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  • Titel: Minimizing Expected Cost Under Hard Boolean Constraints, with Applications to Quantitative Synthesis
  • Beteiligte: Almagor, Shaull [Verfasser:in]; Kupferman, Orna [Verfasser:in]; Velner, Yaron [Verfasser:in]
  • Erschienen: Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik, 2016
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.CONCUR.2016.9
  • Schlagwörter: Stochastic and Quantitative Synthesis ; Sensing ; Mean Payoff Games
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  • Beschreibung: In Boolean synthesis, we are given an LTL specification, and the goal is to construct a transducer that realizes it against an adversarial environment. Often, a specification contains both Boolean requirements that should be satisfied against an adversarial environment, and multi-valued components that refer to the quality of the satisfaction and whose expected cost we would like to minimize with respect to a probabilistic environment. In this work we study, for the first time, mean-payoff games in which the system aims at minimizing the expected cost against a probabilistic environment, while surely satisfying an omega-regular condition against an adversarial environment. We consider the case the omega-regular condition is given as a parity objective or by an LTL formula. We show that in general, optimal strategies need not exist, and moreover, the limit value cannot be approximated by finite-memory strategies. We thus focus on computing the limit-value, and give tight complexity bounds for synthesizing epsilon-optimal strategies for both finite-memory and infinite-memory strategies. We show that our game naturally arises in various contexts of synthesis with Boolean and multi-valued objectives. Beyond direct applications, in synthesis with costs and rewards to certain behaviors, it allows us to compute the minimal sensing cost of omega-regular specifications -- a measure of quality in which we look for a transducer that minimizes the expected number of signals that are read from the input.
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