2024
[HJM+24] Léo Henry, Thierry Jéron, Nicolas Markey, and Victor Roussanaly. Distributed Monitoring of Timed Properties. In RV'24, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 15191, pages 243-261. Springer-Verlag, October 2024.
Abstract

In formal verification, runtime monitoring consists of observing the execution of a system in order to decide as quickly as possible whether or not it satisfies a given property. We consider monitoring in a distributed setting, for properties given as reachability timed automata. In such a setting, the system is made of several components, each equipped with its own local clock and monitor. The monitors observe events occurring on their associated component, and receive timestamped events from other monitors through FIFO channels. Since clocks are local, they cannot be perfectly synchronized, resulting in imprecise timestamps. Consequently, they must be seen as intervals, leading monitors to consider possible reorderings of events. In this context, each monitor aims to provide, as early as possible, a verdict on the property it is monitoring, based on its potentially incomplete and imprecise knowledge of the current execution. In this paper, we propose an on-line monitoring algorithm for timed properties, robust to time imprecision and partial information from distant components. We first identify the date at which a monitor can safely compute a verdict based on received events. We then propose a monitoring algorithm that updates this date when new information arrives, maintains the current set of states in which the property can reside, and updates its verdict accordingly.

@inproceedings{rv2024-HJMR,
  author =              {Henry, L{\'e}o and J{\'e}ron, Thierry and Markey,
                         Nicolas and Roussanaly, Victor},
  title =               {Distributed Monitoring of Timed Properties},
  editor =              {{\'A}brah{\'a}m, Erikz and Abbas, Houssam},
  booktitle =           {{P}roceedings of the 24th {I}nternational {W}orkshop
                         on {R}untime {V}erification ({RV}'24)},
  acronym =             {{RV}'24},
  publisher =           {Springer-Verlag},
  series =              {Lecture Notes in Computer Science},
  volume =              {15191},
  pages =               {243-261},
  year =                {2024},
  month =               oct,
  doi =                 {10.1007/978-3-031-74234-7_16},
  abstract =            {In formal verification, runtime monitoring consists
                         of observing the execution of a system in order to
                         decide as quickly as possible whether or not it
                         satisfies a given property. We consider monitoring
                         in a distributed setting, for properties given as
                         reachability timed automata. In~such a setting,
                         the~system is made of several components, each
                         equipped with its own local clock and monitor.
                         The~monitors observe events occurring on their
                         associated component, and receive timestamped events
                         from other monitors through FIFO channels. Since
                         clocks are local, they cannot be perfectly
                         synchronized, resulting in imprecise timestamps.
                         Consequently, they must be seen as intervals,
                         leading monitors to consider possible reorderings of
                         events. In this context, each monitor aims to
                         provide, as early as possible, a verdict on the
                         property it is monitoring, based on its potentially
                         incomplete and imprecise knowledge of the current
                         execution. In~this~paper, we~propose an on-line
                         monitoring algorithm for timed properties, robust to
                         time imprecision and partial information from
                         distant components. We~first identify the date at
                         which a monitor can safely compute a verdict based
                         on received events. We~then propose a monitoring
                         algorithm that updates this date when new
                         information arrives, maintains the current set of
                         states in which the property can reside, and updates
                         its verdict accordingly.},
}
[LM24] François Laroussinie and Nicolas Markey. Arbitrary-arity Tree Automata and QCTL. Technical Report 2410.18799, arXiv, October 2024.
Abstract

We introduce a new class of automata (which we coin EU-automata) running on infininte trees of arbitrary (finite) arity. We develop and study several algorithms to perform classical operations (union, intersection, complement, projection, alternation removal) for those automata, and precisely characterise their complexities. We also develop algorithms for solving membership and emptiness for the languages of trees accepted by EU-automata.

We then use EU-automata to obtain several algorithmic and expressiveness results for the temporal logic QCTL (which extends CTL with quantification over atomic propositions) and for MSO. On the one hand, we obtain decision procedures with optimal complexity for QCTL satisfiability and model checking; on the other hand, we obtain an algorithm for translating any QCTL formula with k quantifier alternations to formulas with at most one quantifier alternation, at the expense of a (k+1)-exponential blow-up in the size of the formulas. Using the same techniques, we prove that any MSO formula can be translated into a formula with at most four quantifier alternations (and only two second-order-quantifier alternations), again with a (k+1)-exponential blow-up in the size of the formula.

@techreport{arxiv2410.18799-LM,
  author =              {Laroussinie, Fran{\c c}ois and Markey, Nicolas},
  title =               {Arbitrary-arity Tree Automata and QCTL},
  number =              {2410.18799},
  year =                {2024},
  month =               oct,
  doi =                 {10.48550/arXiv.2410.18799},
  institution =         {arXiv},
  abstract =            {We~introduce a new class of automata (which we coin
                         \emph{EU-automata}) running on infininte trees of
                         arbitrary (finite) arity. We~develop and study
                         several algorithms to perform classical operations
                         (union, intersection, complement, projection,
                         alternation removal) for those automata, and
                         precisely characterise their complexities. We~also
                         develop algorithms for solving membership and
                         emptiness for the languages of trees accepted by
                         EU-automata. \par We~then use EU-automata to obtain
                         several algorithmic and expressiveness results for
                         the temporal logic \textsf{QCTL} (which extends
                         \textsf{CTL} with quantification over atomic
                         propositions) and for \textsf{MSO}. On the one hand,
                         we obtain decision procedures with optimal
                         complexity for \textsf{QCTL} satisfiability and
                         model checking; on the other hand, we obtain an
                         algorithm for translating any \textsf{QCTL} formula
                         with \(k\) quantifier alternations to formulas with
                         at most one quantifier alternation, at~the~expense
                         of a \((k+1)\)-exponential blow-up in the size of
                         the formulas. Using the same techniques, we~prove
                         that any \textsf{MSO} formula can be translated into
                         a formula with at most four quantifier alternations
                         (and only two second-order-quantifier alternations),
                         again with a \((k+1)\)-exponential blow-up in the
                         size of the formula.},
}
[Pra24] Aditya Prakash. Checking History-Determinism is NP-hard for Parity Automata. In FoSSaCS'24, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 14574, pages 212-233. Springer-Verlag, April 2024.
@inproceedings{fossacs2024-Pra,
  author =              {Prakash, Aditya},
  title =               {Checking History-Determinism is {NP}-hard for Parity
                         Automata},
  editor =              {Kobayashi, Naoki and Worrell, James},
  booktitle =           {{P}roceedings of the 27th {I}nternational
                         {C}onference on {F}oundations of {S}oftware
                         {S}cience and {C}omputation {S}tructure
                         ({FoSSaCS}'24)},
  acronym =             {{FoSSaCS}'24},
  publisher =           {Springer-Verlag},
  series =              {Lecture Notes in Computer Science},
  volume =              {14574},
  pages =               {212-233},
  year =                {2024},
  month =               apr,
  doi =                 {10.1007/978-3-031-57228-9_11},
}
[SJM+24] Ocan Sankur, Thierry Jéron, Nicolas Markey, David Mentré, and Reiya Noguchi. Online Test Synthesis From Requirements: Enhancing Reinforcement Learning with Game Theory. Technical Report 2407-18994, arXiv, July 2024.
Abstract

We consider the automatic online synthesis of black-box test cases from functional requirements specified as automata for reactive implementations. The goal of the tester is to reach some given state, so as to satisfy a coverage criterion, while monitoring the violation of the requirements. We develop an approach based on Monte Carlo Tree Search, which is a classical technique in reinforcement learning for efficiently selecting promising inputs. Seeing the automata requirements as a game between the implementation and the tester, we develop a heuristic by biasing the search towards inputs that are promising in this game. We experimentally show that our heuristic accelerates the convergence of the Monte Carlo Tree Search algorithm, thus improving the performance of testing.

@techreport{2407.18994-SJMMN,
  author =              {Sankur, Ocan and J{\'e}ron, Thierry and Markey,
                         Nicolas and Mentr{\'e}, David and Noguchi, Reiya},
  title =               {Online Test Synthesis From Requirements: Enhancing
                         Reinforcement Learning with Game Theory},
  number =              {2407-18994},
  year =                {2024},
  month =               jul,
  doi =                 {10.48550/arXiv.2407-18994},
  institution =         {arXiv},
  abstract =            {We consider the automatic online synthesis of
                         black-box test cases from functional requirements
                         specified as automata for reactive implementations.
                         The goal of the tester is to reach some given state,
                         so as to satisfy a coverage criterion, while
                         monitoring the violation of the requirements. We
                         develop an approach based on Monte~Carlo Tree
                         Search, which is a classical technique in
                         reinforcement learning for efficiently selecting
                         promising inputs. Seeing the automata requirements
                         as a game between the implementation and the tester,
                         we develop a heuristic by biasing the search towards
                         inputs that are promising in this game.
                         We~experimentally show that our heuristic
                         accelerates the convergence of the Monte~Carlo Tree
                         Search algorithm, thus improving the performance of
                         testing.},
}
2023
[BFM23] Nathalie Bertrand, Hugo Francon, and Nicolas Markey. Synchronizing words under LTL constraints. Information Processing Letters 182. Elsevier, August 2023.
Abstract

Synchronizing a (deterministic, finite-state) automaton is the problem of finding a sequence of actions to be played in the automaton in order to end up in the same state independently of the starting state. We consider synchronization with LTL constraints on the executions leading to synchronization, extending the results of [Petra Wolf. Synchronization under dynamic constraints. FSTTCS'20] by showing that the problem is PSPACE-complete for LTL as well as for restricted fragments (involving only modality F or G), while it is NP-complete for constraints expressed using only modality X.

@article{ipl182()-BFM,
  author =              {Bertrand, Nathalie and Francon, Hugo and Markey,
                         Nicolas},
  title =               {Synchronizing words under {LTL} constraints},
  publisher =           {Elsevier},
  journal =             {Information Processing Letters},
  volume =              {182},
  year =                {2023},
  month =               aug,
  doi =                 {10.1016/j.ipl.2023.106392},
  abstract =            {Synchronizing a (deterministic, finite-state)
                         automaton is the problem of finding a sequence of
                         actions to be played in the automaton in order to
                         end up in the same state independently of the
                         starting state. We~consider synchronization
                         with~\textsf{LTL} constraints on the executions
                         leading to synchronization, extending the results
                         of~[Petra~Wolf. Synchronization under dynamic
                         constraints. FSTTCS'20] by~showing that the problem
                         is \textsf{PSPACE}-complete for~\textsf{LTL} as well
                         as for restricted fragments (involving only
                         modality~\textsf{F} or~\textsf{G}), while it is
                         \textsf{NP}-complete for constraints expressed using
                         only modality~\textsf{X}.},
}
[BKM+23] Patricia Bouyer, Orna Kupferman, Nicolas Markey, Bastien Maubert, Aniello Murano, and Giuseppe Perelli. Reasoning about Quality and Fuzziness of Strategic Behaviours. ACM Transactions on Computational Logic 24(3):21:1-21:38. ACM Press, July 2023.
Abstract

Temporal logics are extensively used for the specification of on-going behaviors of computer systems. Two significant developments in this area are the extension of traditional temporal logics with modalities that enable the specification of on-going strategic behaviors in multi-agent systems, and the transition of temporal logics to a quantitative setting, where different satisfaction values enable the specifier to formalize concepts such as certainty or quality. In the first class, SL (Strategy Logic) is one of the most natural and expressive logics describing strategic behaviors. In the second class, a notable logic is LTL[F], which extends LTL with quality operators.

In this work we introduce and study SL[F], which enables the specification of quantitative strategic behaviors. The satisfaction value of an SL[F] formula is a real value in [0,1], reflecting "how much" or "how well" the strategic on-going objectives of the underlying agents are satisfied. We demonstrate the applications of SL[F] in quantitative reasoning about multi-agent systems, showing how it can express and measure concepts like stability in multi-agent systems, and how it generalizes some fuzzy temporal logics. We also provide a model-checking algorithm for SL[F], based on a quantitative extension of Quantified CTL*. Our algorithm provides the first decidability result for a quantitative extension of Strategy Logic. In addition, it can be used for synthesizing strategies that maximize the quality of the systems' behavior

@article{tocl24(3)-BKMMMP,
  author =              {Bouyer, Patricia and Kupferman, Orna and Markey,
                         Nicolas and Maubert, Bastien and Murano, Aniello and
                         Perelli, Giuseppe},
  title =               {Reasoning about Quality and Fuzziness of Strategic
                         Behaviours},
  publisher =           {ACM Press},
  journal =             {ACM Transactions on Computational Logic},
  volume =              {24},
  number =              {3},
  pages =               {21:1-21:38},
  year =                {2023},
  month =               jul,
  doi =                 {10.1145/3582498},
  abstract =            {Temporal logics are extensively used for the
                         specification of on-going behaviors of computer
                         systems. Two significant developments in this area
                         are the extension of traditional temporal logics
                         with modalities that enable the specification of
                         on-going strategic behaviors in multi-agent systems,
                         and the transition of temporal logics to a
                         quantitative setting, where different satisfaction
                         values enable the specifier to formalize concepts
                         such as certainty or quality. In~the first class,
                         SL~(Strategy~Logic)~is one of the most natural and
                         expressive logics describing strategic behaviors. In
                         the second class, a notable logic is
                         \(\textsf{LTL}[\mathcal{F}]\), which extends
                         \textsf{LTL} with quality operators. \par In~this
                         work we introduce and study
                         \(\textsf{SL}[\mathcal{F}]\), which enables the
                         specification of quantitative strategic behaviors.
                         The satisfaction value of an
                         \(\textsf{SL}[\mathcal{F}]\) formula is a real value
                         in \([0,1]\), reflecting {"}how~much{"} or
                         {"}how~well{"} the strategic on-going objectives of
                         the underlying agents are satisfied. We demonstrate
                         the applications of \(\textsf{SL}[\mathcal{F}]\) in
                         quantitative reasoning about multi-agent systems,
                         showing how it can express and measure concepts like
                         stability in multi-agent systems, and how it
                         generalizes some fuzzy temporal logics. We also
                         provide a model-checking algorithm for
                         \(\textsf{SL}[\mathcal{F}]\), based on a
                         quantitative extension of
                         Quantified~\(\textsf{CTL}^*\). Our~algorithm
                         provides the first decidability result for a
                         quantitative extension of Strategy Logic. In
                         addition, it can be used for synthesizing strategies
                         that maximize the quality of the systems' behavior},
}
[Mar23] Nicolas Markey. Computing the price of anarchy in atomic network congestion games (invited talk). In FORMATS'23, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 14138, pages 3-12. Springer-Verlag, September 2023.
Abstract

Network congestion games are a simple model for reasoning about routing problems in a network. They are a very popular topic in algorithmic game theory, and a huge amount of results about existence and (in)efficiency of equilibrium strategy profiles in those games have been obtained over the last 20 years.

In particular, the price of anarchy has been defined as an important notion for measuring the inefficiency of Nash equilibria. Generic bounds have been obtained for the price of anarchy over various classes of networks, but little attention has been put on the effective computation of this value for a given network. This talk presents recent results on this problem in different settings.

@inproceedings{formats2023-Mar,
  author =              {Markey, Nicolas},
  title =               {Computing the price of anarchy in atomic network
                         congestion games (invited~talk)},
  editor =              {Petrucci, Laure and Sproston, Jeremy},
  booktitle =           {{P}roceedings of the 21st {I}nternational
                         {C}onferences on {F}ormal {M}odelling and {A}nalysis
                         of {T}imed {S}ystems ({FORMATS}'23)},
  acronym =             {{FORMATS}'23},
  publisher =           {Springer-Verlag},
  series =              {Lecture Notes in Computer Science},
  volume =              {14138},
  pages =               {3-12},
  year =                {2023},
  month =               sep,
  doi =                 {10.1007/978-3-031-42626-1_1},
  abstract =            {Network congestion games are a simple model for
                         reasoning about routing problems in a network. They
                         are a very popular topic in algorithmic game theory,
                         and a huge amount of results about existence and
                         (in)efficiency of equilibrium strategy profiles in
                         those games have been obtained over the last
                         20~years. \par In~particular, the price of anarchy
                         has been defined as an important notion for
                         measuring the inefficiency of Nash equilibria.
                         Generic bounds have been obtained for the price of
                         anarchy over various classes of networks, but little
                         attention has been put on the effective computation
                         of this value for a given network. This talk
                         presents recent results on this problem in different
                         settings.},
}
[NJM+23] Reiya Noguchi, Thierry Jéron, Nicolas Markey, and Ocan Sankur. Method and system for correcting the operation of a target computer system by using timed requirements. Patent EP 4 064 057 B1, July 2023,
@patent{EP4064057B1,
  author =              {Noguchi, Reiya and J{\'e}ron, Thierry and Markey,
                         Nicolas and Sankur, Ocan},
  title =               {Method and system for correcting the operation of a
                         target computer system by using timed requirements},
  number =              {EP 4 064 057 B1},
  year =                {2023},
  month =               jul,
}
[AAB23] Shaull Almagor, Daniel Assa, and Udi Boker. Synchronized CTL over One-Counter Automata. In FSTTCS'23, Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics 284, pages 19:1-19:22. Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik, December 2023.
@inproceedings{fsttcs2023-AAB,
  author =              {Almagor, Shaull and Assa, Daniel and Boker, Udi},
  title =               {Synchronized {CTL} over One-Counter Automata},
  editor =              {Bouyer, Patricia and Srinivasan, Srikanth},
  booktitle =           {{P}roceedings of the 43rd {C}onference on
                         {F}oundations of {S}oftware {T}echnology and
                         {T}heoretical {C}omputer {S}cience ({FSTTCS}'23)},
  acronym =             {{FSTTCS}'23},
  publisher =           {Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  series =              {Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics},
  volume =              {284},
  pages =               {19:1-19:22},
  year =                {2023},
  month =               dec,
  doi =                 {10.4230/LIPIcs.FSTTCS.2023.19},
}
[BL23] Udi Boker and Karoliina Lehtinen. When a Little Nondeterminism Goes a Long Way: an Introduction to History-Determinism. SIGLOG News 35:24-51. ACM Press, January 2023.
@article{siglog-news35()-BL,
  author =              {Boker, Udi and Lehtinen, Karoliina},
  title =               {When a Little Nondeterminism Goes a Long Way: an
                         Introduction to History-Determinism},
  publisher =           {ACM Press},
  journal =             {SIGLOG News},
  volume =              {35},
  pages =               {24-51},
  year =                {2023},
  month =               jan,
}
[CDS23] Roberto Cominetti, Valerio Dose, and Marco Scarsini. The price of anarchy in routing games as a function of the demand. Mathematical Programming. 2023. To appear.
@article{mathprog-CDS,
  author =              {Cominetti, Roberto and Dose, Valerio and Scarsini,
                         Marco},
  title =               {The~price of anarchy in routing games as a function
                         of the demand},
  journal =             {Mathematical Programming},
  year =                {2023},
  doi =                 {10.1007/s10107-021-01701-7},
  note =                {To~appear},
}
[FBB+23] Nathanaël Fijalkow, Nathalie Bertrand, Patricia Bouyer, Romain Brenguier, Arnaud Carayol, John Fearnley, Florian Gimbert, Rasmus Ibsen-Jensen, Nicolas Markey, Benjamin Monmege, Petr Novotný, Mickael Randour, Ocan Sankur, Sylvain Schmitz, Olivier Serre, and Mateusz Skomra. Games on graphs. Technical Report 2305.10546, arXiv, May 2023.
@techreport{GoG-fij23,
  author =              {Fijalkow, Nathana{\"e}l and Bertrand, Nathalie and
                         Bouyer, Patricia and Brenguier, Romain and Carayol,
                         Arnaud and Fearnley, John and Gimbert, Hugo an Horn,
                         Florian and Ibsen{-}Jensen, Rasmus and Markey,
                         Nicolas and Monmege, Benjamin and Novotn{\'y}, Petr
                         and Randour, Mickael and Sankur, Ocan and Schmitz,
                         Sylvain and Serre, Olivier and Skomra, Mateusz},
  title =               {Games on graphs},
  number =              {2305.10546},
  year =                {2023},
  month =               may,
  doi =                 {10.48550/arXiv.2305.10546},
  institution =         {arXiv},
}
[Gan23] Ritam Ganguly. Runtime verification of distributed systems. PhD thesis, Michigan State University, USA, 2023.
@phdthesis{phd-ganguly,
  author =              {Ganguly, Ritam},
  title =               {Runtime verification of distributed systems},
  year =                {2023},
  school =              {Michigan State University, USA},
  type =                {{PhD} thesis},
}
[HK23] Émile Hazard and Denis Kuperberg. Explorable automata. In CSL'23, Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics 252, pages 24:1-24:18. Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik, February 2023.
@inproceedings{csl2023-HK,
  author =              {Hazard, {\'E}mile and Kuperberg, Denis},
  title =               {Explorable automata},
  editor =              {Klin, Bartek and Pimentel, Elaine},
  booktitle =           {{P}roceedings of the 31st {EACSL} {A}nnual
                         {C}onference on {C}omputer {S}cience {L}ogic
                         ({CSL}'23)},
  acronym =             {{CSL}'23},
  publisher =           {Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  series =              {Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics},
  volume =              {252},
  pages =               {24:1-24:18},
  year =                {2023},
  month =               feb,
  doi =                 {10.4230/LIPIcs.CSL.2023.24},
}
[WMR+23] Zijun Wu, Rolf H. Möhring, Chunying Ren, and Dachaun Xu. A convergence analysis of the price of anarchy in atomic congestion games. Mathematical Programming 199(1):937-993. May 2023.
@article{mathprog199(1)-WMRX,
  author =              {Wu, Zijun and M{\"o}hring, Rolf H. and Ren, Chunying
                         and Xu, Dachaun},
  title =               {A~convergence analysis of the price of anarchy in
                         atomic congestion games},
  journal =             {Mathematical Programming},
  volume =              {199},
  number =              {1},
  pages =               {937-993},
  year =                {2023},
  month =               may,
  doi =                 {10.1007/s10107-022-01853-0},
}
2022
[HJM22] Léo Henry, Thierry Jéron, and Nicolas Markey. Control strategies for off-line testing of timed systems. Formal Methods in System Design 60(2):147-194. Springer-Verlag, April 2022.
Abstract

Partial observability and controllability are two well-known issues in test-case synthesis for reactive systems. We address the problem of partial control in the synthesis of test cases from timed-automata specifications. We extend a previous approach to this problem from the untimed to the timed setting. This extension requires a deep reworking of the models, game interpretation and test-synthesis algorithms. We exhibit strategies of a game that try to minimize both cooperations of the system and distance to the satisfaction of a test purpose or to the next cooperation, and prove they are winning under some fairness assumptions. This entails that when turning those strategies into test cases, we get properties such as soundness and exhaustiveness of the test synthesis method. We finally propose a symbolic algorithm to compute those strategies.

@article{fmsd60(2)-HJM,
  author =              {Henry, L{\'e}o and J{\'e}ron, Thierry and Markey,
                         Nicolas},
  title =               {Control strategies for off-line testing of timed
                         systems},
  publisher =           {Springer-Verlag},
  journal =             {Formal Methods in System Design},
  volume =              {60},
  number =              {2},
  pages =               {147-194},
  year =                {2022},
  month =               apr,
  doi =                 {10.1007/s10703-022-00403-w},
  abstract =            {Partial observability and controllability are two
                         well-known issues in test-case synthesis for
                         reactive systems. We address the problem of partial
                         control in the synthesis of test cases from
                         timed-automata specifications. We extend a previous
                         approach to this problem from the untimed to the
                         timed setting. This extension requires a deep
                         reworking of the models, game interpretation and
                         test-synthesis algorithms. We exhibit strategies of
                         a game that try to minimize both cooperations of the
                         system and distance to the satisfaction of a test
                         purpose or to the next cooperation, and prove they
                         are winning under some fairness assumptions. This
                         entails that when turning those strategies into test
                         cases, we get properties such as soundness and
                         exhaustiveness of the test synthesis method. We
                         finally propose a symbolic algorithm to compute
                         those strategies.},
}
[HMR22] Loïc Hélouët, Nicolas Markey, and Ritam Raha. Reachability games with relaxed energy constraints. Information and Computation 285 (Part B). Elsevier, May 2022.
Abstract

We study games with reachability objectives under energy constraints. We first prove that under strict energy constraints (either only lower-bound constraint or interval constraint), those games are LOGSPACE-equivalent to energy games with the same energy constraints but without reachability objective (i.e., for infinite runs). We then consider two relaxations of the upper-bound constraints (while keeping the lower-bound constraint strict): in the first one, called weak upper bound, the upper bound is absorbing, i.e., when the upper bound is reached, the extra energy is not stored; in the second one, we allow for temporary violations of the upper bound, imposing limits on the number or on the amount of violations.

We prove that when considering weak upper bound, reachability objectives require memory, but can still be solved in polynomial-time for one-player arenas; we prove that they are in NP in the two-player setting. Allowing for bounded violations makes the problem PSPACE-complete for one-player arenas and EXPTIME-complete for two players. We then address the problem of existence of bounds for a given arena. We show that with reachability objectives, existence can be a simpler problem than the game itself, and conversely that with infinite games, existence can be harder.

@article{icomp2022-HMR,
  author =              {H{\'e}lou{\"e}t, Lo{\"\i}c and Markey, Nicolas and
                         Raha, Ritam},
  title =               {Reachability games with relaxed energy constraints},
  publisher =           {Elsevier},
  journal =             {Information and Computation},
  volume =              {285~(Part~B)},
  year =                {2022},
  month =               may,
  doi =                 {10.1016/j.ic.2021.104806},
  abstract =            {We study games with reachability objectives under
                         energy constraints. We first prove that under strict
                         energy constraints (either only lower-bound
                         constraint or interval constraint), those games are
                         LOGSPACE-equivalent to energy games with the same
                         energy constraints but without reachability
                         objective (i.e., for infinite runs). We then
                         consider two relaxations of the upper-bound
                         constraints (while keeping the lower-bound
                         constraint strict): in the first one, called weak
                         upper bound, the upper bound is absorbing, i.e.,
                         when the upper bound is reached, the extra energy is
                         not stored; in the second one, we allow for
                         temporary violations of the upper bound, imposing
                         limits on the number or on the amount of violations.
                         \par We prove that when considering weak upper
                         bound, reachability objectives require memory, but
                         can still be solved in polynomial-time for
                         one-player arenas; we prove that they are in NP in
                         the two-player setting. Allowing for bounded
                         violations makes the problem PSPACE-complete for
                         one-player arenas and EXPTIME-complete for two
                         players. We then address the problem of existence of
                         bounds for a given arena. We show that with
                         reachability objectives, existence can be a simpler
                         problem than the game itself, and conversely that
                         with infinite games, existence can be harder.},
}
[BMS+22] Nathalie Bertrand, Nicolas Markey, Suman Sadhukhan, and Ocan Sankur. Semilinear Representations for Series-Parallel Atomic Congestion Games. In FSTTCS'22, Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics 250, pages 32:1-32:20. Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik, December 2022.
Abstract

We consider atomic congestion games on series-parallel networks, and study the structure of the sets of Nash equilibria and social local optima on a given network when the number of players varies. We establish that these sets are definable in Presburger arithmetic and that they admit semilinear representations whose all period vectors have a common direction. As an application, we prove that the prices of anarchy and stability converge to 1 as the number of players goes to infinity, and show how to exploit these semilinear representations to compute these ratios precisely for a given network and number of players.

@inproceedings{fsttcs2022-BMSS,
  author =              {Bertrand, Nathalie and Markey, Nicolas and
                         Sadhukhan, Suman and Sankur, Ocan},
  title =               {Semilinear Representations for Series-Parallel
                         Atomic Congestion Games},
  editor =              {Dawar, Anuj and Guruswami, Venkatesan},
  booktitle =           {{P}roceedings of the 42nd {C}onference on
                         {F}oundations of {S}oftware {T}echnology and
                         {T}heoretical {C}omputer {S}cience ({FSTTCS}'22)},
  acronym =             {{FSTTCS}'22},
  publisher =           {Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  series =              {Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics},
  volume =              {250},
  pages =               {32:1-32:20},
  year =                {2022},
  month =               dec,
  doi =                 {10.4230/LIPIcs.FSTTCS.2022.32},
  abstract =            {We~consider atomic congestion games on
                         series-parallel networks, and study the structure of
                         the sets of Nash equilibria and social local optima
                         on a given network when the number of players
                         varies. We establish that these sets are definable
                         in Presburger arithmetic and that they admit
                         semilinear representations whose all period vectors
                         have a common direction. As~an~application, we~prove
                         that the prices of anarchy and stability converge
                         to~1 as the number of players goes to infinity, and
                         show how to exploit these semilinear representations
                         to compute these ratios precisely for a given
                         network and number of players.},
}
[BMS+22] Nathalie Bertrand, Nicolas Markey, Ocan Sankur, and Nicolas Waldburger. Parameterized safety verification of round-based shared-memory systems. In ICALP'22, Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics, pages 113:1-113:20. Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik, July 2022.
Abstract

We consider the parameterized verification problem for distributed algorithms where the goal is to develop techniques to prove the correctness of a given algorithm regardless of the number of participating processes. Motivated by an asynchronous binary consensus algorithm of [J. Aspnes; Fast deterministic consensus in a noisy environment; J. Algorithms, 2002], we consider round-based distributed algorithms communicating with shared memory. A particular challenge in these systems is that 1) the number of processes is unbounded, and, more importantly, 2) there is a fresh set of registers at each round. A verification algorithm thus needs to manage both sources of infinity. In this setting, we prove that the safety verification problem, which consists in deciding whether all possible executions avoid a given error state, is PSPACE-complete. For negative instances of the safety verification problem, we also provide exponential lower and upper bounds on the minimal number of processes needed for an error execution and on the minimal round on which the error state can be covered.

@inproceedings{icalp2022-BMSW,
  author =              {Bertrand, Nathalie and Markey, Nicolas and Sankur,
                         Ocan and Waldburger, Nicolas},
  title =               {Parameterized safety verification of round-based
                         shared-memory systems},
  editor =              {Woodruff, David and Boja{\'n}czyk, Miko{\l}aj},
  booktitle =           {{P}roceedings of the 49th {I}nternational
                         {C}olloquium on {A}utomata, {L}anguages and
                         {P}rogramming ({ICALP}'22)},
  acronym =             {{ICALP}'22},
  publisher =           {Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  series =              {Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics},
  pages =               {113:1-113:20},
  year =                {2022},
  month =               jul,
  doi =                 {10.4230/LIPIcs.ICALP.2022.113},
  abstract =            {We consider the parameterized verification problem
                         for distributed algorithms where the goal is to
                         develop techniques to prove the correctness of a
                         given algorithm regardless of the number of
                         participating processes. Motivated by an
                         asynchronous binary consensus algorithm~of
                         [J.~Aspnes; Fast deterministic consensus in a noisy
                         environment; J.~Algorithms,~2002], we~consider
                         round-based distributed algorithms communicating
                         with shared memory. A~particular challenge in these
                         systems is that 1)~the~number of processes is
                         unbounded, and, more importantly, 2)~there is a
                         fresh set of registers at each round. A~verification
                         algorithm thus needs to manage both sources of
                         infinity. In~this setting, we~prove that the safety
                         verification problem, which consists in deciding
                         whether all possible executions avoid a given error
                         state, is PSPACE-complete. For~negative instances of
                         the safety verification problem, we~also provide
                         exponential lower and upper bounds on the minimal
                         number of processes needed for an error execution
                         and on the minimal round on which the error state
                         can be covered.},
}
[GM22] Thomas Guyet and Nicolas Markey. Logical forms of chronicles. In TIME'22, Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics, pages 7:1-7:15. Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik, November 2022.
Abstract

A chronicle is a temporal model introduced by Dousson et al. for situation recognition. In short, a chronicle consists of a set of events and a set of real-valued temporal constraints on the delays between pairs of events. This work investigates the relationship between chronicles and classical temporal model formalisms, namely TPTL and MTL. More specifically, we answer the following question: is it possible to find an equivalent formula in such formalisms for any chronicle? This question arises from the observation that a single chronicle captures complex temporal behaviours that do not order the events in time.

In this article, we introduce the subclass of linear chronicles, which defines a temporal order of occurrence of the event to be recognized in a temporal sequence. Our first result is that any chronicle can be expressed as a disjunction of linear chronicles. Our second result is that any linear chronicle has an equivalent TPTL formula. Using existing expressiveness results between TPTL and MTL, we show that some chronicles have no equivalent in MTL. This confirms that the model of chronicle has interesting properties for situation recognition.

@inproceedings{time2022-GM,
  author =              {Guyet, {\relax Th}omas and Markey, Nicolas},
  title =               {Logical forms of chronicles},
  editor =              {Artikis, Alexander and Posenato, Roberto and
                         Tonetta, Stefano},
  booktitle =           {{P}roceedings of the 29th {I}nternational
                         {S}ymposium on {T}emporal {R}epresentation and
                         {R}easoning ({TIME}'22)},
  acronym =             {{TIME}'22},
  publisher =           {Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  series =              {Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics},
  pages =               {7:1-7:15},
  year =                {2022},
  month =               nov,
  doi =                 {10.4230/LIPIcs.TIME.2022.7},
  abstract =            {A~chronicle is a temporal model introduced by
                         Dousson~\textit{et~al.} for situation recognition.
                         In~short, a chronicle consists of a set of events
                         and a set of real-valued temporal constraints on the
                         delays between pairs of events. This~work
                         investigates the relationship between chronicles and
                         classical temporal model formalisms, namely
                         \textsf{TPTL} and~\textsf{MTL}. More~specifically,
                         we~answer the following question: is~it possible to
                         find an equivalent formula in such formalisms for
                         any chronicle? This~question arises from the
                         observation that a single chronicle captures complex
                         temporal behaviours that do not order the events in
                         time.\par In~this article, we~introduce the subclass
                         of linear chronicles, which defines a temporal order
                         of occurrence of the event to be recognized in a
                         temporal sequence. Our~first result is that any
                         chronicle can be expressed as a disjunction of
                         linear chronicles. Our~second result is that any
                         linear chronicle has an equivalent \textsf{TPTL}
                         formula. Using existing expressiveness results
                         between \textsf{TPTL} and~\textsf{MTL}, we~show that
                         some chronicles have no equivalent in~\textsf{MTL}.
                         This confirms that the model of chronicle has
                         interesting properties for situation recognition.},
}
[GMS22] Aline Goeminne, Nicolas Markey, and Ocan Sankur. Non-Blind Strategies in Timed Network Congestion Games. In FORMATS'22, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 13465, pages 183-199. Springer-Verlag, September 2022.
Abstract

Network congestion games are a convenient model for reasoning about routing problems in a network: agents have to move from a source to a target vertex while avoiding congestion, measured as a cost depending on the number of players using the same link. Network congestion games have been extensively studied over the last 40 years, while their extension with timing constraints were considered more recently.

Most of the results on network congestion games consider blind strategies: they are static, and do not adapt to the strategies selected by the other players. We extend the recent results of [Bertrand et al., Dynamic network congestion games. FSTTCS'20] to timed network congestion games, in which the availability of the edges depend on (discrete) time. We prove that computing Nash equilibria satisfying some constraint on the total cost (and in particular, computing the best and worst Nash equilibria), and computing the social optimum, can be achieved in exponential space. The social optimum can be computed in polynomial space if all players have the same source and target.

@inproceedings{formats2022-GMS,
  author =              {Goeminne, Aline and Markey, Nicolas and Sankur,
                         Ocan},
  title =               {Non-Blind Strategies in Timed Network Congestion
                         Games},
  editor =              {Bogomolov, Sergiy and Parker, David},
  booktitle =           {{P}roceedings of the 20th {I}nternational
                         {C}onferences on {F}ormal {M}odelling and {A}nalysis
                         of {T}imed {S}ystems ({FORMATS}'22)},
  acronym =             {{FORMATS}'22},
  publisher =           {Springer-Verlag},
  series =              {Lecture Notes in Computer Science},
  volume =              {13465},
  pages =               {183-199},
  year =                {2022},
  month =               sep,
  doi =                 {10.1007/978-3-031-15839-1_11},
  abstract =            {Network congestion games are a convenient model for
                         reasoning about routing problems in a network:
                         agents have to move from a source to a target vertex
                         while avoiding congestion, measured as a cost
                         depending on the number of players using the same
                         link. Network congestion games have been extensively
                         studied over the last 40 years, while their
                         extension with timing constraints were considered
                         more recently. \par Most of the results on network
                         congestion games consider blind strategies: they are
                         static, and do not adapt to the strategies selected
                         by the other players. We extend the recent results
                         of [Bertrand~\textit{et~al.}, Dynamic network
                         congestion games. FSTTCS'20] to timed network
                         congestion games, in which the availability of the
                         edges depend on (discrete) time. We prove that
                         computing Nash equilibria satisfying some constraint
                         on the total cost (and in particular, computing the
                         best and worst Nash equilibria), and computing the
                         social optimum, can be achieved in exponential
                         space. The social optimum can be computed in
                         polynomial space if all players have the same source
                         and target.},
}
[NSJ+22] Reiya Noguchi, Ocan Sankur, Thierry Jéron, Nicolas Markey, and David Mentré. Repairing Real-Time Requirements. In ATVA'22, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 13505, pages 371-387. Springer-Verlag, October 2022.
Abstract

We consider the problem of repairing inconsistent real-time requirements with respect to two consistency notions: non-vacuity, which means that each requirement can be realized without violating other ones, and rt-consistency, which means that inevitable violations are detected immediately. We provide an iterative algorithm, based on solving SMT queries, to replace designated parameters of real-time requirements with new Boolean expressions and time constraints, so that the resulting set of requirements becomes consistent.

@inproceedings{atva2022-NSJMM,
  author =              {Noguchi, Reiya and Sankur, Ocan and J{\'e}ron,
                         Thierry and Markey, Nicolas and Mentr{\'e}, David},
  title =               {Repairing Real-Time Requirements},
  editor =              {Bouajjani, Ahmed and Hol{\'\i}k, Luk{\'a}{\v s} and
                         Wu, Zhilin},
  booktitle =           {{P}roceedings of the 20th {I}nternational
                         {S}ymposium on {A}utomated {T}echnology for
                         {V}erification and {A}nalysis ({ATVA}'22)},
  acronym =             {{ATVA}'22},
  publisher =           {Springer-Verlag},
  series =              {Lecture Notes in Computer Science},
  volume =              {13505},
  pages =               {371-387},
  year =                {2022},
  month =               oct,
  doi =                 {10.1007/978-3-031-19992-9_24},
  abstract =            {We~consider the problem of repairing inconsistent
                         real-time requirements with respect to two
                         consistency notions: non-vacuity, which means that
                         each requirement can be realized without violating
                         other ones, and rt-consistency, which means that
                         inevitable violations are detected immediately.
                         We~provide an iterative algorithm, based on solving
                         SMT queries, to replace designated parameters of
                         real-time requirements with new Boolean expressions
                         and time constraints, so that the resulting set of
                         requirements becomes consistent.},
}
[NJM+22] Reiya Noguchi, Thierry Jéron, Nicolas Markey, and Ocan Sankur. Method and system for testing the operation of a target computer system by using timed requirements. Patent EP 3 907 615 B1, November 2022,
@patent{EP3907615B1,
  author =              {Noguchi, Reiya and J{\'e}ron, Thierry and Markey,
                         Nicolas and Sankur, Ocan},
  title =               {Method and system for testing the operation of a
                         target computer system by using timed requirements},
  number =              {EP 3 907 615 B1},
  year =                {2022},
  month =               nov,
}
[BHL+22] Sougata Bose, Thomas A. Henzinger, Karoliina Lehtinen, Sven Schewe, and Patrick Totzke. History-deterministic timed automata are not determinizable. In RP'22, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 13608, pages 67-76. Springer-Verlag, October 2022.
@inproceedings{rp2022-BHLST,
  author =              {Bose, Sougata and Henzinger, Thomas A. and Lehtinen,
                         Karoliina and Schewe, Sven and Totzke, Patrick},
  title =               {History-deterministic timed automata are not
                         determinizable},
  editor =              {Lin, Anthony W. and Zetzsche, Georg and Potapov,
                         Igor},
  booktitle =           {{P}roceedings of the 16th {W}orkshop on
                         {R}eachability {P}roblems in {C}omputational
                         {M}odels ({RP}'22)},
  acronym =             {{RP}'22},
  publisher =           {Springer-Verlag},
  series =              {Lecture Notes in Computer Science},
  volume =              {13608},
  pages =               {67-76},
  year =                {2022},
  month =               oct,
  doi =                 {10.1007/978-3-031-19135-0_5},
}
[BL22] Udi Boker and Karoliina Lehtinen. Token Games and History-Deterministic Quantitative Automata. In FoSSaCS'22, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 13242, pages 120-139. Springer-Verlag, April 2022.
@inproceedings{fossacs2022-BL,
  author =              {Boker, Udi and Lehtinen, Karoliina},
  title =               {Token Games and History-Deterministic Quantitative
                         Automata},
  editor =              {Bouyer, Patricia and Schr{\"o}der, Lutz},
  booktitle =           {{P}roceedings of the 25th {I}nternational
                         {C}onference on {F}oundations of {S}oftware
                         {S}cience and {C}omputation {S}tructure
                         ({FoSSaCS}'22)},
  acronym =             {{FoSSaCS}'22},
  publisher =           {Springer-Verlag},
  series =              {Lecture Notes in Computer Science},
  volume =              {13242},
  pages =               {120-139},
  year =                {2022},
  month =               apr,
  doi =                 {10.1007/978-3-030-99253-8_7},
}
[BLS22] Udi Boker, Karoliina Lehtinen, and Salomon Sickert. On the Translation of Automata to Linear Temporal Logic. In FoSSaCS'22, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 13242, pages 140-160. Springer-Verlag, April 2022.
@inproceedings{fossacs2022-BLS,
  author =              {Boker, Udi and Lehtinen, Karoliina and Sickert,
                         Salomon},
  title =               {On the Translation of Automata to Linear Temporal
                         Logic},
  editor =              {Bouyer, Patricia and Schr{\"o}der, Lutz},
  booktitle =           {{P}roceedings of the 25th {I}nternational
                         {C}onference on {F}oundations of {S}oftware
                         {S}cience and {C}omputation {S}tructure
                         ({FoSSaCS}'22)},
  acronym =             {{FoSSaCS}'22},
  publisher =           {Springer-Verlag},
  series =              {Lecture Notes in Computer Science},
  volume =              {13242},
  pages =               {140-160},
  year =                {2022},
  month =               apr,
  doi =                 {10.1007/978-3-030-99253-8_8},
}
[HLT22] Thomas A. Henzinger, Karoliina Lehtinen, and Patrick Totzke. History-deterministic timed automata. In CONCUR'22, Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics 243, pages 14:1-14:21. Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik, September 2022.
@inproceedings{concur2022-HLT,
  author =              {Henzinger, Thomas A. and Lehtinen, Karoliina and
                         Totzke, Patrick},
  title =               {History-deterministic timed automata},
  editor =              {Klin, Bartek and Lasota, S{\l}awomir and Muscholl,
                         Anca},
  booktitle =           {{P}roceedings of the 33rd {I}nternational
                         {C}onference on {C}oncurrency {T}heory
                         ({CONCUR}'22)},
  acronym =             {{CONCUR}'22},
  publisher =           {Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  series =              {Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics},
  volume =              {243},
  pages =               {14:1-14:21},
  year =                {2022},
  month =               sep,
  doi =                 {10.4230/LIPIcs.CONCUR.2022.14},
}
[HM22] Bainian Hao and Carla Michini. Inefficiency of Pure Nash Equilibria in Series-Parallel Network Congestion Games. In WINE'22, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 13778, pages 3-20. Springer-Verlag, July 2022.
@inproceedings{wine2022-HM,
  author =              {Hao, Bainian and Michini, Carla},
  title =               {Inefficiency of Pure Nash Equilibria in
                         Series-Parallel Network Congestion Games},
  editor =              {Hansen, Kristoffer Arnsfelt and Liu, Tracy Xiao and
                         Malekian, Azarakhsh},
  booktitle =           {{P}roceedings of the 18th {I}nternational
                         {C}onference on {W}eb and {I}nternet {E}conomics
                         ({WINE}'22)},
  acronym =             {{WINE}'22},
  publisher =           {Springer-Verlag},
  series =              {Lecture Notes in Computer Science},
  volume =              {13778},
  pages =               {3-20},
  year =                {2022},
  month =               jul,
  doi =                 {10.1007/978-3-031-22832-2_1},
}
2021
[BBF+21] Giovanni Bacci, Patricia Bouyer, Uli Fahrenberg, Kim Guldstrand Larsen, Nicolas Markey, and Pierre-Alain Reynier. Optimal and Robust Controller Synthesis Using Energy Timed Automata with Uncertainty. Formal Aspects of Computing 33(1):3-25. Springer-Verlag, January 2021.
Abstract

In this paper, we propose a novel framework for the synthesis of robust and optimal energy-aware controllers. The framework is based on energy timed automata, allowing for easy expression of timing-constraints and variable energy-rates. We prove decidability of the energy-constrained infinite-run problem in settings with both certainty and uncertainty of the energy-rates. We also consider the optimization problem of identifying the minimal upper bound that will permit existence of energy-constrained infinite runs. Our algorithms are based on quantifier elimination for linear real arithmetic. Using Mathematica and Mjollnir, we illustrate our framework through a real industrial example of a hydraulic oil pump. Compared with previous approaches our method is completely automated and provides improved results.

@article{fac2020-BBFLMR,
  author =              {Bacci, Giovanni and Bouyer, Patricia and Fahrenberg,
                         Uli and Larsen, Kim Guldstrand and Markey, Nicolas
                         and Reynier, Pierre-Alain},
  title =               {Optimal and Robust Controller Synthesis Using Energy
                         Timed Automata with Uncertainty},
  publisher =           {Springer-Verlag},
  journal =             {Formal Aspects of Computing},
  volume =              {33},
  number =              {1},
  pages =               {3-25},
  year =                {2021},
  month =               jan,
  doi =                 {10.1007/s00165-020-00521-4},
  abstract =            {In~this paper, we~propose a novel framework for the
                         synthesis of robust and optimal energy-aware
                         controllers. The~framework is based on energy timed
                         automata, allowing for easy expression of
                         timing-constraints and variable energy-rates.
                         We~prove decidability of the energy-constrained
                         infinite-run problem in settings with both certainty
                         and uncertainty of the energy-rates. We~also
                         consider the optimization problem of identifying the
                         minimal upper bound that will permit existence of
                         energy-constrained infinite runs. Our~algorithms are
                         based on quantifier elimination for linear real
                         arithmetic. Using Mathematica and Mjollnir,
                         we~illustrate our framework through a real
                         industrial example of a hydraulic oil pump. Compared
                         with previous approaches our method is completely
                         automated and provides improved results.},
}
[BHJ+21] Patricia Bouyer, Léo Henry, Samy Jaziri, Thierry Jéron, and Nicolas Markey. Diagnosing timed automata using timed markings. International Journal on Software Tools for Technology Transfer 23(2):229-253. Springer-Verlag, April 2021.
Abstract

We consider the problems of efficiently diagnosing (and predicting) what did (and will) happen after a given sequence of observations of the execution of a partially-observable one-clock timed automaton. This is made difficult by the facts that timed automata are infinite-state systems, and that they can in general not be determinized.

We introduce timed markings as a formalism to keep track of the evolution of the set of reachable configurations over time. We show how timed markings can be used to efficiently represent the closure under silent transitions of such automata. We report on our implementation of this approach compared to the approach of [Tripakis, Fault diagnosis for timed automata, 2002], and provide some insight to a generalization of our approach to n-clock timed automata.

@article{sttt23(2)-BHJJM,
  author =              {Bouyer, Patricia and Henry, L{\'e}o and Jaziri, Samy
                         and J{\'e}ron, Thierry and Markey, Nicolas},
  title =               {Diagnosing timed automata using timed markings},
  publisher =           {Springer-Verlag},
  journal =             {International Journal on Software Tools for
                         Technology Transfer},
  volume =              {23},
  number =              {2},
  pages =               {229-253},
  year =                {2021},
  month =               apr,
  doi =                 {10.1007/s10009-021-00606-2},
  abstract =            {We~consider the problems of efficiently diagnosing
                         (and~predicting) what did (and~will) happen after a
                         given sequence of observations of the execution of a
                         partially-observable one-clock timed automaton. This
                         is made difficult by the facts that timed automata
                         are infinite-state systems, and that they can in
                         general not be determinized. \par We~introduce timed
                         markings as a formalism to keep track of the
                         evolution of the set of reachable configurations
                         over time. We show how timed markings can be used to
                         efficiently represent the closure under silent
                         transitions of such automata. We report on our
                         implementation of this approach compared to the
                         approach of [Tripakis, Fault diagnosis for timed
                         automata,~2002], and provide some insight to a
                         generalization of our approach to {{\(n\)}}-clock
                         timed automata.},
}
[AZZ+21] Jie An, Bohua Zhan, Naijun Zhan, and Miaomiao Zhang. Learning nondeterministic real-time automata. ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems 20(5s):99:1-99:26. ACM Press, October 2021.
@article{tecs20(5s)-AZZZ,
  author =              {An, Jie and Zhan, Bohua and Zhan, Naijun and Zhang,
                         Miaomiao},
  title =               {Learning nondeterministic real-time automata},
  publisher =           {ACM Press},
  journal =             {ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems},
  volume =              {20},
  number =              {5s},
  pages =               {99:1-99:26},
  year =                {2021},
  month =               oct,
  doi =                 {10.1145/3477030},
}
[BFF+21] Raphaël Berthon, Nathanaël Fijalkow, Emmanuel Filiot, Shibashis Guha, Bastien Maubert, Aniello Murano, Laureline Pinault, Sophie Pinchinat, Sasha Rubin, and Olivier Serre. Alternating Tree Automata with Qualitative Semantics. ACM Transactions on Computational Logic 22(1):7:1-7:24. ACM Press, January 2021.
@article{tocl22(1)-BFFGMMPPRS,
  author =              {Berthon, Rapha{\"e}l and Fijalkow, Nathana{\"e}l and
                         Filiot, Emmanuel and Guha, Shibashis and Maubert,
                         Bastien and Murano, Aniello and Pinault, Laureline
                         and Pinchinat, Sophie and Rubin, Sasha and Serre,
                         Olivier},
  title =               {Alternating Tree Automata with Qualitative
                         Semantics},
  publisher =           {ACM Press},
  journal =             {ACM Transactions on Computational Logic},
  volume =              {22},
  number =              {1},
  pages =               {7:1-7:24},
  year =                {2021},
  month =               jan,
  doi =                 {10.1145/3431860},
}
[BL21] Udi Boker and Karoliina Lehtinen. History Determinism vs. Good for Gameness in Quantitative Automata. In FSTTCS'21, Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics 213, pages 38:1-38:20. Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik, December 2021.
@inproceedings{fsttcs2021-BK,
  author =              {Boker, Udi and Lehtinen, Karoliina},
  title =               {History Determinism vs.~Good for Gameness in
                         Quantitative Automata},
  editor =              {Boja{\'n}czyk, Miko{\l}aj and Chekuri, Chandra},
  booktitle =           {{P}roceedings of the 41st {C}onference on
                         {F}oundations of {S}oftware {T}echnology and
                         {T}heoretical {C}omputer {S}cience ({FSTTCS}'21)},
  acronym =             {{FSTTCS}'21},
  publisher =           {Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  series =              {Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics},
  volume =              {213},
  pages =               {38:1-38:20},
  year =                {2021},
  month =               dec,
  doi =                 {10.4230/LIPIcs.FSTTCS.2021.38},
}
[Lod21] Christof Löding. Automata on infinite trees. In Jean-Éric Pin (eds.), Handbook of automata theory. EMS Press, 2021.
@incollection{hat-ch8,
  author =              {L{\"o}ding, Christof},
  title =               {Automata on infinite trees},
  editor =              {Pin, Jean-{\'E}ric},
  booktitle =           {Handbook of automata theory},
  publisher =           {EMS~Press},
  volume =              {1},
  pages =               {265-302},
  chapter =             {8},
  year =                {2021},
  doi =                 {10.4171/AUTOMATA-1/8},
}
[MPS+21] Bastien Maubert, Sophie Pinchinat, François Schwarzentruber, and Silvia Stranieri. Concurrent Games in Dynamic Epistemic Logic. In IJCAI'20, pages 1877-1883. IJCAI organization, January 2021.
@inproceedings{ijcai2020-MPSS,
  author =              {Maubert, Bastien and Pinchinat, Sophie and
                         Schwarzentruber, Fran{\c c}ois and Stranieri,
                         Silvia},
  title =               {Concurrent Games in Dynamic Epistemic Logic},
  editor =              {Bessiere, Christian},
  booktitle =           {{P}roceedings of the 29th {I}nternational {J}oint
                         {C}onference on {A}rtificial {I}ntelligence
                         ({IJCAI}'20)},
  acronym =             {{IJCAI}'20},
  publisher =           {IJCAI organization},
  pages =               {1877-1883},
  year =                {2021},
  month =               jan,
  doi =                 {10.24963/ijcai.2020/260},
}
[Pin21] Jean-Éric Pin. Handbook of automata theory. EMS Press, 2021.
@book{hat-pin-1,
  title =               {Handbook of automata theory},
  editor =              {Pin, Jean-{\'E}ric},
  booktitle =           {Handbook of automata theory},
  publisher =           {EMS~Press},
  volume =              {1},
  year =                {2021},
  doi =                 {10.4171/AUTOMATA-1},
}
[Sad21] Suman Sadhukhan. A Verification Viewpoint on Network Congestion Games. PhD thesis, Université Rennes 1, France, December 2021.
@phdthesis{phd-sadhukhan,
  author =              {Sadhukhan, Suman},
  title =               {A Verification Viewpoint on Network Congestion
                         Games},
  year =                {2021},
  month =               dec,
  school =              {Universit{\'e} Rennes~1, France},
}
[SK21] Neda Saeedloei and Feliks Kluźniak. Minimization of the Number of Clocks for Timed Scenarios. In SBMF'21, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 13130, pages 122-139. Springer-Verlag, 2021.
@inproceedings{sbmf2021-SK,
  author =              {Saeedloei, Neda and Klu{\'z}niak, Feliks},
  title =               {Minimization of the Number of Clocks for Timed
                         Scenarios},
  editor =              {Campos, S{\'e}rgio Vale Aguiar and Minea, Marius},
  booktitle =           {{P}roceedings of the24th {B}razilian {S}ymposium on
                         {F}ormal {M}ethods ({SBMF}'21)},
  acronym =             {{SBMF}'21},
  publisher =           {Springer-Verlag},
  series =              {Lecture Notes in Computer Science},
  volume =              {13130},
  pages =               {122-139},
  year =                {2021},
  confmonth =           {12},
  doi =                 {10.1007/978-3-030-92137-8_8},
}
2020
[ALM20] Étienne André, Didier Lime, and Nicolas Markey. Language-preservation problems in parametric timed automata. Logical Methods in Computer Science 16(1). January 2020.
Abstract

Parametric timed automata (PTA) are a powerful formalism to model and reason about concurrent systems with some unknown timing delays. In this paper, we address the (untimed) language- and trace-preservation problems: given a reference parameter valuation, does there exist another parameter valuation with the same untimed language, or with the same set of traces? We show that these problems are undecidable both for general PTA and for the restricted class of L/U-PTA, even for integer-valued parameters, or over bounded time. On the other hand, we exhibit decidable subclasses: 1-clock PTA, and 1-parameter deterministic L-PTA and U-PTA. We also consider robust versions of these problems, where we additionally require that the language be preserved for all valuations between the reference valuation and the new valuation.

@article{lmcs16(1)-ALM,
  author =              {Andr{\'e}, {\'E}tienne and Lime, Didier and Markey,
                         Nicolas},
  title =               {Language-preservation problems in parametric timed
                         automata},
  journal =             {Logical Methods in Computer Science},
  volume =              {16},
  number =              {1},
  year =                {2020},
  month =               jan,
  doi =                 {10.23638/LMCS-16(1:5)2020},
  abstract =            {Parametric timed automata (PTA) are a powerful
                         formalism to model and reason about concurrent
                         systems with some unknown timing delays. In~this
                         paper, we~address the (untimed) language- and
                         trace-preservation problems: given a reference
                         parameter valuation, does there exist another
                         parameter valuation with the same untimed language,
                         or with the same set of traces? We~show that these
                         problems are undecidable both for general PTA and
                         for the restricted class of L{\slash}U-PTA, even for
                         integer-valued parameters, or over bounded time.
                         On~the other~hand, we~exhibit decidable subclasses:
                         1-clock PTA, and 1-parameter deterministic L-PTA and
                         U-PTA. We~also consider robust versions of these
                         problems, where we additionally require that the
                         language be preserved for all valuations between the
                         reference valuation and the new valuation.},
}
[GBM20] Patrick Gardy, Patricia Bouyer, and Nicolas Markey. Dependences in Strategy Logic. Theory of Computing Systems 64(3):467-507. Springer-Verlag, April 2020.
Abstract

Strategy Logic (SL) is a very expressive temporal logic for specifying and verifying properties of multi-agent systems: in SL, one can quantify over strategies, assign them to agents, and express LTL properties of the resulting plays. Such a powerful framework has two drawbacks: first, model checking SL has non-elementary complexity; second, the exact semantics of SL is rather intricate, and may not correspond to what is expected. In this paper, we focus on strategy dependences in SL, by tracking how existentially-quantified strategies in a formula may (or may not) depend on other strategies selected in the formula, revisiting the approach of [Mogavero et al., Reasoning about strategies: On the model-checking problem, 2014]. We explain why elementary dependences, as defined by Mogavero et al., do not exactly capture the intended concept of behavioral strategies. We address this discrepancy by introducing timeline dependences, and exhibit a large fragment of SL for which model checking can be performed in 2EXPTIME under this new semantics.

@article{tocsys64(3)-GBM,
  author =              {Gardy, Patrick and Bouyer, Patricia and Markey,
                         Nicolas},
  title =               {Dependences in Strategy Logic},
  publisher =           {Springer-Verlag},
  journal =             {Theory of Computing Systems},
  volume =              {64},
  number =              {3},
  pages =               {467-507},
  year =                {2020},
  month =               apr,
  doi =                 {10.1007/s00224-019-09926-y},
  abstract =            {Strategy Logic~(\textsf{SL}) is a very expressive
                         temporal logic for specifying and verifying
                         properties of multi-agent systems: in~\textsf{SL},
                         one can quantify over strategies, assign them to
                         agents, and express \textsf{LTL} properties of the
                         resulting plays. Such a powerful framework has two
                         drawbacks: first, model checking \textsf{SL} has
                         non-elementary complexity; second, the exact
                         semantics of \textsf{SL} is rather intricate, and
                         may not correspond to what is expected. In~this
                         paper, we~focus on \emph{strategy dependences}
                         in~\textsf{SL}, by tracking how
                         existentially-quantified strategies in a formula may
                         (or~may~not) depend on other strategies selected in
                         the formula, revisiting the approach of~[Mogavero
                         \emph{et~al.}, Reasoning about strategies: On~the
                         model-checking problem,~2014]. We~explain why
                         \emph{elementary} dependences, as defined by
                         Mogavero~\emph{et~al.}, do not exactly capture the
                         intended concept of behavioral strategies.
                         We~address this discrepancy by introducing
                         \emph{timeline} dependences, and exhibit a large
                         fragment of \textsf{SL} for which model checking can
                         be performed in \textsf{2EXPTIME} under this new
                         semantics.},
}
[BMS+20] Nathalie Bertrand, Nicolas Markey, Suman Sadhukhan, and Ocan Sankur. Dynamic network congestion games. In FSTTCS'20, Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics 182, pages 40:1-40:16. Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik, December 2020.
Abstract

Congestion games are a classical type of games studied in game theory, in which n players choose a resource, and their individual cost increases with the number of other players choosing the same resource. In network congestion games (NCGs), the resources correspond to simple paths in a graph, e.g. representing routing options from a source to a target. In this paper, we introduce a variant of NCGs, referred to as dynamic NCGs: in this setting, players take transitions synchronously, they select their next transitions dynamically, and they are charged a cost that depends on the number of players simultaneously using the same transition.

We study, from a complexity perspective, standard concepts of game theory in dynamic NCGs: social optima, Nash equilibria, and subgame perfect equilibria. Our contributions are the following: the existence of a strategy profile with social cost bounded by a constant is in PSPACE and NP-hard. (Pure) Nash equilibria always exist in dynamic NCGs; the existence of a Nash equilibrium with bounded cost can be decided in EXPSPACE, and computing a witnessing strategy profile can be done in doubly-exponential time. The existence of a subgame perfect equilibrium with bounded cost can be decided in 2EXPSPACE, and a witnessing strategy profile can be computed in triply-exponential time.

@inproceedings{fsttcs2020-BMSS,
  author =              {Bertrand, Nathalie and Markey, Nicolas and
                         Sadhukhan, Suman and Sankur, Ocan},
  title =               {Dynamic network congestion games},
  editor =              {Saxena, Nitin and Simon, Sunil},
  booktitle =           {{P}roceedings of the 40th {C}onference on
                         {F}oundations of {S}oftware {T}echnology and
                         {T}heoretical {C}omputer {S}cience ({FSTTCS}'20)},
  acronym =             {{FSTTCS}'20},
  publisher =           {Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  series =              {Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics},
  volume =              {182},
  pages =               {40:1-40:16},
  year =                {2020},
  month =               dec,
  doi =                 {10.4230/LIPIcs.FSTTCS.2020.40},
  abstract =            {Congestion games are a classical type of games
                         studied in game theory, in which n players choose a
                         resource, and their individual cost increases with
                         the number of other players choosing the same
                         resource. In network congestion games~(NCGs), the
                         resources correspond to simple paths in a graph,
                         e.g.~representing routing options from a source to a
                         target. In this paper, we introduce a variant
                         of~NCGs, referred to as dynamic~NCGs: in~this
                         setting, players take transitions synchronously,
                         they select their next transitions dynamically, and
                         they are charged a cost that depends on the number
                         of players simultaneously using the same transition.
                         \par We~study, from a complexity perspective,
                         standard concepts of game theory in dynamic NCGs:
                         social optima, Nash equilibria, and subgame perfect
                         equilibria. Our contributions are the following: the
                         existence of a strategy profile with social cost
                         bounded by a constant is in PSPACE and NP-hard.
                         (Pure)~Nash equilibria always exist in dynamic~NCGs;
                         the existence of a Nash equilibrium with bounded
                         cost can be decided in EXPSPACE, and computing a
                         witnessing strategy profile can be done in
                         doubly-exponential time. The~existence of a subgame
                         perfect equilibrium with bounded cost can be decided
                         in 2EXPSPACE, and a witnessing strategy profile can
                         be computed in triply-exponential~time.},
}
[CJM+20] Emily Clement, Thierry Jéron, Nicolas Markey, and David Mentré. Computing maximally-permissive strategies in acyclic timed automata. In FORMATS'20, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 12288, pages 111-126. Springer-Verlag, September 2020.
Abstract

Timed automata are a convenient mathematical model for modelling and reasoning about real-time systems. While they provide a powerful way of representing timing aspects of such systems, timed automata assume arbitrary precision and zero-delay actions; in particular, a state might be declared reachable in a timed automaton, but impossible to reach in the physical system it models.

In this paper, we consider permissive strategies as a way to overcome this problem: such strategies propose intervals of delays instead of single delays, and aim at reaching a target state whichever delay actually takes place. We develop an algorithm for computing the optimal permissiveness (and an associated maximally-permissive strategy) in acyclic timed automata and games.

@inproceedings{formats2020-CJMM,
  author =              {Clement, Emily and J{\'e}ron, Thierry and Markey,
                         Nicolas and Mentr{\'e}, David},
  title =               {Computing maximally-permissive strategies in acyclic
                         timed automata},
  editor =              {Bertrand, Nathalie and Jansen, Nils},
  booktitle =           {{P}roceedings of the 18th {I}nternational
                         {C}onferences on {F}ormal {M}odelling and {A}nalysis
                         of {T}imed {S}ystems ({FORMATS}'20)},
  acronym =             {{FORMATS}'20},
  publisher =           {Springer-Verlag},
  series =              {Lecture Notes in Computer Science},
  volume =              {12288},
  pages =               {111-126},
  year =                {2020},
  month =               sep,
  doi =                 {10.1007/978-3-030-57628-8_7},
  abstract =            {Timed automata are a convenient mathematical model
                         for modelling and reasoning about real-time systems.
                         While they provide a powerful way of representing
                         timing aspects of such systems, timed automata
                         assume arbitrary precision and zero-delay actions;
                         in~particular, a~state might be declared reachable
                         in a timed automaton, but impossible to reach in the
                         physical system it models. \par In this paper, we
                         consider permissive strategies as a way to overcome
                         this problem: such strategies propose intervals of
                         delays instead of single delays, and aim at reaching
                         a target state whichever delay actually takes place.
                         We develop an algorithm for computing the optimal
                         permissiveness (and~an associated
                         maximally-permissive strategy) in acyclic timed
                         automata and games.},
}
[HJM20] Léo Henry, Thierry Jéron, and Nicolas Markey. Active learning of timed automata with unobservable resets. In FORMATS'20, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 12288, pages 144-160. Springer-Verlag, September 2020.
Abstract

Active learning of timed languages is concerned with the inference of timed automata by observing some of the timed words in their languages. The learner can query for the membership of words in the language, or propose a candidate model and ask if it is equivalent to the target. The major difficulty of this framework is the inference of clock resets, which are central to the dynamics of timed automata but not directly observable.

Interesting first steps have already been made by restricting to the subclass of event-recording automata, where clock resets are tied to observations. In order to advance towards learning of general timed automata, we generalize this method to a new class, called reset-free event-recording automata, where some transitions may reset no clocks.

Central to our contribution is the notion of invalidity, and the algorithm and data structures to deal with it, allowing on-the-fly detection and pruning of reset hypotheses that contradict observations. This notion is a key to any efficient active-learning procedure for generic timed automata.

@inproceedings{formats2020-HJM,
  author =              {Henry, L{\'e}o and J{\'e}ron, Thierry and Markey,
                         Nicolas},
  title =               {Active learning of timed automata with unobservable
                         resets},
  editor =              {Bertrand, Nathalie and Jansen, Nils},
  booktitle =           {{P}roceedings of the 18th {I}nternational
                         {C}onferences on {F}ormal {M}odelling and {A}nalysis
                         of {T}imed {S}ystems ({FORMATS}'20)},
  acronym =             {{FORMATS}'20},
  publisher =           {Springer-Verlag},
  series =              {Lecture Notes in Computer Science},
  volume =              {12288},
  pages =               {144-160},
  year =                {2020},
  month =               sep,
  doi =                 {10.1007/978-3-030-57628-8_9},
  abstract =            {Active learning of timed languages is concerned with
                         the inference of timed automata by observing some of
                         the timed words in their languages. The learner can
                         query for the membership of words in the language,
                         or propose a candidate model and ask if it is
                         equivalent to the target. The major difficulty of
                         this framework is the inference of clock resets,
                         which are central to the dynamics of timed automata
                         but not directly observable. \par Interesting first
                         steps have already been made by restricting to the
                         subclass of event-recording automata, where clock
                         resets are tied to observations. In order to advance
                         towards learning of general timed automata, we
                         generalize this method to a new class, called
                         reset-free event-recording automata, where some
                         transitions may reset no clocks. \par Central to our
                         contribution is the notion of invalidity, and the
                         algorithm and data structures to deal with it,
                         allowing on-the-fly detection and pruning of reset
                         hypotheses that contradict observations. This notion
                         is a key to any efficient active-learning procedure
                         for generic timed automata.},
}
[JMM+20] Thierry Jéron, Nicolas Markey, David Mentré, Reiya Noguchi, and Ocan Sankur. Incremental methods for checking real-time consistency. In FORMATS'20, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 12288, pages 249-264. Springer-Verlag, September 2020.
Abstract

Requirements engineering is a key phase in the development process. Ensuring that requirements are consistent is essential so that they do not conflict and admit implementations. We consider the formal verification of rt-consistency, which imposes that the inevitability of definitive errors of a requirement should be anticipated, and that of partial consistency, which was recently introduced as a more effective check. We generalize and formalize both notions for discrete-time timed automata, develop three incremental algorithms, and present experimental results.

@inproceedings{formats2020-JMMNS,
  author =              {J{\'e}ron, Thierry and Markey, Nicolas and
                         Mentr{\'e}, David and Noguchi, Reiya and Sankur,
                         Ocan},
  title =               {Incremental methods for checking real-time
                         consistency},
  editor =              {Bertrand, Nathalie and Jansen, Nils},
  booktitle =           {{P}roceedings of the 18th {I}nternational
                         {C}onferences on {F}ormal {M}odelling and {A}nalysis
                         of {T}imed {S}ystems ({FORMATS}'20)},
  acronym =             {{FORMATS}'20},
  publisher =           {Springer-Verlag},
  series =              {Lecture Notes in Computer Science},
  volume =              {12288},
  pages =               {249-264},
  year =                {2020},
  month =               sep,
  doi =                 {10.1007/978-3-030-57628-8_15},
  abstract =            {Requirements engineering is a key phase in the
                         development process. Ensuring that requirements are
                         consistent is essential so that they do not conflict
                         and admit implementations. We~consider the formal
                         verification of rt-consistency, which imposes that
                         the inevitability of definitive errors of a
                         requirement should be anticipated, and that of
                         partial consistency, which was recently introduced
                         as a more effective check. We~generalize and
                         formalize both notions for discrete-time timed
                         automata, develop three incremental algorithms, and
                         present experimental results.},
}
[ACZ+20] Jie An, Mingshuai Chen, Bohua Zhan, Naijun Zhan, and Miaomiao Zhang. Learning One-Clock Timed Automata. In TACAS'20 (Part I), Lecture Notes in Computer Science 12078, pages 444-462. Springer-Verlag, April 2020.
@inproceedings{tacas2020-ACZZZ,
  author =              {An, Jie and Chen, Mingshuai and Zhan, Bohua and
                         Zhan, Naijun and Zhang, Miaomiao},
  title =               {Learning One-Clock Timed Automata},
  editor =              {Biere, Armin and Parker, David},
  booktitle =           {{P}roceedings of the 26th {I}nternational
                         {C}onference on {T}ools and {A}lgorithms for
                         {C}onstruction and {A}nalysis of {S}ystems
                         ({TACAS}'20)~-- {P}art~{I}},
  acronym =             {{TACAS}'20 (Part~{I})},
  publisher =           {Springer-Verlag},
  series =              {Lecture Notes in Computer Science},
  volume =              {12078},
  pages =               {444-462},
  year =                {2020},
  month =               apr,
  doi =                 {10.1007/978-3-030-45190-5_25},
}
[AHK20] Guy Avni, Thomas A. Henzinger, and Orna Kupferman. Dynamic Resource Allocation Games. Theoretical Computer Science 807:42-55. Elsevier, February 2020.
@article{tcs807()-AHK,
  author =              {Avni, Guy and Henzinger, Thomas A. and Kupferman,
                         Orna},
  title =               {Dynamic Resource Allocation Games},
  publisher =           {Elsevier},
  journal =             {Theoretical Computer Science},
  volume =              {807},
  pages =               {42-55},
  year =                {2020},
  month =               feb,
  doi =                 {10.1016/j.tcs.2019.06.031},
}
[AMP+20] Gal Amram, Shahar Maoz, Or Pistiner, and Jan Oliver Ringert. Energy μ-Calculus: Symbolic Fixed-Point Algorithms for ω-Regular Energy Games. Technical Report 2005.00641, arXiv, May 2020.
@techreport{arxiv-AMPR,
  author =              {Amram, Gal and Maoz, Shahar and Pistiner, Or and
                         Ringert, Jan Oliver},
  title =               {Energy {{\(\mu\)}}-Calculus: Symbolic Fixed-Point
                         Algorithms for {{\(\omega\)}}-Regular Energy Games},
  number =              {2005.00641},
  year =                {2020},
  month =               may,
  institution =         {arXiv},
}
[BFF+20] Raphaël Berthon, Nathanaël Fijalkow, Emmanuel Filiot, Shibashis Guha, Bastien Maubert, Aniello Murano, Laureline Pinault, Sophie Pinchinat, Sasha Rubin, and Olivier Serre. Alternating Tree Automata with Qualitative Semantics. Technical Report 2002-03664, arXiv, February 2020.
@techreport{arxiv2002.03664-BFFGMMPPRS,
  author =              {Berthon, Rapha{\"e}l and Fijalkow, Nathana{\"e}l and
                         Filiot, Emmanuel and Guha, Shibashis and Maubert,
                         Bastien and Murano, Aniello and Pinault, Laureline
                         and Pinchinat, Sophie and Rubin, Sasha and Serre,
                         Olivier},
  title =               {Alternating Tree Automata with Qualitative
                         Semantics},
  number =              {2002-03664},
  year =                {2020},
  month =               feb,
  institution =         {arXiv},
}
[BKL+20] Udi Boker, Denis Kuperberg, Karoliina Lehtinen, and Michal Skrzypczak. On succinctness and recognisability of alternating good-for-games automata. In FSTTCS'20, Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics 182, pages 41:1-41:13. Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik, December 2020.
@inproceedings{fsttcs2020-BKLS,
  author =              {Boker, Udi and Kuperberg, Denis and Lehtinen,
                         Karoliina and Skrzypczak, Michal},
  title =               {On succinctness and recognisability of alternating
                         good-for-games automata},
  editor =              {Saxena, Nitin and Simon, Sunil},
  booktitle =           {{P}roceedings of the 40th {C}onference on
                         {F}oundations of {S}oftware {T}echnology and
                         {T}heoretical {C}omputer {S}cience ({FSTTCS}'20)},
  acronym =             {{FSTTCS}'20},
  publisher =           {Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  series =              {Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics},
  volume =              {182},
  pages =               {41:1-41:13},
  year =                {2020},
  month =               dec,
  doi =                 {10.4230/LIPIcs.FSTTCS.2020.41},
}
[CCM+20] Riccardo Colini-Baldeschi, Roberto Cominetti, Panayotis Mertikopoulos, and Marco Scarsini. When is selfish routing bad? The price of anarchy in light and heavy traffic. Operations Research 68(2):411-434. Informs, April 2020.
@article{or68(2)-CCMS,
  author =              {Colini{-}Baldeschi, Riccardo and Cominetti, Roberto
                         and Mertikopoulos, Panayotis and Scarsini, Marco},
  title =               {When is selfish routing bad? {T}he~price of anarchy
                         in light and heavy traffic},
  publisher =           {Informs},
  journal =             {Operations Research},
  volume =              {68},
  number =              {2},
  pages =               {411-434},
  year =                {2020},
  month =               apr,
  doi =                 {10.1287/opre.2019.1894},
}
[Had20] Christoforos N. Hadjicostis. Estimation and Inference in Discrete Event Systems – A model-based approach with finite automata. Communications and Control Engineering. Springer-Verlag, 2020.
@book{Had20-IEDES,
  author =              {Hadjicostis, Christoforos N.},
  title =               {Estimation and Inference in Discrete Event
                         Systems~-- A~model-based approach with finite
                         automata},
  publisher =           {Springer-Verlag},
  series =              {Communications and Control Engineering},
  year =                {2020},
}
[LZ20] Karoliina Lehtinen and Martin Zimmermann. Good-for-games ω-pushdown automata. In LICS'20, pages 689-702. IEEE Comp. Soc. Press, July 2020.
@inproceedings{lics2020-LZ,
  author =              {Lehtinen, Karoliina and Zimmermann, Martin},
  title =               {Good-for-games {\(\omega\)}-pushdown automata},
  editor =              {Hermanns, Holger and Zhang, Lijun and Kobayashi,
                         Naoki and Miller, Dale},
  booktitle =           {{P}roceedings of the 35th {A}nnual {S}ymposium on
                         {L}ogic in {C}omputer {S}cience ({LICS}'20)},
  acronym =             {{LICS}'20},
  publisher =           {IEEE Comp. Soc. Press},
  pages =               {689-702},
  year =                {2020},
  month =               jul,
  doi =                 {10.1145/3373718.3394737},
}
[MMP+20] Bastien Maubert, Aniello Murano, Sophie Pinchinat, François Schwarzentruber, and Silvia Stranieri. Dynamic Epistemic Logic Games with Epistemic Temporal Goals. Technical Report 2001-07141, arXiv, January 2020.
@techreport{arxiv2001.07141-MMPSS,
  author =              {Maubert, Bastien and Murano, Aniello and Pinchinat,
                         Sophie and Schwarzentruber, Fran{\c c}ois and
                         Stranieri, Silvia},
  title =               {Dynamic Epistemic Logic Games with Epistemic
                         Temporal Goals},
  number =              {2001-07141},
  year =                {2020},
  month =               jan,
  institution =         {arXiv},
}
[Rou20] Victor Roussanaly. Efficient verification of real-time systems. Thèse de doctorat, Université Rennes 1, France, November 2020.
@phdthesis{phd-roussanaly,
  author =              {Roussanaly, Victor},
  title =               {Efficient verification of real-time systems},
  year =                {2020},
  month =               nov,
  school =              {Universit{\'e} Rennes~1, France},
  type =                {Th\`ese de doctorat},
}
[Wol20] Petra Wolf. Synchronization under Dynamic Constraints. In FSTTCS'20, Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics 182, pages 58:1-58:14. Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik, December 2020.
@inproceedings{fsttcs2020-Wol,
  author =              {Wolf, Petra},
  title =               {Synchronization under Dynamic Constraints},
  editor =              {Saxena, Nitin and Simon, Sunil},
  booktitle =           {{P}roceedings of the 40th {C}onference on
                         {F}oundations of {S}oftware {T}echnology and
                         {T}heoretical {C}omputer {S}cience ({FSTTCS}'20)},
  acronym =             {{FSTTCS}'20},
  publisher =           {Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  series =              {Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics},
  volume =              {182},
  pages =               {58:1-58:14},
  year =                {2020},
  month =               dec,
  doi =                 {10.4230/LIPIcs.FSTTCS.2020.58},
}
2019
[BKM+19] Patricia Bouyer, Orna Kupferman, Nicolas Markey, Bastien Maubert, Aniello Murano, and Giuseppe Perelli. Reasoning about Quality and Fuzziness of Strategic Behaviours. In IJCAI'19, pages 1588-1594. IJCAI organization, August 2019.
Abstract

We introduce and study SL[F]—a quantitative extension of SL (Strategy Logic), one of the most natural and expressive logics describing strategic behaviours. The satisfaction value of an SL[F] formula is a real value in [0,1], reflecting "how much" or "how well" the strategic on-going objectives of the underlying agents are satisfied. We demonstrate the applications of SL[F] in quantitative reasoning about multi-agent systems, by showing how it can express concepts of stability in multi-agent systems, and how it generalises some fuzzy temporal logics. We also provide a model-checking algorithm for our logic, based on a quantitative extension of Quantified CTL.

@inproceedings{ijcai2019-BKMMMP,
  author =              {Bouyer, Patricia and Kupferman, Orna and Markey,
                         Nicolas and Maubert, Bastien and Murano, Aniello and
                         Perelli, Giuseppe},
  title =               {Reasoning about Quality and Fuzziness of Strategic
                         Behaviours},
  editor =              {Kraus, Sarit},
  booktitle =           {{P}roceedings of the 28th {I}nternational {J}oint
                         {C}onference on {A}rtificial {I}ntelligence
                         ({IJCAI}'19)},
  acronym =             {{IJCAI}'19},
  publisher =           {IJCAI organization},
  pages =               {1588-1594},
  year =                {2019},
  month =               aug,
  doi =                 {10.24963/ijcai.2019/220},
  abstract =            {We~introduce and study
                         {\(\textsf{SL}[\mathcal{F}]\)}---a~quantitative
                         extension of {\(\textsf{SL}\)} (Strategy Logic),
                         one~of the most natural and expressive logics
                         describing strategic behaviours. The satisfaction
                         value of an {\(\textsf{SL}[\mathcal{F}]\)} formula
                         is a real value in~{\([0,1]\)}, reflecting {"}how
                         much{"} or {"}how well{"} the strategic on-going
                         objectives of the underlying agents are satisfied.
                         We~demonstrate the applications of
                         {\(\textsf{SL}[\mathcal{F}]\)} in quantitative
                         reasoning about multi-agent systems, by showing how
                         it can express concepts of stability in multi-agent
                         systems, and how it generalises some fuzzy temporal
                         logics. We~also provide a model-checking algorithm
                         for our logic, based on a quantitative extension of
                         Quantified~\textsf{CTL}.},
}
[HMR19] Loïc Hélouët, Nicolas Markey, and Ritam Raha. Reachability games with relaxed energy constraints. In GandALF'19, Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science 305, pages 17-33. September 2019.
Abstract

We study games with reachability objectives under energy constraints. We first prove that under strict energy constraints (either only lower-bound constraint or interval constraint), those games are LOGSPACE-equivalent to energy games with the same energy constraints but without reachability objective (i.e., for infinite runs). We then consider two kinds of relaxations of the upper-bound constraints (while keeping the lower-bound constraint strict): in the first one, called weak upper bound, the upper bound is absorbing, in the sense that it allows receiving more energy when the upper bound is already reached, but the extra energy will not be stored; in the second one, we allow for temporary violations of the upper bound, imposing limits on the number or on the amount of violations.

We prove that when considering weak upper bound, reachability objectives require memory, but can still be solved in polynomial-time for one-player arenas; we prove that they are in coNP in the two-player setting. Allowing for bounded violations makes the problem PSPACE-complete for one-player arenas and EXPTIME-complete for two players.

@inproceedings{gandalf2019-HMR,
  author =              {H{\'e}lou{\"e}t, Lo{\"\i}c and Markey, Nicolas and
                         Raha, Ritam},
  title =               {Reachability games with relaxed energy constraints},
  editor =              {Leroux, J{\'e}r{\^o}me and Raskin, Jean-Fran{\c
                         c}ois},
  booktitle =           {{P}roceedings of the 10th {I}nternational
                         {S}ymposium on {G}ames, {A}utomata, {L}ogics and
                         {F}ormal {V}erification ({GandALF}'19)},
  acronym =             {{GandALF}'19},
  series =              {Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer
                         Science},
  volume =              {305},
  pages =               {17-33},
  year =                {2019},
  month =               sep,
  doi =                 {10.4204/EPTCS.305.2},
  abstract =            {We study games with reachability objectives under
                         energy constraints. We first prove that under strict
                         energy constraints (either only lower-bound
                         constraint or interval constraint), those games are
                         \textsf{LOGSPACE}-equivalent to energy games with
                         the same energy constraints but without reachability
                         objective (i.e., for infinite runs). We then
                         consider two kinds of relaxations of the upper-bound
                         constraints (while keeping the lower-bound
                         constraint strict): in the first one, called
                         \emph{weak upper bound}, the upper bound is
                         \emph{absorbing}, in the sense that it allows
                         receiving more energy when the upper bound is
                         already reached, but the extra energy will not be
                         stored; in~the second~one, we~allow for
                         \emph{temporary violations} of the upper bound,
                         imposing limits on the number or on the amount of
                         violations.\par We prove that when considering weak
                         upper bound, reachability objectives require memory,
                         but can still be solved in polynomial-time for
                         one-player arenas; we prove that they are in
                         \textsf{coNP} in the two-player setting. Allowing
                         for bounded violations makes the problem
                         \textsf{PSPACE}-complete for one-player arenas and
                         \textsf{EXPTIME}-complete for two players.},
}
[RSM19] Victor Roussanaly, Ocan Sankur, and Nicolas Markey. Abstraction Refinement Algorithms for Timed Automata. In CAV'19, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 11561, pages 22-40. Springer-Verlag, July 2019.
Abstract

We present abstraction-refinement algorithms for model checking safety properties of timed automata. The abstraction domain we consider abstracts away zones by restricting the set of clock constraints that can be used to define them, while the refinement procedure computes the set of constraints that must be taken into consideration in the abstraction so as to exclude a given spurious counterexample. We implement this idea in two ways: an enumerative algorithm where a lazy abstraction approach is adopted, meaning that possibly different abstract domains are assigned to each exploration node; and a symbolic algorithm where the abstract transition system is encoded with Boolean formulas.

@inproceedings{cav2019-RSM,
  author =              {Roussanaly, Victor and Sankur, Ocan and Markey,
                         Nicolas},
  title =               {Abstraction Refinement Algorithms for Timed
                         Automata},
  editor =              {Dillig, I{\c s}il and Ta{\c s}iran, Serdar},
  booktitle =           {{P}roceedings of the 31st {I}nternational
                         {C}onference on {C}omputer {A}ided {V}erification
                         ({CAV}'19)},
  acronym =             {{CAV}'19},
  publisher =           {Springer-Verlag},
  series =              {Lecture Notes in Computer Science},
  volume =              {11561},
  pages =               {22-40},
  year =                {2019},
  month =               jul,
  doi =                 {10.1007/978-3-030-25540-4_2},
  abstract =            {We~present abstraction-refinement algorithms for
                         model checking safety properties of timed automata.
                         The~abstraction domain we consider abstracts away
                         zones by restricting the set of clock constraints
                         that can be used to define them, while the
                         refinement procedure computes the set of constraints
                         that must be taken into consideration in the
                         abstraction so as to exclude a given spurious
                         counterexample. We~implement this idea in two~ways:
                         an~enumerative algorithm where a lazy abstraction
                         approach is adopted, meaning that possibly different
                         abstract domains are assigned to each exploration
                         node; and a symbolic algorithm where the abstract
                         transition system is encoded with Boolean formulas.},
}
[BBG+19] Thomas Brihaye, Véronique Bruyère, Aline Goeminne, Jean-François Raskin, and Marie Van den Bogaard. The Complexity of Subgame Perfect Equilibria in Quantitative Reachability Games. In CONCUR'19, Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics 140, pages 13:1-13:16. Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik, August 2019.
@inproceedings{concur2019-BBGRB,
  author =              {Brihaye, {\relax Th}omas and Bruy{\`e}re,
                         V{\'e}ronique and Goeminne, Aline and Raskin,
                         Jean-Fran{\c c}ois and Van{~}den{ }Bogaard, Marie},
  title =               {The~Complexity of Subgame Perfect Equilibria in
                         Quantitative Reachability Games},
  editor =              {Fokkink, Wan J. and van Glabbeek, Rob},
  booktitle =           {{P}roceedings of the 30th {I}nternational
                         {C}onference on {C}oncurrency {T}heory
                         ({CONCUR}'19)},
  acronym =             {{CONCUR}'19},
  publisher =           {Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  series =              {Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics},
  volume =              {140},
  pages =               {13:1-13:16},
  year =                {2019},
  month =               aug,
  doi =                 {10.4230/LIPIcs.CONCUR.2019.13},
}
[BGM+19] Damien Busatto-Gaston, Benjamin Monmege, Pierre-Alain Reynier, and Ocan Sankur. Robust Controller Synthesis in Timed Büchi Automata: A Symbolic Approach. In CAV'19, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 11561, pages 572-590. Springer-Verlag, July 2019.
@inproceedings{cav2019-BMRS,
  author =              {Busatto-Gaston, Damien and Monmege, Benjamin and
                         Reynier, Pierre-Alain and Sankur, Ocan},
  title =               {Robust Controller Synthesis in Timed B{\"u}chi
                         Automata: A~Symbolic Approach},
  editor =              {Dillig, I{\c s}il and Ta{\c s}iran, Serdar},
  booktitle =           {{P}roceedings of the 31st {I}nternational
                         {C}onference on {C}omputer {A}ided {V}erification
                         ({CAV}'19)},
  acronym =             {{CAV}'19},
  publisher =           {Springer-Verlag},
  series =              {Lecture Notes in Computer Science},
  volume =              {11561},
  pages =               {572-590},
  year =                {2019},
  month =               jul,
  doi =                 {10.1007/978-3-030-25540-4_33},
}
[BL19] Udi Boker and Karoliina Lehtinen. Good-for-game Automata: from Non-determinism to Alternation. In CONCUR'19, Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics 140, pages 19:1-19:16. Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik, August 2019.
@inproceedings{concur2019-BL,
  author =              {Boker, Udi and Lehtinen, Karoliina},
  title =               {Good-for-game Automata: from Non-determinism to
                         Alternation},
  editor =              {Fokkink, Wan J. and van Glabbeek, Rob},
  booktitle =           {{P}roceedings of the 30th {I}nternational
                         {C}onference on {C}oncurrency {T}heory
                         ({CONCUR}'19)},
  acronym =             {{CONCUR}'19},
  publisher =           {Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  series =              {Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics},
  volume =              {140},
  pages =               {19:1-19:16},
  year =                {2019},
  month =               aug,
  doi =                 {10.4230/LIPIcs.CONCUR.2019.19},
}
[CdJ+19] José R. Correa, Jasper de Jong, Bart de Keizer, and Marc Uetz. The inefficiency of Nash and subgame-perfect equilibria for network routing. Mathematics of Operations Research 44(4):1286-1303. Informs, November 2019.
@article{moor44(4)-CJKU,
  author =              {Correa, Jos{\'e} R. and de~Jong, Jasper and
                         de~Keizer, Bart and Uetz, Marc},
  title =               {The inefficiency of {N}ash and subgame-perfect
                         equilibria for network routing},
  publisher =           {Informs},
  journal =             {Mathematics of Operations Research},
  volume =              {44},
  number =              {4},
  pages =               {1286-1303},
  year =                {2019},
  month =               nov,
  doi =                 {10.1287/moor.2018.0968},
}
[DMS19] Laurent Doyen, Thierry Massart, and Mahsa Shirmohammadi. The complexity of synchronizing Markov decision processes. Journal of Computer and System Sciences 100:96-129. Elsevier, March 2019.
@article{jcss100()-DMS,
  author =              {Doyen, Laurent and Massart, {\relax Th}ierry and
                         Shirmohammadi, Mahsa},
  title =               {The complexity of synchronizing {M}arkov decision
                         processes},
  publisher =           {Elsevier},
  journal =             {Journal of Computer and System Sciences},
  volume =              {100},
  pages =               {96-129},
  year =                {2019},
  month =               mar,
  doi =                 {10.1016/j.jcss.2018.09.004},
}
[FGH+19] Henning Fernau, Vladimir V. Gusev, Stefan Hoffmann, Markus Holzer, Mikhail V. Volkov, and Petra Wolf. Computational Complexity of Synchronization under Regular Constraints. In MFCS'19, Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics 138, pages 63:1-63:14. Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik, August 2019.
@inproceedings{mfcs2019-FGHHVW,
  author =              {Fernau, Henning and Gusev, Vladimir V. and Hoffmann,
                         Stefan and Holzer, Markus and Volkov, Mikhail V. and
                         Wolf, Petra},
  title =               {Computational Complexity of Synchronization under
                         Regular Constraints},
  editor =              {Rossmanith, Peter and Heggernes, Pinar and Katoen,
                         Joost-Pieter},
  booktitle =           {{P}roceedings of the 44th {I}nternational
                         {S}ymposium on {M}athematical {F}oundations of
                         {C}omputer {S}cience ({MFCS}'19)},
  acronym =             {{MFCS}'19},
  publisher =           {Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  series =              {Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics},
  volume =              {138},
  pages =               {63:1-63:14},
  year =                {2019},
  month =               aug,
  doi =                 {10.4230/LIPIcs.MFCS.2019.63},
}
[GBL+19] Mauricio González, Patricia Bouyer, Samson Lasaulce, and Nicolas Markey. Optimisation en présence de contraintes en probabilités et processus markoviens contrôlés. In GRETSI'19. August 2019.
Abstract

This article focuses on the existence and synthesis of strategies in double-weighted Markov decision processes, which satisfy both a probability constraint over a weighted reachability condition, and a quantitative constraint on the expected value of a random variable defined using another reachability condition. This work generalizes a scheduling problem for energy consumption (typically the problem of charging electric vehicles). We study the set of values of a parameter (a threshold) for which the problem has a solution, and show how a partial characterization of this set can be obtained via two sequences of optimization problems. We also discuss the completeness and feasibility of the resulting approach.

@inproceedings{gretsi2019-GBLM,
  author =              {Gonz{\'a}lez, Mauricio and Bouyer, Patricia and
                         Lasaulce, Samson and Markey, Nicolas},
  title =               {Optimisation en pr\'esence de contraintes en
                         probabilit\'es et processus markoviens
                         contr\^ol\'es},
  booktitle =           {{A}ctes du 27{\`e}me {C}olloque du {G}roupe
                         d'{\'E}tudes du {T}raitement du {S}ignal et des
                         {I}mages ({GRETSI}'19)},
  acronym =             {{GRETSI}'19},
  year =                {2019},
  month =               aug,
  abstract =            {This article focuses on the existence and synthesis
                         of strategies in double-weighted Markov decision
                         processes, which satisfy both a probability
                         constraint over a weighted reachability condition,
                         and a quantitative constraint on the expected value
                         of a random variable defined using another
                         reachability condition. This work generalizes a
                         scheduling problem for energy consumption (typically
                         the problem of charging electric vehicles). We~study
                         the set of values of a parameter (a~threshold) for
                         which the problem has a solution, and show how a
                         partial characterization of this set can be obtained
                         via two sequences of optimization problems. We~also
                         discuss the completeness and feasibility of the
                         resulting approach.},
}
[Jaz19] Samy Jaziri. Automata on timed structures. PhD thesis, École Normale Supérieure de Cachan, France, September 2019.
@phdthesis{phd-jaziri,
  author =              {Jaziri, Samy},
  title =               {Automata on timed structures},
  year =                {2019},
  month =               sep,
  school =              {{\'E}cole Normale Sup{\'e}rieure de Cachan, France},
}
[KMS19] Sophia Knight, Bastien Maubert, and François Schwarzentruber. Reasoning about knowledge and messages in asynchronous multi-agent systems. Mathematical Structures in Computer Science 29(1):127-168. January 2019.
@article{mscs29(1)-KMS,
  author =              {Knight, Sophia and Maubert, Bastien and
                         Schwarzentruber, Fran{\c c}ois},
  title =               {Reasoning about knowledge and messages in
                         asynchronous multi-agent systems},
  journal =             {Mathematical Structures in Computer Science},
  volume =              {29},
  number =              {1},
  pages =               {127-168},
  year =                {2019},
  month =               jan,
  doi =                 {10.1017/S0960129517000214},
}
[LDW+19] Vincent Langenfeld, Daniel Dietsch, Bernd Westphal, Jochen Hoenicke, and Amalinda Post. Scalable Analysis of Real-Time Requirements. In RE'19, pages 234-244. IEEE Comp. Soc. Press, September 2019.
@inproceedings{re2019-LDWHP,
  author =              {Langenfeld, Vincent and Dietsch, Daniel and
                         Westphal, Bernd and Hoenicke, Jochen and Post,
                         Amalinda},
  title =               {Scalable Analysis of Real-Time Requirements},
  editor =              {Damian, Daniela E. and Perini, Anna and Lee,
                         Seok-Won},
  booktitle =           {{P}roceedings of the 27th {I}nternaitonal
                         {R}equirements Engineering {C}onference ({RE}'19)},
  acronym =             {{RE}'19},
  publisher =           {IEEE Comp. Soc. Press},
  pages =               {234-244},
  year =                {2019},
  month =               sep,
  doi =                 {10.1109/RE.2019.00033},
}
[MPS19] Bastien Maubert, Sophie Pinchinat, and François Schwarzentruber. Reachability Games in Dynamic Epistemic Logic. In IJCAI'19, pages 499-505. IJCAI organization, August 2019.
@inproceedings{ijcai2019-MPS,
  author =              {Maubert, Bastien and Pinchinat, Sophie and
                         Schwarzentruber, Fran{\c c}ois},
  title =               {Reachability Games in Dynamic Epistemic Logic},
  editor =              {Kraus, Sarit},
  booktitle =           {{P}roceedings of the 28th {I}nternational {J}oint
                         {C}onference on {A}rtificial {I}ntelligence
                         ({IJCAI}'19)},
  acronym =             {{IJCAI}'19},
  publisher =           {IJCAI organization},
  pages =               {499-505},
  year =                {2019},
  month =               aug,
  doi =                 {10.24963/ijcai.2019/71},
}
[Nic19] Cyril Nicaud. The Černý conjecture holds with high probability. Journal of Automata, Languages and Combinatorics 24(2-4):343-365. 2019.
@article{jalc24(2-4)-Nic,
  author =              {Nicaud, Cyril},
  title =               {The {{\v{C}}}ern{\'y} conjecture holds with high
                         probability},
  journal =             {Journal of Automata, Languages and Combinatorics},
  volume =              {24},
  number =              {2-4},
  pages =               {343-365},
  year =                {2019},
  doi =                 {10.25596/jalc-2019-343},
}
[QS19] Karin Quaas and Mahsa Shirmohammadi. Synchronizing Data Words for Register Automata. ACM Transactions on Computational Logic 20(2):11:1-11:27. ACM Press, April 2019.
@article{tocl20(2)-QS,
  author =              {Quaas, Karin and Shirmohammadi, Mahsa},
  title =               {Synchronizing Data Words for Register Automata},
  publisher =           {ACM Press},
  journal =             {ACM Transactions on Computational Logic},
  volume =              {20},
  number =              {2},
  pages =               {11:1-11:27},
  year =                {2019},
  month =               apr,
  doi =                 {10.1145/3309760},
}
[Shi19] Yaroslav Shitov. An Improvement to a Recent Upper Bound for Synchronizing Words of Finite Automata. Journal of Automata, Languages and Combinatorics 24(2-4):367-373. 2019.
@article{jalc24(2-4)-Shi,
  author =              {Shitov, Yaroslav},
  title =               {An Improvement to a Recent Upper Bound for
                         Synchronizing Words of Finite Automata},
  journal =             {Journal of Automata, Languages and Combinatorics},
  volume =              {24},
  number =              {2-4},
  pages =               {367-373},
  year =                {2019},
  doi =                 {10.25596/jalc-2019-367},
}
[Sic19] Salomon Sickert. A unified translation of Linear Temporal Logic to ω-automata. PhD thesis, Technischen Universität München, Germany, July 2019.
@phdthesis{phd-sickert,
  author =              {Sickert, Salomon},
  title =               {A~unified translation of Linear Temporal Logic to
                         {\(\omega\)}-automata},
  year =                {2019},
  month =               jul,
  school =              {Technischen Universit{\"a}t M{\"u}nchen, Germany},
}
2018
[BMR+18] Patricia Bouyer, Nicolas Markey, Mickael Randour, Kim Guldstrand Larsen, and Simon Laursen. Average-energy games. Acta Informatica 55(2):91-127. Springer-Verlag, March 2018.
Abstract

Two-player quantitative zero-sum games provide a natural framework to synthesize controllers with performance guarantees for reactive systems within an uncontrollable environment. Classical settings include mean-payoff games, where the objective is to optimize the long-run average gain per action, and energy games, where the system has to avoid running out of energy. We study average-energy games, where the goal is to optimize the long-run average of the accumulated energy. We show that this objective arises naturally in several applications, and that it yields interesting connections with previous concepts in the literature. We prove that deciding the winner in such games is in NP∩coNP and at least as hard as solving mean-payoff games, and we establish that memoryless strategies suffice to win. We also consider the case where the system has to minimize the average-energy while maintaining the accumulated energy within predefined bounds at all times: this corresponds to operating with a finite-capacity storage for energy. We give results for one-player and two-player games, and establish complexity bounds and memory requirements.

@article{acta55(2)-BMRLL,
  author =              {Bouyer, Patricia and Markey, Nicolas and Randour,
                         Mickael and Larsen, Kim Guldstrand and Laursen,
                         Simon},
  title =               {Average-energy games},
  publisher =           {Springer-Verlag},
  journal =             {Acta Informatica},
  volume =              {55},
  number =              {2},
  pages =               {91-127},
  year =                {2018},
  month =               mar,
  doi =                 {10.1007/s00236-016-0274-1},
  abstract =            {Two-player quantitative zero-sum games provide a
                         natural framework to synthesize controllers with
                         performance guarantees for reactive systems within
                         an uncontrollable environment. Classical settings
                         include mean-payoff games, where the objective is to
                         optimize the long-run average gain per action, and
                         energy games, where the system has to avoid running
                         out of energy. We study average-energy games, where
                         the goal is to optimize the long-run average of the
                         accumulated energy. We show that this objective
                         arises naturally in several applications, and that
                         it yields interesting connections with previous
                         concepts in the literature. We prove that deciding
                         the winner in such games is in
                         \(\textsf{NP}\cap\textsf{coNP}\) and at least as
                         hard as solving mean-payoff games, and we establish
                         that memoryless strategies suffice to win. We also
                         consider the case where the system has to minimize
                         the average-energy while maintaining the accumulated
                         energy within predefined bounds at all times: this
                         corresponds to operating with a finite-capacity
                         storage for energy. We give results for one-player
                         and two-player games, and establish complexity
                         bounds and memory requirements.},
}
[LFM+18] Adrien Le Coënt, Laurent Fribourg, Nicolas Markey, Florian De Vuyst, and Ludovic Chamoin. Distributed Synthesis of State-Dependent Switching Control. Theoretical Computer Science 750:53-68. Elsevier, November 2018.
Abstract

We present a correct-by-design method of state-dependent control synthesis for sampled switching systems. Given a target region R of the state space, our method builds a capture set S and a control that steers any element of S into R. The method works by iterated backward reachability from R. It is also used to synthesize a recurrence control that makes any state of R return to R infinitely often. We explain how the synthesis method can be performed in a compositional manner, and apply it to the synthesis of a compositional control for a concrete floor-heating system with 11 rooms and up to 211=2048 switching modes.

@article{tcs750()-LFMDC,
  author =              {Le{~}Co{\"e}nt, Adrien and Fribourg, Laurent and
                         Markey, Nicolas and De{~}Vuyst, Florian and Chamoin,
                         Ludovic},
  title =               {Distributed Synthesis of State-Dependent Switching
                         Control},
  publisher =           {Elsevier},
  journal =             {Theoretical Computer Science},
  volume =              {750},
  pages =               {53-68},
  year =                {2018},
  month =               nov,
  doi =                 {10.1016/j.tcs.2018.01.021},
  abstract =            {We present a correct-by-design method of
                         state-dependent control synthesis for sampled
                         switching systems. Given a target region~\(R\) of
                         the state space, our~method builds a capture
                         set~\(S\) and a~control that steers any element
                         of~\(S\) into~\(R\). The~method works by iterated
                         backward reachability from~\(R\). It~is also used to
                         synthesize a recurrence control that makes any state
                         of~\(R\) return to~\(R\) infinitely often.
                         We~explain how the synthesis method can be performed
                         in a compositional manner, and apply it to the
                         synthesis of a compositional control for a concrete
                         floor-heating system with 11~rooms and up to
                         \(2^{11}=2048\) switching modes.},
}
[BBF+18] Giovanni Bacci, Patricia Bouyer, Uli Fahrenberg, Kim Guldstrand Larsen, Nicolas Markey, and Pierre-Alain Reynier. Optimal and Robust Controller Synthesis Using Energy Timed Automata with Uncertainty. In FM'18, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 10951, pages 203-221. Springer-Verlag, July 2018.
Abstract

In this paper, we propose a novel framework for the synthesis of robust and optimal energy-aware controllers. The framework is based on energy timed automata, allowing for easy expression of timing-constraints and variable energy-rates. We prove decidability of the energy-constrained infinite-run problem in settings with both certainty and uncertainty of the energy-rates. We also consider the optimization problem of identifying the minimal upper bound that will permit existence of energy-constrained infinite runs. Our algorithms are based on quantifier elimination for linear real arithmetic. Using Mathematica and Mjollnir, we illustrate our framework through a real industrial example of a hydraulic oil pump. Compared with previous approaches our method is completely automated and provides improved results.

@inproceedings{fm2018-BBFLMR,
  author =              {Bacci, Giovanni and Bouyer, Patricia and Fahrenberg,
                         Uli and Larsen, Kim Guldstrand and Markey, Nicolas
                         and Reynier, Pierre-Alain},
  title =               {Optimal and Robust Controller Synthesis Using Energy
                         Timed Automata with Uncertainty},
  editor =              {Havelund, Klaus and Peleska, Jan and Roscoe, Bill W.
                         and de Vink, Erik},
  booktitle =           {{P}roceedings of the 22nd {I}nternational
                         {S}ymposium on {F}ormal {M}ethods ({FM}'18)},
  acronym =             {{FM}'18},
  publisher =           {Springer-Verlag},
  series =              {Lecture Notes in Computer Science},
  volume =              {10951},
  pages =               {203-221},
  year =                {2018},
  month =               jul,
  doi =                 {10.1007/978-3-319-95582-7_12},
  abstract =            {In this paper, we propose a novel framework for the
                         synthesis of robust and optimal energy-aware
                         controllers. The framework is based on energy timed
                         automata, allowing for easy expression of
                         timing-constraints and variable energy-rates. We
                         prove decidability of the energy-constrained
                         infinite-run problem in settings with both certainty
                         and uncertainty of the energy-rates. We also
                         consider the optimization problem of identifying the
                         minimal upper bound that will permit existence of
                         energy-constrained infinite runs. Our algorithms are
                         based on quantifier elimination for linear real
                         arithmetic. Using Mathematica and Mjollnir, we
                         illustrate our framework through a real industrial
                         example of a hydraulic oil pump. Compared with
                         previous approaches our method is completely
                         automated and provides improved results.},
}
[BBM18] A. R. Balasubramanian, Nathalie Bertrand, and Nicolas Markey. Parameterized verification of synchronization in constrained reconfigurable broadcast networks. In TACAS'18 (Part II), Lecture Notes in Computer Science 10806, pages 38-54. Springer-Verlag, April 2018.
Abstract

Reconfigurable broadcast networks provide a convenient formalism for modelling and reasoning about networks of mobile agents broadcasting messages to other agents following some (evolving) communication topology. The parameterized verification of such models aims at checking whether a given property holds irrespective of the initial configuration (number of agents, initial states and initial communication topology). We focus here on the synchronization property, asking whether all agents converge to a set of target states after some execution. This problem is known to be decidable in polynomial time when no constraints are imposed on the evolution of the communication topology (while it is undecidable for static broadcast networks).

In this paper we investigate how various constraints on reconfigurations affect the decidability and complexity of the synchronization problem. In particular, we show that when bounding the number of reconfigured links between two communications steps by a constant, synchronization becomes undecidable; on the other hand, synchronization remains decidable in PTIME when the bound grows with the number of agents.

@inproceedings{tacas2018-2-BBM,
  author =              {Balasubramanian, A. R. and Bertrand, Nathalie and
                         Markey, Nicolas},
  title =               {Parameterized verification of synchronization in
                         constrained reconfigurable broadcast networks},
  editor =              {Beyer, Dirk and Huisman, Marieke},
  booktitle =           {{P}roceedings of the 24th {I}nternational
                         {C}onference on {T}ools and {A}lgorithms for
                         {C}onstruction and {A}nalysis of {S}ystems
                         ({TACAS}'18)~-- {P}art~{II}},
  acronym =             {{TACAS}'18 (Part~{II})},
  publisher =           {Springer-Verlag},
  series =              {Lecture Notes in Computer Science},
  volume =              {10806},
  pages =               {38-54},
  year =                {2018},
  month =               apr,
  doi =                 {10.1007/978-3-319-89963-3_3},
  abstract =            {Reconfigurable broadcast networks provide a
                         convenient formalism for modelling and reasoning
                         about networks of mobile agents broadcasting
                         messages to other agents following some (evolving)
                         communication topology. The parameterized
                         verification of such models aims at checking whether
                         a given property holds irrespective of the initial
                         configuration (number of agents, initial states and
                         initial communication topology). We~focus here on
                         the \emph{synchronization property}, asking whether
                         all agents converge to a set of target states after
                         some execution. This~problem is known to be
                         decidable in polynomial time when no constraints are
                         imposed on the evolution of the communication
                         topology (while~it~is undecidable for static
                         broadcast networks).\par In this paper we
                         investigate how various constraints on
                         reconfigurations affect the decidability and
                         complexity of the synchronization problem.
                         In~particular, we show that when bounding the number
                         of reconfigured links between two communications
                         steps by a constant, synchronization becomes
                         undecidable; on~the other hand, synchronization
                         remains decidable in PTIME when the bound grows with
                         the number of agents.},
}
[BGM+18] Patricia Bouyer, Mauricio González, Nicolas Markey, and Mickael Randour. Multi-weighted Markov Decision Processes with Reachability Objectives. In GandALF'18, Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science 277, pages 250-264. September 2018.
Abstract

In this paper, we are interested in the synthesis of schedulers in double-weighted Markov decision processes, which satisfy both a percentile constraint over a weighted reachability condition, and a quantitative constraint on the expected value of a random variable defined using a weighted reachability condition. This problem is inspired by the modelization of an electric-vehicle charging problem. We study the cartography of the problem, when one parameter varies, and show how a partial cartography can be obtained via two sequences of opimization problems. We discuss completeness and feasability of the method.

@inproceedings{gandalf2018-BGMR,
  author =              {Bouyer, Patricia and Gonz{\'a}lez, Mauricio and
                         Markey, Nicolas and Randour, Mickael},
  title =               {Multi-weighted Markov Decision Processes with
                         Reachability Objectives},
  editor =              {Orlandini, Andrea and Zimmermann, Martin},
  booktitle =           {{P}roceedings of the 9th {I}nternational {S}ymposium
                         on {G}ames, {A}utomata, {L}ogics and {F}ormal
                         {V}erification ({GandALF}'18)},
  acronym =             {{GandALF}'18},
  series =              {Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer
                         Science},
  volume =              {277},
  pages =               {250-264},
  year =                {2018},
  month =               sep,
  doi =                 {10.4204/EPTCS.277.18},
  abstract =            {In~this paper, we~are interested in the synthesis of
                         schedulers in double-weighted Markov decision
                         processes, which satisfy both a percentile
                         constraint over a weighted reachability condition,
                         and a quantitative constraint on the expected value
                         of a random variable defined using a weighted
                         reachability condition. This~problem is inspired by
                         the modelization of an electric-vehicle charging
                         problem. We study the cartography of the problem,
                         when one parameter varies, and show how a partial
                         cartography can be obtained via two sequences of
                         opimization problems. We~discuss completeness and
                         feasability of the method.},
}
[BJM18] Patricia Bouyer, Samy Jaziri, and Nicolas Markey. Efficient timed diagnosis using automata with timed domains. In RV'18, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 11237, pages 205-221. Springer-Verlag, November 2018.
Abstract

We consider the problems of efficiently diagnosing and predicting what did (or will) happen in a partially-observable one-clock timed automaton. We introduce timed sets as a formalism to keep track of the evolution of the reachable configurations over time, and use our previous work on automata over timed domains to build a candidate diagnoser for our timed automaton. We report on our implementation of this approach compared to the approach of [Tripakis, Fault diagnosis for timed autmata, 2002].

@inproceedings{rv2018-BJM,
  author =              {Bouyer, Patricia and Jaziri, Samy and Markey,
                         Nicolas},
  title =               {Efficient timed diagnosis using automata with timed
                         domains},
  editor =              {Colombo, Christian and Leucker, Martin},
  booktitle =           {{P}roceedings of the 18th {I}nternational {W}orkshop
                         on {R}untime {V}erification ({RV}'18)},
  acronym =             {{RV}'18},
  publisher =           {Springer-Verlag},
  series =              {Lecture Notes in Computer Science},
  volume =              {11237},
  pages =               {205-221},
  year =                {2018},
  month =               nov,
  doi =                 {10.1007/978-3-030-03769-7_12},
  abstract =            {We consider the problems of efficiently diagnosing
                         and predicting what did (or~will) happen in a
                         partially-observable one-clock timed automaton.
                         We~introduce timed sets as a formalism to keep track
                         of the evolution of the reachable configurations
                         over time, and use our previous work on automata
                         over timed domains to build a candidate diagnoser
                         for our timed automaton. We~report on our
                         implementation of this approach compared to the
                         approach of [Tripakis, Fault diagnosis for timed
                         autmata,~2002].},
}
[GBM18] Patrick Gardy, Patricia Bouyer, and Nicolas Markey. Dependences in Strategy Logic. In STACS'18, Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics 96, pages 34:1-34:14. Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik, February 2018.
Abstract

Strategy Logic (SL) is a very expressive temporal logic for specifying and verifying properties of multi-agent systems: in SL, one can quantify over strategies, assign them to agents, and express LTL properties of the resulting plays. Such a powerful framework has two drawbacks: first, model checking SL has non-elementary complexity; second, the exact semantics of SL is rather intricate, and may not correspond to what is expected. In this paper, we focus on strategy dependences in SL, by tracking how existentially-quantified strategies in a formula may (or may not) depend on other strategies selected in the formula, revisiting the approach of [Mogavero et al., Reasoning about strategies: On the model-checking problem, 2014]. We explain why elementary dependences, as defined by Mogavero et al., do not exactly capture the intended concept of behavioral strategies. We address this discrepancy by introducing timeline dependences, and exhibit a large fragment of SL for which model checking can be performed in 2EXPTIME under this new semantics.

@inproceedings{stacs2018-GBM,
  author =              {Gardy, Patrick and Bouyer, Patricia and Markey,
                         Nicolas},
  title =               {Dependences in Strategy Logic},
  editor =              {Niedermeier, Rolf and Vall{\'e}e, Brigitte},
  booktitle =           {{P}roceedings of the 35th {S}ymposium on
                         {T}heoretical {A}spects of {C}omputer {S}cience
                         ({STACS}'18)},
  acronym =             {{STACS}'18},
  publisher =           {Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  series =              {Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics},
  volume =              {96},
  pages =               {34:1-34:14},
  year =                {2018},
  month =               feb,
  doi =                 {10.4230/LIPIcs.STACS.2018.34},
  abstract =            {Strategy Logic~(\textsf{SL}) is a very expressive
                         temporal logic for specifying and verifying
                         properties of multi-agent systems: in~\textsf{SL},
                         one can quantify over strategies, assign them to
                         agents, and express \textsf{LTL} properties of the
                         resulting plays. Such a powerful framework has two
                         drawbacks: first, model checking \textsf{SL} has
                         non-elementary complexity; second, the exact
                         semantics of \textsf{SL} is rather intricate, and
                         may not correspond to what is expected. In~this
                         paper, we~focus on \emph{strategy dependences}
                         in~\textsf{SL}, by tracking how
                         existentially-quantified strategies in a formula may
                         (or~may~not) depend on other strategies selected in
                         the formula, revisiting the approach of~[Mogavero
                         \emph{et~al.}, Reasoning about strategies: On~the
                         model-checking problem,~2014]. We~explain why
                         \emph{elementary} dependences, as defined by
                         Mogavero~\emph{et~al.}, do not exactly capture the
                         intended concept of behavioral strategies.
                         We~address this discrepancy by introducing
                         \emph{timeline} dependences, and exhibit a large
                         fragment of \textsf{SL} for which model checking can
                         be performed in \textsf{2EXPTIME} under this new
                         semantics.},
}
[HJM18] Léo Henry, Thierry Jéron, and Nicolas Markey. Control strategies for off-line testing of timed systems. In SPIN'18, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 10869, pages 171-189. Springer-Verlag, June 2018.
Abstract

Partial observability and controllability are two well-known issues in test-case synthesis for interactive systems. We address the problem of partial control in the synthesis of test cases from timed-automata specifications. Building on the tioco timed testing framework, we extend a previous game interpretation of the test-synthesis problem from the untimed to the timed setting. This extension requires a deep reworking of the models, game interpretation and test-synthesis algorithms. We exhibit strategies of a game that tries to minimize both control losses and distance to the satisfaction of a test purpose, and prove they are winning under some fairness assumptions. This entails that when turning those strategies into test cases, we get properties such as soundness and exhaustiveness of the test synthesis method.

@inproceedings{spin2018-HJM,
  author =              {Henry, L{\'e}o and J{\'e}ron, Thierry and Markey,
                         Nicolas},
  title =               {Control strategies for off-line testing of timed
                         systems},
  editor =              {Gallardo, Mar{\'\i}a-del-Mar and Merino, Pedro},
  booktitle =           {{P}roceedings of the 25th {I}nternational
                         {S}ymposium on {M}odel-{C}herking {S}oftware
                         ({SPIN}'18)},
  acronym =             {{SPIN}'18},
  publisher =           {Springer-Verlag},
  series =              {Lecture Notes in Computer Science},
  volume =              {10869},
  pages =               {171-189},
  year =                {2018},
  month =               jun,
  doi =                 {10.1007/978-3-319-94111-0_10},
  abstract =            {Partial observability and controllability are two
                         well-known issues in test-case synthesis for
                         interactive systems. We~address the problem of
                         partial control in the synthesis of test cases from
                         timed-automata specifications. Building on the tioco
                         timed testing framework, we~extend a previous game
                         interpretation of the test-synthesis problem from
                         the untimed to the timed setting. This extension
                         requires a deep reworking of the models, game
                         interpretation and test-synthesis algorithms.
                         We~exhibit strategies of a game that tries to
                         minimize both control losses and distance to the
                         satisfaction of a test purpose, and prove they are
                         winning under some fairness assumptions. This
                         entails that when turning those strategies into test
                         cases, we get properties such as soundness and
                         exhaustiveness of the test synthesis method.},
}
[BFL+18] Patricia Bouyer, Uli Fahrenberg, Kim Guldstrand Larsen, Nicolas Markey, Joël Ouaknine, and James Worrell. Model Checking Real-Time Systems. In Edmund M. Clarke, Thomas A. Henzinger, Helmut Veith, and Roderick Bloem (eds.), Handbook of Model Checking. Springer-Verlag, May 2018.
Abstract

This chapter surveys timed automata as a formalism for model checking real-time systems. We begin with introducing the model, as an extension of finite-state automata with real-valued variables for measuring time. We then present the main model-checking results in this framework, and give a hint about some recent extensions (namely weighted timed automata and timed games).

@incollection{hmc2018-BFLMOW,
  author =              {Bouyer, Patricia and Fahrenberg, Uli and Larsen, Kim
                         Guldstrand and Markey, Nicolas and Ouaknine,
                         Jo{\"e}l and Worrell, James},
  title =               {Model Checking Real-Time Systems},
  editor =              {Clarke, Edmund M. and Henzinger, Thomas A. and
                         Veith, Helmut and Bloem, Roderick},
  booktitle =           {Handbook of Model Checking},
  publisher =           {Springer-Verlag},
  pages =               {1001-1046},
  chapter =             {29},
  year =                {2018},
  month =               may,
  doi =                 {10.1007/978-3-319-10575-8_29},
  abstract =            {This chapter surveys timed automata as a formalism
                         for model checking real-time systems. We begin with
                         introducing the model, as an extension of
                         finite-state automata with real-valued variables for
                         measuring time. We then present the main
                         model-checking results in this framework, and give a
                         hint about some recent extensions (namely weighted
                         timed automata and timed games).},
}
[AGK18] Guy Avni, Shibashis Guha, and Orna Kupferman. Timed Network Games with Clocks. In MFCS'18, Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics 117, pages 23:1-23:18. Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik, August 2018.
@inproceedings{mfcs2018-AGK,
  author =              {Avni, Guy and Guha, Shibashis and Kupferman, Orna},
  title =               {Timed Network Games with Clocks},
  editor =              {Potapov, Igor and Spirakis, Paul G. and Worrell,
                         James},
  booktitle =           {{P}roceedings of the 43rd {I}nternational
                         {S}ymposium on {M}athematical {F}oundations of
                         {C}omputer {S}cience ({MFCS}'18)},
  acronym =             {{MFCS}'18},
  publisher =           {Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  series =              {Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics},
  volume =              {117},
  pages =               {23:1-23:18},
  year =                {2018},
  month =               aug,
  doi =                 {10.4230/LIPIcs.MFCS.2018.23},
}
[AKP18] Shaull Almagor, Orna Kupferman, and Giuseppe Perelli. Synthesis of Controllable Nash Equilibria in Quantitative Objective Games. In IJCAI'18, pages 35-41. IJCAI organization, July 2018.
@inproceedings{ijcai2018-AKP,
  author =              {Almagor, Shaull and Kupferman, Orna and Perelli,
                         Giuseppe},
  title =               {Synthesis of Controllable {N}ash Equilibria in
                         Quantitative Objective Games},
  editor =              {Lang, J{\'e}r{\^o}me},
  booktitle =           {{P}roceedings of the 27th {I}nternational {J}oint
                         {C}onference on {A}rtificial {I}ntelligence
                         ({IJCAI}'18)},
  acronym =             {{IJCAI}'18},
  publisher =           {IJCAI organization},
  pages =               {35-41},
  year =                {2018},
  month =               jul,
  doi =                 {10.24963/ijcai.2018/5},
}
[AMM+18] Benjamin Aminof, Vadim Malvone, Aniello Murano, and Sasha Rubin. Graded modalities in Strategy Logic. Information and Computation 261(4):634-649. Elsevier, August 2018.
@article{icomp261(4)-AMMR,
  author =              {Aminof, Benjamin and Malvone, Vadim and Murano,
                         Aniello and Rubin, Sasha},
  title =               {Graded modalities in Strategy Logic},
  publisher =           {Elsevier},
  journal =             {Information and Computation},
  volume =              {261},
  number =              {4},
  pages =               {634-649},
  year =                {2018},
  month =               aug,
  doi =                 {10.1016/j.ic.2018.02.021},
}
[BEK18] Michael Blondin, Javier Esparza, and Antonín Kučera. Automatic Analysis of Expected Termination Time for Population Protocols. In CONCUR'18, Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics 118, pages 33:1-33:16. Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik, September 2018.
@inproceedings{concur2018-BEK,
  author =              {Blondin, Michael and Esparza, Javier and Ku{\v
                         c}era, Anton{\'\i}n},
  title =               {Automatic Analysis of Expected Termination Time for
                         Population Protocols},
  editor =              {Schewe, Sven and Zhang, Lijun},
  booktitle =           {{P}roceedings of the 29th {I}nternational
                         {C}onference on {C}oncurrency {T}heory
                         ({CONCUR}'18)},
  acronym =             {{CONCUR}'18},
  publisher =           {Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  series =              {Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics},
  volume =              {118},
  pages =               {33:1-33:16},
  year =                {2018},
  month =               sep,
  doi =                 {10.4230/LIPIcs.CONCUR.2018.33},
}
[BF18] Ezio Bartocci and Yliès Falcone. Lectures on Runtime Verification. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 10457. Springer-Verlag, 2018.
@book{lectRV-BF18,
  title =               {Lectures on Runtime Verification},
  editor =              {Bartocci, Ezio and Falcone, Yli{\`e}s},
  publisher =           {Springer-Verlag},
  series =              {Lecture Notes in Computer Science},
  volume =              {10457},
  year =                {2018},
  doi =                 {10.1007/978-3-319-75632-5},
}
[BGM+18] Damien Busatto-Gaston, Benjamin Monmege, and Pierre-Alain Reynier. Symbolic Approximation of Weighted Timed Games. In FSTTCS'18, Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics 122, pages 28:1-28:16. Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik, December 2018.
@inproceedings{fsttcs2018-BMR,
  author =              {Busatto-Gaston, Damien and Monmege, Benjamin and
                         Reynier, Pierre-Alain},
  title =               {Symbolic Approximation of Weighted Timed Games},
  editor =              {Ganguli, Sumit and Pandya, Paritosh K.},
  booktitle =           {{P}roceedings of the 38th {C}onference on
                         {F}oundations of {S}oftware {T}echnology and
                         {T}heoretical {C}omputer {S}cience ({FSTTCS}'18)},
  acronym =             {{FSTTCS}'18},
  publisher =           {Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  series =              {Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics},
  volume =              {122},
  pages =               {28:1-28:16},
  year =                {2018},
  month =               dec,
  doi =                 {10.4230/LIPIcs.FSTTCS.2018.28},
}
[BK18] Marc Bagnol and Denis Kuperberg. Büchi Good-for-game Automata are Efficiently Recognizable. In FSTTCS'18, Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics 122, pages 16:1-16:14. Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik, December 2018.
@inproceedings{fsttcs2018-BK,
  author =              {Bagnol, Marc and Kuperberg, Denis},
  title =               {B{\"u}chi Good-for-game Automata are Efficiently
                         Recognizable},
  editor =              {Ganguli, Sumit and Pandya, Paritosh K.},
  booktitle =           {{P}roceedings of the 38th {C}onference on
                         {F}oundations of {S}oftware {T}echnology and
                         {T}heoretical {C}omputer {S}cience ({FSTTCS}'18)},
  acronym =             {{FSTTCS}'18},
  publisher =           {Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  series =              {Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics},
  volume =              {122},
  pages =               {16:1-16:14},
  year =                {2018},
  month =               dec,
  doi =                 {10.4230/LIPIcs.FSTTCS.2018.16},
}
[Bok18] Udi Boker. Why these automata types?. In LPAR'18, EPiC Series in Computing 57, pages 143-163. EasyChair, November 2018.
@inproceedings{lpar2018-Bok,
  author =              {Boker, Udi},
  title =               {Why these automata types?},
  editor =              {Barthe, Gilles and Sutcliffe, Geoff and Veanes,
                         Margus},
  booktitle =           {{P}roceedings of the 22nd {I}nternational
                         {C}onference {L}ogic {P}rogramming and {A}utomated
                         {R}easoning ({LPAR}'18)},
  acronym =             {{LPAR}'18},
  publisher =           {EasyChair},
  series =              {EPiC Series in Computing},
  volume =              {57},
  pages =               {143-163},
  year =                {2018},
  month =               nov,
  doi =                 {10.29007/c3bj},
}
[CHV+18] Edmund M. Clarke, Thomas A. Henzinger, Helmut Veith, and Roderick Bloem. Handbook of Model Checking. Springer-Verlag, April 2018.
@book{hbmc18-CHVB,
  author =              {Clarke, Edmund M. and Henzinger, Thomas A. and
                         Veith, Helmut and Bloem, Roderick},
  title =               {Handbook of Model Checking},
  publisher =           {Springer-Verlag},
  year =                {2018},
  month =               apr,
  doi =                 {10.1007/978-3-319-10575-8},
}
[DM18] Dario Della Monica and Aniello Murano. Parity-energy ATL for Qualitative and Quantitative Reasoning in MAS. In AAMAS'18, pages 1441-1449. International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, July 2018.
@inproceedings{aamas2018-DM,
  author =              {Della{ }Monica, Dario and Murano, Aniello},
  title =               {Parity-energy {ATL} for Qualitative and Quantitative
                         Reasoning in~{MAS}},
  editor =              {Andr{\'e}, Elisabeth and Koenig, Sven and Dastani,
                         Mehdi and Sukthankar, Gita},
  booktitle =           {{P}roceedings of the 17th {I}nternational
                         {C}onference on {A}utonomous {A}gents and
                         {M}ultiagent {S}ystems ({AAMAS}'18)},
  acronym =             {{AAMAS}'18},
  publisher =           {International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and
                         Multiagent Systems},
  pages =               {1441-1449},
  year =                {2018},
  month =               jul,
}
[DMP18] Cătălin Dima, Bastien Maubert, and Sophie Pinchinat. Relating Paths in Transition Systems: The Fall of the Modal Mu-Calculus. ACM Transactions on Computational Logic 19(3):23:1-23:33. ACM Press, September 2018.
@article{tocl19(3)-DMS,
  author =              {Dima, C{\u a}t{\u a}lin and Maubert, Bastien and
                         Pinchinat, Sophie},
  title =               {Relating Paths in Transition Systems: The~Fall of
                         the Modal Mu-Calculus},
  publisher =           {ACM Press},
  journal =             {ACM Transactions on Computational Logic},
  volume =              {19},
  number =              {3},
  pages =               {23:1-23:33},
  year =                {2018},
  month =               sep,
  doi =                 {10.1145/3231596},
}
[FMM+18] Nathanaël Fijalkow, Bastien Maubert, Aniello Murano, and Sasha Rubin. Quantifying Bounds in Strategy Logic. In CSL'18, Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics 119, pages 23:1-23:23. Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik, September 2018.
@inproceedings{csl2018-FMMR,
  author =              {Fijalkow, Nathana{\"e}l and Maubert, Bastien and
                         Murano, Aniello and Rubin, Sasha},
  title =               {Quantifying Bounds in Strategy Logic},
  editor =              {Ghica, Dan R. and Jung, Achim},
  booktitle =           {{P}roceedings of the 27th {EACSL} {A}nnual
                         {C}onference on {C}omputer {S}cience {L}ogic
                         ({CSL}'18)},
  acronym =             {{CSL}'18},
  publisher =           {Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  series =              {Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics},
  volume =              {119},
  pages =               {23:1-23:23},
  year =                {2018},
  month =               sep,
  doi =                 {10.4230/LIPIcs.CSL.2018.23},
}
[Had18] Serge Haddad. Memoryless determinacy of finite parity games: Another simple proof. Information Processing Letters 132:19-21. Elsevier, April 2018.
@article{ipl132()-Had,
  author =              {Haddad, Serge},
  title =               {Memoryless determinacy of finite parity games:
                         Another simple proof},
  publisher =           {Elsevier},
  journal =             {Information Processing Letters},
  volume =              {132},
  pages =               {19-21},
  year =                {2018},
  month =               apr,
  doi =                 {10.1016/j.ipl.2017.11.012},
}
[HvdM18] Xiaowei Huang and Ron van der Meyden. An Epistemic Strategy Logic. ACM Transactions on Computational Logic 19(4):26:1-26:45. ACM Press, December 2018.
@article{tocl19(4)-HvdM,
  author =              {Huang, Xiaowei and van der Meyden, Ron},
  title =               {An Epistemic Strategy Logic},
  publisher =           {ACM Press},
  journal =             {ACM Transactions on Computational Logic},
  volume =              {19},
  number =              {4},
  pages =               {26:1-26:45},
  year =                {2018},
  month =               dec,
  doi =                 {10.1145/3233769},
}
[HMM18] Loïc Hélouët, Hervé Marchand, and John Mullins. Concurrent secrets with quantified suspicion. In ACSD'18, pages 75-84. IEEE Comp. Soc. Press, June 2018.
@inproceedings{acsd2018-HMM,
  author =              {H{\'e}lou{\"e}t, Lo{\"\i}c and Marchand, Herv{\'e}
                         and Mullins, John},
  title =               {Concurrent secrets with quantified suspicion},
  editor =              {Chatain, {\relax Th}omas and Grosu, Radu and
                         Juh{\'a}s, Gabriel},
  booktitle =           {{P}roceedings of the 18th {I}nternational
                         {C}onference on {A}pplication of {C}oncurrency to
                         {S}ystem {D}esign ({ACSD}'18)},
  acronym =             {{ACSD}'18},
  publisher =           {IEEE Comp. Soc. Press},
  pages =               {75-84},
  year =                {2018},
  month =               jun,
  doi =                 {10.1109/ACSD.2018.00011},
}
[JW18] Paulin Jacquot and Cheng Wan. Routing game on parallel networks: the convergence of atomic to nonatomic. In CDC'18, pages 6951-6956. IEEE Comp. Soc. Press, December 2018.
@inproceedings{cdc2018-JW,
  author =              {Jacquot, Paulin and Wan, Cheng},
  title =               {Routing game on parallel networks: the~convergence
                         of atomic to nonatomic},
  booktitle =           {{P}roceedings of the 57th {IEEE} {C}onference on
                         {D}ecision and {C}ontrol ({CDC}'18)},
  acronym =             {{CDC}'18},
  publisher =           {IEEE Comp. Soc. Press},
  pages =               {6951-6956},
  year =                {2018},
  month =               dec,
  doi =                 {10.1109/CDC.2018.8619369},
}
[LLH18] Stéphane Lafortune, Feng Lin, and Christoforos N. Hadjicostis. On the history of diagnosability and opacity in discrete event systems. Annual Reviews in Control 45:257-266. Elsevier, 2018.
@article{aric45()-LLH,
  author =              {Lafortune, St{\'e}phane and Lin, Feng and
                         Hadjicostis, Christoforos N.},
  title =               {On~the history of diagnosability and opacity in
                         discrete event systems},
  publisher =           {Elsevier},
  journal =             {Annual Reviews in Control},
  volume =              {45},
  pages =               {257-266},
  year =                {2018},
  doi =                 {10.1016/j.arcontrol.2018.04.002},
}
[Szy18] Marek Szykuła. Improving the Upper Bound on the Length of the Shortest Reset Word. In STACS'18, Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics 96, pages 56:1-56:13. Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik, February 2018.
@inproceedings{stacs2018-Szy,
  author =              {Szyku{\l}a, Marek},
  title =               {Improving the Upper Bound on the Length of the
                         Shortest Reset Word},
  editor =              {Niedermeier, Rolf and Vall{\'e}e, Brigitte},
  booktitle =           {{P}roceedings of the 35th {S}ymposium on
                         {T}heoretical {A}spects of {C}omputer {S}cience
                         ({STACS}'18)},
  acronym =             {{STACS}'18},
  publisher =           {Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  series =              {Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics},
  volume =              {96},
  pages =               {56:1-56:13},
  year =                {2018},
  month =               feb,
  doi =                 {10.4230/LIPIcs.STACS.2018.56},
}
2017
[BMP+17] Patricia Bouyer, Nicolas Markey, Nicolas Perrin, and Philipp Schlehuber-Caissier. Timed automata abstraction of switched dynamical systems using control funnels. Real-Time Systems 53(3):327-353. Kluwer Academic, May 2017.
Abstract

The development of formal methods for control design is an important challenge with potential applications in a wide range of safety-critical cyber-physical systems. Focusing on switched dynamical systems, we propose a new abstraction, based on time-varying regions of invariance (control funnels), that models behaviors of systems as timed automata. The main advantage of this method is that it allows for the automated verification and reactive controller synthesis without discretizing the evolution of the state of the system. Efficient and analytic constructions are possible in the case of linear dynamics whereas bounding funnels with conjectured properties based on numerical simulations can be used for general nonlinear dynamics. We demonstrate the potential of our approach with three examples.

@article{rts53(3)-BMPS,
  author =              {Bouyer, Patricia and Markey, Nicolas and Perrin,
                         Nicolas and Schlehuber{-}Caissier, Philipp},
  title =               {Timed automata abstraction of switched dynamical
                         systems using control funnels},
  publisher =           {Kluwer Academic},
  journal =             {Real-Time Systems},
  volume =              {53},
  number =              {3},
  pages =               {327-353},
  year =                {2017},
  month =               may,
  doi =                 {10.1007/s11241-016-9262-3},
  abstract =            {The development of formal methods for control design
                         is an important challenge with potential
                         applications in a wide range of safety-critical
                         cyber-physical systems. Focusing on switched
                         dynamical systems, we propose a new abstraction,
                         based on time-varying regions of invariance (control
                         funnels), that models behaviors of systems as timed
                         automata. The~main advantage of this method is that
                         it allows for the automated verification and
                         reactive controller synthesis without discretizing
                         the evolution of the state of the system. Efficient
                         and analytic constructions are possible in the case
                         of linear dynamics whereas bounding funnels with
                         conjectured properties based on numerical
                         simulations can be used for general nonlinear
                         dynamics. We~demonstrate the potential of our
                         approach with three examples.},
}
[BMV17] Patricia Bouyer, Nicolas Markey, and Steen Vester. Nash Equilibria in Symmetric Graph Games with Partial Observation. Information and Computation 254(2):238-258. Elsevier, June 2017.
Abstract

We investigate a model for representing large multiplayer games, which satisfy strong symmetry properties. This model is made of multiple copies of an arena; each player plays in his own arena, and can partially observe what the other players do. Therefore, this game has partial information and symmetry constraints, which make the computation of Nash equilibria difficult. We show several undecidability results, and for bounded-memory strategies, we precisely characterize the complexity of computing pure Nash equilibria (for qualitative objectives) in this game model.

@article{icomp254()-BMV,
  author =              {Bouyer, Patricia and Markey, Nicolas and Vester,
                         Steen},
  title =               {{N}ash Equilibria in Symmetric Graph Games with
                         Partial Observation},
  publisher =           {Elsevier},
  journal =             {Information and Computation},
  volume =              {254},
  number =              {2},
  pages =               {238-258},
  year =                {2017},
  month =               jun,
  doi =                 {10.1016/j.ic.2016.10.010},
  abstract =            {We investigate a model for representing large
                         multiplayer games, which satisfy strong symmetry
                         properties. This model is made of multiple copies of
                         an arena; each player plays in his own arena, and
                         can partially observe what the other players do.
                         Therefore, this game has partial information and
                         symmetry constraints, which make the computation of
                         Nash equilibria difficult. We show several
                         undecidability results, and for bounded-memory
                         strategies, we precisely characterize the complexity
                         of computing pure Nash equilibria (for qualitative
                         objectives) in this game model.},
}
[BHM+17] Patricia Bouyer, Piotr Hofman, Nicolas Markey, Mickael Randour, and Martin Zimmermann. Bounding Average-energy Games. In FoSSaCS'17, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 10203, pages 179-195. Springer-Verlag, April 2017.
Abstract

We consider average-energy games, where the goal is to minimize the long-run average of the accumulated energy. Decidability of average-energy games with a lower-bound constraint on the energy level (but no upper bound) is an open problem; in particular, there is no known upper bound on the memory that is required for winning strategies.

By reducing average-energy games with lower-bounded energy to infinite-state mean-payoff games and analyzing the frequency of low-energy configurations, we show an almost tight doubly-exponential upper bound on the necessary memory, and that the winner of average-energy games with lower-bounded energy can be determined in doubly-exponential time. We also prove EXPSPACE-hardness of this problem.

Finally, we consider multi-dimensional extensions of all types of average-energy games: without bounds, with only a lower bound, and with both a lower and an upper bound on the energy. We show that the fully-bounded version is the only case to remain decidable in multiple dimensions.

@inproceedings{fossacs2017-BHMRZ,
  author =              {Bouyer, Patricia and Hofman, Piotr and Markey,
                         Nicolas and Randour, Mickael and Zimmermann, Martin},
  title =               {Bounding Average-energy Games},
  editor =              {Esparza, Javier and Murawski, Andrzej},
  booktitle =           {{P}roceedings of the 20th {I}nternational
                         {C}onference on {F}oundations of {S}oftware
                         {S}cience and {C}omputation {S}tructure
                         ({FoSSaCS}'17)},
  acronym =             {{FoSSaCS}'17},
  publisher =           {Springer-Verlag},
  series =              {Lecture Notes in Computer Science},
  volume =              {10203},
  pages =               {179-195},
  year =                {2017},
  month =               apr,
  doi =                 {10.1007/978-3-662-54458-7_11},
  abstract =            {We~consider average-energy games, where the goal is
                         to minimize the long-run average of the accumulated
                         energy. Decidability of average-energy games with a
                         lower-bound constraint on the energy level (but~no
                         upper bound) is an open problem; in~particular,
                         there is no known upper bound on the memory that is
                         required for winning strategies.\par By~reducing
                         average-energy games with lower-bounded energy to
                         infinite-state mean-payoff games and analyzing the
                         frequency of low-energy configurations, we~show an
                         almost tight doubly-exponential upper bound on the
                         necessary memory, and that the winner of
                         average-energy games with lower-bounded energy can
                         be determined in doubly-exponential time. We~also
                         prove EXPSPACE-hardness of this problem.\par
                         Finally, we~consider multi-dimensional extensions of
                         all types of average-energy games: without bounds,
                         with only a lower bound, and with both a lower and
                         an upper bound on the energy. We show that the
                         fully-bounded version is the only case to remain
                         decidable in multiple dimensions.},
}
[BJM17] Patricia Bouyer, Samy Jaziri, and Nicolas Markey. On the determinization of timed systems. In FORMATS'17, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 10419, pages 25-41. Springer-Verlag, September 2017.
Abstract

We introduce a new formalism called automata over a timed domain which provides an adequate framework for the determinization of timed systems. In this formalism, determinization w.r.t. timed language is always possible at the cost of changing the timed domain. We give a condition for determinizability of automata over a timed domain without changing the timed domain, which allows us to recover several known determinizable classes of timed systems, such as strongly-non-zeno timed automata, integer-reset timed automata, perturbed timed automata, etc. Moreover in the case of timed automata this condition encompasses most determinizability conditions from the literature.

@inproceedings{formats2017-BJM,
  author =              {Bouyer, Patricia and Jaziri, Samy and Markey,
                         Nicolas},
  title =               {On the determinization of timed systems},
  editor =              {Abate, Alessandro and Geeraerts, Gilles},
  booktitle =           {{P}roceedings of the 15th {I}nternational
                         {C}onferences on {F}ormal {M}odelling and {A}nalysis
                         of {T}imed {S}ystems ({FORMATS}'17)},
  acronym =             {{FORMATS}'17},
  publisher =           {Springer-Verlag},
  series =              {Lecture Notes in Computer Science},
  volume =              {10419},
  pages =               {25-41},
  year =                {2017},
  month =               sep,
  doi =                 {10.1007/978-3-319-65765-3_2},
  abstract =            {We introduce a new formalism called \emph{automata
                         over a timed domain} which provides an adequate
                         framework for the determinization of timed systems.
                         In~this formalism, determinization w.r.t. timed
                         language is always possible at the cost of changing
                         the timed domain. We~give a condition for
                         determinizability of automata over a timed domain
                         without changing the timed domain, which allows us
                         to recover several known determinizable classes of
                         timed systems, such as strongly-non-zeno timed
                         automata, integer-reset timed automata, perturbed
                         timed automata, etc. Moreover in the case of timed
                         automata this condition encompasses most
                         determinizability conditions from the literature.},
}
[Mar17] Nicolas Markey. Temporal logics for multi-agent systems (invited talk). In MFCS'17, Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics 84, pages 84:1-84:3. Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik, August 2017.
@inproceedings{mfcs2017-Mar,
  author =              {Markey, Nicolas},
  title =               {Temporal logics for multi-agent systems
                         (invited~talk)},
  editor =              {Larsen, Kim Guldstrand and Bodlaender, Hans L. and
                         Raskin, Jean-Fran{\c c}ois},
  booktitle =           {{P}roceedings of the 42nd {I}nternational
                         {S}ymposium on {M}athematical {F}oundations of
                         {C}omputer {S}cience ({MFCS}'17)},
  acronym =             {{MFCS}'17},
  publisher =           {Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  series =              {Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics},
  volume =              {84},
  pages =               {84:1-84:3},
  year =                {2017},
  month =               aug,
  doi =                 {10.4230/LIPIcs.MFCS.2017.84},
}
[BLM+17] Patricia Bouyer, François Laroussinie, Nicolas Markey, Joël Ouaknine, and James Worrell. Timed temporal logics. In Luca Aceto, Giorgio Bacci, Giovanni Bacci, Anna Ingólfsdóttir, Axel Legay, and Radu Mardare (eds.), Models, Algorithms, Logics and Tools: Essays Dedicated to Kim Guldstrand Larsen on the Occasion of His 60th Birthday, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 10460, pages 211-230. Springer-Verlag, August 2017.
Abstract

Since the early 1990's, classical temporal logics have been extended with timing constraints. While temporal logics only express contraints on the order of events, their timed extensions can add quantitative constraints on delays between those events. We survey expressiveness and algorithmic results on those logics, and discuss semantic choices that may look unimportant but do have an impact on the questions we consider.

@incollection{kimfest2017-BLMOW,
  author =              {Bouyer, Patricia and Laroussinie, Fran{\c c}ois and
                         Markey, Nicolas and Ouaknine, Jo{\"e}l and Worrell,
                         James},
  title =               {Timed temporal logics},
  editor =              {Aceto, Luca and Bacci, Giorgio and Bacci, Giovanni
                         and Ing{\'o}lfsd{\'o}ttir, Anna and Legay, Axel and
                         Mardare, Radu},
  booktitle =           {Models, Algorithms, Logics and Tools: Essays
                         Dedicated to Kim Guldstrand Larsen on the Occasion
                         of His 60th Birthday},
  publisher =           {Springer-Verlag},
  series =              {Lecture Notes in Computer Science},
  volume =              {10460},
  pages =               {211-230},
  year =                {2017},
  month =               aug,
  doi =                 {10.1007/978-3-319-63121-9_11},
  abstract =            {Since the early 1990's, classical temporal logics
                         have been extended with timing constraints. While
                         temporal logics only express contraints on the order
                         of events, their timed extensions can add
                         quantitative constraints on delays between those
                         events. We survey expressiveness and algorithmic
                         results on those logics, and discuss semantic
                         choices that may look unimportant but do have an
                         impact on the questions we consider.},
}
[ABD+17] Ernst Althaus, Björn Beber, Werner Damm, Stefan Disch, Willem Hagemann, Astrid Rakow, Christoph Scholl, Uwe Waldmann, and Boris Wirtz. Verification of linear hybrid systems with large discrete state spaces using counterexample-guided abstraction refinement. Science of Computer Programming 148:123-160. Elsevier, November 2017.
@article{scp148()-ABDDHRSWW,
  author =              {Althaus, Ernst and Beber, Bj{\"o}rn and Damm, Werner
                         and Disch, Stefan and Hagemann, Willem and Rakow,
                         Astrid and Scholl, Christoph and Waldmann, Uwe and
                         Wirtz, Boris},
  title =               {Verification of linear hybrid systems with large
                         discrete state spaces using counterexample-guided
                         abstraction refinement},
  publisher =           {Elsevier},
  journal =             {Science of Computer Programming},
  volume =              {148},
  pages =               {123-160},
  year =                {2017},
  month =               nov,
  doi =                 {10.1016/j.scico.2017.04.010},
}
[AGK17] Guy Avni, Shibashis Guha, and Orna Kupferman. Timed Network Games. In MFCS'17, Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics 84, pages 37:1-37:16. Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik, August 2017.
@inproceedings{mfcs2017-AGK,
  author =              {Avni, Guy and Guha, Shibashis and Kupferman, Orna},
  title =               {Timed Network Games},
  editor =              {Larsen, Kim Guldstrand and Bodlaender, Hans L. and
                         Raskin, Jean-Fran{\c c}ois},
  booktitle =           {{P}roceedings of the 42nd {I}nternational
                         {S}ymposium on {M}athematical {F}oundations of
                         {C}omputer {S}cience ({MFCS}'17)},
  acronym =             {{MFCS}'17},
  publisher =           {Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  series =              {Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics},
  volume =              {84},
  pages =               {37:1-37:16},
  year =                {2017},
  month =               aug,
  doi =                 {10.4230/LIPIcs.MFCS.2017.37},
}
[AGK+17] S. Akshay, Paul Gastin, Shankara Narayanan Krishna, and Ilias Sarkar. Towards an Efficient Tree Automata Based Technique for Timed Systems. In CONCUR'17, Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics 85, pages 39:1-39:15. Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik, September 2017.
@inproceedings{concur2017-AGKS,
  author =              {Akshay, S. and Gastin, Paul and Krishna, Shankara
                         Narayanan and Sarkar, Ilias},
  title =               {Towards an Efficient Tree Automata Based Technique
                         for Timed Systems},
  editor =              {Meyer, Roland and Nestmann, Uwe},
  booktitle =           {{P}roceedings of the 28th {I}nternational
                         {C}onference on {C}oncurrency {T}heory
                         ({CONCUR}'17)},
  acronym =             {{CONCUR}'17},
  publisher =           {Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  series =              {Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics},
  volume =              {85},
  pages =               {39:1-39:15},
  year =                {2017},
  month =               sep,
  doi =                 {10.4230/LIPIcs.CONCUR.2017.39},
}
[AKR+17] Shaull Almagor, Orna Kupferman, Jan Oliver Ringert, and Yaron Velner. Quantitative Assume Guarantee Synthesis. In CAV'17, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 10427, pages 353-374. Springer-Verlag, July 2017.
@inproceedings{cav2017-AKRV,
  author =              {Almagor, Shaull and Kupferman, Orna and Ringert, Jan
                         Oliver and Velner, Yaron},
  title =               {Quantitative Assume Guarantee Synthesis},
  editor =              {Majumdar, Rupak and Kuncak, Viktor},
  booktitle =           {{P}roceedings of the 29th {I}nternational
                         {C}onference on {C}omputer {A}ided {V}erification
                         ({CAV}'17)},
  acronym =             {{CAV}'17},
  publisher =           {Springer-Verlag},
  series =              {Lecture Notes in Computer Science},
  volume =              {10427},
  pages =               {353-374},
  year =                {2017},
  month =               jul,
  doi =                 {10.1007/978-3-319-63390-9_19},
}
[AT17] Rajeev Alur and Stavros Tripakis. Automatic Synthesis of Distributed Protocols. SIGACT News 48(1):55-90. ACM Press, March 2017.
@article{sigact-news48(1)-AT,
  author =              {Alur, Rajeev and Tripakis, Stavros},
  title =               {Automatic Synthesis of Distributed Protocols},
  publisher =           {ACM Press},
  journal =             {SIGACT News},
  volume =              {48},
  number =              {1},
  pages =               {55-90},
  year =                {2017},
  month =               mar,
  doi =                 {10.1145/3061640.3061652},
}
[BDG+17] Nathalie Bertrand, Miheer Dewaskar, Blaise Genest, and Hugo Gimbert. Controlling a population. In CONCUR'17, Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics 85, pages 12:1-12:16. Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik, September 2017.
@inproceedings{concur2017-BDGG,
  author =              {Bertrand, Nathalie and Dewaskar, Miheer and Genest,
                         Blaise and Gimbert, Hugo},
  title =               {Controlling a population},
  editor =              {Meyer, Roland and Nestmann, Uwe},
  booktitle =           {{P}roceedings of the 28th {I}nternational
                         {C}onference on {C}oncurrency {T}heory
                         ({CONCUR}'17)},
  acronym =             {{CONCUR}'17},
  publisher =           {Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  series =              {Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics},
  volume =              {85},
  pages =               {12:1-12:16},
  year =                {2017},
  month =               sep,
  doi =                 {10.4230/LIPIcs.CONCUR.2017.12},
}
[BGG17] Nathalie Bertrand, Blaise Genest, and Hugo Gimbert. Qualitative Determinacy and Decidability of Stochastic Games with Signals. Journal of the ACM 64(5):33:1-33:48. ACM Press, October 2017.
@article{jacm64(5)-BGG,
  author =              {Bertrand, Nathalie and Genest, Blaise and Gimbert,
                         Hugo},
  title =               {Qualitative Determinacy and Decidability of
                         Stochastic Games with Signals},
  publisher =           {ACM Press},
  journal =             {Journal of the~ACM},
  volume =              {64},
  number =              {5},
  pages =               {33:1-33:48},
  year =                {2017},
  month =               oct,
  doi =                 {10.1145/3107926},
}
[BGH+17] Thomas Brihaye, Gilles Geeraerts, Axel Haddad, and Benjamin Monmege. Pseudopolynomial iterative algorithm to solve total-payoff games and min-cost reachability game. Acta Informatica 54(1):85-125. Springer-Verlag, February 2017.
@article{acta54(1)-BGHM,
  author =              {Brihaye, {\relax Th}omas and Geeraerts, Gilles and
                         Haddad, Axel and Monmege, Benjamin},
  title =               {Pseudopolynomial iterative algorithm to solve
                         total-payoff games and min-cost reachability game},
  publisher =           {Springer-Verlag},
  journal =             {Acta Informatica},
  volume =              {54},
  number =              {1},
  pages =               {85-125},
  year =                {2017},
  month =               feb,
  doi =                 {10.1007/s00236-016-0276-z},
}
[BHM17] Béatrice Bérard, Loïc Hélouët, and John Mullins. Non-interference in partial order models. ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems. ACM Press, 2017. To appear.
@article{tecs-BHM,
  author =              {B{\'e}rard, B{\'e}atrice and H{\'e}lou{\"e}t,
                         Lo{\"\i}c and Mullins, John},
  title =               {Non-interference in partial order models},
  publisher =           {ACM Press},
  journal =             {ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems},
  year =                {2017},
  note =                {To~appear},
}
[BJM17] Patricia Bouyer, Vincent Jugé, and Nicolas Markey. Courcelle's Theorem Made Dynamic. Technical Report 1702.05183, arXiv, February 2017.
Abstract

Dynamic complexity is concerned with updating the output of a problem when the input is slightly changed. We study the dynamic complexity of model checking a fixed monadic second-order formula over evolving subgraphs of a fixed maximal graph having bounded tree-width; here the subgraph evolves by losing or gaining edges (from the maximal graph). We show that this problem is in DynFO (with LOGSPACE precomputation), via a reduction to a Dyck reachability problem on an acyclic automaton.

@techreport{arxiv1702.05183-BJM,
  author =              {Bouyer, Patricia and Jug{\'e}, Vincent and Markey,
                         Nicolas},
  title =               {{C}ourcelle's Theorem Made Dynamic},
  number =              {1702.05183},
  year =                {2017},
  month =               feb,
  institution =         {arXiv},
  abstract =            {Dynamic complexity is concerned with updating the
                         output of a problem when the input is slightly
                         changed. We study the dynamic complexity of model
                         checking a fixed monadic second-order formula over
                         evolving subgraphs of a fixed maximal graph having
                         bounded tree-width; here the subgraph evolves by
                         losing or gaining edges (from the maximal graph).
                         We~show that this problem is in DynFO (with LOGSPACE
                         precomputation), via a reduction to a Dyck
                         reachability problem on an acyclic automaton.},
}
[BMM17] Raphaël Berthon, Bastien Maubert, and Aniello Murano. Decidability Results for ATL* with Imperfect Information and Perfect Recall. In AAMAS'17, pages 1250-1258. International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, May 2017.
@inproceedings{aamas2017-BMM,
  author =              {Berthon, Rapha{\"e}l and Maubert, Bastien and
                         Murano, Aniello},
  title =               {Decidability Results for {ATL\textsuperscript{*}}
                         with Imperfect Information and Perfect Recall},
  editor =              {Das, Sanmay and Durfee, Ed and Larson, Kate and
                         Winikoff, Michael},
  booktitle =           {{P}roceedings of the 16th {I}nternational
                         {C}onference on {A}utonomous {A}gents and
                         {M}ultiagent {S}ystems ({AAMAS}'17)},
  acronym =             {{AAMAS}'17},
  publisher =           {International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and
                         Multiagent Systems},
  pages =               {1250-1258},
  year =                {2017},
  month =               may,
}
[BMM+17] Raphaël Berthon, Bastien Maubert, Aniello Murano, Sasha Rubin, and Moshe Y. Vardi. Strategy Logic with Imperfect Information. In LICS'17, pages 1-12. IEEE Comp. Soc. Press, June 2017.
@inproceedings{lics2017-BMMRV,
  author =              {Berthon, Rapha{\"e}l and Maubert, Bastien and
                         Murano, Aniello and Rubin, Sasha and Vardi, Moshe
                         Y.},
  title =               {Strategy Logic with Imperfect Information},
  booktitle =           {{P}roceedings of the 32nd {A}nnual {S}ymposium on
                         {L}ogic in {C}omputer {S}cience ({LICS}'17)},
  acronym =             {{LICS}'17},
  publisher =           {IEEE Comp. Soc. Press},
  pages =               {1-12},
  year =                {2017},
  month =               jun,
  doi =                 {10.1109/LICS.2017.8005136},
}
[BRS17] Romain Brenguier, Jean-François Raskin, and Ocan Sankur. Assume-admissible synthesis. Acta Informatica 54(1):41-83. Springer-Verlag, February 2017.
@article{acta54(1)-BRS,
  author =              {Brenguier, Romain and Raskin, Jean-Fran{\c c}ois and
                         Sankur, Ocan},
  title =               {Assume-admissible synthesis},
  publisher =           {Springer-Verlag},
  journal =             {Acta Informatica},
  volume =              {54},
  number =              {1},
  pages =               {41-83},
  year =                {2017},
  month =               feb,
  doi =                 {10.1007/s00236-016-0273-2},
}
[BW17] Julian C. Bradfield and Igor Walukiewicz. The mu-calculus and model-checking. In Edmund M. Clarke, Thomas A. Henzinger, and Helmut Veith (eds.), Handbook of Model Checking. Springer-Verlag, 2017. To appear.
@incollection{HMC-BW,
  author =              {Bradfield, Julian C. and Walukiewicz, Igor},
  title =               {The mu-calculus and model-checking},
  editor =              {Clarke, Edmund M. and Henzinger, Thomas A. and
                         Veith, Helmut},
  booktitle =           {Handbook of Model Checking},
  publisher =           {Springer-Verlag},
  year =                {2017},
  note =                {To~appear},
}
[CDH17] Krishnendu Chatterjee, Laurent Doyen, and Thomas A. Henzinger. The Cost of Exactness in Quantitative Reachability. In Models, Algorithms, Logics and Tools: Essays Dedicated to Kim Guldstrand Larsen on the Occasion of His 60th Birthday, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 10460, pages 367-381. Springer-Verlag, August 2017.
@inproceedings{kimfest2017-CDH,
  author =              {Chatterjee, Krishnendu and Doyen, Laurent and
                         Henzinger, Thomas A.},
  title =               {The Cost of Exactness in Quantitative Reachability},
  editor =              {Aceto, Luca and Bacci, Giorgio and Bacci, Giovanni
                         and Ing{\'o}lfsd{\'o}ttir, Anna and Legay, Axel and
                         Mardare, Radu},
  booktitle =           {Models, Algorithms, Logics and Tools: Essays
                         Dedicated to Kim Guldstrand Larsen on the Occasion
                         of His 60th Birthday},
  publisher =           {Springer-Verlag},
  series =              {Lecture Notes in Computer Science},
  volume =              {10460},
  pages =               {367-381},
  year =                {2017},
  month =               aug,
  doi =                 {10.1007/978-3-319-63121-9_18},
}
[DKR+17] Manfred Droste, Temur Kutsia, George Rahonis, and Wolfgang Schreiner. MK-fuzzy Automata and MSO Logics. In GandALF'17, Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science 256, pages 106-120. September 2017.
@inproceedings{gandalf2017-DKRS,
  author =              {Droste, Manfred and Kutsia, Temur and Rahonis,
                         George and Schreiner, Wolfgang},
  title =               {{MK}-fuzzy Automata and {MSO} Logics},
  editor =              {Bouyer, Patricia and Orlandini, Andrea and
                         San{~}Pietro, Pierluigi},
  booktitle =           {{P}roceedings of the 8th {I}nternational {S}ymposium
                         on {G}ames, {A}utomata, {L}ogics and {F}ormal
                         {V}erification ({GandALF}'17)},
  acronym =             {{GandALF}'17},
  series =              {Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer
                         Science},
  volume =              {256},
  pages =               {106-120},
  year =                {2017},
  month =               sep,
  doi =                 {10.4204/EPTCS.256.8},
}
[EGL+17] Javier Esparza, Pierre Ganty, Jérôme Leroux, and Rupak Majumdar. Verification of Population Protocols. Acta Informatica 54(2):191-215. Springer-Verlag, March 2017.
@article{atca54(2)-EGLM,
  author =              {Esparza, Javier and Ganty, Pierre and Leroux,
                         J{\'e}r{\^o}me and Majumdar, Rupak},
  title =               {Verification of Population Protocols},
  publisher =           {Springer-Verlag},
  journal =             {Acta Informatica},
  volume =              {54},
  number =              {2},
  pages =               {191-215},
  year =                {2017},
  month =               mar,
  doi =                 {10.1007/s00236-016-0272-3},
}
[Gar17] Patrick Gardy. Semantics of Strategy Logic. PhD thesis, Lab. Spécification & Vérification, Univ. Paris-Saclay, France, June 2017.
@phdthesis{phd-gardy,
  author =              {Gardy, Patrick},
  title =               {Semantics of Strategy Logic},
  year =                {2017},
  month =               jun,
  school =              {Lab.~Sp\'ecification \& V\'erification, Univ.
                         Paris-Saclay, France},
  type =                {{PhD} thesis},
}
[GBB+17] Mauricio González, Olivier Beaude, Patricia Bouyer, Samson Lasaulce, and Nicolas Markey. Stratégies d'ordonnancement de consommation d'énergie en présence d'information imparfaite de prévision. In GRETSI'17. September 2017.
Abstract

Energy consumption problems (e.g., electric vehicles charging) are very related to communication problems. The "water-filling" algorithm can be used, but it is not robust w.r.t. the noise of the "non-flexible", i.e. not-controllable, energy consumption forecasting. We propose a robust algorithm using the probabilistic model-checker PRISM, to exploit the idea of discretizing the consumption action (as for a modulation to small constellation) and the dynamic structure of the problem in a Markov-decision-process model.

@inproceedings{gretsi2017-GBBLM,
  author =              {Gonz{\'a}lez, Mauricio and Beaude, Olivier and
                         Bouyer, Patricia and Lasaulce, Samson and Markey,
                         Nicolas},
  title =               {Strat{\'e}gies d'ordonnancement de consommation
                         d'{\'e}nergie en pr{\'e}sence d'information
                         imparfaite de pr{\'e}vision},
  booktitle =           {{A}ctes du 26{\`e}me {C}olloque du {G}roupe
                         d'{\'E}tudes du {T}raitement du {S}ignal et des
                         {I}mages ({GRETSI}'17)},
  acronym =             {{GRETSI}'17},
  year =                {2017},
  month =               sep,
  abstract =            {Energy consumption problems (e.g., electric vehicles
                         charging) are very related to communication
                         problems. The "water-filling" algorithm can be used,
                         but it is not robust w.r.t. the noise of the
                         "non-flexible", i.e. not-controllable, energy
                         consumption forecasting. We~propose a robust
                         algorithm using the probabilistic model-checker
                         PRISM, to exploit the idea of discretizing the
                         consumption action (as~for a modulation to small
                         constellation) and the dynamic structure of the
                         problem in a Markov-decision-process model.},
}
[GHP+17] Julian Gutierrez, Paul Harrenstein, Giuseppe Perelli, and Michael Wooldridge. Nash Equilibrium and Bisimulation Invariance. In CONCUR'17, Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics 85, pages 17:1-17:16. Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik, September 2017.
@inproceedings{concur2017-GHPW,
  author =              {Gutierrez, Julian and Harrenstein, Paul and Perelli,
                         Giuseppe and Wooldridge, Michael},
  title =               {{N}ash Equilibrium and Bisimulation Invariance},
  editor =              {Meyer, Roland and Nestmann, Uwe},
  booktitle =           {{P}roceedings of the 28th {I}nternational
                         {C}onference on {C}oncurrency {T}heory
                         ({CONCUR}'17)},
  acronym =             {{CONCUR}'17},
  publisher =           {Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  series =              {Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics},
  volume =              {85},
  pages =               {17:1-17:16},
  year =                {2017},
  month =               sep,
  doi =                 {10.4230/LIPIcs.CONCUR.2017.17},
}
[JBB+17] Swen Jacobs, Roderick Bloem, Romain Brenguier, Rüdiger Ehlers, Timotheus Hell, Robert Könighofer, Guillermo A. Pérez, Jean-François Raskin, Leonid Ryzhyk, Ocan Sankur, Martin Seidl, Leander Tentrup, and Adam Walker. The first reactive synthesis competition (SYNTCOMP 2014). International Journal on Software Tools for Technology Transfer 19(3):367-390. Springer-Verlag, June 2017.
@article{sttt19(3)-JBBEHKPRRSSTW,
  author =              {Jacobs, Swen and Bloem, Roderick and Brenguier,
                         Romain and Ehlers, R{\"u}diger and Hell, Timotheus
                         and K{\"o}nighofer, Robert and P{\'e}rez, Guillermo
                         A. and Raskin, Jean-Fran{\c c}ois and Ryzhyk, Leonid
                         and Sankur, Ocan and Seidl, Martin and Tentrup,
                         Leander and Walker, Adam},
  title =               {The first reactive synthesis competition
                         ({SYNTCOMP}~2014)},
  publisher =           {Springer-Verlag},
  journal =             {International Journal on Software Tools for
                         Technology Transfer},
  volume =              {19},
  number =              {3},
  pages =               {367-390},
  year =                {2017},
  month =               jun,
  doi =                 {10.1007/s10009-016-0416-3},
}
[MMP+17] Fabio Mogavero, Aniello Murano, Giuseppe Perelli, and Moshe Y. Vardi. Reasoning About Strategies: On the Satisfiability Problem. Logical Methods in Computer Science 13(1). March 2017.
@article{lmcs13(1)-MMPV,
  author =              {Mogavero, Fabio and Murano, Aniello and Perelli,
                         Giuseppe and Vardi, Moshe Y.},
  title =               {Reasoning About Strategies: On~the~Satisfiability
                         Problem},
  journal =             {Logical Methods in Computer Science},
  volume =              {13},
  number =              {1},
  year =                {2017},
  month =               mar,
  doi =                 {10.23638/LMCS-13(1:9)2017},
}
[RPV17] Nima Roohi, Pavithra Prabhakar, and Mahesh Viswanathan. Robust model checking of timed automata under clock drifts. In HSCC'17, pages 153-162. ACM Press, April 2017.
@inproceedings{hscc2017-RPV,
  author =              {Roohi, Nima and Prabhakar, Pavithra and Viswanathan,
                         Mahesh},
  title =               {Robust model checking of timed automata under clock
                         drifts},
  editor =              {Frehse, Goran and Mitra, Sayan},
  booktitle =           {{P}roceedings of the 20th {I}nternational {W}orkshop
                         on {H}ybrid {S}ystems: {C}omputation and {C}ontrol
                         ({HSCC}'14)},
  acronym =             {{HSCC}'17},
  publisher =           {ACM Press},
  pages =               {153-162},
  year =                {2017},
  month =               apr,
  doi =                 {10.1145/3049797.3049821},
}
[ST17] Ocan Sankur and Jean-Pierre Talpin. An Abstraction Technique For Parameterized Model Checking of Leader Election Protocols: Application to FTSP. In TACAS'17, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 10205. Springer-Verlag, April 2017.
@inproceedings{tacas2017-ST,
  author =              {Sankur, Ocan and Talpin, Jean-Pierre},
  title =               {An~Abstraction Technique For Parameterized Model
                         Checking of Leader Election Protocols: Application
                         to~{FTSP}},
  editor =              {Legay, Axel and Margaria, Tiziana},
  booktitle =           {{P}roceedings of the 23rd {I}nternational
                         {C}onference on {T}ools and {A}lgorithms for
                         {C}onstruction and {A}nalysis of {S}ystems
                         ({TACAS}'17)~-- {P}art~{I}},
  acronym =             {{TACAS}'17},
  publisher =           {Springer-Verlag},
  series =              {Lecture Notes in Computer Science},
  volume =              {10205},
  year =                {2017},
  month =               apr,
  doi =                 {10.1007/978-3-662-54577-5_2},
}
[Sta17] Daniel Stan. Randomized strategies in concurrent games. Thèse de doctorat, Lab. Spécification & Vérification, ENS Cachan, France, March 2017.
@phdthesis{phd-stan,
  author =              {Stan, Daniel},
  title =               {Randomized strategies in concurrent games},
  year =                {2017},
  month =               mar,
  school =              {Lab.~Sp\'ecification \& V\'erification, ENS Cachan,
                         France},
  type =                {Th\`ese de doctorat},
}
[TM17] Tamás Tóth and István Majzik. Lazy reachability checking for timed automata using interpolants. In FORMATS'17, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 10419, pages 264-280. Springer-Verlag, September 2017.
@inproceedings{formats2017-TM,
  author =              {T{\'o}th, Tam{\'a}s and Majzik, Istv{\'a}n},
  title =               {Lazy reachability checking for timed automata using
                         interpolants},
  editor =              {Abate, Alessandro and Geeraerts, Gilles},
  booktitle =           {{P}roceedings of the 15th {I}nternational
                         {C}onferences on {F}ormal {M}odelling and {A}nalysis
                         of {T}imed {S}ystems ({FORMATS}'17)},
  acronym =             {{FORMATS}'17},
  publisher =           {Springer-Verlag},
  series =              {Lecture Notes in Computer Science},
  volume =              {10419},
  pages =               {264-280},
  year =                {2017},
  month =               sep,
  doi =                 {10.1007/978-3-319-65765-3_15},
}
2016
[BGM16] Patricia Bouyer, Patrick Gardy, and Nicolas Markey. On the semantics of Strategy Logic. Information Processing Letters 116(2):75-79. Elsevier, February 2016.
Abstract

We define and study a slight variation on the semantics of Strategy Logic: while in the classical semantics, all strategies are shifted during the evaluation of temporal modalities, we propose to only shift the strategies that have been assigned to a player, thus matching the intuition that we can assign the very same strategy to the players at different points in time. We prove that surprisingly, this renders the model-checking problem undecidable.

@article{ipl116(2)-BGM,
  author =              {Bouyer, Patricia and Gardy, Patrick and Markey,
                         Nicolas},
  title =               {On the semantics of Strategy Logic},
  publisher =           {Elsevier},
  journal =             {Information Processing Letters},
  volume =              {116},
  number =              {2},
  pages =               {75-79},
  year =                {2016},
  month =               feb,
  doi =                 {10.1016/j.ipl.2015.10.004},
  abstract =            {We define and study a slight variation on the
                         semantics of Strategy Logic: while in the classical
                         semantics, all strategies are shifted during the
                         evaluation of temporal modalities, we propose to
                         only shift the strategies that have been assigned to
                         a player, thus matching the intuition that we can
                         assign the very same strategy to the players at
                         different points in time. We prove that
                         surprisingly, this renders the model-checking
                         problem undecidable.},
}
[BCM16] Patricia Bouyer, Maximilien Colange, and Nicolas Markey. Symbolic Optimal Reachability in Weighted Timed Automata. In CAV'16, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 9779, pages 513-530. Springer-Verlag, July 2016.
Abstract

Weighted timed automata have been defined in the early 2000's for modelling resource-consumption or -allocation problems in real-time systems. Optimal reachability is decidable in weighted timed automata, and a symbolic forward algorithm has been developed to solve that problem. This algorithm uses so-called priced zones, an extension of standard zones with cost functions. In order to ensure termination, the algorithm requires clocks to be bounded. For unpriced timed automata, much work has been done to develop sound abstractions adapted to the forward exploration of timed automata, ensuring termination of the model-checking algorithm without bounding the clocks. In this paper, we take advantage of recent developments on abstractions for timed automata, and propose an algorithm allowing for symbolic analysis of all weighted timed automata, without requiring bounded clocks.

@inproceedings{cav2016-BCM,
  author =              {Bouyer, Patricia and Colange, Maximilien and Markey,
                         Nicolas},
  title =               {Symbolic Optimal Reachability in Weighted Timed
                         Automata},
  editor =              {Chaudhuri, Swarat and Farzan, Azadeh},
  booktitle =           {{P}roceedings of the 28th {I}nternational
                         {C}onference on {C}omputer {A}ided {V}erification
                         ({CAV}'16)},
  acronym =             {{CAV}'16},
  publisher =           {Springer-Verlag},
  series =              {Lecture Notes in Computer Science},
  volume =              {9779},
  pages =               {513-530},
  year =                {2016},
  month =               jul,
  doi =                 {10.1007/978-3-319-41528-4_28},
  url =                 {http://arxiv.org/abs/1602.00481},
  abstract =            {Weighted timed automata have been defined in the
                         early 2000's for modelling resource-consumption or
                         -allocation problems in real-time systems. Optimal
                         reachability is decidable in weighted timed
                         automata, and a symbolic forward algorithm has been
                         developed to solve that problem. This algorithm uses
                         so-called priced zones, an extension of standard
                         zones with cost functions. In order to ensure
                         termination, the algorithm requires clocks to be
                         bounded. For unpriced timed automata, much work has
                         been done to develop sound abstractions adapted to
                         the forward exploration of timed automata, ensuring
                         termination of the model-checking algorithm without
                         bounding the clocks. In this paper, we take
                         advantage of recent developments on abstractions for
                         timed automata, and propose an algorithm allowing
                         for symbolic analysis of all weighted timed
                         automata, without requiring bounded clocks.},
}
[BMR+16] Patricia Bouyer, Nicolas Markey, Mickael Randour, Arnaud Sangnier, and Daniel Stan. Reachability in Networks of Register Protocols under Stochastic Schedulers. In ICALP'16, Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics 55, pages 106:1-106:14. Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik, July 2016.
Abstract

We study the almost-sure reachability problem in a distributed system obtained as the asynchronous composition of N copies (called processes) of the same automaton (called protocol), that can communicate via a shared register with finite domain. The automaton has two types of transitions: write-transitions update the value of the register, while read-transitions move to a new state depending on the content of the register. Non-determinism is resolved by a stochastic scheduler. Given a protocol, we focus on almost-sure reachability of a target state by one of the processes. The answer to this problem naturally depends on the number N of processes. However, we prove that our setting has a cut-off property : the answer to the almost-sure reachability problem is constant when N is large enough; we then develop an EXPSPACE algorithm deciding whether this constant answer is positive or negative.

@inproceedings{icalp2016-BMRSS,
  author =              {Bouyer, Patricia and Markey, Nicolas and Randour,
                         Mickael and Sangnier, Arnaud and Stan, Daniel},
  title =               {Reachability in Networks of Register Protocols under
                         Stochastic Schedulers},
  editor =              {Chatzigiannakis, Ioannis and Mitzenmacher, Michael
                         and Rabani, Yuval and Sangiorgi, Davide},
  booktitle =           {{P}roceedings of the 43rd {I}nternational
                         {C}olloquium on {A}utomata, {L}anguages and
                         {P}rogramming ({ICALP}'16)~-- Part~{II}},
  acronym =             {{ICALP}'16},
  publisher =           {Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  series =              {Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics},
  volume =              {55},
  pages =               {106:1-106:14},
  year =                {2016},
  month =               jul,
  doi =                 {10.4230/LIPIcs.ICALP.2016.106},
  abstract =            {We study the almost-sure reachability problem in a
                         distributed system obtained as the asynchronous
                         composition of~\(N\) copies (called
                         \emph{processes}) of the same automaton (called
                         \emph{protocol}), that can communicate via a shared
                         register with finite domain. The automaton has two
                         types of transitions: write-transitions update the
                         value of the register, while read-transitions move
                         to a new state depending on the content of the
                         register. Non-determinism is resolved by a
                         stochastic scheduler. Given a protocol, we focus on
                         almost-sure reachability of a target state by one of
                         the processes. The answer to this problem naturally
                         depends on the number~\(N\) of processes. However,
                         we prove that our setting has a cut-off property :
                         the answer to the almost-sure reachability problem
                         is constant when \(N\) is large enough; we~then
                         develop an EXPSPACE algorithm deciding whether this
                         constant answer is positive or negative.},
}
[BMS16] Patricia Bouyer, Nicolas Markey, and Daniel Stan. Stochastic Equilibria under Imprecise Deviations in Terminal-Reward Concurrent Games. In GandALF'16, Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science 226, pages 61-75. September 2016.
Abstract

We study the existence of mixed-strategy equilibria in concurrent games played on graphs. While existence is guaranteed with safety objectives for each player, Nash equilibria need not exist when players are given arbitrary terminal-reward objectives, and their existence is undecidable with qualitative reachability objectives (and only three players). However, these results rely on the fact that the players can enforce infinite plays while trying to improve their payoffs. In this paper, we introduce a relaxed notion of equilibria, where deviations are imprecise. We prove that contrary to Nash equilibria, such (stationary) equilibria always exist, and we develop a PSPACE algorithm to compute one.

@inproceedings{gandalf2016-BMS,
  author =              {Bouyer, Patricia and Markey, Nicolas and Stan,
                         Daniel},
  title =               {Stochastic Equilibria under Imprecise Deviations in
                         Terminal-Reward Concurrent Games},
  editor =              {Cantone, Domenico and Delzanno, Giorgio},
  booktitle =           {{P}roceedings of the 7th {I}nternational {S}ymposium
                         on {G}ames, {A}utomata, {L}ogics and {F}ormal
                         {V}erification ({GandALF}'16)},
  acronym =             {{GandALF}'16},
  series =              {Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer
                         Science},
  volume =              {226},
  pages =               {61-75},
  year =                {2016},
  month =               sep,
  doi =                 {10.4204/EPTCS.226.5},
  abstract =            {We study the existence of mixed-strategy equilibria
                         in concurrent games played on graphs. While
                         existence is guaranteed with safety objectives for
                         each player, Nash equilibria need not exist when
                         players are given arbitrary terminal-reward
                         objectives, and their existence is undecidable with
                         qualitative reachability objectives (and~only three
                         players). However, these results rely on the fact
                         that the players can enforce infinite plays while
                         trying to improve their payoffs. In this paper, we
                         introduce a relaxed notion of equilibria, where
                         deviations are imprecise. We prove that contrary to
                         Nash equilibria, such (stationary) equilibria always
                         exist, and we develop a PSPACE algorithm to compute
                         one.},
}
[DLM16] Amélie David, François Laroussinie, and Nicolas Markey. On the expressiveness of QCTL. In CONCUR'16, Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics 59, pages 28:1-28:15. Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik, August 2016.
Abstract

QCTL extends the temporal logic CTL with quantification over atomic propositions. While the algorithmic questions for QCTL and its fragments with limited quantification depth are well-understood (e.g. satisfiability of QCTLk, with at most k nested blocks of quantifiers, is k+1-EXPTIME-complete), very few results are known about the expressiveness of this logic. We address such expressiveness questions in this paper. We first consider the distinguishing power of these logics (i.e., their ability to separate models), their relationship with behavioural equivalences, and their ability to capture the behaviours of finite Kripke structures with so-called characteristic formulas. We then consider their expressive power (i.e., their ability to express a property), showing that in terms of expressiveness the hierarchy QCTLk collapses at level 2 (in other terms, any QCTL formula can be expressed using at most two nested blocks of quantifiers).

@inproceedings{concur2016-DLM,
  author =              {David, Am{\'e}lie and Laroussinie, Fran{\c c}ois and
                         Markey, Nicolas},
  title =               {On~the expressiveness of~{QCTL}},
  editor =              {Desharnais, Jules and Jagadeesan, Radha},
  booktitle =           {{P}roceedings of the 27th {I}nternational
                         {C}onference on {C}oncurrency {T}heory
                         ({CONCUR}'16)},
  acronym =             {{CONCUR}'16},
  publisher =           {Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  series =              {Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics},
  volume =              {59},
  pages =               {28:1-28:15},
  year =                {2016},
  month =               aug,
  doi =                 {10.4230/LIPIcs.CONCUR.2016.28},
  abstract =            {QCTL extends the temporal logic CTL with
                         quantification over atomic propositions. While the
                         algorithmic questions for QCTL and its fragments
                         with limited quantification depth are
                         well-understood (e.g. satisfiability of
                         QCTL\textsuperscript{\(k\)}, with at most \(k\)
                         nested blocks of quantifiers, is
                         \(k+1\)-EXPTIME-complete), very few results are
                         known about the expressiveness of this logic.
                         We~address such expressiveness questions in this
                         paper. We first consider the \emph{distinguishing
                         power} of these logics (i.e.,~their ability to
                         separate models), their relationship with
                         behavioural equivalences, and their ability to
                         capture the behaviours of finite Kripke structures
                         with so-called characteristic formulas. We then
                         consider their \emph{expressive power} (i.e.,~their
                         ability to express a property), showing that in
                         terms of expressiveness the hierarchy
                         QCTL\textsuperscript{\(k\)} collapses at level~2
                         (in~other terms, any~QCTL formula can be expressed
                         using at most two nested blocks of quantifiers).},
}
[FKM16] Laurent Fribourg, Ulrich Kühne, and Nicolas Markey. Game-based Synthesis of Distributed Controllers for Sampled Switched Systems. In SynCoP'15, OpenAccess Series in Informatics 44, pages 47-61. Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik, April 2016.
Abstract

Switched systems are a convenient formalism for modeling physical processes interacting with a digital controller. Unfortunately, the formalism does not capture the distributed nature encountered e.g. in cyber-physical systems, which are organized as networks of elements interacting with each other and with local controllers. Most current methods for control synthesis can only produce a centralized controller, which is assumed to have complete knowledge of all the component states and can interact with all of them. In this paper, we consider a controller synthesis method based on state space decomposition, and propose a game-based approach in order to extend it within a distributed framework.

@inproceedings{syncop2015-FKM,
  author =              {Fribourg, Laurent and K{\"u}hne, Ulrich and Markey,
                         Nicolas},
  title =               {Game-based Synthesis of Distributed Controllers for
                         Sampled Switched Systems},
  editor =              {Andr{\'e}, {\'E}tienne and Frehse, Goran},
  booktitle =           {{P}roceedings of the 2nd {I}nternational {W}orkshop
                         on {S}ynthesis of {C}omplex {P}arameters
                         ({S}yn{C}o{P}'15)},
  acronym =             {{S}yn{C}o{P}'15},
  publisher =           {Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  series =              {OpenAccess Series in Informatics},
  volume =              {44},
  pages =               {47-61},
  year =                {2016},
  month =               apr,
  doi =                 {10.4230/OASIcs.SynCoP.2015.48},
  abstract =            {Switched systems are a convenient formalism for
                         modeling physical processes interacting with a
                         digital controller. Unfortunately, the formalism
                         does not capture the distributed nature encountered
                         e.g. in cyber-physical systems, which are organized
                         as networks of elements interacting with each other
                         and with local controllers. Most current methods for
                         control synthesis can only produce a centralized
                         controller, which is assumed to have complete
                         knowledge of all the component states and can
                         interact with all of them. In~this paper,
                         we~consider a controller synthesis method based on
                         state space decomposition, and propose a game-based
                         approach in order to extend it within a distributed
                         framework.},
}
[LFM+16] Adrien Le Coënt, Laurent Fribourg, Nicolas Markey, Florian De Vuyst, and Ludovic Chamoin. Distributed Synthesis of State-Dependent Switching Control. In RP'16, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 9899, pages 119-133. Springer-Verlag, September 2016.
Abstract

We present a correct-by-design method of state-dependent control synthesis for linear discrete-time switching systems. Given an objective region R of the state space, the method builds a capture set S and a control which steers any element of S into R. The method works by iterated backward reachability from R. More precisely, S is given as a parametric extension of R, and the maximum value of the parameter is solved by linear programming. The method can also be used to synthesize a stability control which maintains indefinitely within R all the states starting at R. We explain how the synthesis method can be performed in a distributed manner. The method has been implemented and successfully applied to the synthesis of a distributed control of a concrete floor heating system with 11 rooms and 211 = 2048 switching modes.

@inproceedings{rp2016-LFMDC,
  author =              {Le{~}Co{\"e}nt, Adrien and Fribourg, Laurent and
                         Markey, Nicolas and De{~}Vuyst, Florian and Chamoin,
                         Ludovic},
  title =               {Distributed Synthesis of State-Dependent Switching
                         Control},
  editor =              {Larsen, Kim Guldstrand and Srba, Ji{\v r}{\'\i}},
  booktitle =           {{P}roceedings of the 10th {W}orkshop on
                         {R}eachability {P}roblems in {C}omputational
                         {M}odels ({RP}'16)},
  acronym =             {{RP}'16},
  publisher =           {Springer-Verlag},
  series =              {Lecture Notes in Computer Science},
  volume =              {9899},
  pages =               {119-133},
  year =                {2016},
  month =               sep,
  doi =                 {10.1007/978-3-319-45994-3_9},
  abstract =            {We present a correct-by-design method of
                         state-dependent control synthesis for linear
                         discrete-time switching systems. Given an objective
                         region~\(R\) of the state space, the method builds a
                         capture set~\(S\) and a control which steers any
                         element of~\(S\) into~\(R\). The method works by
                         iterated backward reachability from~\(R\). More
                         precisely, \(S\)~is given as a parametric extension
                         of~\(R\), and the maximum value of the parameter is
                         solved by linear programming. The method can also be
                         used to synthesize a stability control which
                         maintains indefinitely within~\(R\) all the states
                         starting at~\(R\). We~explain how the synthesis
                         method can be performed in a distributed manner. The
                         method has been implemented and successfully applied
                         to the synthesis of a distributed control of a
                         concrete floor heating system with 11 rooms and
                         \(2^{11} = 2048\) switching modes.},
}
[BDJ+16] Thomas Brihaye, Benoît Delahaye, Loïg Jezequel, Nicolas Markey, and Jiří Srba (eds.) Proceedings of the Cassting Workshop on Games for the Synthesis of Complex Systems (Cassting'16) and of the 3rd International Workshop on Synthesis of Complex Parameters (SynCoP'16). Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science 220. July 2016.
@proceedings{cassting-syncop2016-DJMS,
  title =               {{P}roceedings of the {C}assting Workshop on {G}ames
                         for the {S}ynthesis of {C}omplex {S}ystems
                         ({C}assting'16) and of the 3rd {I}nternational
                         {W}orkshop on {S}ynthesis of {C}omplex {P}arameters
                         ({S}yn{C}o{P}'16)},
  editor =              {Brihaye, {\relax Th}omas and Delahaye, Beno{\^\i}t
                         and Jezequel, Lo{\"\i}g and Markey, Nicolas and
                         Srba, Ji{\v r}{\'\i}},
  booktitle =           {{P}roceedings of the {C}assting Workshop on {G}ames
                         for the {S}ynthesis of {C}omplex {S}ystems
                         ({C}assting'16) and of the 3rd {I}nternational
                         {W}orkshop on {S}ynthesis of {C}omplex {P}arameters
                         ({S}yn{C}o{P}'16)},
  acronym =             {{C}assting{{\slash}}{S}yn{C}o{P}'16},
  series =              {Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer
                         Science},
  volume =              {220},
  year =                {2016},
  month =               jul,
  confyear =            {2016},
  confmonth =           {4},
  doi =                 {10.4204/EPTCS.220},
  url =                 {http://eptcs.web.cse.unsw.edu.au/
                         content.cgi?CASSTINGSynCoP2016},
}
[FM16] Martin Fränzle and Nicolas Markey (eds.) Proceedings of the 14th International Conferences on Formal Modelling and Analysis of Timed Systems (FORMATS'16). Lecture Notes in Computer Science 9884. Springer-Verlag, August 2016.
@proceedings{formats2016-FM,
  title =               {{P}roceedings of the 14th {I}nternational
                         {C}onferences on {F}ormal {M}odelling and {A}nalysis
                         of {T}imed {S}ystems ({FORMATS}'16)},
  editor =              {Fr{\"a}nzle, Martin and Markey, Nicolas},
  booktitle =           {{P}roceedings of the 14th {I}nternational
                         {C}onferences on {F}ormal {M}odelling and {A}nalysis
                         of {T}imed {S}ystems ({FORMATS}'16)},
  acronym =             {{FORMATS}'16},
  publisher =           {Springer-Verlag},
  series =              {Lecture Notes in Computer Science},
  volume =              {9884},
  year =                {2016},
  month =               aug,
  doi =                 {10.1007/978-3-319-44878-7},
  url =                 {http://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-319-44878-7},
}
[ABB+16] José Bacelar Almeida, Manuel Barbosa, Gilles Barthe, François Dupressoir, and Michael Emmi. Verifying Constant-Time Implementations. In USENIX Security'16, pages 53-70. Usenix Association, August 2016.
@inproceedings{usenixsec2016-ABBDE,
  author =              {Almeida, Jos{\'e} Bacelar and Barbosa, Manuel and
                         Barthe, Gilles and Dupressoir, Fran{\c c}ois and
                         Emmi, Michael},
  title =               {Verifying Constant-Time Implementations},
  editor =              {Holz, Thorsten and Savage, Stefan},
  booktitle =           {{P}roceedings of the 25th {USENIX} {S}ecurity
                         {S}ymposium ({USENIX} {S}ecurity'16)},
  acronym =             {{USENIX} {S}ecurity'16},
  publisher =           {Usenix Association},
  pages =               {53-70},
  year =                {2016},
  month =               aug,
}
[ABK16] Shaull Almagor, Udi Boker, and Orna Kupferman. Formally Reasoning about Quality. Journal of the ACM 63(3):24:1-24:56. ACM Press, September 2016.
@article{jacm63(3)-ABK,
  author =              {Almagor, Shaull and Boker, Udi and Kupferman, Orna},
  title =               {Formally Reasoning about Quality},
  publisher =           {ACM Press},
  journal =             {Journal of the~ACM},
  volume =              {63},
  number =              {3},
  pages =               {24:1-24:56},
  year =                {2016},
  month =               sep,
  doi =                 {10.1145/2875421},
}
[AGK16] S. Akshay, Paul Gastin, and Shankara Narayanan Krishna. Analyzing Timed Systems Using Tree Automata. In CONCUR'16, Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics 59, pages 27:1-27:14. Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik, August 2016.
@inproceedings{concur2016-AGK,
  author =              {Akshay, S. and Gastin, Paul and Krishna, Shankara
                         Narayanan},
  title =               {Analyzing Timed Systems Using Tree Automata},
  editor =              {Desharnais, Jules and Jagadeesan, Radha},
  booktitle =           {{P}roceedings of the 27th {I}nternational
                         {C}onference on {C}oncurrency {T}heory
                         ({CONCUR}'16)},
  acronym =             {{CONCUR}'16},
  publisher =           {Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  series =              {Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics},
  volume =              {59},
  pages =               {27:1-27:14},
  year =                {2016},
  month =               aug,
  doi =                 {10.4230/LIPIcs.CONCUR.2016.27},
}
[AHK16] Guy Avni, Thomas A. Henzinger, and Orna Kupferman. Dynamic Resource Allocation Games. In SAGT'16, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 9928, pages 153-166. Springer-Verlag, September 2016.
@inproceedings{sagt2016-AHK,
  author =              {Avni, Guy and Henzinger, Thomas A. and Kupferman,
                         Orna},
  title =               {Dynamic Resource Allocation Games},
  booktitle =           {{P}roceedings of the 9th {I}nternational {S}ymposium
                         on {A}lgorithmic {G}ame {T}heory ({SAGT}'16)},
  acronym =             {{SAGT}'16},
  publisher =           {Springer-Verlag},
  series =              {Lecture Notes in Computer Science},
  volume =              {9928},
  pages =               {153-166},
  year =                {2016},
  month =               sep,
  doi =                 {10.1007/978-3-662-53354-3_13},
}
[AJK16] Simon Außerlechner, Swen Jacobs, and Ayrat Khalimov. Tight Cutoffs for Guarded Protocols with Fairness. In VMCAI'16, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 9583, pages 476-494. Springer-Verlag, January 2016.
@inproceedings{vmcai2016-AJK,
  author =              {Au{\ss}erlechner, Simon and Jacobs, Swen and
                         Khalimov, Ayrat},
  title =               {Tight Cutoffs for Guarded Protocols with Fairness},
  editor =              {Jobstmann, Barbara and Leino, K. Rustan M.},
  booktitle =           {{P}roceedings of the 17th {I}nternational {W}orkshop
                         on {V}erification, {M}odel {C}hecking, and
                         {A}bstract {I}nterpretation ({VMCAI}'16)},
  acronym =             {{VMCAI}'16},
  publisher =           {Springer-Verlag},
  series =              {Lecture Notes in Computer Science},
  volume =              {9583},
  pages =               {476-494},
  year =                {2016},
  month =               jan,
  doi =                 {10.1007/978-3-662-49122-5_23},
}
[AK16] Shaull Almagor and Orna Kupferman. High-Quality Synthesis Against Stochastic Environments. In CSL'16, Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics 62, pages 28:1-28:17. Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik, September 2016.
@inproceedings{csl2016-AK,
  author =              {Almagor, Shaull and Kupferman, Orna},
  title =               {High-Quality Synthesis Against Stochastic
                         Environments},
  editor =              {Talbot, Jean-Marc and Regnier, Laurent},
  booktitle =           {{P}roceedings of the 25th {EACSL} {A}nnual
                         {C}onference on {C}omputer {S}cience {L}ogic
                         ({CSL}'16)},
  acronym =             {{CSL}'16},
  publisher =           {Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  series =              {Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics},
  volume =              {62},
  pages =               {28:1-28:17},
  year =                {2016},
  month =               sep,
  doi =                 {10.4230/LIPIcs.CSL.2016.28},
}
[AMM+16] Benjamin Aminof, Vadim Malvone, Aniello Murano, and Sasha Rubin. Graded Strategy Logic: Reasoning about Uniqueness of Nash Equilibria. In AAMAS'16, pages 698-706. International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, May 2016.
@inproceedings{aamas2016-AMMR,
  author =              {Aminof, Benjamin and Malvone, Vadim and Murano,
                         Aniello and Rubin, Sasha},
  title =               {Graded Strategy Logic: Reasoning about Uniqueness of
                         Nash Equilibria},
  editor =              {Jonker, Catholijn M. and Marsella, Stacy and
                         Thangarajah, John and Tuyls, Karl},
  booktitle =           {{P}roceedings of the 15th {I}nternational
                         {C}onference on {A}utonomous {A}gents and
                         {M}ultiagent {S}ystems ({AAMAS}'16)},
  acronym =             {{AAMAS}'16},
  publisher =           {International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and
                         Multiagent Systems},
  pages =               {698-706},
  year =                {2016},
  month =               may,
}
[BO16] Randal E. Bryant and David R. O'Hallaron. Computer Systems – A programmer's perspective. Pearson, 2016.
@book{BO16-CSAPP,
  author =              {Bryant, Randal E. and O'Hallaron, David R.},
  title =               {Computer Systems~-- A~programmer's perspective},
  publisher =           {Pearson},
  year =                {2016},
}
[BPR+16] Romain Brenguier, Guillermo A. Pérez, Jean-François Raskin, and Mathieu Sassolas. Admissibility in Quantitative Graph Games. In FSTTCS'16, Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics, pages 42:1-42:14. Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik, December 2016.
@inproceedings{fsttcs2016-BPRS,
  author =              {Brenguier, Romain and P{\'e}rez, Guillermo A. and
                         Raskin, Jean-Fran{\c c}ois and Sassolas, Mathieu},
  title =               {Admissibility in Quantitative Graph Games},
  editor =              {Akshay, S. and Lal, Akash and Saurabh, Saket and
                         Sen, Sandeep},
  booktitle =           {{P}roceedings of the 36th {C}onference on
                         {F}oundations of {S}oftware {T}echnology and
                         {T}heoretical {C}omputer {S}cience ({FSTTCS}'16)},
  acronym =             {{FSTTCS}'16},
  publisher =           {Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  series =              {Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics},
  pages =               {42:1-42:14},
  year =                {2016},
  month =               dec,
  doi =                 {10.4230/LIPIcs.FSTTCS.2016.42},
}
[Bre16] Romain Brenguier. Optimal Assumptions for Synthesis. In CONCUR'16, Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics 59, pages 8:1-8:15. Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik, August 2016.
@inproceedings{concur2016-Bre,
  author =              {Brenguier, Romain},
  title =               {Optimal Assumptions for Synthesis},
  editor =              {Desharnais, Jules and Jagadeesan, Radha},
  booktitle =           {{P}roceedings of the 27th {I}nternational
                         {C}onference on {C}oncurrency {T}heory
                         ({CONCUR}'16)},
  acronym =             {{CONCUR}'16},
  publisher =           {Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  series =              {Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics},
  volume =              {59},
  pages =               {8:1-8:15},
  year =                {2016},
  month =               aug,
  doi =                 {10.4230/LIPIcs.CONCUR.2016.8},
}
[CD16] Krishnendu Chatterjee and Laurent Doyen. Computation Tree Logic for Synchronization Properties. In ICALP'16, Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics 55, pages 98:1-98:14. Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik, July 2016.
@inproceedings{icalp2016-CD,
  author =              {Chatterjee, Krishnendu and Doyen, Laurent},
  title =               {Computation Tree Logic for Synchronization
                         Properties},
  editor =              {Chatzigiannakis, Ioannis and Mitzenmacher, Michael
                         and Rabani, Yuval and Sangiorgi, Davide},
  booktitle =           {{P}roceedings of the 43rd {I}nternational
                         {C}olloquium on {A}utomata, {L}anguages and
                         {P}rogramming ({ICALP}'16)~-- Part~{II}},
  acronym =             {{ICALP}'16},
  publisher =           {Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  series =              {Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics},
  volume =              {55},
  pages =               {98:1-98:14},
  year =                {2016},
  month =               jul,
  doi =                 {10.4230/LIPIcs.ICALP.2016.98},
}
[CFG+16] Rodica Condurache, Emmanuel Filiot, Raffaella Gentilini, and Jean-François Raskin. The Complexity of Rational Synthesis. In ICALP'16, Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics 55, pages 121:1-121:15. Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik, July 2016.
@inproceedings{icalp2016-CFGR,
  author =              {Condurache, Rodica and Filiot, Emmanuel and
                         Gentilini, Raffaella and Raskin, Jean-Fran{\c c}ois},
  title =               {The Complexity of Rational Synthesis},
  editor =              {Chatzigiannakis, Ioannis and Mitzenmacher, Michael
                         and Rabani, Yuval and Sangiorgi, Davide},
  booktitle =           {{P}roceedings of the 43rd {I}nternational
                         {C}olloquium on {A}utomata, {L}anguages and
                         {P}rogramming ({ICALP}'16)~-- Part~{II}},
  acronym =             {{ICALP}'16},
  publisher =           {Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  series =              {Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics},
  volume =              {55},
  pages =               {121:1-121:15},
  year =                {2016},
  month =               jul,
  doi =                 {10.4230/LIPIcs.ICALP.2016.121},
}
[DLF+16] Alexandre Duret-Lutz, Alexandre Lewkowicz, Amaury Fauchille, Thibault Michaud, Étienne Renault, and Laurent Xu. Spot 2.0 – A Framework for LTL and ω-Automata Manipulation. In ATVA'16, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 9938, pages 122-129. Springer-Verlag, October 2016.
@inproceedings{atva2016-DLFMRX,
  author =              {Duret{-}Lutz, Alexandre and Lewkowicz, Alexandre and
                         Fauchille, Amaury and Michaud, Thibault and Renault,
                         {\'E}tienne and Xu, Laurent},
  title =               {Spot~2.0~-- {A}~Framework for {LTL} and
                         {{\(\omega\)}}-Automata Manipulation},
  editor =              {Artho, Cyrille and Legay, Axel and Peled, Doron A.},
  booktitle =           {{P}roceedings of the 14th {I}nternational
                         {S}ymposium on {A}utomated {T}echnology for
                         {V}erification and {A}nalysis ({ATVA}'16)},
  acronym =             {{ATVA}'16},
  publisher =           {Springer-Verlag},
  series =              {Lecture Notes in Computer Science},
  volume =              {9938},
  pages =               {122-129},
  year =                {2016},
  month =               oct,
  doi =                 {10.1007/978-3-319-46520-3_8},
}
[EGL+16] Javier Esparza, Pierre Ganty, Jérôme Leroux, and Rupak Majumdar. Model checking Population Protocols. In FSTTCS'16, Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics, pages 27:1-27:14. Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik, December 2016.
@inproceedings{fsttcs2016-EGLM,
  author =              {Esparza, Javier and Ganty, Pierre and Leroux,
                         J{\'e}r{\^o}me and Majumdar, Rupak},
  title =               {Model checking Population Protocols},
  editor =              {Akshay, S. and Lal, Akash and Saurabh, Saket and
                         Sen, Sandeep},
  booktitle =           {{P}roceedings of the 36th {C}onference on
                         {F}oundations of {S}oftware {T}echnology and
                         {T}heoretical {C}omputer {S}cience ({FSTTCS}'16)},
  acronym =             {{FSTTCS}'16},
  publisher =           {Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  series =              {Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics},
  pages =               {27:1-27:14},
  year =                {2016},
  month =               dec,
  doi =                 {10.4230/LIPIcs.FSTTCS.2016.27},
}
[FJM+16] Yliès Falcone, Thierry Jéron, Hervé Marchand, and Srinivas Pinisetty. Runtime enforcement of regular timed properties by suppressing and delaying events. Science of Computer Programming 123:2-41. Elsevier, July 2016.
@article{scp123()-FJMP,
  author =              {Falcone, Yli{\`e}s and J{\'e}ron, Thierry and
                         Marchand, Herv{\'e} and Pinisetty, Srinivas},
  title =               {Runtime enforcement of regular timed properties by
                         suppressing and delaying events},
  publisher =           {Elsevier},
  journal =             {Science of Computer Programming},
  volume =              {123},
  pages =               {2-41},
  year =                {2016},
  month =               jul,
  doi =                 {10.1016/j.scico.2016.02.008},
}
[HK16] Loïc Hélouët and Karim Kecir. Realizability of Schedules by Stochastic Time Petri Nets with Blocking Semantics. In PETRI NETS'16, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 9698, pages 155-175. Springer-Verlag, June 2016.
@inproceedings{pn2016-HK,
  author =              {H{\'e}lou{\"e}t, Lo{\"\i}c and Kecir, Karim},
  title =               {Realizability of Schedules by Stochastic Time
                         {P}etri Nets with Blocking Semantics},
  editor =              {Kordon, Fabrice and Moldt, Daniel},
  booktitle =           {{P}roceedings of the 37th {I}nternational
                         {C}onference on {A}pplications and {T}heory of
                         {P}etri Nets and {C}oncurrency ({PETRI NETS}'16)},
  acronym =             {{PETRI~NETS}'16},
  publisher =           {Springer-Verlag},
  series =              {Lecture Notes in Computer Science},
  volume =              {9698},
  pages =               {155-175},
  year =                {2016},
  month =               jun,
  doi =                 {10.1007/978-3-319-39086-4_11},
}
[HST+16] Frédéric Herbreteau, B. Srivathsan, Thanh-Tung Tran, and Igor Walukiewicz. Why liveness for timed automata is hard, and what we can do about it. In FSTTCS'16, Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics, pages 48:1-48:14. Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik, December 2016.
@inproceedings{fsttcs2016-HSTW,
  author =              {Herbreteau, Fr{\'e}d{\'e}ric and Srivathsan, B. and
                         Tran, Thanh-Tung and Walukiewicz, Igor},
  title =               {Why liveness for timed automata is hard, and what we
                         can do about~it},
  editor =              {Akshay, S. and Lal, Akash and Saurabh, Saket and
                         Sen, Sandeep},
  booktitle =           {{P}roceedings of the 36th {C}onference on
                         {F}oundations of {S}oftware {T}echnology and
                         {T}heoretical {C}omputer {S}cience ({FSTTCS}'16)},
  acronym =             {{FSTTCS}'16},
  publisher =           {Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  series =              {Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics},
  pages =               {48:1-48:14},
  year =                {2016},
  month =               dec,
  doi =                 {10.4230/LIPIcs.FSTTCS.2016.48},
}
[HSW16] Frédéric Herbreteau, B. Srivathsan, and Igor Walukiewicz. Efficient emptiness check for timed Büchi automata. Information and Computation 251:67-90. Elsevier, December 2016.
@article{icomp251()-HSW,
  author =              {Herbreteau, Fr{\'e}d{\'e}ric and Srivathsan, B. and
                         Walukiewicz, Igor},
  title =               {Efficient emptiness check for timed {B}{\"u}chi
                         automata},
  publisher =           {Elsevier},
  journal =             {Information and Computation},
  volume =              {251},
  pages =               {67-90},
  year =                {2016},
  month =               dec,
  doi =                 {10.1016/j.ic.2016.07.004},
}
[JKP16] Wojciech Jamroga, Beata Konikowska, and Wojciech Penczek. Multi-Valued Verification of Strategic Ability. In AAMAS'16, pages 1180-1189. International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, May 2016.
@inproceedings{aamas2016-JKP,
  author =              {Jamroga, Wojciech and Konikowska, Beata and Penczek,
                         Wojciech},
  title =               {Multi-Valued Verification of Strategic Ability},
  editor =              {Jonker, Catholijn M. and Marsella, Stacy and
                         Thangarajah, John and Tuyls, Karl},
  booktitle =           {{P}roceedings of the 15th {I}nternational
                         {C}onference on {A}utonomous {A}gents and
                         {M}ultiagent {S}ystems ({AAMAS}'16)},
  acronym =             {{AAMAS}'16},
  publisher =           {International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and
                         Multiagent Systems},
  pages =               {1180-1189},
  year =                {2016},
  month =               may,
}
[KMP16] Shankara Narayanan Krishna, Khushraj Madnani, and Paritosh K. Pandya. Metric Temporal Logic with Counting. In FoSSaCS'16, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 9634, pages 335-352. Springer-Verlag, April 2016.
@inproceedings{fossacs2016-KMP,
  author =              {Krishna, Shankara Narayanan and Madnani, Khushraj
                         and Pandya, Paritosh K.},
  title =               {Metric Temporal Logic with Counting},
  editor =              {Jacobs, Bart and L{\"o}ding, Christof},
  booktitle =           {{P}roceedings of the 19th {I}nternational
                         {C}onference on {F}oundations of {S}oftware
                         {S}cience and {C}omputation {S}tructure
                         ({FoSSaCS}'16)},
  acronym =             {{FoSSaCS}'16},
  publisher =           {Springer-Verlag},
  series =              {Lecture Notes in Computer Science},
  volume =              {9634},
  pages =               {335-352},
  year =                {2016},
  month =               apr,
  doi =                 {10.1007/978-3-662-49630-5_20},
}
[KPV16] Orna Kupferman, Giuseppe Perelli, and Moshe Y. Vardi. Synthesis with rational environments. Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence 78(1):3-20. Kluwer Academic, September 2016.
@article{amai78(1)-KPV,
  author =              {Kupferman, Orna and Perelli, Giuseppe and Vardi,
                         Moshe Y.},
  title =               {Synthesis with rational environments},
  publisher =           {Kluwer Academic},
  journal =             {Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence},
  volume =              {78},
  number =              {1},
  pages =               {3-20},
  year =                {2016},
  month =               sep,
  doi =                 {10.1007/s10472-016-9508-8},
}
[LR16] Anthony W. Lin and Philipp Rümmer. Liveness of Randomised Parameterised Systems under Arbitrary Schedulers. In CAV'16, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 9779, pages 112-133. Springer-Verlag, July 2016.
@inproceedings{cav2016-LR,
  author =              {Lin, Anthony W. and R{\"u}mmer, Philipp},
  title =               {Liveness of Randomised Parameterised Systems under
                         Arbitrary Schedulers},
  editor =              {Chaudhuri, Swarat and Farzan, Azadeh},
  booktitle =           {{P}roceedings of the 28th {I}nternational
                         {C}onference on {C}omputer {A}ided {V}erification
                         ({CAV}'16)},
  acronym =             {{CAV}'16},
  publisher =           {Springer-Verlag},
  series =              {Lecture Notes in Computer Science},
  volume =              {9779},
  pages =               {112-133},
  year =                {2016},
  month =               jul,
  doi =                 {10.1007/978-3-319-41540-6_7},
}
[PPT+16] Srinivas Pinisetty, Viorel Preoteasa, Stavros Tripakis, Thierry Jéron, Yliès Falcone, and Hervé Marchand. Predictive Runtime Enforcement. In SAC'16, pages 1628-1633. ACM Press, April 2016.
@inproceedings{sac2016-PPTJFM,
  author =              {Pinisetty, Srinivas and Preoteasa, Viorel and
                         Tripakis, Stavros and J{\'e}ron, Thierry and
                         Falcone, Yli{\`e}s and Marchand, Herv{\'e}},
  title =               {Predictive Runtime Enforcement},
  editor =              {Ossowski, Sascha},
  booktitle =           {{P}roceedings of the 31st {A}nnual {ACM} {S}ymposium
                         on {A}pplied {C}omputing ({SAC}'16)},
  acronym =             {{SAC}'16},
  publisher =           {ACM Press},
  pages =               {1628-1633},
  year =                {2016},
  month =               apr,
  doi =                 {10.1145/2851613.2851827},
}
[PS16] Nicolas Perrin and Philipp Schlehuber-Caissier. Fast diffeomorphic matching to learn globally asymptotically stable nonlinear dynamical systems. Systems & Control Letters 96:51-59. Elsevier, October 2016.
@article{scl96()-PS,
  author =              {Perrin, Nicolas and Schlehuber{-}Caissier, Philipp},
  title =               {Fast diffeomorphic matching to learn globally
                         asymptotically stable nonlinear dynamical systems},
  publisher =           {Elsevier},
  journal =             {Systems~\& Control Letters},
  volume =              {96},
  pages =               {51-59},
  year =                {2016},
  month =               oct,
  doi =                 {10.1016/j.sysconle.2016.06.018},
}
[Rei16] Julien Reichert. On The Complexity of Counter Reachability Games. Fundamenta Informaticae 143(3-4):415-436. IOS Press, 2016.
@article{fundi143(3-4)-Rei,
  author =              {Reichert, Julien},
  title =               {On The Complexity of Counter Reachability Games},
  publisher =           {IOS Press},
  journal =             {Fundamenta Informaticae},
  volume =              {143},
  number =              {3-4},
  pages =               {415-436},
  year =                {2016},
  doi =                 {10.3233/FI-2016-1320},
}
[Sch16] Sylvain Schmitz. Complexity Hierarchies Beyond Elementary. ACM Transactions on Computation Theory 8(1):3:1-3:36. ACM Press, February 2016.
@article{toct8(1)-Sch,
  author =              {Schmitz, Sylvain},
  title =               {Complexity Hierarchies Beyond Elementary},
  publisher =           {ACM Press},
  journal =             {ACM Transactions on Computation Theory},
  volume =              {8},
  number =              {1},
  pages =               {3:1-3:36},
  year =                {2016},
  month =               feb,
  doi =                 {10.1145/2858784},
}
[Van16] Marie Van den Bogaard. Motifs de flot d'information dans les jeux à information imparfaite. Thèse de doctorat, Lab. Spécification & Vérification, ENS Cachan, France, December 2016.
@phdthesis{phd-vdb2016,
  author =              {Van{~}den{ }Bogaard, Marie},
  title =               {Motifs de flot d'information dans les jeux {\`a}
                         information imparfaite},
  year =                {2016},
  month =               dec,
  school =              {Lab.~Sp\'ecification \& V\'erification, ENS Cachan,
                         France},
  type =                {Th\`ese de doctorat},
}
2015
[BBM+15] Patricia Bouyer, Romain Brenguier, Nicolas Markey, and Michael Ummels. Pure Nash Equilibria in Concurrent Games. Logical Methods in Computer Science 11(2:9). June 2015.
Abstract

We study pure-strategy Nash equilibria in multiplayer concurrent games, for a variety of omega-regular objectives. For simple objectives (e.g. reachability, Büchi objectives), we transform the problem of deciding the existence of a Nash equilibrium in a given concurrent game into that of deciding the existence of a winning strategy in a turn-based two-player game (with a refined objective). We use that transformation to design algorithms for computing Nash equilibria, which in most cases have optimal worst-case complexity. For automata-defined objectives, we extend the above algorithms using a simulation relation which allows us to consider the product of the game with the automata defining the objectives. Building on previous algorithms for simple qualitative objectives, we define and study a semi-quantitative framework, where all players have several boolean objectives equipped with a preorder; a player may for instance want to satisfy all her objectives, or to maximise the number of objectives that she achieves. In most cases, we prove that the algorithms we obtain match the complexity of the problem they address.

@article{lmcs11(2)-BBMU,
  author =              {Bouyer, Patricia and Brenguier, Romain and Markey,
                         Nicolas and Ummels, Michael},
  title =               {Pure {N}ash Equilibria in Concurrent Games},
  journal =             {Logical Methods in Computer Science},
  volume =              {11},
  number =              {2:9},
  year =                {2015},
  month =               jun,
  doi =                 {10.2168/LMCS-11(2:9)2015},
  abstract =            {We study pure-strategy Nash equilibria in
                         multiplayer concurrent games, for a variety of
                         omega-regular objectives. For simple objectives
                         (e.g. reachability, B{\"u}chi objectives), we
                         transform the problem of deciding the existence of a
                         Nash equilibrium in a given concurrent game into
                         that of deciding the existence of a winning strategy
                         in a turn-based two-player game (with a refined
                         objective). We use that transformation to design
                         algorithms for computing Nash equilibria, which in
                         most cases have optimal worst-case complexity. For
                         automata-defined objectives, we extend the above
                         algorithms using a simulation relation which allows
                         us to consider the product of the game with the
                         automata defining the objectives. Building on
                         previous algorithms for simple qualitative
                         objectives, we define and study a semi-quantitative
                         framework, where all players have several boolean
                         objectives equipped with a preorder; a player may
                         for instance want to satisfy all her objectives, or
                         to maximise the number of objectives that she
                         achieves. In most cases, we prove that the
                         algorithms we obtain match the complexity of the
                         problem they address.},
}
[BMS15] Patricia Bouyer, Nicolas Markey, and Ocan Sankur. Robust Reachability in Timed Automata and Games: A Game-based Approach. Theoretical Computer Science 563:43-74. Elsevier, January 2015.
Abstract

Reachability checking is one of the most basic problems in verification. By solving this problem in a game, one can synthesize a strategy that dictates the actions to be performed for ensuring that the target location is reached. In this work, we are interested in synthesizing "robust" strategies for ensuring reachability of a location in timed automata. By robust, we mean that it must still ensure reachability even when the delays are perturbed by the environment. We model this perturbed semantics as a game between the controller and its environment, and solve the parameterized robust reachability problem: we show that the existence of an upper bound on the perturbations under which there is a strategy reaching a target location is EXPTIME-complete. We also extend our algorithm, with the same complexity, to turn-based timed games, where the successor state is entirely determined by the environment in some locations.

@article{tcs563()-BMS,
  author =              {Bouyer, Patricia and Markey, Nicolas and Sankur,
                         Ocan},
  title =               {Robust Reachability in Timed Automata and Games:
                         A~Game-based Approach},
  publisher =           {Elsevier},
  journal =             {Theoretical Computer Science},
  volume =              {563},
  pages =               {43-74},
  year =                {2015},
  month =               jan,
  doi =                 {10.1016/j.tcs.2014.08.014},
  abstract =            {Reachability checking is one of the most basic
                         problems in verification. By solving this problem in
                         a game, one can synthesize a strategy that dictates
                         the actions to be performed for ensuring that the
                         target location is reached. In this work, we are
                         interested in synthesizing {"}robust{"} strategies
                         for ensuring reachability of a location in timed
                         automata. By robust, we mean that it must still
                         ensure reachability even when the delays are
                         perturbed by the environment. We model this
                         perturbed semantics as a game between the controller
                         and its environment, and solve the parameterized
                         robust reachability problem: we show that the
                         existence of an upper bound on the perturbations
                         under which there is a strategy reaching a target
                         location is EXPTIME-complete. We also extend our
                         algorithm, with the same complexity, to turn-based
                         timed games, where the successor state is entirely
                         determined by the environment in some locations.},
}
[LM15] François Laroussinie and Nicolas Markey. Augmenting ATL with strategy contexts. Information and Computation 245:98-123. Elsevier, December 2015.
Abstract

We study the extension of the alternating-time temporal logic (ATL) with strategy contexts: contrary to the original semantics, in this semantics the strategy quantifiers do not reset the previously selected strategies.

We show that our extension ATLsc is very expressive, but that its decision problems are quite hard: model checking is k-EXPTIME-complete when the formula has k nested strategy quantifiers; satisfiability is undecidable, but we prove that it is decidable when restricting to turn-based games. Our algorithms are obtained through a very convenient translation to QCTL (the computation-tree logic CTL extended with atomic quantification), which we show also applies to Strategy Logic, as well as when strategy quantification ranges over memoryless strategies.

@article{icomp245()-LM,
  author =              {Laroussinie, Fran{\c c}ois and Markey, Nicolas},
  title =               {Augmenting {ATL} with strategy contexts},
  publisher =           {Elsevier},
  journal =             {Information and Computation},
  volume =              {245},
  pages =               {98-123},
  year =                {2015},
  month =               dec,
  doi =                 {10.1016/j.ic.2014.12.020},
  abstract =            {We study the extension of the alternating-time
                         temporal logic (ATL) with strategy contexts:
                         contrary to the original semantics, in this
                         semantics the strategy quantifiers do not reset the
                         previously selected strategies.\par We show that our
                         extension ATLsc is very expressive, but that its
                         decision problems are quite hard: model checking is
                         \(k\)-EXPTIME-complete when the formula has \(k\)
                         nested strategy quantifiers; satisfiability is
                         undecidable, but we prove that it is decidable when
                         restricting to turn-based games. Our algorithms are
                         obtained through a very convenient translation to
                         QCTL (the~computation-tree logic CTL extended with
                         atomic quantification), which we show also applies
                         to Strategy Logic, as well as when strategy
                         quantification ranges over memoryless strategies.},
}
[AM15] Étienne André and Nicolas Markey. Language Preservation Problems in Parametric Timed Automata. In FORMATS'15, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 9268, pages 27-43. Springer-Verlag, September 2015.
Abstract

Parametric timed automata (PTA) are a powerful formalism to model and reason about concurrent systems with some unknown timing delays. In this paper, we address the (untimed) language- and trace-preservation problems: given a reference parameter valuation, does there exist another parameter valuation with the same untimed language (or trace)? We show that these problems are undecidable both for general PTA, and even for the restricted class of L/U-PTA. On the other hand, we exhibit decidable subclasses: 1-clock PTA, and 1-parameter deterministic L-PTA and U-PTA.

@inproceedings{formats2015-AM,
  author =              {Andr{\'e}, {\'E}tienne and Markey, Nicolas},
  title =               {Language Preservation Problems in Parametric Timed
                         Automata},
  editor =              {Sankaranarayanan, Sriram and Vicario, Enrico},
  booktitle =           {{P}roceedings of the 13th {I}nternational
                         {C}onferences on {F}ormal {M}odelling and {A}nalysis
                         of {T}imed {S}ystems ({FORMATS}'15)},
  acronym =             {{FORMATS}'15},
  publisher =           {Springer-Verlag},
  series =              {Lecture Notes in Computer Science},
  volume =              {9268},
  pages =               {27-43},
  year =                {2015},
  month =               sep,
  doi =                 {10.1007/978-3-319-22975-1_3},
  abstract =            {Parametric timed automata (PTA) are a powerful
                         formalism to model and reason about concurrent
                         systems with some unknown timing delays. In this
                         paper, we address the (untimed) language- and
                         trace-preservation problems: given a reference
                         parameter valuation, does there exist another
                         parameter valuation with the same untimed language
                         (or trace)? We show that these problems are
                         undecidable both for general PTA, and even for the
                         restricted class of L/U-PTA. On the other hand, we
                         exhibit decidable subclasses: 1-clock PTA, and
                         1-parameter deterministic L-PTA and U-PTA.},
}
[BFM15] Patricia Bouyer, Erwin Fang, and Nicolas Markey. Permissive strategies in timed automata and games. In AVOCS'15, Electronic Communications of the EASST 72. European Association of Software Science and Technology, September 2015.
Abstract

Timed automata are a convenient framework for modelling and reasoning about real-time systems. While these models are now very well-understood, they do not offer a convenient way of taking timing imprecisions into account. Several solutions (e.g. parametric guard enlargement) have recently been proposed over the last ten years to take such imprecisions into account. In this paper, we propose a new approach for handling robust reachability, based on permissive strategies. While classical strategies propose to play an action at an exact point in time, permissive strategies return an interval of possible dates when to play the selected action. With such a permissive strategy, we associate a penalty, which is the inverse of the length of the proposed interval, and accumulates along the run. We show that in that setting, optimal strategies can be computed in polynomial time for one-clock timed automata.

@inproceedings{avocs2015-BFM,
  author =              {Bouyer, Patricia and Fang, Erwin and Markey,
                         Nicolas},
  title =               {Permissive strategies in timed automata and games},
  editor =              {Grov, Gudmund and Ireland, Andrew},
  booktitle =           {{P}roceedings of the 15th {I}nternational {W}orkshop
                         on {A}utomated {V}erification of {C}ritical
                         {S}ystems ({AVOCS}'15)},
  acronym =             {{AVOCS}'15},
  publisher =           {European Association of Software Science and
                         Technology},
  series =              {Electronic Communications of the EASST},
  volume =              {72},
  year =                {2015},
  month =               sep,
  doi =                 {10.14279/tuj.eceasst.72.1015},
  abstract =            {Timed automata are a convenient framework for
                         modelling and reasoning about real-time systems.
                         While these models are now very well-understood,
                         they do not offer a convenient way of taking timing
                         imprecisions into account. Several solutions (e.g.
                         parametric guard enlargement) have recently been
                         proposed over the last ten years to take such
                         imprecisions into account. In this paper, we propose
                         a new approach for handling robust reachability,
                         based on permissive strategies. While classical
                         strategies propose to play an action at an exact
                         point in time, permissive strategies return an
                         interval of possible dates when to play the selected
                         action. With such a permissive strategy, we
                         associate a penalty, which is the inverse of the
                         length of the proposed interval, and accumulates
                         along the run. We show that in that setting, optimal
                         strategies can be computed in polynomial time for
                         one-clock timed automata.},
}
[BGM15] Patricia Bouyer, Patrick Gardy, and Nicolas Markey. Weighted strategy logic with boolean goals over one-counter games. In FSTTCS'15, Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics 45, pages 69-83. Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik, December 2015.
Abstract

Strategy Logic is a powerful specification language for expressing non-zero-sum properties of multi-player games. SL conveniently extends the logic ATL with explicit quantification and assignment of strategies. In this paper, we consider games over one-counter automata, and a quantitative extension 1cSL of SL with assertions over the value of the counter. We prove two results: we first show that, if decidable, model checking the so-called Boolean-goal fragment of 1cSL has non-elementary complexity; we actually prove the result for the Boolean-goal fragment of SL over finite-state games, which was an open question in (Mogavero et al. Reasoning about strategies: On the model-checking problem. 2014). As a first step towards proving decidability, we then show that the Boolean-goal fragment of 1cSL over one-counter games enjoys a nice periodicity property.

@inproceedings{fsttcs2015-BGM,
  author =              {Bouyer, Patricia and Gardy, Patrick and Markey,
                         Nicolas},
  title =               {Weighted strategy logic with boolean goals over
                         one-counter games},
  editor =              {Harsha, Prahladh and Ramalingam, G.},
  booktitle =           {{P}roceedings of the 35th {C}onference on
                         {F}oundations of {S}oftware {T}echnology and
                         {T}heoretical {C}omputer {S}cience ({FSTTCS}'15)},
  acronym =             {{FSTTCS}'15},
  publisher =           {Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  series =              {Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics},
  volume =              {45},
  pages =               {69-83},
  year =                {2015},
  month =               dec,
  doi =                 {10.4230/LIPIcs.FSTTCS.2015.69},
  abstract =            {Strategy Logic is a powerful specification language
                         for expressing non-zero-sum properties of
                         multi-player games. SL conveniently extends the
                         logic ATL with explicit quantification and
                         assignment of strategies. In this paper, we consider
                         games over one-counter automata, and a quantitative
                         extension 1cSL of SL with assertions over the value
                         of the counter. We prove two results: we first show
                         that, if decidable, model checking the so-called
                         Boolean-goal fragment of 1cSL has non-elementary
                         complexity; we actually prove the result for the
                         Boolean-goal fragment of SL over finite-state games,
                         which was an open question in (Mogavero
                         \emph{et~al.} Reasoning about strategies: On the
                         model-checking problem. 2014). As a first step
                         towards proving decidability, we then show that the
                         Boolean-goal fragment of 1cSL over one-counter games
                         enjoys a nice periodicity property.},
}
[BJM15] Patricia Bouyer, Samy Jaziri, and Nicolas Markey. On the Value Problem in Weighted Timed Games. In CONCUR'15, Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics 42, pages 311-324. Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik, September 2015.
Abstract

A weighted timed game is a timed game with extra quantitative information representing e.g. energy consumption. Optimizing the cost for reaching a target is a natural question, which has been investigated for ten years. Existence of optimal strategies is known to be undecidable in general, and only very restricted classes of games have been described for which optimal cost and almost-optimal strategies can be computed.

In this paper, we show that the value problem is undecidable in general weighted timed games. The undecidability proof relies on that for the existence of optimal strategies and on a diagonalization construction recently designed in the context of quantitative temporal logics. We then provide an algorithm to compute arbitrary approximations of the value in a game, and almost-optimal strategies. The algorithm applies in a large subclass of weighted timed games, and is the first approximation scheme which is designed in the current context.

@inproceedings{concur2015-BJM,
  author =              {Bouyer, Patricia and Jaziri, Samy and Markey,
                         Nicolas},
  title =               {On~the Value Problem in Weighted Timed Games},
  editor =              {Aceto, Luca and de Frutos{-}Escrig, David},
  booktitle =           {{P}roceedings of the 26th {I}nternational
                         {C}onference on {C}oncurrency {T}heory
                         ({CONCUR}'15)},
  acronym =             {{CONCUR}'15},
  publisher =           {Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  series =              {Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics},
  volume =              {42},
  pages =               {311-324},
  year =                {2015},
  month =               sep,
  doi =                 {10.4230/LIPIcs.CONCUR.2015.311},
  abstract =            {A~weighted timed game is a timed game with extra
                         quantitative information representing e.g. energy
                         consumption. Optimizing the cost for reaching a
                         target is a natural question, which has been
                         investigated for ten years. Existence of optimal
                         strategies is known to be undecidable in general,
                         and only very restricted classes of games have been
                         described for which optimal cost and almost-optimal
                         strategies can be computed.\par In this paper, we
                         show that the value problem is undecidable in
                         general weighted timed games. The undecidability
                         proof relies on that for the existence of optimal
                         strategies and on a diagonalization construction
                         recently designed in the context of quantitative
                         temporal logics. We then provide an algorithm to
                         compute arbitrary approximations of the value in a
                         game, and almost-optimal strategies. The algorithm
                         applies in a large subclass of weighted timed games,
                         and is the first approximation scheme which is
                         designed in the current context.},
}
[BMP+15] Patricia Bouyer, Nicolas Markey, Nicolas Perrin, and Philipp Schlehuber-Caissier. Timed automata abstraction of switched dynamical systems using control funnels. In FORMATS'15, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 9268, pages 60-75. Springer-Verlag, September 2015.
Abstract

The development of formal methods for control design is an important challenge with potential applications in a wide range of safety-critical cyber-physical systems. Focusing on switched dynamical systems, we propose a new abstraction, based on time-varying regions of invariance (the control funnels), that models behaviors of systems as timed automata. The main advantage of this method is that it allows automated verification of formal specifications and reactive controller synthesis without discretizing the evolution of the state of the system. Efficient constructions are possible in the case of linear dynamics. We demonstrate the potential of our approach with two examples.

@inproceedings{formats2015-BMPS,
  author =              {Bouyer, Patricia and Markey, Nicolas and Perrin,
                         Nicolas and Schlehuber{-}Caissier, Philipp},
  title =               {Timed automata abstraction of switched dynamical
                         systems using control funnels},
  editor =              {Sankaranarayanan, Sriram and Vicario, Enrico},
  booktitle =           {{P}roceedings of the 13th {I}nternational
                         {C}onferences on {F}ormal {M}odelling and {A}nalysis
                         of {T}imed {S}ystems ({FORMATS}'15)},
  acronym =             {{FORMATS}'15},
  publisher =           {Springer-Verlag},
  series =              {Lecture Notes in Computer Science},
  volume =              {9268},
  pages =               {60-75},
  year =                {2015},
  month =               sep,
  doi =                 {10.1007/978-3-319-22975-1_5},
  abstract =            {The~development of formal methods for control design
                         is an important challenge with potential
                         applications in a wide range of safety-critical
                         cyber-physical systems. Focusing on switched
                         dynamical systems, we~propose a new abstraction,
                         based on time-varying regions of invariance
                         (the~\emph{control funnels}), that models behaviors
                         of systems as timed automata. The main advantage of
                         this method is that it allows automated verification
                         of formal specifications and reactive controller
                         synthesis without discretizing the evolution of the
                         state of the system. Efficient constructions are
                         possible in the case of linear dynamics.
                         We~demonstrate the potential of our approach with
                         two examples.},
}
[BMR+15] Patricia Bouyer, Nicolas Markey, Mickael Randour, Kim Guldstrand Larsen, and Simon Laursen. Average-energy games. In GandALF'15, Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science 193, pages 1-15. September 2015.
Abstract

Two-player quantitative zero-sum games provide a natural framework to synthesize controllers with performance guarantees for reactive systems within an uncontrollable environment. Classical settings include mean-payoff games, where the objective is to optimize the long-run average gain per action, and energy games, where the system has to avoid running out of energy.

We study average-energy games, where the goal is to optimize the long-run average of the accumulated energy. We show that this objective arises naturally in several applications, and that it yields interesting connections with previous concepts in the literature. We prove that deciding the winner in such games is in NPcoNP and at least as hard as solving mean-payoff games, and we establish that memoryless strategies suffice to win. We also consider the case where the system has to minimize the average-energy while maintaining the accumulated energy within predefined bounds at all times: this corresponds to operating with a finite-capacity storage for energy. We give results for one-player and two-player games, and establish complexity bounds and memory requirements.

@inproceedings{gandalf2015-BMRLL,
  author =              {Bouyer, Patricia and Markey, Nicolas and Randour,
                         Mickael and Larsen, Kim Guldstrand and Laursen,
                         Simon},
  title =               {Average-energy games},
  editor =              {Esparza, Javier and Tronci, Enrico},
  booktitle =           {{P}roceedings of the 6th {I}nternational {S}ymposium
                         on {G}ames, {A}utomata, {L}ogics and {F}ormal
                         {V}erification ({GandALF}'15)},
  acronym =             {{GandALF}'15},
  series =              {Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer
                         Science},
  volume =              {193},
  pages =               {1-15},
  year =                {2015},
  month =               sep,
  doi =                 {10.4204/EPTCS.193.1},
  abstract =            {Two-player quantitative zero-sum games provide a
                         natural framework to synthesize controllers with
                         performance guarantees for reactive systems within
                         an uncontrollable environment. Classical settings
                         include mean-payoff games, where the objective is to
                         optimize the long-run average gain per action, and
                         energy games, where the system has to avoid running
                         out of energy.\par We study \emph{average-energy}
                         games, where the goal is to optimize the long-run
                         average of the accumulated energy. We show that this
                         objective arises naturally in several applications,
                         and that it yields interesting connections with
                         previous concepts in the literature. We prove that
                         deciding the winner in such games is in
                         \textsf{NP}{{\(\cap\)}}\textsf{coNP} and at least as
                         hard as solving mean-payoff games, and we establish
                         that memoryless strategies suffice to win. We also
                         consider the case where the system has to minimize
                         the average-energy while maintaining the accumulated
                         energy within predefined bounds at all times: this
                         corresponds to operating with a finite-capacity
                         storage for energy. We give results for one-player
                         and two-player games, and establish complexity
                         bounds and memory requirements.},
}
[LMS15] François Laroussinie, Nicolas Markey, and Arnaud Sangnier. ATLsc with partial observation. In GandALF'15, Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science 193, pages 43-57. September 2015.
Abstract

Alternating-time temporal logic with strategy contexts (ATLsc) is a powerful formalism for expressing properties of multi-agent systems: it extends CTL with strategy quantifiers, offering a convenient way of expressing both collaboration and antagonism between several agents. Incomplete observation of the state space is a desirable feature in such a framework, but it quickly leads to undecidable verification problems. In this paper, we prove that uniform incomplete observation (where all players have the same observation) preserves decidability of the model checking problem, even for very expressive logics such as ATLsc.

@inproceedings{gandalf2015-LMS,
  author =              {Laroussinie, Fran{\c c}ois and Markey, Nicolas and
                         Sangnier, Arnaud},
  title =               {{{\(\textsf{ATL}_{\textsf{sc}}\)}} with partial
                         observation},
  editor =              {Esparza, Javier and Tronci, Enrico},
  booktitle =           {{P}roceedings of the 6th {I}nternational {S}ymposium
                         on {G}ames, {A}utomata, {L}ogics and {F}ormal
                         {V}erification ({GandALF}'15)},
  acronym =             {{GandALF}'15},
  series =              {Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer
                         Science},
  volume =              {193},
  pages =               {43-57},
  year =                {2015},
  month =               sep,
  doi =                 {10.4204/EPTCS.193.4},
  abstract =            {Alternating-time temporal logic with strategy
                         contexts ({{\(\textsf{ATL}_{\textsf{sc}}\)}}) is a
                         powerful formalism for expressing properties of
                         multi-agent systems: it~extends \textsf{CTL} with
                         \emph{strategy quantifiers}, offering a convenient
                         way of expressing both collaboration and antagonism
                         between several agents. Incomplete observation of
                         the state space is a desirable feature in such a
                         framework, but it quickly leads to undecidable
                         verification problems. In this paper, we prove that
                         \emph{uniform} incomplete observation (where all
                         players have the same observation) preserves
                         decidability of the model checking problem, even for
                         very expressive logics such as
                         {{\(\textsf{ATL}_{\textsf{sc}}\)}}.},
}
[CLM+15] Krishnendu Chatterjee, Stéphane Lafortune, Nicolas Markey, and Wolfgang Thomas (eds.) Non-Zero-Sum-Games and Control (Dagstuhl Seminar 15061). Dagstuhl Reports 5(2):1-25. Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik, June 2015.
Abstract

In this report, the program, research issues, and results of Dagstuhl Seminar 15061 "Non-Zero-Sum-Games and Control" are described. The area of non-zero-sum games is addressed in a wide range of topics: multi-player games, partial-observation games, quantitative game models, and—as a special focus—connections with control engineering (supervisory control).

@proceedings{dagrep5(2)-CLMT,
  title =               {Non-Zero-Sum-Games and Control ({D}agstuhl
                         Seminar~15061)},
  editor =              {Chatterjee, Krishnendu and Lafortune, St{\'e}phane
                         and Markey, Nicolas and Thomas, Wolfgang},
  booktitle =           {Non-Zero-Sum-Games and Control ({D}agstuhl
                         Seminar~15061)},
  publisher =           {Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  journal =             {Dagstuhl Reports},
  volume =              {5},
  number =              {2},
  pages =               {1-25},
  year =                {2015},
  month =               jun,
  doi =                 {10.4230/DagRep.5.2.1},
  url =                 {http://drops.dagstuhl.de/opus/volltexte/2015/5042},
  abstract =            {In this report, the program, research issues, and
                         results of Dagstuhl Seminar~15061
                         {"}Non-Zero-Sum-Games and Control{"} are described.
                         The area of non-zero-sum games is addressed in a
                         wide range of topics: multi-player games,
                         partial-observation games, quantitative game models,
                         and---as~a special focus---connections with control
                         engineering (supervisory control).},
}
[AAG+15] Manindra Agrawal, S. Akshay, Blaise Genest, and P. S. Thiagarajan. Approximate Verification of the Symbolic Dynamics of Markov Chains. Journal of the ACM 62(1):183-235. ACM Press, February 2015.
@article{jacm62(1)-AAGT,
  author =              {Agrawal, Manindra and Akshay, S. and Genest, Blaise
                         and Thiagarajan, P. S.},
  title =               {Approximate Verification of the Symbolic Dynamics of
                         {M}arkov Chains},
  publisher =           {ACM Press},
  journal =             {Journal of the~ACM},
  volume =              {62},
  number =              {1},
  pages =               {183-235},
  year =                {2015},
  month =               feb,
  doi =                 {10.1145/2629417},
}
[ABG15] C. Aiswarya, Benedikt Bollig, and Paul Gastin. An automata-theoretic approach to the verification of distributed algorithms. In CONCUR'15, Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics 42, pages 340-353. Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik, September 2015.
@inproceedings{concur2015-ABG,
  author =              {Aiswarya, C. and Bollig, Benedikt and Gastin, Paul},
  title =               {An automata-theoretic approach to the verification
                         of distributed algorithms},
  editor =              {Aceto, Luca and de Frutos{-}Escrig, David},
  booktitle =           {{P}roceedings of the 26th {I}nternational
                         {C}onference on {C}oncurrency {T}heory
                         ({CONCUR}'15)},
  acronym =             {{CONCUR}'15},
  publisher =           {Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  series =              {Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics},
  volume =              {42},
  pages =               {340-353},
  year =                {2015},
  month =               sep,
  doi =                 {10.4230/LIPIcs.CONCUR.2015.340},
}
[AKK15] Shaull Almagor, Denis Kuperberg, and Orna Kupferman. The Sensing Cost of Monitoring and Synthesis. In FSTTCS'15, Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics 45, pages 380-393. Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik, December 2015.
@inproceedings{fsttcs2015-AKK,
  author =              {Almagor, Shaull and Kuperberg, Denis and Kupferman,
                         Orna},
  title =               {The~Sensing Cost of Monitoring and Synthesis},
  editor =              {Harsha, Prahladh and Ramalingam, G.},
  booktitle =           {{P}roceedings of the 35th {C}onference on
                         {F}oundations of {S}oftware {T}echnology and
                         {T}heoretical {C}omputer {S}cience ({FSTTCS}'15)},
  acronym =             {{FSTTCS}'15},
  publisher =           {Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  series =              {Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics},
  volume =              {45},
  pages =               {380-393},
  year =                {2015},
  month =               dec,
  doi =                 {10.4230/LIPIcs.FSTTCS.2015.380},
}
[ARZ15] Benjamin Aminof, Sasha Rubin, and Florian Zuleger. On the Expressive Power of Communication Primitives in Parameterised Systems. In LPAR'15, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 9450, pages 313-328. Springer-Verlag, November 2015.
@inproceedings{lpar2015-ARZ,
  author =              {Aminof, Benjamin and Rubin, Sasha and Zuleger,
                         Florian},
  title =               {On the Expressive Power of Communication Primitives
                         in Parameterised Systems},
  editor =              {Davis, Martin and Fehnker, Ansgar and McIver,
                         Annabelle K. and Voronkov, Andrei},
  booktitle =           {{P}roceedings of the 20th {I}nternational
                         {C}onference {L}ogic {P}rogramming and {A}utomated
                         {R}easoning ({LPAR}'15)},
  acronym =             {{LPAR}'15},
  publisher =           {Springer-Verlag},
  series =              {Lecture Notes in Computer Science},
  volume =              {9450},
  pages =               {313-328},
  year =                {2015},
  month =               nov,
  doi =                 {10.1007/978-3-662-48899-7_22},
}
[BBL+15] Nikola Beneš, Petr Bezdek, Kim Guldstrand Larsen, and Jiří Srba. Language Emptiness of Continuous-Time Parametric Timed Automata. In ICALP'15, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 9135, pages 69-81. Springer-Verlag, July 2015.
@inproceedings{icalp2015-BBLS,
  author =              {Bene{\v{s}}, Nikola and Bezdek, Petr and Larsen, Kim
                         Guldstrand and Srba, Ji{\v r}{\'\i}},
  title =               {Language Emptiness of Continuous-Time Parametric
                         Timed Automata},
  editor =              {Halld{\'o}rsson, Magn{\'u}s M. and Iwana, Kazuo and
                         Kobayashi, Naoki and Speckmann, Bettina},
  booktitle =           {{P}roceedings of the 42nd {I}nternational
                         {C}olloquium on {A}utomata, {L}anguages and
                         {P}rogramming ({ICALP}'15)~-- Part~{II}},
  acronym =             {{ICALP}'15},
  publisher =           {Springer-Verlag},
  series =              {Lecture Notes in Computer Science},
  volume =              {9135},
  pages =               {69-81},
  year =                {2015},
  month =               jul,
  doi =                 {10.1007/978-3-662-47666-6_6},
}
[BBM+15] Thomas Brihaye, Véronique Bruyère, Noëmie Meunier, and Jean-François Raskin. Weak Subgame Perfect Equilibria and their Application to Quantitative Reachability. In CSL'15, Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics 41, pages 504-518. Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik, September 2015.
@inproceedings{csl2015-BBMR,
  author =              {Brihaye, {\relax Th}omas and Bruy{\`e}re,
                         V{\'e}ronique and Meunier, No{\"e}mie and Raskin,
                         Jean-Fran{\c c}ois},
  title =               {Weak Subgame Perfect Equilibria and their
                         Application to Quantitative Reachability},
  editor =              {Kreutzer, Stephan},
  booktitle =           {{P}roceedings of the 24th {EACSL} {A}nnual
                         {C}onference on {C}omputer {S}cience {L}ogic
                         ({CSL}'15)},
  acronym =             {{CSL}'15},
  publisher =           {Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  series =              {Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics},
  volume =              {41},
  pages =               {504-518},
  year =                {2015},
  month =               sep,
  doi =                 {10.4230/LIPIcs.CSL.2015.504},
}
[BEG+15] Endre Boros, Khaled Elbassioni, Vladimir Gurvich, and Kazuhisa Makino. Markov Decision Processes and Stochastic Games with Total Effective Payoff. In STACS'15, Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics 30, pages 103-115. Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik, March 2015.
@inproceedings{stacs2015-BEGM,
  author =              {Boros, Endre and Elbassioni, Khaled and Gurvich,
                         Vladimir and Makino, Kazuhisa},
  title =               {{M}arkov Decision Processes and Stochastic Games
                         with Total Effective Payoff},
  editor =              {Mayr, Ernst W. and Ollinger, Nicolas},
  booktitle =           {{P}roceedings of the 32nd {S}ymposium on
                         {T}heoretical {A}spects of {C}omputer {S}cience
                         ({STACS}'15)},
  acronym =             {{STACS}'15},
  publisher =           {Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  series =              {Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics},
  volume =              {30},
  pages =               {103-115},
  year =                {2015},
  month =               mar,
  doi =                 {10.4230/LIPIcs.STACS.2015.103},
}
[BFA15] Umang Bhaskar, Lisa Fleischer, and Elliot Anshelevich. A Stackelberg strategy for routing flow over time. Games and Economic Behavior 92:232-247. July 2015.
@article{geb92()-BFA,
  author =              {Bhaskar, Umang and Fleischer, Lisa and Anshelevich,
                         Elliot},
  title =               {A~{S}tackelberg strategy for routing flow over time},
  journal =             {Games and Economic Behavior},
  volume =              {92},
  pages =               {232-247},
  year =                {2015},
  month =               jul,
  doi =                 {10.1016/j.geb.2013.09.004},
}
[BFS15] Nathalie Bertrand, Paulin Fournier, and Arnaud Sangnier. Distributed Local Strategies in Broadcast Networks. In CONCUR'15, Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics 42, pages 44-57. Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik, September 2015.
@inproceedings{concur2015-BFS,
  author =              {Bertrand, Nathalie and Fournier, Paulin and
                         Sangnier, Arnaud},
  title =               {Distributed Local Strategies in Broadcast Networks},
  editor =              {Aceto, Luca and de Frutos{-}Escrig, David},
  booktitle =           {{P}roceedings of the 26th {I}nternational
                         {C}onference on {C}oncurrency {T}heory
                         ({CONCUR}'15)},
  acronym =             {{CONCUR}'15},
  publisher =           {Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  series =              {Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics},
  volume =              {42},
  pages =               {44-57},
  year =                {2015},
  month =               sep,
  doi =                 {10.4230/LIPIcs.CONCUR.2015.44},
}
[BGH+15] Thomas Brihaye, Gilles Geeraerts, Axel Haddad, Engel Lefaucheux, and Benjamin Monmege. Simple priced timed games are not that simple. In FSTTCS'15, Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics 45, pages 278-292. Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik, December 2015.
@inproceedings{fsttcs2005-BGHLM,
  author =              {Brihaye, {\relax Th}omas and Geeraerts, Gilles and
                         Haddad, Axel and Lefaucheux, Engel and Monmege,
                         Benjamin},
  title =               {Simple priced timed games are not that simple},
  editor =              {Harsha, Prahladh and Ramalingam, G.},
  booktitle =           {{P}roceedings of the 35th {C}onference on
                         {F}oundations of {S}oftware {T}echnology and
                         {T}heoretical {C}omputer {S}cience ({FSTTCS}'15)},
  acronym =             {{FSTTCS}'15},
  publisher =           {Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  series =              {Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics},
  volume =              {45},
  pages =               {278-292},
  year =                {2015},
  month =               dec,
  doi =                 {10.4230/LIPIcs.FSTTCS.2015.278},
}
[BMV15] Dietmar Berwanger, Anup Basil Mathew, and Marie Van den Bogaard. Hierarchical Information Patterns and Distributed Strategy Synthesis. In ATVA'15, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 9364, pages 378-393. Springer-Verlag, October 2015.
@inproceedings{atva2015-BMV,
  author =              {Berwanger, Dietmar and Mathew, Anup Basil and
                         Van{~}den{ }Bogaard, Marie},
  title =               {Hierarchical Information Patterns and Distributed
                         Strategy Synthesis},
  editor =              {Finkbeiner, Bernd and Pu, Geguang and Zhang, Lijun},
  booktitle =           {{P}roceedings of the 13th {I}nternational
                         {S}ymposium on {A}utomated {T}echnology for
                         {V}erification and {A}nalysis ({ATVA}'15)},
  acronym =             {{ATVA}'15},
  publisher =           {Springer-Verlag},
  series =              {Lecture Notes in Computer Science},
  volume =              {9364},
  pages =               {378-393},
  year =                {2015},
  month =               oct,
}
[BSJ+15] Nathalie Bertrand, Amélie Stainer, Thierry Jéron, and Moez Krichen. A game approach to determinize timed automata. Formal Methods in System Design 46(1):42-80. Springer-Verlag, February 2015.
@article{fmsd46(1)-BSJK,
  author =              {Bertrand, Nathalie and Stainer, Am{\'e}lie and
                         J{\'e}ron, Thierry and Krichen, Moez},
  title =               {A~game approach to determinize timed automata},
  publisher =           {Springer-Verlag},
  journal =             {Formal Methods in System Design},
  volume =              {46},
  number =              {1},
  pages =               {42-80},
  year =                {2015},
  month =               feb,
  doi =                 {10.1007/s10703-014-0220-1},
}
[CDR+15] Krishnendu Chatterjee, Laurent Doyen, Mickael Randour, and Jean-François Raskin. Looking at Mean-Payoff and Total-Payoff through Windows. Information and Computation 242:25-52. Elsevier, June 2015.
@article{icomp242()-CDRR,
  author =              {Chatterjee, Krishnendu and Doyen, Laurent and
                         Randour, Mickael and Raskin, Jean-Fran{\c c}ois},
  title =               {Looking at Mean-Payoff and Total-Payoff through
                         Windows},
  publisher =           {Elsevier},
  journal =             {Information and Computation},
  volume =              {242},
  pages =               {25-52},
  year =                {2015},
  month =               jun,
  doi =                 {10.1016/j.ic.2015.03.010},
}
[CLM15] Petr Čermák, Alessio Lomuscio, and Aniello Murano. Verifying and Synthesising Multi-Agent Systems against One-Goal Strategy Logic Specifications. In AAAI'15, pages 2038-2044. AAAI Press, January 2015.
@inproceedings{aaai2015-CLM,
  author =              {{\v{C}}erm{\'a}k, Petr and Lomuscio, Alessio and
                         Murano, Aniello},
  title =               {Verifying and Synthesising Multi-Agent Systems
                         against One-Goal Strategy Logic Specifications},
  editor =              {Bonet, Blai and Koenig, Sven},
  booktitle =           {{P}roceedings of the 29th {AAAI} {C}onference on
                         {A}rtificial {I}ntelligence ({AAAI}'15)},
  acronym =             {{AAAI}'15},
  publisher =           {AAAI Press},
  pages =               {2038-2044},
  year =                {2015},
  month =               jan,
}
[DEG+15] Antoine Durand-Gasselin, Javier Esparza, Pierre Ganty, and Rupak Majumdar. Model Checking Parameterized Asynchronous Shared-Memory Systems. In CAV'15, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 9206, pages 67-84. Springer-Verlag, July 2015.
@inproceedings{cav2015-DEGM,
  author =              {Durand{-}Gasselin, Antoine and Esparza, Javier and
                         Ganty, Pierre and Majumdar, Rupak},
  title =               {Model Checking Parameterized Asynchronous
                         Shared-Memory Systems},
  editor =              {Kroening, Daniel and Pasareanu, Corina S.},
  booktitle =           {{P}roceedings of the 27th {I}nternational
                         {C}onference on {C}omputer {A}ided {V}erification
                         ({CAV}'15)},
  acronym =             {{CAV}'15},
  publisher =           {Springer-Verlag},
  series =              {Lecture Notes in Computer Science},
  volume =              {9206},
  pages =               {67-84},
  year =                {2015},
  month =               jul,
  doi =                 {10.1007/978-3-319-21690-4_5},
}
[DJL+15] Alexandre David, Peter Gjøl Jensen, Kim Guldstrand Larsen, Marius Mikučionis, and Jakob Haar Taankvist. Uppaal Stratego. In TACAS'15, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 9035, pages 206-211. Springer-Verlag, April 2015.
@inproceedings{tacas2015-DLLMW,
  author =              {David, Alexandre and Jensen, Peter Gj{\o}l and
                         Larsen, Kim Guldstrand and Miku{\v{c}}ionis, Marius
                         and Taankvist, Jakob Haar},
  title =               {Uppaal Stratego},
  editor =              {Baier, {\relax Ch}ristel and Tinelli, Cesare},
  booktitle =           {{P}roceedings of the 21st {I}nternational
                         {C}onference on {T}ools and {A}lgorithms for
                         {C}onstruction and {A}nalysis of {S}ystems
                         ({TACAS}'15)},
  acronym =             {{TACAS}'15},
  publisher =           {Springer-Verlag},
  series =              {Lecture Notes in Computer Science},
  volume =              {9035},
  pages =               {206-211},
  year =                {2015},
  month =               apr,
  doi =                 {10.1007/978-3-662-46681-0_16},
}
[DKM+15] Samir Datta, Raghav Kulkarni, Anish Mukherjee, Thomas Schwentick, and Thomas Zeume. Reachability is in DynFO. In ICALP'15, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 9135, pages 159-170. Springer-Verlag, July 2015.
@inproceedings{icalp2015-DKMSZ,
  author =              {Datta, Samir and Kulkarni, Raghav and Mukherjee,
                         Anish and Schwentick, Thomas and Zeume, Thomas},
  title =               {Reachability is in {D}yn{F}O},
  editor =              {Halld{\'o}rsson, Magn{\'u}s M. and Iwana, Kazuo and
                         Kobayashi, Naoki and Speckmann, Bettina},
  booktitle =           {{P}roceedings of the 42nd {I}nternational
                         {C}olloquium on {A}utomata, {L}anguages and
                         {P}rogramming ({ICALP}'15)~-- Part~{II}},
  acronym =             {{ICALP}'15},
  publisher =           {Springer-Verlag},
  series =              {Lecture Notes in Computer Science},
  volume =              {9135},
  pages =               {159-170},
  year =                {2015},
  month =               jul,
  doi =                 {10.1007/978-3-662-47666-6_13},
}
[DSQ+15] Ankush Desai, Sanjit A. Seshia, Shaz Qadeer, David Broman, and John C. Eidson. Approximate synchrony: An abstraction for distributed almost-synchronous systems. In CAV'15, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 9206, pages 429-448. Springer-Verlag, July 2015.
@inproceedings{cav2015-DSQBE,
  author =              {Desai, Ankush and Seshia,Sanjit A. and Qadeer, Shaz
                         and Broman, David and Eidson, John C.},
  title =               {Approximate synchrony: An abstraction for
                         distributed almost-synchronous systems},
  editor =              {Kroening, Daniel and Pasareanu, Corina S.},
  booktitle =           {{P}roceedings of the 27th {I}nternational
                         {C}onference on {C}omputer {A}ided {V}erification
                         ({CAV}'15)},
  acronym =             {{CAV}'15},
  publisher =           {Springer-Verlag},
  series =              {Lecture Notes in Computer Science},
  volume =              {9206},
  pages =               {429-448},
  year =                {2015},
  month =               jul,
  doi =                 {10.1007/978-3-319-21668-3_25},
}
[EGL+15] Javier Esparza, Pierre Ganty, Jérôme Leroux, and Rupak Majumdar. Verification of Population Protocols. In CONCUR'15, Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics 42, pages 470-482. Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik, September 2015.
@inproceedings{concur2015-EGLM,
  author =              {Esparza, Javier and Ganty, Pierre and Leroux,
                         J{\'e}r{\^o}me and Majumdar, Rupak},
  title =               {Verification of Population Protocols},
  editor =              {Aceto, Luca and de Frutos{-}Escrig, David},
  booktitle =           {{P}roceedings of the 26th {I}nternational
                         {C}onference on {C}oncurrency {T}heory
                         ({CONCUR}'15)},
  acronym =             {{CONCUR}'15},
  publisher =           {Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  series =              {Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics},
  volume =              {42},
  pages =               {470-482},
  year =                {2015},
  month =               sep,
  doi =                 {10.4230/LIPIcs.CONCUR.2015.470},
}
[Fou15] Paulin Fournier. Parameterized verification of networks of many identical processes. Thèse de doctorat, Université Rennes 1, France, December 2015.
@phdthesis{phd-fournier,
  author =              {Fournier, Paulin},
  title =               {Parameterized verification of networks of many
                         identical processes},
  year =                {2015},
  month =               dec,
  school =              {Universit{\'e} Rennes~1, France},
  type =                {Th\`ese de doctorat},
}
[FT15] Jie Fu and Ufuk Topcu. Computational methods for stochastic control with metric interval temporal logic specifications. Research Report 1503.07193, arXiv, March 2015.
@techreport{arxiv1503.07193-FT,
  author =              {Fu, Jie and Topcu, Ufuk},
  title =               {Computational methods for stochastic control with
                         metric interval temporal logic specifications},
  number =              {1503.07193},
  year =                {2015},
  month =               mar,
  institution =         {arXiv},
  type =                {Research Report},
}
[Gan15] Moses Ganardi. Parity Games of Bounded Tree- and Clique-Width. In FoSSaCS'15, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 9034, pages 390-404. Springer-Verlag, April 2015.
@inproceedings{fossacs2015-Gan,
  author =              {Ganardi, Moses},
  title =               {Parity Games of Bounded Tree- and Clique-Width},
  editor =              {Pitts, Andrew},
  booktitle =           {{P}roceedings of the 18th {I}nternational
                         {C}onference on {F}oundations of {S}oftware
                         {S}cience and {C}omputation {S}tructure
                         ({FoSSaCS}'15)},
  acronym =             {{FoSSaCS}'15},
  publisher =           {Springer-Verlag},
  series =              {Lecture Notes in Computer Science},
  volume =              {9034},
  pages =               {390-404},
  year =                {2015},
  month =               apr,
  doi =                 {10.1007/978-3-662-46678-0_25},
}
[HT15] Frédéric Herbreteau and Thanh-Tung Tran. Improving Search Order for Reachability Testing in Timed Automata. In FORMATS'15, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 9268, pages 124-139. Springer-Verlag, September 2015.
@inproceedings{formats2015-HT,
  author =              {Herbreteau, Fr{\'e}d{\'e}ric and Tran, Thanh-Tung},
  title =               {Improving Search Order for Reachability Testing in
                         Timed Automata},
  editor =              {Sankaranarayanan, Sriram and Vicario, Enrico},
  booktitle =           {{P}roceedings of the 13th {I}nternational
                         {C}onferences on {F}ormal {M}odelling and {A}nalysis
                         of {T}imed {S}ystems ({FORMATS}'15)},
  acronym =             {{FORMATS}'15},
  publisher =           {Springer-Verlag},
  series =              {Lecture Notes in Computer Science},
  volume =              {9268},
  pages =               {124-139},
  year =                {2015},
  month =               sep,
  doi =                 {10.1007/978-3-319-22975-1_9},
}
[Hun15] Paul Hunter. Reachability in Succinct One-Counter Games. In RP'15, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 9328, pages 37-49. Springer-Verlag, September 2015.
@inproceedings{rp2015-Hun,
  author =              {Hunter, Paul},
  title =               {Reachability in Succinct One-Counter Games},
  editor =              {Boja{\'n}czyk, Miko{\l}aj and Lasota, S{\l}awomir
                         and Potapov, Igor},
  booktitle =           {{P}roceedings of the 9th {W}orkshop on
                         {R}eachability {P}roblems in {C}omputational
                         {M}odels ({RP}'15)},
  acronym =             {{RP}'15},
  publisher =           {Springer-Verlag},
  series =              {Lecture Notes in Computer Science},
  volume =              {9328},
  pages =               {37-49},
  year =                {2015},
  month =               sep,
  doi =                 {10.1007/978-3-319-24537-9_5},
}
[JLR15] Aleksandra Jovanović, Didier Lime, and Olivier H. Roux. Integer Parameter Synthesis for Timed Automata. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering 41(5):445-461. IEEE Comp. Soc. Press, May 2015.
@article{tse41(5)-JLR,
  author =              {Jovanovi{\'c}, Aleksandra and Lime, Didier and Roux,
                         Olivier H.},
  title =               {Integer Parameter Synthesis for Timed Automata},
  publisher =           {IEEE Comp. Soc. Press},
  journal =             {IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering},
  volume =              {41},
  number =              {5},
  pages =               {445-461},
  year =                {2015},
  month =               may,
  doi =                 {10.1109/TSE.2014.2357445},
}
[JLS15] Marcin Jurdziński, Ranko Lazić, and Sylvain Schmitz. Fixed-Dimensional Energy Games are in Pseudo-Polynomial Time. In ICALP'15, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 9135, pages 260-272. Springer-Verlag, July 2015.
@inproceedings{icalp2015-JLS,
  author =              {Jurdzi{\'n}ski, Marcin and Lazi{\'c}, Ranko and
                         Schmitz, Sylvain},
  title =               {Fixed-Dimensional Energy Games are in
                         Pseudo-Polynomial Time},
  editor =              {Halld{\'o}rsson, Magn{\'u}s M. and Iwana, Kazuo and
                         Kobayashi, Naoki and Speckmann, Bettina},
  booktitle =           {{P}roceedings of the 42nd {I}nternational
                         {C}olloquium on {A}utomata, {L}anguages and
                         {P}rogramming ({ICALP}'15)~-- Part~{II}},
  acronym =             {{ICALP}'15},
  publisher =           {Springer-Verlag},
  series =              {Lecture Notes in Computer Science},
  volume =              {9135},
  pages =               {260-272},
  year =                {2015},
  month =               jul,
  doi =                 {10.1007/978-3-662-47666-6_21},
}
[KS15] Denis Kuperberg and Michal Skrzypczak. On determinisation of good-for-games automata. In ICALP'15, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 9135, pages 299-310. Springer-Verlag, July 2015.
@inproceedings{icalp2015-KS,
  author =              {Kuperberg, Denis and Skrzypczak, Michal},
  title =               {On determinisation of good-for-games automata},
  editor =              {Halld{\'o}rsson, Magn{\'u}s M. and Iwana, Kazuo and
                         Kobayashi, Naoki and Speckmann, Bettina},
  booktitle =           {{P}roceedings of the 42nd {I}nternational
                         {C}olloquium on {A}utomata, {L}anguages and
                         {P}rogramming ({ICALP}'15)~-- Part~{II}},
  acronym =             {{ICALP}'15},
  publisher =           {Springer-Verlag},
  series =              {Lecture Notes in Computer Science},
  volume =              {9135},
  pages =               {299-310},
  year =                {2015},
  month =               jul,
  doi =                 {10.1007/978-3-662-47666-6_24},
}
[KVW15] Igor V. Konnov, Helmut Veith, and Josef Widder. SMT and POR bea Counter Abstraction: Parameterized Model Checking of Threshold-Based Distributed Algorithms. In CAV'15, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 9206, pages 85-102. Springer-Verlag, July 2015.
@inproceedings{cav2015-KVW,
  author =              {Konnov, Igor V. and Veith, Helmut and Widder, Josef},
  title =               {{SMT} and {POR} bea Counter Abstraction:
                         Parameterized Model Checking of Threshold-Based
                         Distributed Algorithms},
  editor =              {Kroening, Daniel and Pasareanu, Corina S.},
  booktitle =           {{P}roceedings of the 27th {I}nternational
                         {C}onference on {C}omputer {A}ided {V}erification
                         ({CAV}'15)},
  acronym =             {{CAV}'15},
  publisher =           {Springer-Verlag},
  series =              {Lecture Notes in Computer Science},
  volume =              {9206},
  pages =               {85-102},
  year =                {2015},
  month =               jul,
  doi =                 {10.1007/978-3-319-21690-4_6},
}
[LLZ15] Kim Guldstrand Larsen, Simon Laursen, and Martin Zimmermann. Limit Your Consumption! Finding Bounds in Average-energy Games. Research Report 1510.05774, arXiv, October 2015.
@techreport{arxiv-1510.05774,
  author =              {Larsen, Kim Guldstrand and Laursen, Simon and
                         Zimmermann, Martin},
  title =               {Limit Your Consumption! Finding Bounds in
                         Average-energy Games},
  number =              {1510.05774},
  year =                {2015},
  month =               oct,
  institution =         {arXiv},
  type =                {Research Report},
}
[MVZ15] Pablo Muñoz, Nils Vortmeier, and Thomas Zeume. Dynamic Graph Queries. Research Report 1512.05511, arXiv, December 2015.
@techreport{arxiv-1512.05511,
  author =              {Mu{\~n}oz, Pablo and Vortmeier, Nils and Zeume,
                         Thomas},
  title =               {Dynamic Graph Queries},
  number =              {1512.05511},
  year =                {2015},
  month =               dec,
  institution =         {arXiv},
  type =                {Research Report},
}
[San15] Ocan Sankur. Symbolic Quantitative Robustness Analysis of Timed Automata. In TACAS'15, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 9035, pages 484-498. Springer-Verlag, April 2015.
@inproceedings{tacas2015-San,
  author =              {Sankur, Ocan},
  title =               {Symbolic Quantitative Robustness Analysis of Timed
                         Automata},
  editor =              {Baier, {\relax Ch}ristel and Tinelli, Cesare},
  booktitle =           {{P}roceedings of the 21st {I}nternational
                         {C}onference on {T}ools and {A}lgorithms for
                         {C}onstruction and {A}nalysis of {S}ystems
                         ({TACAS}'15)},
  acronym =             {{TACAS}'15},
  publisher =           {Springer-Verlag},
  series =              {Lecture Notes in Computer Science},
  volume =              {9035},
  pages =               {484-498},
  year =                {2015},
  month =               apr,
  doi =                 {10.1007/978-3-662-46681-0_48},
}
[Thi15] Yann Thierry-Mieg. Symbolic Model-Checking Using ITS-Tools. In TACAS'15, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 9035, pages 231-237. Springer-Verlag, April 2015.
@inproceedings{tacas2015-Thi,
  author =              {Thierry{-}Mieg, Yann},
  title =               {Symbolic Model-Checking Using {ITS}-Tools},
  editor =              {Baier, {\relax Ch}ristel and Tinelli, Cesare},
  booktitle =           {{P}roceedings of the 21st {I}nternational
                         {C}onference on {T}ools and {A}lgorithms for
                         {C}onstruction and {A}nalysis of {S}ystems
                         ({TACAS}'15)},
  acronym =             {{TACAS}'15},
  publisher =           {Springer-Verlag},
  series =              {Lecture Notes in Computer Science},
  volume =              {9035},
  pages =               {231-237},
  year =                {2015},
  month =               apr,
  doi =                 {10.1007/978-3-662-46681-0_20},
}
[VCD+15] Yaron Velner, Krishnendu Chatterjee, Laurent Doyen, Thomas A. Henzinger, Alexander Rabinovich, and Jean-François Raskin. The complexity of multi-mean-payoff and multi-energy games. Information and Computation 241:177-196. Elsevier, April 2015.
@article{icomp241()-VCDHRR,
  author =              {Velner, Yaron and Chatterjee, Krishnendu and Doyen,
                         Laurent and Henzinger, Thomas A. and Rabinovich,
                         Alexander and Raskin, Jean-Fran{\c c}ois},
  title =               {The complexity of multi-mean-payoff and multi-energy
                         games},
  publisher =           {Elsevier},
  journal =             {Information and Computation},
  volume =              {241},
  pages =               {177-196},
  year =                {2015},
  month =               apr,
  doi =                 {10.1016/j.ic.2015.03.001},
}
[Ves15] Steen Vester. On the Complexity of Model-checking Branching and Alternating-time Temporal Logics in One-counter systems. In ATVA'15, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 9364, pages 361-377. Springer-Verlag, October 2015.
@inproceedings{atva2015-Ves,
  author =              {Vester, Steen},
  title =               {On the Complexity of Model-checking Branching and
                         Alternating-time Temporal Logics in One-counter
                         systems},
  editor =              {Finkbeiner, Bernd and Pu, Geguang and Zhang, Lijun},
  booktitle =           {{P}roceedings of the 13th {I}nternational
                         {S}ymposium on {A}utomated {T}echnology for
                         {V}erification and {A}nalysis ({ATVA}'15)},
  acronym =             {{ATVA}'15},
  publisher =           {Springer-Verlag},
  series =              {Lecture Notes in Computer Science},
  volume =              {9364},
  pages =               {361-377},
  year =                {2015},
  month =               oct,
  doi =                 {10.1007/978-3-319-24953-7_27},
}
[WSH15] Farn Wang, Sven Schewe, and Chung-Hao Huang. An extension of ATL with Strategy Interaction. ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems 37(3). ACM Press, June 2015.
@article{toplas37(3)-WSH,
  author =              {Wang, Farn and Schewe, Sven and Huang, Chung-Hao},
  title =               {An~extension of~{ATL} with Strategy Interaction},
  publisher =           {ACM Press},
  journal =             {ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and
                         Systems},
  volume =              {37},
  number =              {3},
  year =                {2015},
  month =               jun,
  doi =                 {10.1145/2734117},
}
[Zeu15] Thomas Zeume. Small Dynamic Complexity Classes. PhD thesis, Dortmund University, Germany, May 2015.
@phdthesis{phd-zeume,
  author =              {Zeume, Thomas},
  title =               {Small Dynamic Complexity Classes},
  year =                {2015},
  month =               may,
  school =              {Dortmund University, Germany},
  type =                {{PhD} thesis},
}
2014
[BLM14] Patricia Bouyer, Kim Guldstrand Larsen, and Nicolas Markey. Lower-Bound Constrained Runs in Weighted Timed Automata. Performance Evaluation 73:91-109. Elsevier, March 2014.
Abstract

We investigate a number of problems related to infinite runs of weighted timed automata (with a single weight variable), subject to lower-bound constraints on the accumulated weight. Closing an open problem from an earlier paper, we show that the existence of an infinite lower-bound-constrained run is–for us somewhat unexpectedly–undecidable for weighted timed automata with four or more clocks.

This undecidability result assumes a fixed and known initial credit. We show that the related problem of existence of an initial credit for which there exists a feasible run is decidable in PSPACE. We also investigate the variant of these problems where only bounded-duration runs are considered, showing that this restriction makes our original problem decidable in NEXPTIME. We prove that the universal versions of all those problems (i.e, checking that all the considered runs satisfy the lower-bound constraint) are decidable in PSPACE.

Finally, we extend this study to multi-weighted timed automata: the existence of a feasible run becomes undecidable even for bounded duration, but the existence of initial credits remains decidable (in PSPACE).

@article{peva73()-BLM,
  author =              {Bouyer, Patricia and Larsen, Kim Guldstrand and
                         Markey, Nicolas},
  title =               {Lower-Bound Constrained Runs in Weighted Timed
                         Automata},
  publisher =           {Elsevier},
  journal =             {Performance Evaluation},
  volume =              {73},
  pages =               {91-109},
  year =                {2014},
  month =               mar,
  doi =                 {10.1016/j.peva.2013.11.002},
  abstract =            {We investigate a number of problems related to
                         infinite runs of weighted timed automata (with a
                         single weight variable), subject to lower-bound
                         constraints on the accumulated weight. Closing an
                         open problem from an earlier paper, we show that the
                         existence of an infinite lower-bound-constrained run
                         is--for us somewhat unexpectedly--undecidable for
                         weighted timed automata with four or more
                         clocks.\par This undecidability result assumes a
                         fixed and known initial credit. We show that the
                         related problem of existence of an initial credit
                         for which there exists a feasible run is decidable
                         in PSPACE. We also investigate the variant of these
                         problems where only bounded-duration runs are
                         considered, showing that this restriction makes our
                         original problem decidable in NEXPTIME. We prove
                         that the universal versions of all those problems
                         (i.e, checking that all the considered runs satisfy
                         the lower-bound constraint) are decidable in
                         PSPACE.\par Finally, we extend this study to
                         multi-weighted timed automata: the existence of a
                         feasible run becomes undecidable even for bounded
                         duration, but the existence of initial credits
                         remains decidable (in~PSPACE).},
}
[LM14] François Laroussinie and Nicolas Markey. Quantified CTL: expressiveness and complexity. Logical Methods in Computer Science 10(4). December 2014.
Abstract

While it was defined long ago, the extension of CTL with quantification over atomic propositions has never been studied extensively. Considering two different semantics (depending whether propositional quantification refers to the Kripke structure or to its unwinding tree), we study its expressiveness (showing in particular that QCTL coincides with Monadic Second-Order Logic for both semantics) and characterise the complexity of its model-checking and satisfiability problems, depending on the number of nested propositional quantifiers (showing that the structure semantics populates the polynomial hierarchy while the tree semantics populates the exponential hierarchy).

@article{lmcs10(4)-LM,
  author =              {Laroussinie, Fran{\c c}ois and Markey, Nicolas},
  title =               {Quantified~{CTL}: expressiveness and complexity},
  journal =             {Logical Methods in Computer Science},
  volume =              {10},
  number =              {4},
  year =                {2014},
  month =               dec,
  doi =                 {10.2168/LMCS-10(4:17)2014},
  abstract =            {While it was defined long ago, the extension of CTL
                         with quantification over atomic propositions has
                         never been studied extensively. Considering two
                         different semantics (depending whether propositional
                         quantification refers to the Kripke structure or to
                         its unwinding tree), we~study its expressiveness
                         (showing in particular that QCTL coincides with
                         Monadic Second-Order Logic for both semantics) and
                         characterise the complexity of its model-checking
                         and satisfiability problems, depending on the number
                         of nested propositional quantifiers (showing that
                         the structure semantics populates the polynomial
                         hierarchy while the tree semantics populates the
                         exponential hierarchy).},
}
[SBM14] Ocan Sankur, Patricia Bouyer, and Nicolas Markey. Shrinking Timed Automata. Information and Computation 234:107-132. Elsevier, February 2014.
Abstract

We define and study a new approach to the implementability of timed automata, where the semantics is perturbed by imprecisions and finite frequency of the hardware. In order to circumvent these effects, we introduce parametric shrinking of clock constraints, which corresponds to tightening the guards. We propose symbolic procedures to decide the existence of (and then compute) parameters under which the shrunk version of a given timed automaton is non-blocking and can time-abstract simulate the exact semantics. We then define an implementation semantics for timed automata with a digital clock and positive reaction times, and show that for shrinkable timed automata, non-blockingness and time-abstract simulation are preserved in implementation.

@article{icomp234()-SBM,
  author =              {Sankur, Ocan and Bouyer, Patricia and Markey,
                         Nicolas},
  title =               {Shrinking Timed Automata},
  publisher =           {Elsevier},
  journal =             {Information and Computation},
  volume =              {234},
  pages =               {107-132},
  year =                {2014},
  month =               feb,
  doi =                 {10.1016/j.ic.2014.01.002},
  abstract =            {We define and study a new approach to the
                         implementability of timed automata, where the
                         semantics is perturbed by imprecisions and finite
                         frequency of the hardware. In order to circumvent
                         these effects, we introduce \emph{parametric
                         shrinking} of clock constraints, which corresponds
                         to tightening the guards. We propose symbolic
                         procedures to decide the existence of (and then
                         compute) parameters under which the shrunk version
                         of a given timed automaton is non-blocking and can
                         time-abstract simulate the exact semantics. We then
                         define an implementation semantics for timed
                         automata with a digital clock and positive reaction
                         times, and show that for shrinkable timed automata,
                         non-blockingness and time-abstract simulation are
                         preserved in implementation.},
}
[BGM14] Patricia Bouyer, Patrick Gardy, and Nicolas Markey. Quantitative verification of weighted Kripke structures. In ATVA'14, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 8837, pages 64-80. Springer-Verlag, November 2014.
Abstract

Extending formal verification techniques to handle quantitative aspects, both for the models and for the properties to be checked, has become a central research topic over the last twenty years. Following several recent works, we study model checking for (one-dimensional) weighted Kripke structures with positive and negative weights, and temporal logics constraining the total and/or average weight. We prove decidability when only accumulated weight is constrained, while allowing average-weight constraints alone already is undecidable.

@inproceedings{atva2014-BGM,
  author =              {Bouyer, Patricia and Gardy, Patrick and Markey,
                         Nicolas},
  title =               {Quantitative verification of weighted {K}ripke
                         structures},
  editor =              {Cassez, Franck and Raskin, Jean-Fran{\c c}ois},
  booktitle =           {{P}roceedings of the 12th {I}nternational
                         {S}ymposium on {A}utomated {T}echnology for
                         {V}erification and {A}nalysis ({ATVA}'14)},
  acronym =             {{ATVA}'14},
  publisher =           {Springer-Verlag},
  series =              {Lecture Notes in Computer Science},
  volume =              {8837},
  pages =               {64-80},
  year =                {2014},
  month =               nov,
  doi =                 {10.1007/978-3-319-11936-6_6},
  abstract =            {Extending formal verification techniques to handle
                         quantitative aspects, both for the models and for
                         the properties to be checked, has become a central
                         research topic over the last twenty years. Following
                         several recent works, we study model checking for
                         (one-dimensional) weighted Kripke structures with
                         positive and negative weights, and temporal logics
                         constraining the total and/or average weight. We
                         prove decidability when only accumulated weight is
                         constrained, while allowing average-weight
                         constraints alone already is undecidable.},
}
[BMM14] Patricia Bouyer, Nicolas Markey, and Raj Mohan Matteplackel. Averaging in LTL. In CONCUR'14, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 8704, pages 266-280. Springer-Verlag, September 2014.
Abstract

For the accurate analysis of computerized systems, powerful quantitative formalisms have been designed, together with efficient verification algorithms. However, verification has mostly remained boolean—either a property is true, or it is false. We believe that this is too crude in a context where quantitative information and constraints are crucial: correctness should be quantified!

In a recent line of works, several authors have proposed quantitative semantics for temporal logics, using e.g. discounting modalities (which give less importance to distant events). In the present paper, we define and study a quantitative semantics of LTL with averaging modalities, either on the long run or within an until modality. This, in a way, relaxes the classical Boolean semantics of LTL, and provides a measure of certain properties of a model. We prove that computing and even approximating the value of a formula in this logic is undecidable.

@inproceedings{concur2014-BMM,
  author =              {Bouyer, Patricia and Markey, Nicolas and
                         Matteplackel, Raj~Mohan},
  title =               {Averaging in~{LTL}},
  editor =              {Baldan, Paolo and Gorla, Daniele},
  booktitle =           {{P}roceedings of the 25th {I}nternational
                         {C}onference on {C}oncurrency {T}heory
                         ({CONCUR}'14)},
  acronym =             {{CONCUR}'14},
  publisher =           {Springer-Verlag},
  series =              {Lecture Notes in Computer Science},
  volume =              {8704},
  pages =               {266-280},
  year =                {2014},
  month =               sep,
  doi =                 {10.1007/978-3-662-44584-6_19},
  abstract =            {For the accurate analysis of computerized systems,
                         powerful quantitative formalisms have been designed,
                         together with efficient verification algorithms.
                         However, verification has mostly remained
                         boolean---either a property is~true, or it~is false.
                         We~believe that this is too crude in a context where
                         quantitative information and constraints are
                         crucial: correctness should be quantified!\par In a
                         recent line of works, several authors have proposed
                         quantitative semantics for temporal logics, using
                         e.g. \emph{discounting} modalities (which give less
                         importance to distant events). In~the present paper,
                         we define and study a quantitative semantics of~LTL
                         with \emph{averaging} modalities, either on the long
                         run or within an until modality. This, in a way,
                         relaxes the classical Boolean semantics of~LTL, and
                         provides a measure of certain properties of a model.
                         We~prove that computing and even approximating the
                         value of a formula in this logic is undecidable.},
}
[BMS14] Patricia Bouyer, Nicolas Markey, and Daniel Stan. Mixed Nash Equilibria in Concurrent Games. In FSTTCS'14, Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics 29, pages 351-363. Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik, December 2014.
Abstract

We study mixed-strategy Nash equilibria in multiplayer deterministic concurrent games played on graphs, with terminal-reward payoffs (that is, absorbing states with a value for each player). We show undecidability of the existence of a constrained Nash equilibrium (the constraint requiring that one player should have maximal payoff), with only three players and 0/1-rewards (i.e., reachability objectives). This has to be compared with the undecidability result by Ummels and Wojtczak for turn-based games which requires 14 players and general rewards. Our proof has various interesting consequences: (i) the undecidability of the existence of a Nash equilibrium with a constraint on the social welfare; (ii) the undecidability of the existence of an (unconstrained) Nash equilibrium in concurrent games with terminal-reward payoffs.

@inproceedings{fsttcs2014-BMS,
  author =              {Bouyer, Patricia and Markey, Nicolas and Stan,
                         Daniel},
  title =               {Mixed {N}ash Equilibria in Concurrent Games},
  editor =              {Raman, Venkatesh and Suresh, S. P.},
  booktitle =           {{P}roceedings of the 34th {C}onference on
                         {F}oundations of {S}oftware {T}echnology and
                         {T}heoretical {C}omputer {S}cience ({FSTTCS}'14)},
  acronym =             {{FSTTCS}'14},
  publisher =           {Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  series =              {Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics},
  volume =              {29},
  pages =               {351-363},
  year =                {2014},
  month =               dec,
  doi =                 {10.4230/LIPIcs.FSTTCS.2014.351},
  abstract =            {We study mixed-strategy Nash equilibria in
                         multiplayer deterministic concurrent games played on
                         graphs, with terminal-reward payoffs (that is,
                         absorbing states with a value for each player). We
                         show undecidability of the existence of a
                         constrained Nash equilibrium (the constraint
                         requiring that one player should have maximal
                         payoff), with only three players and 0/1-rewards
                         (i.e., reachability objectives). This has to be
                         compared with the undecidability result by Ummels
                         and Wojtczak for turn-based games which requires 14
                         players and general rewards. Our proof has various
                         interesting consequences: (i)~the~undecidability of
                         the existence of a Nash equilibrium with a
                         constraint on the social welfare;
                         (ii)~the~undecidability of the existence of an
                         (unconstrained) Nash equilibrium in concurrent games
                         with terminal-reward payoffs.},
}
[BMV14] Patricia Bouyer, Nicolas Markey, and Steen Vester. Nash Equilibria in Symmetric Games with Partial Observation. In SR'14, Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science 146, pages 49-55. March 2014.
Abstract

We investigate a model for representing large multiplayer games, which satisfy strong symmetry properties. This model is made of multiple copies of an arena; each player plays in his own arena, and can partially observe what the other players do. Therefore, this game has partial information and symmetry constraints, which make the computation of Nash equilibria difficult. We show several undecidability results, and for bounded-memory strategies, we precisely characterize the complexity of computing pure Nash equilibria (for qualitative objectives) in this game model.

@inproceedings{sr2014-BMV,
  author =              {Bouyer, Patricia and Markey, Nicolas and Vester,
                         Steen},
  title =               {Nash Equilibria in Symmetric Games with Partial
                         Observation},
  booktitle =           {{P}roceedings of the 2nd {I}nternational {W}orkshop
                         on {S}trategic {R}easoning ({SR}'14)},
  acronym =             {{SR}'14},
  series =              {Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer
                         Science},
  volume =              {146},
  pages =               {49-55},
  year =                {2014},
  month =               mar,
  doi =                 {10.4204/EPTCS.146.7},
  abstract =            {We investigate a model for representing large
                         multiplayer games, which satisfy strong symmetry
                         properties. This model is made of multiple copies of
                         an arena; each player plays in his own arena, and
                         can partially observe what the other players do.
                         Therefore, this game has partial information and
                         symmetry constraints, which make the computation of
                         Nash equilibria difficult. We show several
                         undecidability results, and for bounded-memory
                         strategies, we precisely characterize the complexity
                         of computing pure Nash equilibria (for qualitative
                         objectives) in this game model.},
}
[DJL+14] Laurent Doyen, Line Juhl, Kim Guldstrand Larsen, Nicolas Markey, and Mahsa Shirmohammadi. Synchronizing words for weighted and timed automata. In FSTTCS'14, Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics 29, pages 121-132. Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik, December 2014.
Abstract

The problem of synchronizing automata is concerned with the existence of a word that sends all states ofM the automaton to one and the same state. This problem has classically been studied for complete deterministic finite automata, with the existence problem being NLOGSPACE-complete.

In this paper we consider synchronizing-word problems for weighted and timed automata. We consider the synchronization problem in several variants and combinations of these, including deterministic and non-deterministic timed and weighted automata, synchronization to unique location with possibly different clock valuations or accumulated weights, as well as synchronization with a safety condition forbidding the automaton to visit states outside a safety-set during synchronization (e.g. energy constraints). For deterministic weighted automata, the synchronization problem is proven PSPACE-complete under energy constraints, and in 3-EXPSPACE under general safety constraints. For timed automata the synchronization problems are shown to be PSPACE-complete in the deterministic case, and undecidable in the non-deterministic case.

@inproceedings{fsttcs2014-DJLMS,
  author =              {Doyen, Laurent and Juhl, Line and Larsen, Kim
                         Guldstrand and Markey, Nicolas and Shirmohammadi,
                         Mahsa},
  title =               {Synchronizing words for weighted and timed automata},
  editor =              {Raman, Venkatesh and Suresh, S. P.},
  booktitle =           {{P}roceedings of the 34th {C}onference on
                         {F}oundations of {S}oftware {T}echnology and
                         {T}heoretical {C}omputer {S}cience ({FSTTCS}'14)},
  acronym =             {{FSTTCS}'14},
  publisher =           {Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  series =              {Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics},
  volume =              {29},
  pages =               {121-132},
  year =                {2014},
  month =               dec,
  doi =                 {10.4230/LIPIcs.FSTTCS.2014.121},
  abstract =            {The problem of synchronizing automata is concerned
                         with the existence of a word that sends all states
                         ofM the automaton to one and the same state. This
                         problem has classically been studied for complete
                         deterministic finite automata, with the existence
                         problem being NLOGSPACE-complete.\par In this paper
                         we consider synchronizing-word problems for weighted
                         and timed automata. We consider the synchronization
                         problem in several variants and combinations of
                         these, including deterministic and non-deterministic
                         timed and weighted automata, synchronization to
                         unique location with possibly different clock
                         valuations or accumulated weights, as well as
                         synchronization with a safety condition forbidding
                         the automaton to visit states outside a safety-set
                         during synchronization (e.g. energy constraints).
                         For deterministic weighted automata, the
                         synchronization problem is proven PSPACE-complete
                         under energy constraints, and in 3-EXPSPACE under
                         general safety constraints. For timed automata the
                         synchronization problems are shown to be
                         PSPACE-complete in the deterministic case, and
                         undecidable in the non-deterministic case.},
}
[MV14] Nicolas Markey and Steen Vester. Symmetry Reduction in Infinite Games with Finite Branching. In ATVA'14, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 8837, pages 281-296. Springer-Verlag, November 2014.
Abstract

Symmetry reductions have been applied extensively for the verification of finite-state concurrent systems and hardware designs using model-checking of temporal logics such as LTL, CTL and CTL*, as well as real-time and probabilistic-system model-checking. In this paper we extend the technique to handle infinite-state games on graphs with finite branching where the objectives of the players can be very general. As particular applications, it is shown that the technique can be applied to reduce the state space in parity games as well as when doing model-checking of the temporal logic ATL*.

@inproceedings{atva2014-MV,
  author =              {Markey, Nicolas and Vester, Steen},
  title =               {Symmetry Reduction in Infinite Games with Finite
                         Branching},
  editor =              {Cassez, Franck and Raskin, Jean-Fran{\c c}ois},
  booktitle =           {{P}roceedings of the 12th {I}nternational
                         {S}ymposium on {A}utomated {T}echnology for
                         {V}erification and {A}nalysis ({ATVA}'14)},
  acronym =             {{ATVA}'14},
  publisher =           {Springer-Verlag},
  series =              {Lecture Notes in Computer Science},
  volume =              {8837},
  pages =               {281-296},
  year =                {2014},
  month =               nov,
  doi =                 {10.1007/978-3-319-11936-6_21},
  abstract =            {Symmetry reductions have been applied extensively
                         for the verification of finite-state concurrent
                         systems and hardware designs using model-checking of
                         temporal logics such as LTL, CTL and
                         CTL\textsuperscript{*}, as well as real-time and
                         probabilistic-system model-checking. In this paper
                         we extend the technique to handle infinite-state
                         games on graphs with finite branching where the
                         objectives of the players can be very general. As
                         particular applications, it is shown that the
                         technique can be applied to reduce the state space
                         in parity games as well as when doing model-checking
                         of the temporal logic ATL\textsuperscript{*}.},
}
[SLS+14] Youcheng Sun, Giuseppe Lipari, Romain Soulat, Laurent Fribourg, and Nicolas Markey. Component-Based Analysis of Hierarchical Scheduling using Linear Hybrid Automata. In RTCSA'14. IEEE Comp. Soc. Press, August 2014.
Abstract

Formal methods (e.g. Timed Automata or Linear Hybrid Automata) can be used to analyse a real-time system by performing a reachability analysis on the model. The advantage of using formal methods is that they are more expressive than classical analytic models used in schedulability analysis. For example, it is possible to express state-dependent behaviour, arbitrary activation patterns, etc.

In this paper we use the formalism of Linear Hybrid Automata to encode a hierarchical scheduling system. In particular, we model a dynamic server algorithm and the tasks contained within, abstracting away the rest of the system, thus enabling component-based scheduling analysis. We prove the correctness of the model and the decidability of the reachability analysis for the case of periodic tasks. Then, we compare the results of our model against classical schedulability analysis techniques, showing that our analysis performs better than analytic methods in terms of resource utilisation. We further present two case studies: a component with state-dependent tasks, and a simplified model of a real avionics system. Finally, through extensive tests with various configurations, we demonstrate that this approach is usable for medium size components.

@inproceedings{rtcsa2014-SLSFM,
  author =              {Sun, Youcheng and Lipari, Giuseppe and Soulat,
                         Romain and Fribourg, Laurent and Markey, Nicolas},
  title =               {Component-Based Analysis of Hierarchical Scheduling
                         using Linear Hybrid Automata},
  booktitle =           {{P}roceedings of the 20th {I}nternational
                         {C}onference on {R}eal-{T}ime {C}omputing {S}ystems
                         and {A}pplications ({RTCSA}'14)},
  acronym =             {{RTCSA}'14},
  publisher =           {IEEE Comp. Soc. Press},
  year =                {2014},
  month =               aug,
  doi =                 {10.1109/RTCSA.2014.6910502},
  abstract =            {Formal methods (e.g. Timed Automata or Linear Hybrid
                         Automata) can be used to analyse a real-time system
                         by performing a reachability analysis on the model.
                         The advantage of using formal methods is that they
                         are more expressive than classical analytic models
                         used in schedulability analysis. For example, it is
                         possible to express state-dependent behaviour,
                         arbitrary activation patterns,~etc.\par In this
                         paper we use the formalism of Linear Hybrid Automata
                         to encode a hierarchical scheduling system. In
                         particular, we model a dynamic server algorithm and
                         the tasks contained within, abstracting away the
                         rest of the system, thus enabling component-based
                         scheduling analysis. We prove the correctness of the
                         model and the decidability of the reachability
                         analysis for the case of periodic tasks. Then, we
                         compare the results of our model against classical
                         schedulability analysis techniques, showing that our
                         analysis performs better than analytic methods in
                         terms of resource utilisation. We further present
                         two case studies: a~component with state-dependent
                         tasks, and a simplified model of a real avionics
                         system. Finally, through extensive tests with
                         various configurations, we demonstrate that this
                         approach is usable for medium size components.},
}
[ABK14] Shaull Almagor, Udi Boker, and Orna Kupferman. Discounting in LTL. In TACAS'14, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 8413, pages 424-439. Springer-Verlag, April 2014.
@inproceedings{tacas2014-ABK,
  author =              {Almagor, Shaull and Boker, Udi and Kupferman, Orna},
  title =               {Discounting in~{LTL}},
  editor =              {{\'A}brah{\'a}m, Erikz and Havelund, Klaus},
  booktitle =           {{P}roceedings of the 20th {I}nternational
                         {C}onference on {T}ools and {A}lgorithms for
                         {C}onstruction and {A}nalysis of {S}ystems
                         ({TACAS}'14)},
  acronym =             {{TACAS}'14},
  publisher =           {Springer-Verlag},
  series =              {Lecture Notes in Computer Science},
  volume =              {8413},
  pages =               {424-439},
  year =                {2014},
  month =               apr,
  doi =                 {10.1007/978-3-642-54862-8_37},
}
[AJK+14] Benjamin Aminof, Swen Jacobs, Ayrat Khalimov, and Sasha Rubin. Parametrized Model Checking of Token-Passing Systems. In VMCAI'14, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 8318, pages 262-281. Springer-Verlag, January 2014.
@inproceedings{vmcai2014-AJKR,
  author =              {Aminof, Benjamin and Jacobs, Swen and Khalimov,
                         Ayrat and Rubin, Sasha},
  title =               {Parametrized Model Checking of Token-Passing
                         Systems},
  editor =              {McMillan, Kenneth L. and Rival, Xavier},
  booktitle =           {{P}roceedings of the 15th {I}nternational {W}orkshop
                         on {V}erification, {M}odel {C}hecking, and
                         {A}bstract {I}nterpretation ({VMCAI}'14)},
  acronym =             {{VMCAI}'14},
  publisher =           {Springer-Verlag},
  series =              {Lecture Notes in Computer Science},
  volume =              {8318},
  pages =               {262-281},
  year =                {2014},
  month =               jan,
  doi =                 {10.1007/978-3-642-54013-4_15},
}
[AKR+14] Benjamin Aminof, Tomer Kotek, Sasha Rubin, Francesco Spegni, and Helmut Veith. Parameterized Model Checking of Rendezvous Systems. In CONCUR'14, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 8704, pages 109-124. Springer-Verlag, September 2014.
@inproceedings{concur2014-AKRSV,
  author =              {Aminof, Benjamin and Kotek, Tomer and Rubin, Sasha
                         and Spegni, Francesco and Veith, Helmut},
  title =               {Parameterized Model Checking of Rendezvous Systems},
  editor =              {Baldan, Paolo and Gorla, Daniele},
  booktitle =           {{P}roceedings of the 25th {I}nternational
                         {C}onference on {C}oncurrency {T}heory
                         ({CONCUR}'14)},
  acronym =             {{CONCUR}'14},
  publisher =           {Springer-Verlag},
  series =              {Lecture Notes in Computer Science},
  volume =              {8704},
  pages =               {109-124},
  year =                {2014},
  month =               sep,
  doi =                 {10.1007/978-3-662-44584-6_9},
}
[AR14] Benjamin Aminof and Sasha Rubin. First Cycle Games. In SR'14, Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science 146, pages 83-90. March 2014.
@inproceedings{sr2014-AR,
  author =              {Aminof, Benjamin and Rubin, Sasha},
  title =               {First Cycle Games},
  booktitle =           {{P}roceedings of the 2nd {I}nternational {W}orkshop
                         on {S}trategic {R}easoning ({SR}'14)},
  acronym =             {{SR}'14},
  series =              {Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer
                         Science},
  volume =              {146},
  pages =               {83-90},
  year =                {2014},
  month =               mar,
  doi =                 {10.4204/EPTCS.146.11},
}
[BBB+14] Nathalie Bertrand, Patricia Bouyer, Thomas Brihaye, Quentin Menet, Christel Baier, Marcus Größer, and Marcin Jurdziński. Stochastic Timed Automata. Logical Methods in Computer Science 10(4). December 2014.
@article{lmcs10(4)-BBBMBGJ,
  author =              {Bertrand, Nathalie and Bouyer, Patricia and Brihaye,
                         {\relax Th}omas and Menet, Quentin and Baier,
                         {\relax Ch}ristel and Gr{\"o}{\ss}er, Marcus and
                         Jurdzi{\'n}ski, Marcin},
  title =               {Stochastic Timed Automata},
  journal =             {Logical Methods in Computer Science},
  volume =              {10},
  number =              {4},
  year =                {2014},
  month =               dec,
  doi =                 {10.2168/LMCS-10(4:6)2014},
}
[BBD14] Thomas Brihaye, Véronique Bruyère, and Julie De Pril. On Equilibria in Quantitative Games with Reachability/Safety Objectives. Theory of Computing Systems 54(2):150-189. Springer-Verlag, February 2014.
@article{tcsyst54(2)-BBD,
  author =              {Brihaye, {\relax Th}omas and Bruy{\`e}re,
                         V{\'e}ronique and De{~}Pril, Julie},
  title =               {On Equilibria in Quantitative Games with
                         Reachability{{\slash}}Safety Objectives},
  publisher =           {Springer-Verlag},
  journal =             {Theory of Computing Systems},
  volume =              {54},
  number =              {2},
  pages =               {150-189},
  year =                {2014},
  month =               feb,
}
[BBJ+14] Dimitri Bohlender, Harold Bruintjes, Sebastian Junges, Jens Katelaan, Viet Yen Nguyen, and Thomas Noll. A Review of Statistical Model Checking Pitfalls on Real-Time Stochastic Models. In ISoLA'14, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 8803, pages 177-192. Springer-Verlag, October 2014.
@inproceedings{BBJKNN-isola2014,
  author =              {Bohlender, Dimitri and Bruintjes, Harold and Junges,
                         Sebastian and Katelaan, Jens and Nguyen, Viet Yen
                         and Noll, Thomas},
  title =               {A~Review of Statistical Model Checking Pitfalls on
                         Real-Time Stochastic Models},
  editor =              {Margaria, Tiziana and Steffen, Bernhard},
  booktitle =           {{P}roceedings of the 6th {I}nternational {S}ymposium
                         on {L}everaging {A}pplications of {F}ormal
                         {M}ethods, {V}erification and {V}alidation
                         ({IS}o{LA}'14)~-- {P}art~{II}: {S}pecialized
                         {T}echniques and {A}pplications},
  acronym =             {{IS}o{LA}'14},
  publisher =           {Springer-Verlag},
  series =              {Lecture Notes in Computer Science},
  volume =              {8803},
  pages =               {177-192},
  year =                {2014},
  month =               oct,
  doi =                 {10.1007/978-3-662-45231-8_13},
}
[BCH+14] Udi Boker, Krishnendu Chatterjee, Thomas A. Henzinger, and Orna Kupferman. Temporal Specifications with Accumulative Values. ACM Transactions on Computational Logic 15(4):27:1-27:25. ACM Press, August 2014.
@article{tocl15(4)-BCHK,
  author =              {Boker, Udi and Chatterjee, Krishnendu and Henzinger,
                         Thomas A. and Kupferman, Orna},
  title =               {Temporal Specifications with Accumulative Values},
  publisher =           {ACM Press},
  journal =             {ACM Transactions on Computational Logic},
  volume =              {15},
  number =              {4},
  pages =               {27:1-27:25},
  year =                {2014},
  month =               aug,
  doi =                 {10.1145/2629686},
}
[BDL+14] Peter Bulychev, Alexandre David, Kim Guldstrand Larsen, and Guangyuan Li. Efficient Controller Synthesis for a fragment of MTL0,&infin. Acta Informatica 51(3-4):165-192. Springer-Verlag, June 2014.
@article{acta51(3-4)-BDLL,
  author =              {Bulychev, Peter and David, Alexandre and Larsen, Kim
                         Guldstrand and Li, Guangyuan},
  title =               {Efficient Controller Synthesis for a fragment of
                         {{\(\textsf{MTL}_{0,\infty}\)}}},
  publisher =           {Springer-Verlag},
  journal =             {Acta Informatica},
  volume =              {51},
  number =              {3-4},
  pages =               {165-192},
  year =                {2014},
  month =               jun,
  doi =                 {10.1007/s00236-013-0189-z},
}
[BFS14] Nathalie Bertrand, Paulin Fournier, and Arnaud Sangnier. Playing with Probabilities in Reconfigurable Broadcast Networks. In FoSSaCS'14, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 8412, pages 134-148. Springer-Verlag, April 2014.
@inproceedings{fossacs2014-BFS,
  author =              {Bertrand, Nathalie and Fournier, Paulin and
                         Sangnier, Arnaud},
  title =               {Playing with Probabilities in Reconfigurable
                         Broadcast Networks},
  editor =              {Muscholl, Anca},
  booktitle =           {{P}roceedings of the 17th {I}nternational
                         {C}onference on {F}oundations of {S}oftware
                         {S}cience and {C}omputation {S}tructure
                         ({FoSSaCS}'14)},
  acronym =             {{FoSSaCS}'14},
  publisher =           {Springer-Verlag},
  series =              {Lecture Notes in Computer Science},
  volume =              {8412},
  pages =               {134-148},
  year =                {2014},
  month =               apr,
  doi =                 {10.1007/978-3-642-54830-7_9},
}
[BGN+14] Thomas Brihaye, Gilles Geeraerts, Shankara Narayanan Krishna, Lakshmi Manasa, Benjamin Monmege, and Ashutosh Trivedi. Adding negative prices to priced timed games. In CONCUR'14, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 8704, pages 560-575. Springer-Verlag, September 2014.
@inproceedings{concur2014-BGKMMT,
  author =              {Brihaye, {\relax Th}omas and Geeraerts, Gilles and
                         Narayanan Krishna, Shankara and Manasa, Lakshmi and
                         Monmege, Benjamin and Trivedi, Ashutosh},
  title =               {Adding negative prices to priced timed games},
  editor =              {Baldan, Paolo and Gorla, Daniele},
  booktitle =           {{P}roceedings of the 25th {I}nternational
                         {C}onference on {C}oncurrency {T}heory
                         ({CONCUR}'14)},
  acronym =             {{CONCUR}'14},
  publisher =           {Springer-Verlag},
  series =              {Lecture Notes in Computer Science},
  volume =              {8704},
  pages =               {560-575},
  year =                {2014},
  month =               sep,
  doi =                 {10.1007/978-3-662-44584-6_38},
}
[BGS14] Benedikt Bollig, Paul Gastin, and Jana Schubert. Parameterized verification of communicating automata under context bounds. In RP'14, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 8762, pages 45-57. Springer-Verlag, September 2014.
@inproceedings{rp2014-BGS,
  author =              {Bollig, Benedikt and Gastin, Paul and Schubert,
                         Jana},
  title =               {Parameterized verification of communicating automata
                         under context bounds},
  editor =              {Ouaknine, Jo{\"e}l and Potapov, Igor and Worrell,
                         James},
  booktitle =           {{P}roceedings of the 8th {W}orkshop on
                         {R}eachability {P}roblems in {C}omputational
                         {M}odels ({RP}'14)},
  acronym =             {{RP}'14},
  publisher =           {Springer-Verlag},
  series =              {Lecture Notes in Computer Science},
  volume =              {8762},
  pages =               {45-57},
  year =                {2014},
  month =               sep,
  doi =                 {10.1007/978-3-319-11439-2_4},
}
[BHL14] Nathalie Bertrand, Serge Haddad, and Engel Lefaucheux. Foundation of Diagnosis and Predictability in Probabilistic Systems. In FSTTCS'14, Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics 29, pages 417-429. Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik, December 2014.
@inproceedings{fsttcs2014-BHL,
  author =              {Bertrand, Nathalie and Haddad, Serge and Lefaucheux,
                         Engel},
  title =               {Foundation of Diagnosis and Predictability in
                         Probabilistic Systems},
  editor =              {Raman, Venkatesh and Suresh, S. P.},
  booktitle =           {{P}roceedings of the 34th {C}onference on
                         {F}oundations of {S}oftware {T}echnology and
                         {T}heoretical {C}omputer {S}cience ({FSTTCS}'14)},
  acronym =             {{FSTTCS}'14},
  publisher =           {Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  series =              {Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics},
  volume =              {29},
  pages =               {417-429},
  year =                {2014},
  month =               dec,
  doi =                 {10.4230/LIPIcs.FSTTCS.2014.417},
}
[BHM14] Bernard Boigelot, Frédéric Herbreteau, and Isabelle Mainz. Acceleration of Affine Hybrid Transformations. In ATVA'14, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 8837, pages 31-46. Springer-Verlag, November 2014.
@inproceedings{atva2014-BHM,
  author =              {Boigelot, Bernard and Herbreteau, Fr{\'e}d{\'e}ric
                         and Mainz, Isabelle},
  title =               {Acceleration of Affine Hybrid Transformations},
  editor =              {Cassez, Franck and Raskin, Jean-Fran{\c c}ois},
  booktitle =           {{P}roceedings of the 12th {I}nternational
                         {S}ymposium on {A}utomated {T}echnology for
                         {V}erification and {A}nalysis ({ATVA}'14)},
  acronym =             {{ATVA}'14},
  publisher =           {Springer-Verlag},
  series =              {Lecture Notes in Computer Science},
  volume =              {8837},
  pages =               {31-46},
  year =                {2014},
  month =               nov,
  doi =                 {10.1007/978-3-319-11936-6_4},
}
[BKK+14] Tomáš Brázdil, David Klaška, Antonín Kučera, and Petr Novotný. Minimizing Running Costs in Consumption Systems. In CAV'14, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 8559, pages 457-472. Springer-Verlag, July 2014.
@inproceedings{cav2014-BKKN,
  author =              {Br{\'a}zdil, Tom{\'a}{\v s} and Kla{\v{s}}ka, David
                         and Ku{\v c}era, Anton{\'\i}n and Novotn{\'y}, Petr},
  title =               {Minimizing Running Costs in Consumption Systems},
  editor =              {Biere, Armin and Bloem, Roderick},
  booktitle =           {{P}roceedings of the 26th {I}nternational
                         {C}onference on {C}omputer {A}ided {V}erification
                         ({CAV}'14)},
  acronym =             {{CAV}'14},
  publisher =           {Springer-Verlag},
  series =              {Lecture Notes in Computer Science},
  volume =              {8559},
  pages =               {457-472},
  year =                {2014},
  month =               jul,
}
[BMR14] Véronique Bruyère, Noëmie Meunier, and Jean-François Raskin. Secure Equilibria in Weighted Games. In CSL/ LICS'14. ACM Press, July 2014.
@inproceedings{csllics2014-BMR,
  author =              {Bruy{\`e}re, V{\'e}ronique and Meunier, No{\"e}mie
                         and Raskin, Jean-Fran{\c c}ois},
  title =               {Secure Equilibria in Weighted Games},
  booktitle =           {{P}roceedings of the Joint Meeting of the 23rd
                         {EACSL} {A}nnual {C}onference on {C}omputer
                         {S}cience {L}ogic and the 29th {A}nnual {ACM\slash
                         IEEE} {S}ymposium on {L}ogic {I}n {C}omputer
                         {S}cience ({CSL\slash LICS}'14)},
  acronym =             {{CSL\slash LICS}'14},
  publisher =           {ACM Press},
  chapter =             {26},
  year =                {2014},
  month =               jul,
  doi =                 {10.1145/2603088.2603109},
}
[BRS14] Romain Brenguier, Jean-François Raskin, and Mathieu Sassolas. The complexity of admissibility in omega-regular games. In CSL/ LICS'14, pages 23:1-23:10. ACM Press, July 2014.
@inproceedings{csllics2014-BRS,
  author =              {Brenguier, Romain and Raskin, Jean-Fran{\c c}ois and
                         Sassolas, Mathieu},
  title =               {The complexity of admissibility in omega-regular
                         games},
  booktitle =           {{P}roceedings of the Joint Meeting of the 23rd
                         {EACSL} {A}nnual {C}onference on {C}omputer
                         {S}cience {L}ogic and the 29th {A}nnual {ACM\slash
                         IEEE} {S}ymposium on {L}ogic {I}n {C}omputer
                         {S}cience ({CSL\slash LICS}'14)},
  acronym =             {{CSL\slash LICS}'14},
  publisher =           {ACM Press},
  pages =               {23:1-23:10},
  year =                {2014},
  month =               jul,
  doi =                 {10.1145/2603088.2603143},
}
[CDF+14] Krishnendu Chatterjee, Laurent Doyen, Emmanuel Filiot, and Jean-François Raskin. Doomsday Equilibria for Omega-Regular Games. In VMCAI'14, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 8318, pages 78-97. Springer-Verlag, January 2014.
@inproceedings{vmcai2014-CDFR,
  author =              {Chatterjee, Krishnendu and Doyen, Laurent and
                         Filiot, Emmanuel and Raskin, Jean-Fran{\c c}ois},
  title =               {Doomsday Equilibria for Omega-Regular Games},
  editor =              {McMillan, Kenneth L. and Rival, Xavier},
  booktitle =           {{P}roceedings of the 15th {I}nternational {W}orkshop
                         on {V}erification, {M}odel {C}hecking, and
                         {A}bstract {I}nterpretation ({VMCAI}'14)},
  acronym =             {{VMCAI}'14},
  publisher =           {Springer-Verlag},
  series =              {Lecture Notes in Computer Science},
  volume =              {8318},
  pages =               {78-97},
  year =                {2014},
  month =               jan,
  doi =                 {10.1007/978-3-642-54013-4_5},
}
[Cer14] Petr Čermák. A Model Checker for Strategy Logic. Master's thesis, Dept. of Computing, Imperial College London, UK, June 2014.
@mastersthesis{master14-Cer,
  author =              {{\v{C}}erm{\'a}k, Petr},
  title =               {A~Model Checker for Strategy Logic},
  year =                {2014},
  month =               jun,
  school =              {Dept. of Computing, Imperial College London, UK},
}
[CG14] Namit Chaturvedi and Marcus Gelderie. Weak ω-Regular Trace Languages. Research Report 1402.3199, arXiv, February 2014.
@techreport{arxiv1402.3199,
  author =              {Chaturvedi, Namit and Gelderie, Marcus},
  title =               {Weak {{\(\omega\)}}-Regular Trace Languages},
  number =              {1402.3199},
  year =                {2014},
  month =               feb,
  institution =         {arXiv},
  type =                {Research Report},
}
[CH14] Arnaud Carayol and Matthew Hague. Regular Strategies In Pushdown Reachability Games. In RP'14, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 8762, pages 58-71. Springer-Verlag, September 2014.
@inproceedings{rp2014-CH,
  author =              {Carayol, Arnaud and Hague, Matthew},
  title =               {Regular Strategies In Pushdown Reachability Games},
  editor =              {Ouaknine, Jo{\"e}l and Potapov, Igor and Worrell,
                         James},
  booktitle =           {{P}roceedings of the 8th {W}orkshop on
                         {R}eachability {P}roblems in {C}omputational
                         {M}odels ({RP}'14)},
  acronym =             {{RP}'14},
  publisher =           {Springer-Verlag},
  series =              {Lecture Notes in Computer Science},
  volume =              {8762},
  pages =               {58-71},
  year =                {2014},
  month =               sep,
  doi =                 {10.1007/978-3-319-11439-2_5},
}
[Cha14] Namit Chaturvedi. Toward a structure theory of regular infinitary trace languages. In ICALP'14, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 8573, pages 134-145. Springer-Verlag, July 2014.
@inproceedings{icalp2014-Cha,
  author =              {Chaturvedi, Namit},
  title =               {Toward a structure theory of regular infinitary
                         trace languages},
  editor =              {Esparza, Javier and Fraigniaud, Pierre and
                         Koutsoupias, Elias},
  booktitle =           {{P}roceedings of the 41st {I}nternational
                         {C}olloquium on {A}utomata, {L}anguages and
                         {P}rogramming ({ICALP}'14)~-- Part~{II}},
  acronym =             {{ICALP}'14},
  publisher =           {Springer-Verlag},
  series =              {Lecture Notes in Computer Science},
  volume =              {8573},
  pages =               {134-145},
  year =                {2014},
  month =               jul,
  doi =                 {10.1007/978-3-662-43951-7_12},
}
[Cha14] Namit Chaturvedi. Languages of Infinite Traces and Deterministic Asynchronous Automata. Research Report AIB-2014-004, RWTH Aachen, Germany, February 2014.
@techreport{AIB-2014-04,
  author =              {Chaturvedi, Namit},
  title =               {Languages of Infinite Traces and Deterministic
                         Asynchronous Automata},
  number =              {AIB-2014-004},
  year =                {2014},
  month =               feb,
  institution =         {RWTH Aachen, Germany},
  type =                {Research Report},
}
[CLM+14] Petr Čermák, Alessio Lomuscio, Fabio Mogavero, and Aniello Murano. MCMAS-SLK: A Model Checker for the Verification of Strategy Logic Specifications. In CAV'14, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 8559, pages 525-532. Springer-Verlag, July 2014.
@inproceedings{cav2014-CLMM,
  author =              {{\v{C}}erm{\'a}k, Petr and Lomuscio, Alessio and
                         Mogavero, Fabio and Murano, Aniello},
  title =               {{MCMAS-SLK}: A~Model Checker for the Verification of
                         Strategy Logic Specifications},
  editor =              {Biere, Armin and Bloem, Roderick},
  booktitle =           {{P}roceedings of the 26th {I}nternational
                         {C}onference on {C}omputer {A}ided {V}erification
                         ({CAV}'14)},
  acronym =             {{CAV}'14},
  publisher =           {Springer-Verlag},
  series =              {Lecture Notes in Computer Science},
  volume =              {8559},
  pages =               {525-532},
  year =                {2014},
  month =               jul,
  doi =                 {10.1007/978-3-319-08867-9_34},
}
[CRR14] Krishnendu Chatterjee, Mickael Randour, and Jean-François Raskin. Strategy Synthesis for Multi-dimensional Quantitative Objectives. Acta Informatica 51(3-4):129-163. Springer-Verlag, June 2014.
@article{acta51(3-4)-CRR,
  author =              {Chatterjee, Krishnendu and Randour, Mickael and
                         Raskin, Jean-Fran{\c c}ois},
  title =               {Strategy Synthesis for Multi-dimensional
                         Quantitative Objectives},
  publisher =           {Springer-Verlag},
  journal =             {Acta Informatica},
  volume =              {51},
  number =              {3-4},
  pages =               {129-163},
  year =                {2014},
  month =               jun,
  doi =                 {10.1007/s00236-013-0182-6},
}
[DMS14] Laurent Doyen, Thierry Massart, and Mahsa Shirmohammadi. Limit synchronization in Markov decision processes. In FoSSaCS'14, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 8412, pages 58-72. Springer-Verlag, April 2014.
@inproceedings{fossacs2014-DMS,
  author =              {Doyen, Laurent and Massart, {\relax Th}ierry and
                         Shirmohammadi, Mahsa},
  title =               {Limit synchronization in {M}arkov decision
                         processes},
  editor =              {Muscholl, Anca},
  booktitle =           {{P}roceedings of the 17th {I}nternational
                         {C}onference on {F}oundations of {S}oftware
                         {S}cience and {C}omputation {S}tructure
                         ({FoSSaCS}'14)},
  acronym =             {{FoSSaCS}'14},
  publisher =           {Springer-Verlag},
  series =              {Lecture Notes in Computer Science},
  volume =              {8412},
  pages =               {58-72},
  year =                {2014},
  month =               apr,
  doi =                 {10.1007/978-3-642-54830-7_4},
}
[Esp14] Javier Esparza. Keeping a Crowd Safe: On the Complexity of Parameterized Verification (Invited Talk). In STACS'14, Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics 25, pages 1-10. Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik, March 2014.
@inproceedings{stacs2014-Esp,
  author =              {Esparza, Javier},
  title =               {Keeping a Crowd Safe: On the Complexity of
                         Parameterized Verification (Invited Talk)},
  editor =              {Mayr, Ernst W. and Portier, Natacha},
  booktitle =           {{P}roceedings of the 31st {S}ymposium on
                         {T}heoretical {A}spects of {C}omputer {S}cience
                         ({STACS}'14)},
  acronym =             {{STACS}'14},
  publisher =           {Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  series =              {Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics},
  volume =              {25},
  pages =               {1-10},
  year =                {2014},
  month =               mar,
  doi =                 {10.4230/LIPIcs.STACS.2014.1},
}
[FPS14] Achille Frigeri, Liliana Pasquale, and Paola Spoletini. Fuzzy Time in Linear Temporal Logic. ACM Transactions on Computational Logic 15(4):30:1-30:22. ACM Press, August 2014.
@article{tocl15(4)-FPS,
  author =              {Frigeri, Achille and Pasquale, Liliana and
                         Spoletini, Paola},
  title =               {Fuzzy Time in Linear Temporal Logic},
  publisher =           {ACM Press},
  journal =             {ACM Transactions on Computational Logic},
  volume =              {15},
  number =              {4},
  pages =               {30:1-30:22},
  year =                {2014},
  month =               aug,
}
[Gel14] Marcus Gelderie. Strategy Machines – Representation and Complexity of Strategies in Infinite Games. PhD thesis, RWTH Aachen, Germany, February 2014.
@phdthesis{phd-gelderie,
  author =              {Gelderie, Marcus},
  title =               {Strategy Machines~-- Representation and Complexity
                         of Strategies in Infinite Games},
  year =                {2014},
  month =               feb,
  school =              {RWTH Aachen, Germany},
  type =                {{PhD} thesis},
}
[HLL+14] Henri Hansen, Shang-Wei Lin, Yang Liu, Truong Khanh Nguyen, and Jun Sun. Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend: Partial Order Reduction for Timed Automata with Abstractions. In CAV'14, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 8559, pages 391-406. Springer-Verlag, July 2014.
@inproceedings{cav2014-HLLNS,
  author =              {Hansen, Henri and Lin, Shang{-}Wei and Liu, Yang and
                         Nguyen, Truong Khanh and Sun, Jun},
  title =               {Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend: Partial Order
                         Reduction for Timed Automata with Abstractions},
  editor =              {Biere, Armin and Bloem, Roderick},
  booktitle =           {{P}roceedings of the 26th {I}nternational
                         {C}onference on {C}omputer {A}ided {V}erification
                         ({CAV}'14)},
  acronym =             {{CAV}'14},
  publisher =           {Springer-Verlag},
  series =              {Lecture Notes in Computer Science},
  volume =              {8559},
  pages =               {391-406},
  year =                {2014},
  month =               jul,
  doi =                 {10.1007/978-3-319-08867-9_26},
}
[HR14] Paul Hunter and Jean-François Raskin. Quantitative games with interval objectives. In FSTTCS'14, Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics 29, pages 365-377. Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik, December 2014.
@inproceedings{fsttcs2014-HR,
  author =              {Hunter, Paul and Raskin, Jean-Fran{\c c}ois},
  title =               {Quantitative games with interval objectives},
  editor =              {Raman, Venkatesh and Suresh, S. P.},
  booktitle =           {{P}roceedings of the 34th {C}onference on
                         {F}oundations of {S}oftware {T}echnology and
                         {T}heoretical {C}omputer {S}cience ({FSTTCS}'14)},
  acronym =             {{FSTTCS}'14},
  publisher =           {Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  series =              {Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics},
  volume =              {29},
  pages =               {365-377},
  year =                {2014},
  month =               dec,
  doi =                 {10.4230/LIPIcs.FSTTCS.2014.365},
}
[JLS+14] Peter Gjøl Jensen, Kim Guldstrand Larsen, Jiří Srba, Mathias Grund Sørensen, and Jakob Haar Taankvist. Memory Efficient Data Structures for Explicit Verification of Timed Systems. In NFM'14, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 8430, pages 307-312. Springer-Verlag, April 2014.
@inproceedings{nasaFM2014-JLSST,
  author =              {Jensen, Peter Gj{\o}l and Larsen, Kim Guldstrand and
                         Srba, Ji{\v r}{\'\i} and S{\o}rensen, Mathias Grund
                         and Taankvist, Jakob Haar},
  title =               {Memory Efficient Data Structures for Explicit
                         Verification of Timed Systems},
  editor =              {Badger, Julia M. and Rozier, Kristin Yvonne},
  booktitle =           {{P}roceedings of the 6th {NASA} {F}ormal {M}ethods
                         {S}ymposium ({NFM}'14)},
  acronym =             {{NFM}'14},
  publisher =           {Springer-Verlag},
  series =              {Lecture Notes in Computer Science},
  volume =              {8430},
  pages =               {307-312},
  year =                {2014},
  month =               apr,
  doi =                 {10.1007/978-3-319-06200-6_26},
}
[LLT+14] Kim Guldstrand Larsen, Axel Legay, Louis-Marie Traonouez, and Andrzej Wąsowski. Robust synthesis for real-time systems. Theoretical Computer Science 515:96-122. Elsevier, January 2014.
@article{tcs515-LLTW,
  author =              {Larsen, Kim Guldstrand and Legay, Axel and
                         Traonouez, Louis-Marie and W{\k a}sowski, Andrzej},
  title =               {Robust synthesis for real-time systems},
  publisher =           {Elsevier},
  journal =             {Theoretical Computer Science},
  volume =              {515},
  pages =               {96-122},
  year =                {2014},
  month =               jan,
}
[LP14] Jun Liu and Pavithra Prabhakar. Switching control of dynamical systems from metric temporal logic specifications. In ICRA'01, pages 5333-5338. IEEE Robotics & Automation Soc., May 2014.
@inproceedings{icra2014-LP,
  author =              {Liu, Jun and Prabhakar, Pavithra},
  title =               {Switching control of dynamical systems from metric
                         temporal logic specifications},
  booktitle =           {{P}roceedings of the 2014 {IEEE} {I}nternational
                         {C}onference on {R}obotics and {A}utomation
                         ({ICRA}'14)},
  acronym =             {{ICRA}'01},
  publisher =           {IEEE Robotics~\& Automation Soc.},
  pages =               {5333-5338},
  year =                {2014},
  month =               may,
  doi =                 {10.1109/ICRA.2014.6907643},
}
[Mar14] Nicolas Markey. Cassting: Synthesizing Complex Systems Using Non-Zero-Sum Games. ERCIM News 97:25-26. European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics, April 2014.
@article{ercimnews97-Mar,
  author =              {Markey, Nicolas},
  title =               {Cassting: Synthesizing Complex Systems Using
                         Non-Zero-Sum Games},
  publisher =           {European Research Consortium for Informatics and
                         Mathematics},
  journal =             {ERCIM News},
  volume =              {97},
  pages =               {25-26},
  year =                {2014},
  month =               apr,
  url =                 {http://ercim-news.ercim.eu/en97/special/
  cassting-synthesizing-complex-systems-using-non-zero-sum-games},
}
[MMP+14] Fabio Mogavero, Aniello Murano, Giuseppe Perelli, and Moshe Y. Vardi. Reasoning About Strategies: On the Model-Checking Problem. ACM Transactions on Computational Logic 15(4):34:1-34:47. ACM Press, August 2014.
@article{tocl15(4)-MMPV,
  author =              {Mogavero, Fabio and Murano, Aniello and Perelli,
                         Giuseppe and Vardi, Moshe Y.},
  title =               {Reasoning About Strategies: On the Model-Checking
                         Problem},
  publisher =           {ACM Press},
  journal =             {ACM Transactions on Computational Logic},
  volume =              {15},
  number =              {4},
  pages =               {34:1-34:47},
  year =                {2014},
  month =               aug,
  doi =                 {10.1145/2631917},
}
[MMS14] Fabio Mogavero, Aniello Murano, and Luigi Sauro. A Behavioral Hierarchy of Strategy Logic. In CLIMA'14, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence 8624, pages 148-165. Springer-Verlag, August 2014.
@inproceedings{clima2014-MMS,
  author =              {Mogavero, Fabio and Murano, Aniello and Sauro,
                         Luigi},
  title =               {A Behavioral Hierarchy of Strategy Logic},
  editor =              {Bulling, Nils and van der Torre, Leendert W. N. and
                         Villata, Serena and Jamroga, Wojciech and
                         Vasconcelos, Wamberto Weber},
  booktitle =           {{P}roceedings of the 15th {I}nternational {W}orkshop
                         on {C}omputational {L}ogic in {M}ulti-{A}gent
                         {S}ystems ({CLIMA}'14)},
  acronym =             {{CLIMA}'14},
  publisher =           {Springer-Verlag},
  series =              {Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence},
  volume =              {8624},
  pages =               {148-165},
  year =                {2014},
  month =               aug,
  doi =                 {10.1007/978-3-319-09764-0_10},
}
[ORS14] Youssouf Oualhadj, Pierre-Alain Reynier, and Ocan Sankur. Probabilistic Robust Timed Games. In CONCUR'14, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 8704, pages 203-217. Springer-Verlag, September 2014.
@inproceedings{concur2014-ORS,
  author =              {Oualhadj, Youssouf and Reynier, Pierre-Alain and
                         Sankur, Ocan},
  title =               {Probabilistic Robust Timed Games},
  editor =              {Baldan, Paolo and Gorla, Daniele},
  booktitle =           {{P}roceedings of the 25th {I}nternational
                         {C}onference on {C}oncurrency {T}heory
                         ({CONCUR}'14)},
  acronym =             {{CONCUR}'14},
  publisher =           {Springer-Verlag},
  series =              {Lecture Notes in Computer Science},
  volume =              {8704},
  pages =               {203-217},
  year =                {2014},
  month =               sep,
  doi =                 {10.1007/978-3-662-44584-6_15},
}
[Shi14] Mahsa Shirmohammadi. Qualitative analysis of synchronizing probabilistic systems. Thèse de doctorat, Lab. Spécification & Vérification, ENS Cachan, France and Département d'Informatique, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium, December 2014.
@phdthesis{phd-shirmohammadi,
  author =              {Shirmohammadi, Mahsa},
  title =               {Qualitative analysis of synchronizing probabilistic
                         systems},
  year =                {2014},
  month =               dec,
  school =              {Lab.~Sp\'ecification \& V\'erification, ENS Cachan,
                         France and D{\'e}partement d'Informatique,
                         Universit{\'e} Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium},
  type =                {Th\`ese de doctorat},
}
[Sor14] Mathias Grund Sørensen. Controller synthesis for home automation. Master's thesis, Computer Science Department, Aalborg University, Denmark, 2014.
@mastersthesis{sorensen-master14,
  author =              {S{\o}rensen, Mathias Grund},
  title =               {Controller synthesis for home automation},
  year =                {2014},
  school =              {Computer Science Department, Aalborg University,
                         Denmark},
}
[Sor14] Mathias Grund Sørensen. Controller synthesis for home automation. Master's thesis, Computer Science Department, Aalborg University, Denmark, 2014.
@mastersthesis{sorensen-master14,
  author =              {S{\o}rensen, Mathias Grund},
  title =               {Controller synthesis for home automation},
  year =                {2014},
  school =              {Computer Science Department, Aalborg University,
                         Denmark},
}
[WJ14] Weifeng Wang and Li Jiao. Trace Abstraction Refinement for Timed Automata. In ATVA'14, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 8837, pages 396-410. Springer-Verlag, November 2014.
@inproceedings{atva2014-WJ,
  author =              {Wang, Weifeng and Jiao, Li},
  title =               {Trace Abstraction Refinement for Timed Automata},
  editor =              {Cassez, Franck and Raskin, Jean-Fran{\c c}ois},
  booktitle =           {{P}roceedings of the 12th {I}nternational
                         {S}ymposium on {A}utomated {T}echnology for
                         {V}erification and {A}nalysis ({ATVA}'14)},
  acronym =             {{ATVA}'14},
  publisher =           {Springer-Verlag},
  series =              {Lecture Notes in Computer Science},
  volume =              {8837},
  pages =               {396-410},
  year =                {2014},
  month =               nov,
  doi =                 {10.1007/978-3-319-11936-6_28},
}
2013
[BMS13] Patricia Bouyer, Nicolas Markey, and Ocan Sankur. Robust Weighted Timed Automata and Games. In FORMATS'13, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 8053, pages 31-46. Springer-Verlag, August 2013.
Abstract

Weighted timed automata extend timed automata with cost variables that can be used to model the evolution of various quantities. Although cost-optimal reachability is decidable (in polynomial space) on this model, it becomes undecidable on weighted timed games. This paper studies cost-optimal reachability problems on weighted timed automata and games under robust semantics. More precisely, we consider two perturbation game semantics that introduce imprecisions in the standard semantics, and bring robustness properties w.r.t. timing imprecisions to controllers. We give a polynomial-space algorithm for weighted timed automata, and prove the undecidability of cost-optimal reachability on weighted timed games, showing that the problem is robustly undecidable.

@inproceedings{formats2013-BMS,
  author =              {Bouyer, Patricia and Markey, Nicolas and Sankur,
                         Ocan},
  title =               {Robust Weighted Timed Automata and Games},
  editor =              {Braberman, V{\'\i}ctor and Fribourg, Laurent},
  booktitle =           {{P}roceedings of the 11th {I}nternational
                         {C}onferences on {F}ormal {M}odelling and {A}nalysis
                         of {T}imed {S}ystems ({FORMATS}'13)},
  acronym =             {{FORMATS}'13},
  publisher =           {Springer-Verlag},
  series =              {Lecture Notes in Computer Science},
  volume =              {8053},
  pages =               {31-46},
  year =                {2013},
  month =               aug,
  doi =                 {10.1007/978-3-642-40229-6_3},
  abstract =            {Weighted timed automata extend timed automata with
                         cost variables that can be used to model the
                         evolution of various quantities. Although
                         cost-optimal reachability is decidable (in
                         polynomial space) on this model, it becomes
                         undecidable on weighted timed games. This paper
                         studies cost-optimal reachability problems on
                         weighted timed automata and games under robust
                         semantics. More precisely, we consider two
                         perturbation game semantics that introduce
                         imprecisions in the standard semantics, and bring
                         robustness properties w.r.t. timing imprecisions to
                         controllers. We give a polynomial-space algorithm
                         for weighted timed automata, and prove the
                         undecidability of cost-optimal reachability on
                         weighted timed games, showing that the problem is
                         robustly undecidable.},
}
[LM13] François Laroussinie and Nicolas Markey. Satisfiability of ATL with strategy contexts. In GandALF'13, Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science 119, pages 208-223. August 2013.
Abstract

Various extensions of the temporal logic ATL have recently been introduced to express rich properties of multi-agent systems. Among these, ATLsc extends ATL with strategy contexts, while Strategy Logic has first-order quantification over strategies. There is a price to pay for the rich expressiveness of these logics: model-checking is non-elementary, and satisfiability is undecidable.

We prove in this paper that satisfiability is decidable in several special cases. The most important one is when restricting to turn-based games. We prove that decidability also holds for concurrent games if the number of moves available to the agents is bounded. Finally, we prove that restricting strategy quantification to memoryless strategies brings back undecidability.

@inproceedings{gandalf2013-LM,
  author =              {Laroussinie, Fran{\c c}ois and Markey, Nicolas},
  title =               {Satisfiability of {ATL} with strategy contexts},
  editor =              {Puppis, Gabriele and Villa, Tiziano},
  booktitle =           {{P}roceedings of the 4th {I}nternational {S}ymposium
                         on {G}ames, {A}utomata, {L}ogics and {F}ormal
                         {V}erification ({GandALF}'13)},
  acronym =             {{GandALF}'13},
  series =              {Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer
                         Science},
  volume =              {119},
  pages =               {208-223},
  year =                {2013},
  month =               aug,
  doi =                 {10.4204/EPTCS.119.18},
  abstract =            {Various extensions of the temporal logic ATL have
                         recently been introduced to express rich properties
                         of multi-agent systems. Among these, ATLsc extends
                         ATL with \emph{strategy contexts}, while Strategy
                         Logic has \emph{first-order quantification} over
                         strategies. There is a price to pay for the rich
                         expressiveness of these logics: model-checking is
                         non-elementary, and satisfiability is
                         undecidable.\par We prove in this paper that
                         satisfiability is decidable in several special
                         cases. The most important one is when restricting to
                         \emph{turn-based} games. We~prove that decidability
                         also holds for concurrent games if the number of
                         moves available to the agents is bounded. Finally,
                         we~prove that restricting strategy quantification to
                         memoryless strategies brings back undecidability.},
}
[SBM+13] Ocan Sankur, Patricia Bouyer, Nicolas Markey, and Pierre-Alain Reynier. Robust Controller Synthesis in Timed Automata. In CONCUR'13, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 8052, pages 546-560. Springer-Verlag, August 2013.
Abstract

We consider the fundamental problem of Büchi acceptance in timed automata in a robust setting. The problem is formalised in terms of controller synthesis: timed automata are equipped with a parametrised game-based semantics that models the possible perturbations of the decisions taken by the controller. We characterise timed automata that are robustly controllable for some parameter, with a simple graph theoretic condition, by showing the equivalence with the existence of an aperiodic lasso that satisfies the winning condition (aperiodicity was defined and used earlier in different contexts to characterise convergence phenomena in timed automata). We then show decidability and PSPACE-completeness of our problem.

@inproceedings{concur2013-SBMR,
  author =              {Sankur, Ocan and Bouyer, Patricia and Markey,
                         Nicolas and Reynier, Pierre-Alain},
  title =               {Robust Controller Synthesis in Timed Automata},
  editor =              {D{'}Argenio, Pedro R. and Melgratt, Hern{\'a}n C.},
  booktitle =           {{P}roceedings of the 24th {I}nternational
                         {C}onference on {C}oncurrency {T}heory
                         ({CONCUR}'13)},
  acronym =             {{CONCUR}'13},
  publisher =           {Springer-Verlag},
  series =              {Lecture Notes in Computer Science},
  volume =              {8052},
  pages =               {546-560},
  year =                {2013},
  month =               aug,
  doi =                 {10.1007/978-3-642-40184-8_38},
  abstract =            {We consider the fundamental problem of B{\"u}chi
                         acceptance in timed automata in a robust setting.
                         The problem is formalised in terms of controller
                         synthesis: timed automata are equipped with a
                         parametrised game-based semantics that models the
                         possible perturbations of the decisions taken by the
                         controller. We characterise timed automata that are
                         robustly controllable for some parameter, with a
                         simple graph theoretic condition, by showing the
                         equivalence with the existence of an aperiodic lasso
                         that satisfies the winning condition (aperiodicity
                         was defined and used earlier in different contexts
                         to characterise convergence phenomena in timed
                         automata). We then show decidability and
                         PSPACE-completeness of our problem.},
}
[BMS13] Patricia Bouyer, Nicolas Markey, and Ocan Sankur. Robustness in timed automata. In RP'13, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 8169, pages 1-18. Springer-Verlag, September 2013.
Abstract

In this paper we survey several approaches to the robustness of timed automata, that is, the ability of a system to resist to slight perturbations or errors. We will concentrate on robustness against timing errors which can be due to measuring errors, imprecise clocks, and unexpected runtime behaviors such as execution times that are longer or shorter than expected.

We consider the perturbation model of guard enlargement and formulate several robust verification problems that have been studied recently, including robustness analysis, robust implementation, and robust control.

@inproceedings{rp2013-BMS,
  author =              {Bouyer, Patricia and Markey, Nicolas and Sankur,
                         Ocan},
  title =               {Robustness in timed automata},
  editor =              {Abdulla, Parosh Aziz and Potapov, Igor},
  booktitle =           {{P}roceedings of the 7th {W}orkshop on
                         {R}eachability {P}roblems in {C}omputational
                         {M}odels ({RP}'13)},
  acronym =             {{RP}'13},
  publisher =           {Springer-Verlag},
  series =              {Lecture Notes in Computer Science},
  volume =              {8169},
  pages =               {1-18},
  year =                {2013},
  month =               sep,
  doi =                 {10.1007/978-3-642-41036-9_1},
  abstract =            {In this paper we survey several approaches to the
                         robustness of timed automata, that~is, the ability
                         of a system to resist to slight perturbations or
                         errors. We will concentrate on robustness against
                         timing errors which can be due to measuring errors,
                         imprecise clocks, and unexpected runtime behaviors
                         such as execution times that are longer or shorter
                         than expected.\par We consider the perturbation
                         model of guard enlargement and formulate several
                         robust verification problems that have been studied
                         recently, including robustness analysis, robust
                         implementation, and robust control.},
}
[ABK13] Shaull Almagor, Udi Boker, and Orna Kupferman. Formalizing and Reasoning about Quality. In ICALP'13, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 7966, pages 15-27. Springer-Verlag, July 2013.
@inproceedings{icalp2013-ABK,
  author =              {Almagor, Shaull and Boker, Udi and Kupferman, Orna},
  title =               {Formalizing and Reasoning about Quality},
  editor =              {Fomin, Fedor V. and Freivalds, Rusins and
                         Kwiatkowska, Marta and Peleg, David},
  booktitle =           {{P}roceedings of the 40th {I}nternational
                         {C}olloquium on {A}utomata, {L}anguages and
                         {P}rogramming ({ICALP}'13)~-- Part~{II}},
  acronym =             {{ICALP}'13},
  publisher =           {Springer-Verlag},
  series =              {Lecture Notes in Computer Science},
  volume =              {7966},
  pages =               {15-27},
  year =                {2013},
  month =               jul,
}
[BBF+13] Aaron Bohy, Véronique Bruyère, Emmanuel Filiot, and Jean-François Raskin. Synthesis from LTL Specifications with Mean-Payoff Objectives. In TACAS'13, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 7795, pages 169-184. Springer-Verlag, March 2013.
@inproceedings{tacas2013-BBFR,
  author =              {Bohy, Aaron and Bruy{\`e}re, V{\'e}ronique and
                         Filiot, Emmanuel and Raskin, Jean-Fran{\c c}ois},
  title =               {Synthesis from {LTL} Specifications with Mean-Payoff
                         Objectives},
  editor =              {Piterman, Nir and Smolka, Scott A.},
  booktitle =           {{P}roceedings of the 19th {I}nternational
                         {C}onference on {T}ools and {A}lgorithms for
                         {C}onstruction and {A}nalysis of {S}ystems
                         ({TACAS}'13)},
  acronym =             {{TACAS}'13},
  publisher =           {Springer-Verlag},
  series =              {Lecture Notes in Computer Science},
  volume =              {7795},
  pages =               {169-184},
  year =                {2013},
  month =               mar,
}
[BBL+13] Giorgio Bacci, Giovanni Bacci, Kim Guldstrand Larsen, and Radu Mardare. Computing Behavioral Distances, Compositionally. In MFCS'13, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 8087, pages 74-85. Springer-Verlag, August 2013.
@inproceedings{mfcs2013-BBLM,
  author =              {Bacci, Giorgio and Bacci, Giovanni and Larsen, Kim
                         Guldstrand and Mardare, Radu},
  title =               {Computing Behavioral Distances, Compositionally},
  editor =              {Chatterjee, Krishnendu and Sgall, Ji{\v r}{\'\i}},
  booktitle =           {{P}roceedings of the 38th {I}nternational
                         {S}ymposium on {M}athematical {F}oundations of
                         {C}omputer {S}cience ({MFCS}'13)},
  acronym =             {{MFCS}'13},
  publisher =           {Springer-Verlag},
  series =              {Lecture Notes in Computer Science},
  volume =              {8087},
  pages =               {74-85},
  year =                {2013},
  month =               aug,
  doi =                 {10.1007/978-3-642-40313-2_9},
}
[BBL+13] Giorgio Bacci, Giovanni Bacci, Kim Guldstrand Larsen, and Radu Mardare. The BisimDist Library: Efficient Computation of Bisimilarity Distances for Markovian Models. In QEST'13, pages 278-281. IEEE Comp. Soc. Press, August 2013.
@inproceedings{qest2013-BBLM,
  author =              {Bacci, Giorgio and Bacci, Giovanni and Larsen, Kim
                         Guldstrand and Mardare, Radu},
  title =               {The BisimDist Library: Efficient Computation of
                         Bisimilarity Distances for {M}arkovian Models},
  booktitle =           {{P}roceedings of the 10th {I}nternational
                         {C}onference on {Q}uantitative {E}valuation of
                         {S}ystems ({QEST}'13)},
  acronym =             {{QEST}'13},
  publisher =           {IEEE Comp. Soc. Press},
  pages =               {278-281},
  year =                {2013},
  month =               aug,
  doi =                 {10.1007/978-3-642-40196-1_23},
}
[BG13] Nils Bulling and Valentin Goranko. How to Be Both Rich and Happy: Combining Quantitative and Qualitative Strategic Reasoning about Multi-Player Games (Extended Abstract). In SR'13, Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science 112, pages 33-41. March 2013.
@inproceedings{sr2013-BG,
  author =              {Bulling, Nils and Goranko, Valentin},
  title =               {How to Be Both Rich and Happy: Combining
                         Quantitative and Qualitative Strategic Reasoning
                         about Multi-Player Games (Extended Abstract)},
  booktitle =           {{P}roceedings of the 1st {I}nternational {W}orkshop
                         on {S}trategic {R}easoning ({SR}'13)},
  acronym =             {{SR}'13},
  series =              {Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer
                         Science},
  volume =              {112},
  pages =               {33-41},
  year =                {2013},
  month =               mar,
  doi =                 {10.4204/EPTCS.112.8},
}
[BGH13] Olivier Bournez, Daniel S. Graça, and Emmanuel Hainry. Computation with perturbed dynamical systems. Journal of Computer and System Sciences 79(5):714-724. Elsevier, August 2013.
@article{jcss79(5)-BGH,
  author =              {Bournez, Olivier and Gra{\c c}a, Daniel S. and
                         Hainry, Emmanuel},
  title =               {Computation with perturbed dynamical systems},
  publisher =           {Elsevier},
  journal =             {Journal of Computer and System Sciences},
  volume =              {79},
  number =              {5},
  pages =               {714-724},
  year =                {2013},
  month =               aug,
}
[BKK+13] Udi Boker, Denis Kuperberg, Orna Kupferman, and Michal Skrzypczak. Nondeterminism in the Presence of a Diverse or Unknown Future. In ICALP'13, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 7966, pages 89-100. Springer-Verlag, July 2013.
@inproceedings{icalp2013-BKKS,
  author =              {Boker, Udi and Kuperberg, Denis and Kupferman, Orna
                         and Skrzypczak, Michal},
  title =               {Nondeterminism in the Presence of a Diverse or
                         Unknown Future},
  editor =              {Fomin, Fedor V. and Freivalds, Rusins and
                         Kwiatkowska, Marta and Peleg, David},
  booktitle =           {{P}roceedings of the 40th {I}nternational
                         {C}olloquium on {A}utomata, {L}anguages and
                         {P}rogramming ({ICALP}'13)~-- Part~{II}},
  acronym =             {{ICALP}'13},
  publisher =           {Springer-Verlag},
  series =              {Lecture Notes in Computer Science},
  volume =              {7966},
  pages =               {89-100},
  year =                {2013},
  month =               jul,
  doi =                 {10.1007/978-3-642-39212-2_11},
}
[BRS13] Marcello Maria Bersani, Matteo Rossi, and Pierluigi San Pietro. Deciding the Satisfiability of MITL Specifications. In GandALF'13, Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science 119, pages 64-78. August 2013.
@inproceedings{gandalf2013-BRS,
  author =              {Bersani, Marcello Maria and Rossi, Matteo and
                         San{~}Pietro, Pierluigi},
  title =               {Deciding the Satisfiability of {MITL}
                         Specifications},
  editor =              {Puppis, Gabriele and Villa, Tiziano},
  booktitle =           {{P}roceedings of the 4th {I}nternational {S}ymposium
                         on {G}ames, {A}utomata, {L}ogics and {F}ormal
                         {V}erification ({GandALF}'13)},
  acronym =             {{GandALF}'13},
  series =              {Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer
                         Science},
  volume =              {119},
  pages =               {64-78},
  year =                {2013},
  month =               aug,
  doi =                 {10.4204/EPTCS.119.8},
}
[Bru13] Benedikt Brütsch. Synthesizing structured reactive programs via deterministic tree automata. In SR'13, Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science 112, pages 107-113. March 2013.
@inproceedings{sr2013-Bru,
  author =              {Br{\"u}tsch, Benedikt},
  title =               {Synthesizing structured reactive programs via
                         deterministic tree automata},
  booktitle =           {{P}roceedings of the 1st {I}nternational {W}orkshop
                         on {S}trategic {R}easoning ({SR}'13)},
  acronym =             {{SR}'13},
  series =              {Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer
                         Science},
  volume =              {112},
  pages =               {107-113},
  year =                {2013},
  month =               mar,
  doi =                 {10.4204/EPTCS.112.16},
}
[CB13] Franck Cassez and Jean-Luc Béchennec. Timing Analysis of Binary Programs with UPPAAL. In ACSD'13, pages 41-50. IEEE Comp. Soc. Press, July 2013.
@inproceedings{acsd2013-CB,
  author =              {Cassez, Franck and B{\'e}chennec, Jean-Luc},
  title =               {Timing Analysis of Binary Programs with {UPPAAL}},
  editor =              {Carmona, Josep and Lazarescu, Mihai T. and
                         Pietkiewicz-Koutny, Marta},
  booktitle =           {{P}roceedings of the 13th {I}nternational
                         {C}onference on {A}pplication of {C}oncurrency to
                         {S}ystem {D}esign ({ACSD}'13)},
  acronym =             {{ACSD}'13},
  publisher =           {IEEE Comp. Soc. Press},
  pages =               {41-50},
  year =                {2013},
  month =               jul,
  doi =                 {10.1109/ACSD.2013.7},
}
[CBC13] Christophe Chareton, Julien Brunel, and David Chemouil. Towards an Updatable Strategy Logic. In SR'13, Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science 112, pages 91-98. March 2013.
@inproceedings{sr2013-BCC,
  author =              {Chareton, Christophe and Brunel, Julien and
                         Chemouil, David},
  title =               {Towards an Updatable Strategy Logic},
  booktitle =           {{P}roceedings of the 1st {I}nternational {W}orkshop
                         on {S}trategic {R}easoning ({SR}'13)},
  acronym =             {{SR}'13},
  series =              {Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer
                         Science},
  volume =              {112},
  pages =               {91-98},
  year =                {2013},
  month =               mar,
  doi =                 {10.4204/EPTCS.112.14},
}
[CBK+13] Maximilien Colange, Souheib Baarir, Fabrice Kordon, and Yann Thierry-Mieg. Towards Distributed Software Model-Checking using Decision Diagrams. In CAV'13, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 8044, pages 830-845. Springer-Verlag, July 2013.
@inproceedings{cav2013-CBKT,
  author =              {Colange, Maximilien and Baarir, Souheib and Kordon,
                         Fabrice and Thierry{-}Mieg, Yann},
  title =               {Towards Distributed Software Model-Checking using
                         Decision Diagrams},
  editor =              {Sharygina, Natasha and Veith, Helmut},
  booktitle =           {{P}roceedings of the 25th {I}nternational
                         {C}onference on {C}omputer {A}ided {V}erification
                         ({CAV}'13)},
  acronym =             {{CAV}'13},
  publisher =           {Springer-Verlag},
  series =              {Lecture Notes in Computer Science},
  volume =              {8044},
  pages =               {830-845},
  year =                {2013},
  month =               jul,
  doi =                 {10.1007/978-3-642-39799-8_58},
}
[CDR+13] Krishnendu Chatterjee, Laurent Doyen, Mickael Randour, and Jean-François Raskin. Looking at Mean-Payoff and Total-Payoff through Windows. In ATVA'13, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 8172, pages 118-132. Springer-Verlag, October 2013.
@inproceedings{atva2013-CDRR,
  author =              {Chatterjee, Krishnendu and Doyen, Laurent and
                         Randour, Mickael and Raskin, Jean-Fran{\c c}ois},
  title =               {Looking at Mean-Payoff and Total-Payoff through
                         Windows},
  editor =              {Hung, Dang Van and Ogawa, Mizuhito},
  booktitle =           {{P}roceedings of the 11th {I}nternational
                         {S}ymposium on {A}utomated {T}echnology for
                         {V}erification and {A}nalysis ({ATVA}'13)},
  acronym =             {{ATVA}'13},
  publisher =           {Springer-Verlag},
  series =              {Lecture Notes in Computer Science},
  volume =              {8172},
  pages =               {118-132},
  year =                {2013},
  month =               oct,
}
[CHO+13] Krishnendu Chatterjee, Thomas A. Henzinger, Jan Otop, and Andreas Pavlogiannis. Distributed synthesis for LTL fragments. In FMCAD'13, pages 18-25. IEEE Comp. Soc. Press, October 2013.
@inproceedings{fmcad2013-CHOP,
  author =              {Chatterjee, Krishnendu and Henzinger, Thomas A. and
                         Otop, Jan and Pavlogiannis, Andreas},
  title =               {Distributed synthesis for {LTL} fragments},
  booktitle =           {{P}roceedings of the 13th {I}nternational
                         {C}onference on {F}ormal {M}ethods in
                         {C}omputer-{A}ided {D}esign ({FMCAD}'13)},
  acronym =             {{FMCAD}'13},
  publisher =           {IEEE Comp. Soc. Press},
  pages =               {18-25},
  year =                {2013},
  month =               oct,
}
[CHR13] Pavol Černý, Thomas A. Henzinger, and Arjun Radhakrishna. Quantitative abstraction refinement. In POPL'13, pages 115-128. ACM Press, January 2013.
@inproceedings{popl2013-CHR,
  author =              {{\v{C}}ern{\'y}, Pavol and Henzinger, Thomas A. and
                         Radhakrishna, Arjun},
  title =               {Quantitative abstraction refinement},
  editor =              {Giacobazzi, Roberto and Cousot, Radhia},
  booktitle =           {Conference Record of the 40th {ACM}
                         {SIGPLAN}-{SIGACT} {S}ymposium on {P}rinciples of
                         {P}rogramming {L}anguages ({POPL}'13)},
  acronym =             {{POPL}'13},
  publisher =           {ACM Press},
  pages =               {115-128},
  year =                {2013},
  month =               jan,
  doi =                 {10.1145/2429069.2429085},
}
[DDL+13] Alexandre David, Dehui Du, Kim Guldstrand Larsen, Axel Legay, and Marius Mikučionis. Optimizing Control Strategy Using Statistical Model Checking. In NFM'13, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 7871, pages 352-367. Springer-Verlag, May 2013.
@inproceedings{nasafm2013-DDLLM,
  author =              {David, Alexandre and Du, Dehui and Larsen, Kim
                         Guldstrand and Legay, Axel and Miku{\v{c}}ionis,
                         Marius},
  title =               {Optimizing Control Strategy Using Statistical Model
                         Checking},
  editor =              {Brat, Guillaume and Rungta, Neha and Venet, Arnaud},
  booktitle =           {{P}roceedings of the th {NASA} {F}ormal {M}ethods
                         {S}ymposium ({NFM}'13)},
  acronym =             {{NFM}'13},
  publisher =           {Springer-Verlag},
  series =              {Lecture Notes in Computer Science},
  volume =              {7871},
  pages =               {352-367},
  year =                {2013},
  month =               may,
  doi =                 {10.1007/978-3-642-38088-4_24},
}
[DJL+13] Stéphane Demri, Marcin Jurdziński, Oded Lachish, and Ranko Lazić. The covering and boundedness problems for branching vector addition systems. Journal of Computer and System Sciences 79(1):23-38. Elsevier, February 2013.
@article{jcss79(1)-DJLL,
  author =              {Demri, St{\'e}phane and Jurdzi{\'n}ski, Marcin and
                         Lachish, Oded and Lazi{\'c}, Ranko},
  title =               {The covering and boundedness problems for branching
                         vector addition systems},
  publisher =           {Elsevier},
  journal =             {Journal of Computer and System Sciences},
  volume =              {79},
  number =              {1},
  pages =               {23-38},
  year =                {2013},
  month =               feb,
  doi =                 {10.1016/j.jcss.2012.04.002},
}
[DLL+13] Alexandre David, Kim Guldstrand Larsen, Axel Legay, and Danny Bøgsted Poulsen. Statistical Model Checking of Dynamic Networks of Stochastic Hybrid Automata. In AVOCS'13, Electronic Communications of the EASST 10. European Association of Software Science and Technology, September 2013.
@inproceedings{avocs2013-DLLP,
  author =              {David, Alexandre and Larsen, Kim Guldstrand and
                         Legay, Axel and Poulsen, Danny B{\o}gsted},
  title =               {Statistical Model Checking of Dynamic Networks of
                         Stochastic Hybrid Automata},
  editor =              {Schneider, Steve and Treharne, Helen},
  booktitle =           {{P}roceedings of the 13th {I}nternational {W}orkshop
                         on {A}utomated {V}erification of {C}ritical
                         {S}ystems ({AVOCS}'13)},
  acronym =             {{AVOCS}'13},
  publisher =           {European Association of Software Science and
                         Technology},
  series =              {Electronic Communications of the EASST},
  volume =              {10},
  year =                {2013},
  month =               sep,
}
[DLM+13] Peter H. Dalsgaard, Thibault Le Guilly, Daniel Middelhede, Petur Olsen, Thomas Pedersen, Anders P. Ravn, and Arne Skou. A Toolchain for Home Automation Controller Development. In SEAA'13, pages 122-129. September 2013.
@inproceedings{HLMOPRS-seaa2013,
  author =              {Dalsgaard, Peter H. and Le{~}Guilly, Thibault and
                         Middelhede, Daniel and Olsen, Petur and Pedersen,
                         Thomas and Ravn, Anders P. and Skou, Arne},
  title =               {A Toolchain for Home Automation Controller
                         Development},
  editor =              {Demir{\"o}rs, Onur and T{\"u}retken, Oktay},
  booktitle =           {{P}roceedings of the 39th {E}uromicro {C}onference
                         on {S}oftware {E}ngineering and {A}dvanced
                         {A}pplications ({SEAA}'13)},
  acronym =             {{SEAA}'13},
  pages =               {122-129},
  year =                {2013},
  month =               sep,
}
[DV13] Giuseppe De Giacomo and Moshe Y. Vardi. Linear Temporal Logic and Linear Dynamic Logic on Finite Traces. In IJCAI'13, pages 854-860. IJCAI organization, August 2013.
@inproceedings{ijcai2013-DGV,
  author =              {De{~}Giacomo, Giuseppe and Vardi, Moshe Y.},
  title =               {Linear Temporal Logic and Linear Dynamic Logic on
                         Finite Traces},
  editor =              {Rossi, Francesca},
  booktitle =           {{P}roceedings of the 23rd {I}nternational {J}oint
                         {C}onference on {A}rtificial {I}ntelligence
                         ({IJCAI}'13)},
  acronym =             {{IJCAI}'13},
  publisher =           {IJCAI organization},
  pages =               {854-860},
  year =                {2013},
  month =               aug,
}
[EF13] Daniel Ejsing-Dunn and Lisa Fontani. Infinite Runs in Recharge Automata. Master's thesis, Computer Science Department, Aalborg University, Denmark, June 2013.
@mastersthesis{master13-EF,
  author =              {Ejsing{-}Dunn, Daniel and Fontani, Lisa},
  title =               {Infinite Runs in Recharge Automata},
  year =                {2013},
  month =               jun,
  school =              {Computer Science Department, Aalborg University,
                         Denmark},
}
[EGM13] Javier Esparza, Pierre Ganty, and Rupak Majumdar. Parameterized verification of asynchronous shared-memory systems. In CAV'13, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 8044, pages 124-140. Springer-Verlag, July 2013.
@inproceedings{cav2013-EGM,
  author =              {Esparza, Javier and Ganty, Pierre and Majumdar,
                         Rupak},
  title =               {Parameterized verification of asynchronous
                         shared-memory systems},
  editor =              {Sharygina, Natasha and Veith, Helmut},
  booktitle =           {{P}roceedings of the 25th {I}nternational
                         {C}onference on {C}omputer {A}ided {V}erification
                         ({CAV}'13)},
  acronym =             {{CAV}'13},
  publisher =           {Springer-Verlag},
  series =              {Lecture Notes in Computer Science},
  volume =              {8044},
  pages =               {124-140},
  year =                {2013},
  month =               jul,
  doi =                 {10.1007/978-3-642-39799-8_8},
}
[Ehl13] Rüdiger Ehlers. Symmetric and Efficient Synthesis. PhD thesis, Saarland University, Germany, October 2013.
@phdthesis{phd-ehlers,
  author =              {Ehlers, R{\"u}diger},
  title =               {Symmetric and Efficient Synthesis},
  year =                {2013},
  month =               oct,
  school =              {Saarland University, Germany},
}
[FJ13] John Fearnley and Marcin Jurdziński. Reachability in two-clock timed automata is PSPACE-complete. In ICALP'13, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 7966, pages 212-223. Springer-Verlag, July 2013.
@inproceedings{icalp2013-FJ,
  author =              {Fearnley, John and Jurdzi{\'n}ski, Marcin},
  title =               {Reachability in two-clock timed automata is
                         {PSPACE}-complete},
  editor =              {Fomin, Fedor V. and Freivalds, Rusins and
                         Kwiatkowska, Marta and Peleg, David},
  booktitle =           {{P}roceedings of the 40th {I}nternational
                         {C}olloquium on {A}utomata, {L}anguages and
                         {P}rogramming ({ICALP}'13)~-- Part~{II}},
  acronym =             {{ICALP}'13},
  publisher =           {Springer-Verlag},
  series =              {Lecture Notes in Computer Science},
  volume =              {7966},
  pages =               {212-223},
  year =                {2013},
  month =               jul,
  doi =                 {10.1007/978-3-642-39212-2_21},
}
[FLL13] Oliver Friedmann, Martin Lange, and Markus Latte. Satisfiability Games for Branching-Time Logics. Logical Methods in Computer Science 9(4). October 2013.
@article{lmcs9(4)-FLL,
  author =              {Friedmann, Oliver and Lange, Martin and L