On the Complexity of Equilibria Problems in Angel-Daemon Games

  • Authors:
  • Joaquim Gabarro;Alina García;Maria Serna

  • Affiliations:
  • ALBCOM Research Group, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain 08034;ALBCOM Research Group, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain 08034;ALBCOM Research Group, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain 08034

  • Venue:
  • COCOON '08 Proceedings of the 14th annual international conference on Computing and Combinatorics
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

We analyze the complexity of equilibria problems for a class of strategic zero-sum games, called Angel-Daemongames. Those games were introduced to asses the goodness of a web or grid orchestration on a faulty environment with bounded amount of failures [6]. It turns out that Angel-Daemongames are, at the best of our knowledge, the first natural example of zero-sum succinct games in the sense of [1],[9]. We show that deciding the existence of a pure Nash equilibrium or a dominant strategy for a given player is $\mathsf{\Sigma}^p_2$-complete. Furthermore, computing the value of an Angel-Daemon game is EXP-complete. Thus, matching the already known complexity results of the corresponding problems for the generic families of succinctly represented games with exponential number of actions.