Competition Adds Complexity

Part of Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 20 (NIPS 2007)

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Authors

Judy Goldsmith, Martin Mundhenk

Abstract

It is known that determinining whether a DEC-POMDP, namely, a cooperative partially observable stochastic game (POSG), has a cooperative strategy with positive expected reward is complete for NEXP. It was not known until now how cooperation affected that complexity. We show that, for competitive POSGs, the complexity of determining whether one team has a positive-expected-reward strategy is complete for the class NEXP with an oracle for NP.