Reachability games with counters : decidability and algorithms

摘要

This thesis is devoted to a general study of a reachability games on systems with counters. In this kind of games, the objective of one of two players is to reach a particular configuration, which is a pair composed of a vertex of the game arena and a tuple of values for the counters. The values of the counters are updated, usually by vector additions, when a edge is taken. The decision problem associated with a reachability game is whether a player has a winning strategy for the game from a given configuration, in other words whether the configuration is winning. When the problem of determining the winner from a given configuration is decidable, we wonder whether it is even possible to describe the set of winning configurations. In our study, we look at various features of counter reachability games, finding similarities or, on the contrary, differences with regard to decidability or complexity of the decision problem, when one of the features is modified. The main feature that we consider is what happens when a counter should become negative. We focus primarily on three semantics. We also consider other features that allow to compare decidability and complexity. We introduce a model, called “robot games”, on which we obtain our main results: an algorithm with an optimal complexity for dimension one, and undecidability for dimension three.