Infinite-Duration Bidding Games

@inproceedings{Avni2017InfiniteDurationBG,
title={Infinite-Duration Bidding Games},
author={Guy Avni and Ventsislav Chonev and T. Henzinger},
booktitle={CONCUR},
year={2017}
}
• Published in CONCUR 2017
• Computer Science, Mathematics
Two-player games on graphs are widely studied in formal methods as they model the interaction between a system and its environment. The game is played by moving a token throughout a graph to produce an infinite path. There are several common modes to determine how the players move the token through the graph; e.g., in turn-based games the players alternate turns in moving the token. We study the {\em bidding} mode of moving the token, which, to the best of our knowledge, has never been studied… Expand
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