Title : 
How Good Is a Strategy in a Game with Nature?
         
        
            Author : 
Carayol, Arnaud ; Serre, Olivier
         
        
            Author_Institution : 
LIGM, Univ. Paris Est, France
         
        
        
        
        
        
            Abstract : 
We consider games with two antagonistic players -- Éloïse (modelling a program) and Abelard (modelling a byzantine environment) -- and a third, unpredictable and uncontrollable player, that we call Nature. Motivated by the fact that the usual probabilistic semantics very quickly leads to undecidability when considering either infinite game graphs or imperfect information, we propose two alternative semantics that leads to decidability where the probabilistic one fails: one based on counting and one based on topology.
         
        
            Keywords : 
decidability; game theory; graph theory; probability; Abelard; Éloïse; antagonistic players; byzantine environment modelling; decidability; imperfect information; infinite game graphs; probabilistic semantics; program modelling; topology; Color; Computer science; Games; Probabilistic logic; Probability distribution; Semantics; Topology; cardinality constraints; large sets of branches; qualitative study of games; tree automata;
         
        
        
        
            Conference_Titel : 
Logic in Computer Science (LICS), 2015 30th Annual ACM/IEEE Symposium on
         
        
            Conference_Location : 
Kyoto
         
        
        
        
            DOI : 
10.1109/LICS.2015.62