Inapproximability in weighted timed games

Quentin Guilmant and Joël Ouaknine

We consider two-player, turn-based weighted timed games played on timed automata equipped with (positive and negative) integer weights, in which one player seeks to reach a goal location whilst minimising the cumulative weight of the underlying path. Although the value problem for such games (is the value of the game below a given threshold?) is known to be undecidable, the question of whether one can approximate this value has remained a longstanding open problem. In this paper, we resolve this question by showing that approximating arbitrarily closely the value of a given weighted timed game is computationally unsolvable.

Proceedings of CONCUR 24, LIPIcs 311, 2024. 15 pages.

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