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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.FSTTCS.2010.120
URN: urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-28589
URL: http://dagstuhl.sunsite.rwth-aachen.de/volltexte/2010/2858/
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Da Costa, Arnaud ; Laroussinie, François ; Markey, Nicolas

ATL with Strategy Contexts: Expressiveness and Model Checking

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Abstract

We study the alternating-time temporal logics ATL and ATL* extended with strategy contexts: these make agents commit to their strategies during the evaluation of formulas, contrary to plain ATL and ATL* where strategy quantifiers reset previously selected strategies.

We illustrate the important expressive power of strategy contexts by proving that they make the extended logics, namely ATLsc and ATLsc*, equally expressive: any formula in ATLsc* can be translated into an equivalent, linear-size ATLsc formula. Despite the high expressiveness of these logics, we~prove that their model-checking problems remain decidable by~designing a tree-automata-based algorithm for model-checking ATLsc* on the full class of $n$-player concurrent game structures.

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@InProceedings{dacosta_et_al:LIPIcs:2010:2858,
  author =	{Arnaud Da Costa and Fran{\c{c}}ois Laroussinie and Nicolas Markey},
  title =	{{ATL with Strategy Contexts: Expressiveness and Model Checking}},
  booktitle =	{IARCS Annual Conference on Foundations of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer Science (FSTTCS 2010)},
  pages =	{120--132},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-939897-23-1},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2010},
  volume =	{8},
  editor =	{Kamal Lodaya and Meena Mahajan},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl--Leibniz-Zentrum fuer Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{http://drops.dagstuhl.de/opus/volltexte/2010/2858},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-28589},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.FSTTCS.2010.120},
  annote =	{Keywords: alternating temporal logic, agent, strategy quantifier}
}

Keywords: alternating temporal logic, agent, strategy quantifier
Collection: IARCS Annual Conference on Foundations of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer Science (FSTTCS 2010)
Issue Date: 2010
Date of publication: 14.12.2010

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