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13 - Games with Counters

from Part IV - Infinite Games

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 April 2026

Edited by
‪Nathanaël Fijalkow
‪Nathanaël Fijalkow
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CNRS, LaBRI, Bordeaux
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Just as timed games arise from timed systemsand pushdown games from pushdown systems, countergames arise from (multi-)counter systems. Theseare finite-state systems, further endowed with afinite number of counters whose values range overthe natural numbers, and are widely used to modeland reason about systems handling discreteresources.

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Games on Graphs
From Logic and Automata to Algorithms
 , pp. 423 - 464
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2026

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