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20182024
most citedToward a General Theory of Motion Planning Complexity: Characterizing Which Gadgets Make Games Hard

4 citations · 10 across the 13 of their papers we have counts for

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18 papers

cs.CC2024

Pushing Blocks via Checkable Gadgets: PSPACE-completeness of Push-1F and Block/Box Dude

Hayashi Ani, Lily Chung, Erik D. Demaine +3

We prove PSPACE-completeness of the well-studied pushing-block puzzle Push-1F, a theoretical abstraction of many video games (introduced in 1999). The proof also extends to Push-$k…

cs.LO2023★ 1 cited

Complexity of Motion Planning of Arbitrarily Many Robots: Gadgets, Petri Nets, and Counter Machines

Hayashi Ani, Michael Coulombe, Erik D. Demaine +4

We extend the motion-planning-through-gadgets framework to several new scenarios involving various numbers of robots/agents, and analyze the complexity of the resulting motion-plan…

cs.CG2023

Complexity of Simple Folding of Mixed Orthogonal Crease Patterns

Hugo Akitaya, Josh Brunner, Erik D. Demaine +3

Continuing results from JCDCGGG 2016 and 2017, we solve several new cases of the simple foldability problem -- deciding which crease patterns can be folded flat by a sequence of (s…

cs.CC2023

This Game Is Not Going To Analyze Itself

Aviv Adler, Hayashi Ani, Lily Chung +5

We analyze the puzzle video game This Game Is Not Going To Load Itself, where the player routes data packets of three different colors from given sources to given sinks of the corr…

cs.DS2022

Lower Bounds on Retroactive Data Structures

Lily Chung, Erik D. Demaine, Dylan Hendrickson +1

We prove essentially optimal fine-grained lower bounds on the gap between a data structure and a partially retroactive version of the same data structure. Precisely, assuming any o…

cs.CC2022

PSPACE-Completeness of Reversible Deterministic Systems

Erik D. Demaine, Robert A. Hearn, Dylan Hendrickson +1

We prove PSPACE-completeness of several reversible, fully deterministic systems. At the core, we develop a framework for such proofs (building on a result of Tsukiji and Hagiwara a…