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@PHDTHESIS{Holtmann:64650,
      author       = {Holtmann, Michael},
      othercontributors = {Thomas, Wolfgang},
      title        = {{M}emory and delay in regular infinite games},
      address      = {Aachen},
      publisher    = {Publikationsserver der RWTH Aachen University},
      reportid     = {RWTH-CONV-125929},
      pages        = {X, 147 S. : graph. Darst.},
      year         = {2011},
      note         = {Zsfassung in dt. und engl. Sprache; Aachen, Techn.
                      Hochsch., Diss., 2011},
      abstract     = {Infinite two-player games constitute a powerful and
                      flexible framework for the design and verification of
                      reactive systems. It is well-known that, for example, the
                      construction of a controller acting indefinitely within its
                      environment can be reduced to the computation of a winning
                      strategy in an infinite game (Pnueli and Rosner, 1989). For
                      the class of regular games, Büchi and Landweber (1969)
                      showed that one of the players has a winning strategy which
                      can be realized by a finite-state automaton. Based on this
                      fundamental result, many efforts have been made by the
                      research community to improve the solution methods for
                      infinite games. This is meant with respect to both the time
                      needed to compute winning strategies and the amount of space
                      required to implement them. In the present work we are
                      mainly concerned with the second aspect. We study two
                      problems related to the construction of small controller
                      programs. In the first part of the thesis, we address the
                      classical problem of computing finite-state winning
                      strategies which can be realized by automata with as little
                      memory, i.e., number of states, as possible. Even though it
                      follows from a result of Dziembowski et al. (1997) that
                      there exist exotic regular games for which the size of
                      automata implementing winning strategies is at least
                      exponential in the size of the game arena, most practical
                      cases require far less space. We propose an efficient
                      algorithm which reduces the memory used for the
                      implementation of winning strategies, for several classes of
                      regular conditions, and we show that our technique can
                      effect an exponential gain in the size of the memory. In the
                      second part of this thesis, we introduce a generalized
                      notion of a strategy. One of the players is allowed to delay
                      each of his moves for a finite number of steps, or, in other
                      words, exploit in his strategy some lookahead on the moves
                      of the opponent. This setting captures situations in
                      distributed systems, for example, when buffers are present
                      in communication between remote components. Our concept of
                      strategies corresponds to the class of continuous operators,
                      thereby extending the work of Hosch and Landweber (1972)
                      and, in particular, that of Büchi and Landweber (1969). We
                      show that the problem whether a given regular specification
                      is solvable by a continuous operator is decidable and that
                      each continuous solution can be reduced to one of bounded
                      lookahead. From our results, we derive a generalized
                      determinacy of regular conditions.},
      keywords     = {Unendliches Spiel (SWD) / Automatentheorie (SWD)},
      cin          = {122110 / 120000},
      ddc          = {004},
      cid          = {$I:(DE-82)122110_20140620$ / $I:(DE-82)120000_20140620$},
      typ          = {PUB:(DE-HGF)11},
      urn          = {urn:nbn:de:hbz:82-opus-37919},
      url          = {https://publications.rwth-aachen.de/record/64650},
}