Formats of Winning Strategies for Six Types of Pushdown Games

@inproceedings{Fridman2010FormatsOW,
  title={Formats of Winning Strategies for Six Types of Pushdown Games},
  author={Wladimir Fridman},
  booktitle={International Symposium on Games, Automata, Logics and Formal Verification},
  year={2010}
}
  • Wladimir Fridman
  • Published in
    International Symposium on…
     7 June 2010
  • Computer Science
The solution of parity games over pushdown graphs (Walukiewicz ’96) was the first step towards an effective theory of infinite-state games. It was shown that w inning strategies for pushdown games can be implemented again as pushdown automata. We continue this study and investigate the connection between game presentations and winning strategies in altogether six cases of game arenas, among them realtime pushdown systems, visibly pushdown systems, and counter systems. In four cases we show by a… 
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