Abstract. Energy games have recently attracted a lot of attention. These are games played on finite weighted automata and concern the existence of infinite runs subject to boundary constraints on the accumulated weight, allowing e.g. only for behaviours where a resource is always available (nonnegative accumulated weight), yet does not exceed a given maximum capacity. We extend energy games to a multiweighted and parameterized setting, allowing us to model systems with multiple quantitative aspects. We present reductions between Petri nets and multiweighted automata and among different types of multiweighted automata and identify new complexity and (un)decidability results for both one-and two-player games. We also investigate the tractability of an extension of multiweighted energy games in the setting of timed automata.

Abstract. Specification theories as a tool in the development process of component-based software systems have recently attracted a considerable attention. Current specification theories are however qualitative in nature and hence fragile and unsuited for modern software systems. We propose the first specification theory which allows to capture quantitative aspects during the refinement and implementation process.

Abstract. Multiweighted energy games are two-player multiweighted games that concern the existence of infinite runs subject to a vector of lower and upper bounds on the accumulated weights along the run. We assume an unknown upper bound and calculate the set of vectors of upper bounds that allow an infinite run to exist. For both a strict and a weak upper bound we show how to construct this set by employing results from previous works, including an algorithm given by Valk and Jantzen for finding the set of minimal elements of an upward closed set. Additionally, we consider energy games where the weight of some transitions is unknown, and show how to find the set of suitable weights using the same algorithm.

We introduce a novel formalism of label-structured modal transition systems that combines the classical may/must modalities on transitions with structured labels that represent quantitative aspects of the model. On the one hand, the specification formalism is general enough to include models like weighted modal transition systems and allows system developers to employ more complex label refinement than in previously studied theories. On the other hand, the formalism maintains the desirable properties required by any specification theory supporting compositional reasoning. In particular, we study modal and thorough refinement, determinisation, parallel composition, conjunction, quotient and logical characterisation of label-structured modal transition systems.

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