Stochastic müller games are PSPACE-complete

Abstract

The theory of graph games with ω-regular winning conditions is the foundation for modeling and synthesizing reactive processes. In the case of stochastic reactive processes, the corresponding stochastic graph games have three players, two of them (System and Environment) behaving adversarially, and the third (Uncertainty) behaving probabilistically. We consider two problems for stochastic graph games: the qualitative problem asks for the set of states from which a player can win with probability 1 (almost-sure winning); and the quantitative problem asks for the maximal probability of winning (optimal winning) from each state. We consider w-regular winning conditions formalized as Müller winning conditions. We show that both the qualitative and quantitative problem for stochastic Müller games are PSPACE-complete. We also consider two well-known sub-classes of Müller objectives, namely, upward-closed and union-closed objectives, and show that both the qualitative and quantitative problem for these sub-classes are coNP-complete. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2007.