Markov Decision Processes with Sure Parity and Multiple Reachability Objectives

Abstract

This paper considers the problem of finding strategies that satisfy a mixture of sure and threshold objectives in Markov decision processes. We focus on a single $\ddot{I}‰$-regular objective expressed as parity that must be surely met while satisfying $n$ reachability objectives towards sink states with some probability thresholds too. We consider three variants of the problem: (a) strict and (b) non-strict thresholds on all reachability objectives, and (c) maximizing the thresholds with respect to a lexicographic order. We show that (a) and (c) can be reduced to solving parity games, and (b) can be solved in $\mathsf{EXPTIME}$. Strategy complexities as well as algorithms are provided for all cases.

Paper accepted to RP 2024 - Full version