Model Checking Games for the Quantitative mu-Calculus

Diana Fischer (1) , Erich Grädel (1) , Lukasz Kaiser (1)

1 Mathematische Grundlagen der Informatik

We investigate quantitative extensions of modal logic and the modal mu-calculus, and study the question whether the tight connection between logic and games can be lifted from the qualitative logics to their quantitative counterparts. It turns out that, if the quantitative mu-calculus is defined in an appropriate way respecting the duality properties between the logical operators, then its model checking problem can indeed be characterised by a quantitative variant of parity games. However, these quantitative games have quite different properties than their classical counterparts, in particular they are, in general, not positionally determined. The correspondence between the logic and the games goes both ways: the value of a formula on a quantitative transition system coincides with the value of the associated quantitative game, and conversely, the values of quantitative parity games are definable in the quantitative mu-calculus.

Mots clés: games; logic; model checking; quantitative logics

Domaines: Logique en informatique [cs.LO]; Informatique et théorie des jeux [cs.GT]

Diana Fischer, Erich Grädel, Lukasz Kaiser. Model Checking Games for the Quantitative mu-Calculus. STACS 2008, Feb 2008, Bordeaux, France. pp.301-312. ⟨hal-00255805⟩