POPL 2024
Sun 14 - Sat 20 January 2024 London, United Kingdom

This paper considers the problem of solving infinite two-player games over finite graphs under various classes of progress assumptions motivated by applications in cyber-physical system (CPS) design.

Formally, we consider a game graph G, a temporal specification $\Phi$ and a temporal assumption $\psi$, where both are given as linear temporal logic (LTL) formulas over the vertex set of G. We call the tuple $(G,\Phi,\psi)$ an ‘augmented game’ and interpret it in the classical way, i.e., winning the augmented game $(G,\Phi,\psi)$ is equivalent to winning the (standard) game $(G,\psi \implies \Phi)$.

Given a reachability or parity game $\mathcal{G}= (G,\Phi)$ and some progress assumption $\psi$, this paper establishes whether solving the augmented game $\mathfrak{G}=(G,\Phi,\psi)$ lies in the same complexity class as solving $\mathcal{G}$. While the answer to this question is negative for arbitrary combinations of $\Phi$ and $\psi$, a positive answer results in more efficient algorithms, in particular for large game graphs.

We therefore restrict our attention to particular classes of CPS-motivated progress assumptions and establish the worst-case time complexity of the resulting augmented games. Thereby, we pave the way towards a better understanding of assumption classes that can enable the development of efficient solution algorithms in augmented two-player games.

Mon 15 Jan

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14:00 - 15:30
Session 3: Security and Privacy, Model Checking and SynthesisVMCAI at Marconi Room
Chair(s): Caterina Urban Inria & École Normale Supérieure | Université PSL
14:00
20m
Talk
Automatic and Incremental Repair for Speculative Information Leaks
VMCAI
Joachim Bard CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security, Swen Jacobs CISPA, Yakir Vizel Technion—Israel Institute of Technology
14:20
20m
Talk
Sound Abstract Nonexploitability Analysis
VMCAI
Francesco Parolini Sorbonne Université, Antoine Miné Sorbonne Université
Pre-print
14:40
20m
Talk
Solving Two-Player Games under Progress Assumptions
VMCAI
Anne-Kathrin Schmuck MPI-SWS, K. S. Thejaswini The University of Warwick, Irmak Saglam Max Planck Institute for Software Systems (MPI-SWS), Satya Prakash Nayak Max Planck Institute for Software Systems (MPI-SWS)
Pre-print
15:00
20m
Talk
Model-Guided Synthesis for LTL over Finite Traces
VMCAI
Shengping Xiao East China Normal University, Yongkang Li East China Normal University, Xinyue Huang East China Normal University, Yicong Xu East China Normal University, Jianwen Li East China Normal University, China, Geguang Pu East China Normal University, Ofer Strichman Technion, Moshe Vardi Rice University
15:20
10m
Talk
Generic Model Checking for Modal Fixpoint Logics in COOL-MC
VMCAI
Daniel Hausmann University of Gothenburg, Merlin Humml Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Simon Prucker Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Lutz Schröder University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Aaron Strahlberger Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
Pre-print