--- _id: '1661' abstract: - lang: eng text: The computation of the winning set for one-pair Streett objectives and for k-pair Streett objectives in (standard) 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-formed ness of specifications, and the synthesis of reactive systems. We give faster algorithms for the computation of the winning set for (1) one-pair Streett objectives (aka parity-3 problem) in game graphs and (2) for k-pair Streett objectives in graphs. For both problems this represents the first improvement in asymptotic running time in 15 years. acknowledgement: 'K. C. is supported by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF): P23499-N23 and S11407-N23 (RiSE), an ERC Start Grant (279307: Graph Games), and a Microsoft Faculty Fellows Award. M. H. is supported by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF): P23499-N23 and the Vienna Science and Technology Fund (WWTF) grant ICT10-002. V. L. is supported by the Vienna Science and Technology Fund (WWTF) grant ICT10-002. 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.' article_number: '7174888' 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 one-pair and k-pair Streett objectives. In: Proceedings - Symposium on Logic in Computer Science. Vol 2015-July. IEEE; 2015. doi:10.1109/LICS.2015.34' apa: 'Chatterjee, K., Henzinger, M. H., & Loitzenbauer, V. (2015). Improved algorithms for one-pair and k-pair Streett objectives. In Proceedings - Symposium on Logic in Computer Science (Vol. 2015–July). Kyoto, Japan: IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/LICS.2015.34' chicago: Chatterjee, Krishnendu, Monika H Henzinger, and Veronika Loitzenbauer. “Improved Algorithms for One-Pair and k-Pair Streett Objectives.” In Proceedings - Symposium on Logic in Computer Science, Vol. 2015–July. IEEE, 2015. https://doi.org/10.1109/LICS.2015.34. ieee: K. Chatterjee, M. H. Henzinger, and V. Loitzenbauer, “Improved algorithms for one-pair and k-pair Streett objectives,” in Proceedings - Symposium on Logic in Computer Science, Kyoto, Japan, 2015, vol. 2015–July. ista: 'Chatterjee K, Henzinger MH, Loitzenbauer V. 2015. Improved algorithms for one-pair and k-pair Streett objectives. Proceedings - Symposium on Logic in Computer Science. LICS: Logic in Computer Science vol. 2015–July, 7174888.' mla: Chatterjee, Krishnendu, et al. “Improved Algorithms for One-Pair and k-Pair Streett Objectives.” Proceedings - Symposium on Logic in Computer Science, vol. 2015–July, 7174888, IEEE, 2015, doi:10.1109/LICS.2015.34. short: K. Chatterjee, M.H. Henzinger, V. Loitzenbauer, in:, Proceedings - Symposium on Logic in Computer Science, IEEE, 2015. conference: end_date: 2015-07-10 location: Kyoto, Japan name: 'LICS: Logic in Computer Science' start_date: 2015-07-06 date_created: 2018-12-11T11:53:19Z date_published: 2015-07-01T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2023-02-23T12:20:05Z day: '01' department: - _id: KrCh doi: 10.1109/LICS.2015.34 ec_funded: 1 language: - iso: eng main_file_link: - open_access: '1' url: https://eprints.cs.univie.ac.at/4368/ month: '07' 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' publication: Proceedings - Symposium on Logic in Computer Science publication_status: published publisher: IEEE publist_id: '5489' quality_controlled: '1' related_material: record: - id: '464' relation: later_version status: public scopus_import: '1' status: public title: Improved algorithms for one-pair and k-pair Streett objectives type: conference user_id: 6785fbc1-c503-11eb-8a32-93094b40e1cf volume: 2015-July year: '2015' ... --- _id: '473' abstract: - lang: eng text: We prove that nonlinear Gibbs measures can be obtained from the corresponding many-body, grand-canonical, quantum Gibbs states, in a mean-field limit where the temperature T diverges and the interaction strength behaves as 1/T. We proceed by characterizing the interacting Gibbs state as minimizing a functional counting the free-energy relatively to the non-interacting case. We then perform an infinite-dimensional analogue of phase-space semiclassical analysis, using fine properties of the quantum relative entropy, the link between quantum de Finetti measures and upper/lower symbols in a coherent state basis, as well as Berezin-Lieb type inequalities. Our results cover the measure built on the defocusing nonlinear Schrödinger functional on a finite interval, as well as smoother interactions in dimensions d 2. author: - first_name: Mathieu full_name: Lewin, Mathieu last_name: Lewin - first_name: Nam full_name: Phan Thanh, Nam id: 404092F4-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Phan Thanh - first_name: Nicolas full_name: Rougerie, Nicolas last_name: Rougerie citation: ama: Lewin M, Nam P, Rougerie N. Derivation of nonlinear gibbs measures from many-body quantum mechanics. Journal de l’Ecole Polytechnique - Mathematiques. 2015;2:65-115. doi:10.5802/jep.18 apa: Lewin, M., Nam, P., & Rougerie, N. (2015). Derivation of nonlinear gibbs measures from many-body quantum mechanics. Journal de l’Ecole Polytechnique - Mathematiques. Ecole Polytechnique. https://doi.org/10.5802/jep.18 chicago: Lewin, Mathieu, Phan Nam, and Nicolas Rougerie. “Derivation of Nonlinear Gibbs Measures from Many-Body Quantum Mechanics.” Journal de l’Ecole Polytechnique - Mathematiques. Ecole Polytechnique, 2015. https://doi.org/10.5802/jep.18. ieee: M. Lewin, P. Nam, and N. Rougerie, “Derivation of nonlinear gibbs measures from many-body quantum mechanics,” Journal de l’Ecole Polytechnique - Mathematiques, vol. 2. Ecole Polytechnique, pp. 65–115, 2015. ista: Lewin M, Nam P, Rougerie N. 2015. Derivation of nonlinear gibbs measures from many-body quantum mechanics. Journal de l’Ecole Polytechnique - Mathematiques. 2, 65–115. mla: Lewin, Mathieu, et al. “Derivation of Nonlinear Gibbs Measures from Many-Body Quantum Mechanics.” Journal de l’Ecole Polytechnique - Mathematiques, vol. 2, Ecole Polytechnique, 2015, pp. 65–115, doi:10.5802/jep.18. short: M. Lewin, P. Nam, N. Rougerie, Journal de l’Ecole Polytechnique - Mathematiques 2 (2015) 65–115. date_created: 2018-12-11T11:46:40Z date_published: 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2021-01-12T08:00:52Z day: '01' ddc: - '539' department: - _id: RoSe doi: 10.5802/jep.18 ec_funded: 1 file: - access_level: open_access checksum: a40eb4016717ddc9927154798a4c164a content_type: application/pdf creator: system date_created: 2018-12-12T10:12:53Z date_updated: 2020-07-14T12:46:35Z file_id: '4974' file_name: IST-2018-951-v1+1_2015_Thanh-Nam_Derivation_of.pdf file_size: 1084254 relation: main_file file_date_updated: 2020-07-14T12:46:35Z has_accepted_license: '1' intvolume: ' 2' language: - iso: eng license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/ month: '01' oa: 1 oa_version: Published Version page: 65 - 115 project: - _id: 25681D80-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 call_identifier: FP7 grant_number: '291734' name: International IST Postdoc Fellowship Programme publication: Journal de l'Ecole Polytechnique - Mathematiques publication_status: published publisher: Ecole Polytechnique publist_id: '7344' pubrep_id: '951' quality_controlled: '1' scopus_import: 1 status: public title: Derivation of nonlinear gibbs measures from many-body quantum mechanics 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: 2 year: '2015' ... --- _id: '477' abstract: - lang: eng text: Dendritic cells are potent antigen-presenting cells endowed with the unique ability to initiate adaptive immune responses upon inflammation. Inflammatory processes are often associated with an increased production of serotonin, which operates by activating specific receptors. However, the functional role of serotonin receptors in regulation of dendritic cell functions is poorly understood. Here, we demonstrate that expression of serotonin receptor 5-HT7 (5-HT7TR) as well as its downstream effector Cdc42 is upregulated in dendritic cells upon maturation. Although dendritic cell maturation was independent of 5-HT7TR, receptor stimulation affected dendritic cell morphology through Cdc42-mediated signaling. In addition, basal activity of 5-HT7TR was required for the proper expression of the chemokine receptor CCR7, which is a key factor that controls dendritic cell migration. Consistent with this, we observed that 5-HT7TR enhances chemotactic motility of dendritic cells in vitro by modulating their directionality and migration velocity. Accordingly, migration of dendritic cells in murine colon explants was abolished after pharmacological receptor inhibition. Our results indicate that there is a crucial role for 5-HT7TR-Cdc42-mediated signaling in the regulation of dendritic cell morphology and motility, suggesting that 5-HT7TR could be a new target for treatment of a variety of inflammatory and immune disorders. author: - first_name: Katrin full_name: Holst, Katrin last_name: Holst - first_name: Daria full_name: Guseva, Daria last_name: Guseva - first_name: Susann full_name: Schindler, Susann last_name: Schindler - first_name: Michael K full_name: Sixt, Michael K id: 41E9FBEA-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Sixt orcid: 0000-0002-6620-9179 - first_name: Armin full_name: Braun, Armin last_name: Braun - first_name: Himpriya full_name: Chopra, Himpriya last_name: Chopra - first_name: Oliver full_name: Pabst, Oliver last_name: Pabst - first_name: Evgeni full_name: Ponimaskin, Evgeni last_name: Ponimaskin citation: ama: Holst K, Guseva D, Schindler S, et al. The serotonin receptor 5-HT7R regulates the morphology and migratory properties of dendritic cells. Journal of Cell Science. 2015;128(15):2866-2880. doi:10.1242/jcs.167999 apa: Holst, K., Guseva, D., Schindler, S., Sixt, M. K., Braun, A., Chopra, H., … Ponimaskin, E. (2015). The serotonin receptor 5-HT7R regulates the morphology and migratory properties of dendritic cells. Journal of Cell Science. Company of Biologists. https://doi.org/10.1242/jcs.167999 chicago: Holst, Katrin, Daria Guseva, Susann Schindler, Michael K Sixt, Armin Braun, Himpriya Chopra, Oliver Pabst, and Evgeni Ponimaskin. “The Serotonin Receptor 5-HT7R Regulates the Morphology and Migratory Properties of Dendritic Cells.” Journal of Cell Science. Company of Biologists, 2015. https://doi.org/10.1242/jcs.167999. ieee: K. Holst et al., “The serotonin receptor 5-HT7R regulates the morphology and migratory properties of dendritic cells,” Journal of Cell Science, vol. 128, no. 15. Company of Biologists, pp. 2866–2880, 2015. ista: Holst K, Guseva D, Schindler S, Sixt MK, Braun A, Chopra H, Pabst O, Ponimaskin E. 2015. The serotonin receptor 5-HT7R regulates the morphology and migratory properties of dendritic cells. Journal of Cell Science. 128(15), 2866–2880. mla: Holst, Katrin, et al. “The Serotonin Receptor 5-HT7R Regulates the Morphology and Migratory Properties of Dendritic Cells.” Journal of Cell Science, vol. 128, no. 15, Company of Biologists, 2015, pp. 2866–80, doi:10.1242/jcs.167999. short: K. Holst, D. Guseva, S. Schindler, M.K. Sixt, A. Braun, H. Chopra, O. Pabst, E. Ponimaskin, Journal of Cell Science 128 (2015) 2866–2880. date_created: 2018-12-11T11:46:41Z date_published: 2015-06-15T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2021-01-12T08:00:54Z day: '15' department: - _id: MiSi doi: 10.1242/jcs.167999 intvolume: ' 128' issue: '15' language: - iso: eng month: '06' oa_version: None page: 2866 - 2880 publication: Journal of Cell Science publication_status: published publisher: Company of Biologists publist_id: '7343' quality_controlled: '1' scopus_import: 1 status: public title: The serotonin receptor 5-HT7R regulates the morphology and migratory properties of dendritic cells type: journal_article user_id: 2DF688A6-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 volume: 128 year: '2015' ... --- _id: '523' abstract: - lang: eng text: We consider two-player games played on weighted directed graphs with mean-payoff and total-payoff objectives, two classical quantitative objectives. While for single-dimensional games the complexity and memory bounds for both objectives coincide, we show that in contrast to multi-dimensional mean-payoff games that are known to be coNP-complete, multi-dimensional total-payoff games are undecidable. We introduce conservative approximations of these objectives, where the payoff is considered over a local finite window sliding along a play, instead of the whole play. For single dimension, we show that (i) if the window size is polynomial, deciding the winner takes polynomial time, and (ii) the existence of a bounded window can be decided in NP ∩ coNP, and is at least as hard as solving mean-payoff games. For multiple dimensions, we show that (i) the problem with fixed window size is EXPTIME-complete, and (ii) there is no primitive-recursive algorithm to decide the existence of a bounded window. 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 - first_name: Mickael full_name: Randour, Mickael last_name: Randour - first_name: Jean full_name: Raskin, Jean last_name: Raskin citation: ama: Chatterjee K, Doyen L, Randour M, Raskin J. Looking at mean-payoff and total-payoff through windows. Information and Computation. 2015;242(6):25-52. doi:10.1016/j.ic.2015.03.010 apa: Chatterjee, K., Doyen, L., Randour, M., & Raskin, J. (2015). Looking at mean-payoff and total-payoff through windows. Information and Computation. Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ic.2015.03.010 chicago: Chatterjee, Krishnendu, Laurent Doyen, Mickael Randour, and Jean Raskin. “Looking at Mean-Payoff and Total-Payoff through Windows.” Information and Computation. Elsevier, 2015. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ic.2015.03.010. ieee: K. Chatterjee, L. Doyen, M. Randour, and J. Raskin, “Looking at mean-payoff and total-payoff through windows,” Information and Computation, vol. 242, no. 6. Elsevier, pp. 25–52, 2015. ista: Chatterjee K, Doyen L, Randour M, Raskin J. 2015. Looking at mean-payoff and total-payoff through windows. Information and Computation. 242(6), 25–52. mla: Chatterjee, Krishnendu, et al. “Looking at Mean-Payoff and Total-Payoff through Windows.” Information and Computation, vol. 242, no. 6, Elsevier, 2015, pp. 25–52, doi:10.1016/j.ic.2015.03.010. short: K. Chatterjee, L. Doyen, M. Randour, J. Raskin, Information and Computation 242 (2015) 25–52. date_created: 2018-12-11T11:46:57Z date_published: 2015-03-24T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2023-02-23T10:36:02Z day: '24' department: - _id: KrCh doi: 10.1016/j.ic.2015.03.010 ec_funded: 1 intvolume: ' 242' issue: '6' language: - iso: eng main_file_link: - open_access: '1' url: https://arxiv.org/abs/1302.4248 month: '03' oa: 1 oa_version: Preprint page: 25 - 52 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' - _id: 2587B514-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 name: Microsoft Research Faculty Fellowship publication: Information and Computation publication_status: published publisher: Elsevier publist_id: '7296' quality_controlled: '1' related_material: record: - id: '2279' relation: earlier_version status: public scopus_import: 1 status: public title: Looking at mean-payoff and total-payoff through windows type: journal_article user_id: 2DF688A6-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 volume: 242 year: '2015' ... --- _id: '532' abstract: - lang: eng text: Ethylene is a gaseous phytohormone that plays vital roles in plant growth and development. Previous studies uncovered EIN2 as an essential signal transducer linking ethylene perception on ER to transcriptional regulation in the nucleus through a “cleave and shuttle” model. In this study, we report another mechanism of EIN2-mediated ethylene signaling, whereby EIN2 imposes the translational repression of EBF1 and EBF2 mRNA. We find that the EBF1/2 3′ UTRs mediate EIN2-directed translational repression and identify multiple poly-uridylates (PolyU) motifs as functional cis elements of 3′ UTRs. Furthermore, we demonstrate that ethylene induces EIN2 to associate with 3′ UTRs and target EBF1/2 mRNA to cytoplasmic processing-body (P-body) through interacting with multiple P-body factors, including EIN5 and PABs. Our study illustrates translational regulation as a key step in ethylene signaling and presents mRNA 3′ UTR functioning as a “signal transducer” to sense and relay cellular signaling in plants. author: - first_name: Wenyang full_name: Li, Wenyang last_name: Li - first_name: Mengdi full_name: Ma, Mengdi last_name: Ma - first_name: Ying full_name: Feng, Ying last_name: Feng - first_name: Hongjiang full_name: Li, Hongjiang id: 33CA54A6-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Li orcid: 0000-0001-5039-9660 - first_name: Yichuan full_name: Wang, Yichuan last_name: Wang - first_name: Yutong full_name: Ma, Yutong last_name: Ma - first_name: Mingzhe full_name: Li, Mingzhe last_name: Li - first_name: Fengying full_name: An, Fengying last_name: An - first_name: Hongwei full_name: Guo, Hongwei last_name: Guo citation: ama: Li W, Ma M, Feng Y, et al. EIN2-directed translational regulation of ethylene signaling in arabidopsis. Cell. 2015;163(3):670-683. doi:10.1016/j.cell.2015.09.037 apa: Li, W., Ma, M., Feng, Y., Li, H., Wang, Y., Ma, Y., … Guo, H. (2015). EIN2-directed translational regulation of ethylene signaling in arabidopsis. Cell. Cell Press. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2015.09.037 chicago: Li, Wenyang, Mengdi Ma, Ying Feng, Hongjiang Li, Yichuan Wang, Yutong Ma, Mingzhe Li, Fengying An, and Hongwei Guo. “EIN2-Directed Translational Regulation of Ethylene Signaling in Arabidopsis.” Cell. Cell Press, 2015. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2015.09.037. ieee: W. Li et al., “EIN2-directed translational regulation of ethylene signaling in arabidopsis,” Cell, vol. 163, no. 3. Cell Press, pp. 670–683, 2015. ista: Li W, Ma M, Feng Y, Li H, Wang Y, Ma Y, Li M, An F, Guo H. 2015. EIN2-directed translational regulation of ethylene signaling in arabidopsis. Cell. 163(3), 670–683. mla: Li, Wenyang, et al. “EIN2-Directed Translational Regulation of Ethylene Signaling in Arabidopsis.” Cell, vol. 163, no. 3, Cell Press, 2015, pp. 670–83, doi:10.1016/j.cell.2015.09.037. short: W. Li, M. Ma, Y. Feng, H. Li, Y. Wang, Y. Ma, M. Li, F. An, H. Guo, Cell 163 (2015) 670–683. date_created: 2018-12-11T11:47:00Z date_published: 2015-10-22T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2021-01-12T08:01:27Z day: '22' department: - _id: JiFr doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2015.09.037 intvolume: ' 163' issue: '3' language: - iso: eng month: '10' oa_version: None page: 670 - 683 publication: Cell publication_status: published publisher: Cell Press publist_id: '7285' quality_controlled: '1' scopus_import: 1 status: public title: EIN2-directed translational regulation of ethylene signaling in arabidopsis type: journal_article user_id: 2DF688A6-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 volume: 163 year: '2015' ... --- _id: '524' abstract: - lang: eng text: 'We consider concurrent games played by two players on a finite-state graph, where in every round the players simultaneously choose a move, and the current state along with the joint moves determine the successor state. We study the most fundamental objective for concurrent games, namely, mean-payoff or limit-average objective, where a reward is associated to each transition, and the goal of player 1 is to maximize the long-run average of the rewards, and the objective of player 2 is strictly the opposite (i.e., the games are zero-sum). The path constraint for player 1 could be qualitative, i.e., the mean-payoff is the maximal reward, or arbitrarily close to it; or quantitative, i.e., a given threshold between the minimal and maximal reward. We consider the computation of the almost-sure (resp. positive) winning sets, where player 1 can ensure that the path constraint is satisfied with probability 1 (resp. positive probability). Almost-sure winning with qualitative constraint exactly corresponds to the question of whether there exists a strategy to ensure that the payoff is the maximal reward of the game. Our main results for qualitative path constraints are as follows: (1) we establish qualitative determinacy results that show that for every state either player 1 has a strategy to ensure almost-sure (resp. positive) winning against all player-2 strategies, or player 2 has a spoiling strategy to falsify almost-sure (resp. positive) winning against all player-1 strategies; (2) we present optimal strategy complexity results that precisely characterize the classes of strategies required for almost-sure and positive winning for both players; and (3) we present quadratic time algorithms to compute the almost-sure and the positive winning sets, matching the best known bound of the algorithms for much simpler problems (such as reachability objectives). For quantitative constraints we show that a polynomial time solution for the almost-sure or the positive winning set would imply a solution to a long-standing open problem (of solving the value problem of turn-based deterministic mean-payoff games) that is not known to be solvable in polynomial time.' 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 citation: ama: Chatterjee K, Ibsen-Jensen R. Qualitative analysis of concurrent mean payoff games. Information and Computation. 2015;242(6):2-24. doi:10.1016/j.ic.2015.03.009 apa: Chatterjee, K., & Ibsen-Jensen, R. (2015). Qualitative analysis of concurrent mean payoff games. Information and Computation. Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ic.2015.03.009 chicago: Chatterjee, Krishnendu, and Rasmus Ibsen-Jensen. “Qualitative Analysis of Concurrent Mean Payoff Games.” Information and Computation. Elsevier, 2015. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ic.2015.03.009. ieee: K. Chatterjee and R. Ibsen-Jensen, “Qualitative analysis of concurrent mean payoff games,” Information and Computation, vol. 242, no. 6. Elsevier, pp. 2–24, 2015. ista: Chatterjee K, Ibsen-Jensen R. 2015. Qualitative analysis of concurrent mean payoff games. Information and Computation. 242(6), 2–24. mla: Chatterjee, Krishnendu, and Rasmus Ibsen-Jensen. “Qualitative Analysis of Concurrent Mean Payoff Games.” Information and Computation, vol. 242, no. 6, Elsevier, 2015, pp. 2–24, doi:10.1016/j.ic.2015.03.009. short: K. Chatterjee, R. Ibsen-Jensen, Information and Computation 242 (2015) 2–24. date_created: 2018-12-11T11:46:57Z date_published: 2015-10-11T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2023-02-23T12:24:45Z day: '11' department: - _id: KrCh doi: 10.1016/j.ic.2015.03.009 external_id: arxiv: - '1409.5306' intvolume: ' 242' issue: '6' language: - iso: eng main_file_link: - open_access: '1' url: https://arxiv.org/abs/1409.5306 month: '10' oa: 1 oa_version: Preprint page: 2 - 24 publication: Information and Computation publication_status: published publisher: Elsevier publist_id: '7295' quality_controlled: '1' related_material: record: - id: '5403' relation: earlier_version status: public scopus_import: 1 status: public title: Qualitative analysis of concurrent mean payoff games type: journal_article user_id: 2DF688A6-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 volume: 242 year: '2015' ... --- _id: '1481' abstract: - lang: eng text: 'Simple board games, like Tic-Tac-Toe and CONNECT-4, play an important role not only in the development of mathematical and logical skills, but also in the emotional and social development. In this paper, we address the problem of generating targeted starting positions for such games. This can facilitate new approaches for bringing novice players to mastery, and also leads to discovery of interesting game variants. We present an approach that generates starting states of varying hardness levels for player 1 in a two-player board game, given rules of the board game, the desired number of steps required for player 1 to win, and the expertise levels of the two players. Our approach leverages symbolic methods and iterative simulation to efficiently search the extremely large state space. We present experimental results that include discovery of states of varying hardness levels for several simple grid-based board games. The presence of such states for standard game variants like 4×4 Tic-Tac-Toe opens up new games to be played that have never been played as the default start state is heavily biased. ' acknowledgement: "A Technical Report of this paper is available at: \r\nhttps://repository.ist.ac.at/id/eprint/146.\r\n" article_processing_charge: No author: - first_name: Umair full_name: Ahmed, Umair last_name: Ahmed - first_name: Krishnendu full_name: Chatterjee, Krishnendu id: 2E5DCA20-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Chatterjee orcid: 0000-0002-4561-241X - first_name: Sumit full_name: Gulwani, Sumit last_name: Gulwani citation: ama: 'Ahmed U, Chatterjee K, Gulwani S. Automatic generation of alternative starting positions for simple traditional board games. In: Proceedings of the Twenty-Ninth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Vol 2. AAAI Press; 2015:745-752.' apa: 'Ahmed, U., Chatterjee, K., & Gulwani, S. (2015). Automatic generation of alternative starting positions for simple traditional board games. In Proceedings of the Twenty-Ninth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (Vol. 2, pp. 745–752). Austin, TX, USA: AAAI Press.' chicago: Ahmed, Umair, Krishnendu Chatterjee, and Sumit Gulwani. “Automatic Generation of Alternative Starting Positions for Simple Traditional Board Games.” In Proceedings of the Twenty-Ninth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2:745–52. AAAI Press, 2015. ieee: U. Ahmed, K. Chatterjee, and S. Gulwani, “Automatic generation of alternative starting positions for simple traditional board games,” in Proceedings of the Twenty-Ninth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Austin, TX, USA, 2015, vol. 2, pp. 745–752. ista: 'Ahmed U, Chatterjee K, Gulwani S. 2015. Automatic generation of alternative starting positions for simple traditional board games. Proceedings of the Twenty-Ninth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence. AAAI: Conference on Artificial Intelligence vol. 2, 745–752.' mla: Ahmed, Umair, et al. “Automatic Generation of Alternative Starting Positions for Simple Traditional Board Games.” Proceedings of the Twenty-Ninth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, vol. 2, AAAI Press, 2015, pp. 745–52. short: U. Ahmed, K. Chatterjee, S. Gulwani, in:, Proceedings of the Twenty-Ninth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, AAAI Press, 2015, pp. 745–752. conference: end_date: 2015-01-30 location: Austin, TX, USA name: 'AAAI: Conference on Artificial Intelligence' start_date: 2015-01-25 date_created: 2018-12-11T11:52:16Z date_published: 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2023-02-23T12:25:07Z day: '01' department: - _id: KrCh ec_funded: 1 intvolume: ' 2' language: - iso: eng main_file_link: - open_access: '1' url: https://www.aaai.org/ocs/index.php/AAAI/AAAI15/paper/download/9523/9300 month: '01' oa: 1 oa_version: None page: 745 - 752 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: Proceedings of the Twenty-Ninth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence publication_status: published publisher: AAAI Press publist_id: '5713' quality_controlled: '1' related_material: record: - id: '5410' relation: earlier_version status: public scopus_import: 1 status: public title: Automatic generation of alternative starting positions for simple traditional board games type: conference user_id: 2DF688A6-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 volume: 2 year: '2015' ... --- _id: '1732' abstract: - lang: eng text: We consider partially observable Markov decision processes (POMDPs), that are a standard framework for robotics applications to model uncertainties present in the real world, with temporal logic specifications. All temporal logic specifications in linear-time temporal logic (LTL) can be expressed as parity objectives. We study the qualitative analysis problem for POMDPs with parity objectives that asks whether there is a controller (policy) to ensure that the objective holds with probability 1 (almost-surely). While the qualitative analysis of POMDPs with parity objectives is undecidable, recent results show that when restricted to finite-memory policies the problem is EXPTIME-complete. While the problem is intractable in theory, we present a practical approach to solve the qualitative analysis problem. We designed several heuristics to deal with the exponential complexity, and have used our implementation on a number of well-known POMDP examples for robotics applications. Our results provide the first practical approach to solve the qualitative analysis of robot motion planning with LTL properties in the presence of uncertainty. 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: Raghav full_name: Gupta, Raghav last_name: Gupta - first_name: Ayush full_name: Kanodia, Ayush last_name: Kanodia citation: ama: 'Chatterjee K, Chmelik M, Gupta R, Kanodia A. Qualitative analysis of POMDPs with temporal logic specifications for robotics applications. In: IEEE; 2015:325-330. doi:10.1109/ICRA.2015.7139019' apa: 'Chatterjee, K., Chmelik, M., Gupta, R., & Kanodia, A. (2015). Qualitative analysis of POMDPs with temporal logic specifications for robotics applications (pp. 325–330). Presented at the ICRA: International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Seattle, WA, United States: IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICRA.2015.7139019' chicago: Chatterjee, Krishnendu, Martin Chmelik, Raghav Gupta, and Ayush Kanodia. “Qualitative Analysis of POMDPs with Temporal Logic Specifications for Robotics Applications,” 325–30. IEEE, 2015. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICRA.2015.7139019. ieee: 'K. Chatterjee, M. Chmelik, R. Gupta, and A. Kanodia, “Qualitative analysis of POMDPs with temporal logic specifications for robotics applications,” presented at the ICRA: International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Seattle, WA, United States, 2015, pp. 325–330.' ista: 'Chatterjee K, Chmelik M, Gupta R, Kanodia A. 2015. Qualitative analysis of POMDPs with temporal logic specifications for robotics applications. ICRA: International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 325–330.' mla: Chatterjee, Krishnendu, et al. Qualitative Analysis of POMDPs with Temporal Logic Specifications for Robotics Applications. IEEE, 2015, pp. 325–30, doi:10.1109/ICRA.2015.7139019. short: K. Chatterjee, M. Chmelik, R. Gupta, A. Kanodia, in:, IEEE, 2015, pp. 325–330. conference: end_date: 2015-05-30 location: Seattle, WA, United States name: 'ICRA: International Conference on Robotics and Automation' start_date: 2015-05-26 date_created: 2018-12-11T11:53:43Z date_published: 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2023-02-23T12:25:52Z day: '01' department: - _id: KrCh doi: 10.1109/ICRA.2015.7139019 ec_funded: 1 external_id: arxiv: - '1409.3360' language: - iso: eng main_file_link: - open_access: '1' url: http://arxiv.org/abs/1409.3360 month: '01' oa: 1 oa_version: Preprint page: 325 - 330 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_status: published publisher: IEEE publist_id: '5394' quality_controlled: '1' related_material: record: - id: '5424' relation: earlier_version status: public - id: '5426' relation: earlier_version status: public scopus_import: 1 status: public title: Qualitative analysis of POMDPs with temporal logic specifications for robotics applications type: conference user_id: 2DF688A6-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 year: '2015' ... --- _id: '5431' abstract: - lang: eng text: "We consider finite-state concurrent stochastic games, played by k>=2 players for an infinite number of rounds, where in every round, each player simultaneously and independently of the other players chooses an action, whereafter the successor state is determined by a probability distribution given by the current state and the chosen actions. We consider reachability objectives that given a target set of states require that some state in the target set is visited, and the dual safety objectives that given a target set require that only states in the target set are visited. We are interested in the complexity of stationary strategies measured by their patience, which is defined as the inverse of the smallest non-zero probability employed.\r\n\r\n Our main results are as follows: We show that in two-player zero-sum concurrent stochastic games (with reachability objective for one player and the complementary safety objective for the other player): (i) the optimal bound on the patience of optimal and epsilon-optimal strategies, for both players is doubly exponential; and (ii) even in games with a single non-absorbing state exponential (in the number of actions) patience is necessary. In general we study the class of non-zero-sum games admitting epsilon-Nash equilibria. We show that if there is at least one player with reachability objective, then doubly-exponential patience is needed in general for epsilon-Nash equilibrium strategies, whereas in contrast if all players have safety objectives, then the optimal bound on patience for epsilon-Nash equilibrium strategies is only exponential." alternative_title: - IST Austria Technical Report 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: Kristoffer full_name: Hansen, Kristoffer last_name: Hansen citation: ama: Chatterjee K, Ibsen-Jensen R, Hansen K. The Patience of Concurrent Stochastic Games with Safety and Reachability Objectives. IST Austria; 2015. doi:10.15479/AT:IST-2015-322-v1-1 apa: Chatterjee, K., Ibsen-Jensen, R., & Hansen, K. (2015). The patience of concurrent stochastic games with safety and reachability objectives. IST Austria. https://doi.org/10.15479/AT:IST-2015-322-v1-1 chicago: Chatterjee, Krishnendu, Rasmus Ibsen-Jensen, and Kristoffer Hansen. The Patience of Concurrent Stochastic Games with Safety and Reachability Objectives. IST Austria, 2015. https://doi.org/10.15479/AT:IST-2015-322-v1-1. ieee: K. Chatterjee, R. Ibsen-Jensen, and K. Hansen, The patience of concurrent stochastic games with safety and reachability objectives. IST Austria, 2015. ista: Chatterjee K, Ibsen-Jensen R, Hansen K. 2015. The patience of concurrent stochastic games with safety and reachability objectives, IST Austria, 25p. mla: Chatterjee, Krishnendu, et al. The Patience of Concurrent Stochastic Games with Safety and Reachability Objectives. IST Austria, 2015, doi:10.15479/AT:IST-2015-322-v1-1. short: K. Chatterjee, R. Ibsen-Jensen, K. Hansen, The Patience of Concurrent Stochastic Games with Safety and Reachability Objectives, IST Austria, 2015. date_created: 2018-12-12T11:39:17Z date_published: 2015-02-19T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2021-01-12T08:02:13Z day: '19' ddc: - '005' - '519' department: - _id: KrCh doi: 10.15479/AT:IST-2015-322-v1-1 file: - access_level: open_access checksum: bfb858262c30445b8e472c40069178a2 content_type: application/pdf creator: system date_created: 2018-12-12T11:53:31Z date_updated: 2020-07-14T12:46:53Z file_id: '5491' file_name: IST-2015-322-v1+1_safetygames.pdf file_size: 661015 relation: main_file file_date_updated: 2020-07-14T12:46:53Z has_accepted_license: '1' language: - iso: eng month: '02' oa: 1 oa_version: Published Version page: '25' publication_identifier: issn: - 2664-1690 publication_status: published publisher: IST Austria pubrep_id: '322' status: public title: The patience of concurrent stochastic games with safety and reachability objectives type: technical_report user_id: 2DF688A6-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 year: '2015' ... --- _id: '5434' abstract: - lang: eng text: DEC-POMDPs extend POMDPs to a multi-agent setting, where several agents operate in an uncertain environment independently to achieve a joint objective. DEC-POMDPs have been studied with finite-horizon and infinite-horizon discounted-sum objectives, and there exist solvers both for exact and approximate solutions. In this work we consider Goal-DEC-POMDPs, where given a set of target states, the objective is to ensure that the target set is reached with minimal cost. We consider the indefinite-horizon (infinite-horizon with either discounted-sum, or undiscounted-sum, where absorbing goal states have zero-cost) problem. We present a new method to solve the problem that extends methods for finite-horizon DEC- POMDPs and the RTDP-Bel approach for POMDPs. We present experimental results on several examples, and show our approach presents promising results. alternative_title: - IST Austria Technical Report author: - first_name: '1' full_name: Anonymous, 1 last_name: Anonymous - first_name: '2' full_name: Anonymous, 2 last_name: Anonymous citation: ama: Anonymous 1, Anonymous 2. Optimal Cost Indefinite-Horizon Reachability in Goal DEC-POMDPs. IST Austria; 2015. apa: Anonymous, 1, & Anonymous, 2. (2015). Optimal cost indefinite-horizon reachability in goal DEC-POMDPs. IST Austria. chicago: Anonymous, 1, and 2 Anonymous. Optimal Cost Indefinite-Horizon Reachability in Goal DEC-POMDPs. IST Austria, 2015. ieee: 1 Anonymous and 2 Anonymous, Optimal cost indefinite-horizon reachability in goal DEC-POMDPs. IST Austria, 2015. ista: Anonymous 1, Anonymous 2. 2015. Optimal cost indefinite-horizon reachability in goal DEC-POMDPs, IST Austria, 16p. mla: Anonymous, 1, and 2 Anonymous. Optimal Cost Indefinite-Horizon Reachability in Goal DEC-POMDPs. IST Austria, 2015. short: 1 Anonymous, 2 Anonymous, Optimal Cost Indefinite-Horizon Reachability in Goal DEC-POMDPs, IST Austria, 2015. date_created: 2018-12-12T11:39:18Z date_published: 2015-02-19T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2020-07-14T23:04:59Z day: '19' ddc: - '000' file: - access_level: open_access checksum: 8542fd0b10aed7811cd41077b8ccb632 content_type: application/pdf creator: system date_created: 2018-12-12T11:53:14Z date_updated: 2020-07-14T12:46:53Z file_id: '5475' file_name: IST-2015-326-v1+1_main.pdf file_size: 378162 relation: main_file - access_level: closed checksum: 84c31c537bdaf7a91909f18d25d640ab content_type: text/plain creator: dernst date_created: 2019-04-16T13:00:33Z date_updated: 2020-07-14T12:46:53Z file_id: '6317' file_name: IST-2015-326-v1+2_authors.txt file_size: 64 relation: main_file file_date_updated: 2020-07-14T12:46:53Z has_accepted_license: '1' language: - iso: eng month: '02' oa: 1 oa_version: Published Version page: '16' publication_identifier: issn: - 2664-1690 publication_status: published publisher: IST Austria pubrep_id: '326' status: public title: Optimal cost indefinite-horizon reachability in goal DEC-POMDPs type: technical_report user_id: 2DF688A6-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 year: '2015' ...