsen-Jensen, and Jan Otop. “Edit Distance for Pushdown Automata.” Logical Methods in Computer Science. International Federation of Computational Logic, 2017. https://doi.org/10.23638/LMCS-13(3:23)2017. ieee: K. Chatterjee, T. A. Henzinger, R. Ibsen-Jensen, and J. Otop, “Edit distance for pushdown automata,” Logical Methods in Computer Science, vol. 13, no. 3. International Federation of Computational Logic, 2017. ista: Chatterjee K, Henzinger TA, Ibsen-Jensen R, Otop J. 2017. Edit distance for pushdown automata. Logical Methods in Computer Science. 13(3). mla: Chatterjee, Krishnendu, et al. “Edit Distance for Pushdown Automata.” Logical Methods in Computer Science, vol. 13, no. 3, International Federation of Computational Logic, 2017, doi:10.23638/LMCS-13(3:23)2017. short: K. Chatterjee, T.A. Henzinger, R. Ibsen-Jensen, J. Otop, Logical Methods in Computer Science 13 (2017). date_created: 2018-12-11T11:46:37Z date_published: 2017-09-13T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2023-02-23T12:26:25Z day: '13' ddc: - '004' department: - _id: KrCh - _id: ToHe doi: 10.23638/LMCS-13(3:23)2017 ec_funded: 1 file: - access_level: open_access checksum: 08041379ba408d40664f449eb5907a8f content_type: application/pdf creator: system date_created: 2018-12-12T10:14:37Z date_updated: 2020-07-14T12:46:33Z file_id: '5090' file_name: IST-2015-321-v1+1_main.pdf file_size: 279071 relation: main_file - access_level: open_access checksum: 08041379ba408d40664f449eb5907a8f content_type: application/pdf creator: system date_created: 2018-12-12T10:14:38Z date_updated: 2020-07-14T12:46:33Z file_id: '5091' file_name: IST-2018-955-v1+1_2017_Chatterjee_Edit_distance.pdf file_size: 279071 relation: main_file file_date_updated: 2020-07-14T12:46:33Z has_accepted_license: '1' intvolume: ' 13' issue: '3' language: - iso: eng month: '09' oa: 1 oa_version: Published Version project: - _id: 25F5A88A-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 call_identifier: FWF grant_number: S11402-N23 name: Moderne Concurrency Paradigms - _id: 2584A770-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 call_identifier: FWF grant_number: P 23499-N23 name: Modern Graph Algorithmic Techniques in Formal Verification - _id: 25F42A32-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 call_identifier: FWF grant_number: Z211 name: The Wittgenstein Prize - _id: 25EE3708-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 call_identifier: FP7 grant_number: '267989' name: Quantitative Reactive Modeling - _id: 2581B60A-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 call_identifier: FP7 grant_number: '279307' name: 'Quantitative Graph Games: Theory and Applications' - _id: 25863FF4-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 call_identifier: FWF grant_number: S11407 name: Game Theory publication: Logical Methods in Computer Science publication_identifier: issn: - '18605974' publication_status: published publisher: International Federation of Computational Logic publist_id: '7356' pubrep_id: '955' quality_controlled: '1' related_material: record: - id: '1610' relation: earlier_version status: public - id: '5438' relation: earlier_version status: public scopus_import: 1 status: public title: Edit distance for pushdown automata tmp: image: /image/cc_by_nd.png legal_code_url: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/legalcode name: Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-ND 4.0) short: CC BY-ND (4.0) type: journal_article user_id: 2DF688A6-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 volume: 13 year: '2017' ...