Title
DELAY GAMES WITH WMSO plus U WINNING CONDITIONS
Abstract
Delay games are two-player games of infinite duration in which one player may delay her moves to obtain a lookahead on her opponent's moves. We consider delay games with winning conditions expressed in weak monadic second order logic with the unbounding quantifier, which is able to express (un) boundedness properties. We show that it is decidable whether the delaying player has a winning strategy using bounded lookahead and give a doubly-exponential upper bound on the necessary lookahead. In contrast, we show that bounded lookahead is not always sufficient: we present a game that can be won with unbounded lookahead, but not with bounded lookahead. Then, we consider such games with unbounded lookahead and show that the exact evolution of the lookahead is irrelevant: the winner is always the same, as long as the initial lookahead is large enough and the lookahead is unbounded.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.1051/ita/2016018
RAIRO-THEORETICAL INFORMATICS AND APPLICATIONS
Keywords
Field
DocType
Delay games,infinite games,unbounding quantifier,max-regular languages
Discrete mathematics,Combinatorics,Upper and lower bounds,Monadic second-order logic,Decidability,Mathematics,Bounded function
Conference
Volume
Issue
ISSN
50
2
0988-3754
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
4
0.49
8
Authors
1
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Martin Zimmermann 000213510.88