Summary

I am a PhD student supervised by Mickael Randour from the Department of Mathematics of the University of Mons (UMONS). My PhD is funded by the F.R.S.-FNRS.

My research interests lie in the game-theoretic approach to the synthesis of controllers for reactive systems and the models used for the representation of these controllers. I am also interested in timed systems.

Publications

Peer-reviewed conference proceedings

  • Timed Games with Bounded Window Parity Objectives. James C. A. Main, Mickael Randour, Jeremy Sproston. Formal Modeling and Analysis of Timed Systems - 20th International Conference, FORMATS 2022, LNCS 13465, Springer, 17 pages, 2022, 17 pages, 2022. [Extended version on arXiv]
  • Different strokes in randomised strategies: Revisiting Kuhn's theorem under finite-memory assumptions. James C. A. Main, Mickael Randour. 33rd International Conference on Concurrency Theory (CONCUR 2022), LIPIcs 243, Schloss Dagstuhl, 18 pages, 2022. [DOI][Extended version on arXiv]
  • Time Flies When Looking out of the Window: Timed Games with Window Parity Objectives. James C. A. Main, Mickael Randour, Jeremy Sproston. 32nd International Conference on Concurrency Theory (CONCUR 2021), LIPIcs 203, Schloss Dagstuhl, 16 pages, 2021. [DOI] [Extended version on arXiv]

Research experience

Master's Thesis

Sept 2020 - Jun 2021
UMONS, Belgium

Title: Alternative Strategy Representations in Games.
Supervisor: Mickael Randour (UMONS).

Research Internship

Sept 2020 - Jun 2021
UMONS, Belgium

Subject: Extending window objectives to timed automata and games.
Supervisor: Mickael Randour (UMONS).

Research Initiation Internship

Aug 2019
UMONS, Belgium

Subject: Efficient algorithms for parity games with few colors.
Supervisor: Mickael Randour (UMONS).

Attended events

My talks with slides.
  • 2022:
    • FORMATS 2022: 20th Conference on Formal Modeling and Analysis of Timed Systems (University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland).
    • CONCUR 2022: The 33rd International Conference on Concurrency Theory (University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland).
    • Journées Nationales du GT Vérif (Université de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France)
    • Highlights 2022 of Logic, Games and Automata (Université Paris-Cité, Paris, France).
    • PhD Day (Belgian Mathematical Society) (Université de Liège, Liège, Belgium).
    • Current Trends in Graph and Stochastic Games (GAMENET Workshop) (Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands).
  • 2021:
    • Journées du GT Vérif (ENS Paris-Saclay, Gif-sur-Yvette, France)
    • Highlights 2021 of Logic, Games and Automata (Online).
    • CONCUR 2021: The 32nd International Conference on Concurrency Theory (Online).
  • 2020:
    • MOVEP 2020: 14th Summer School on Modelling and Verification of Parallel Processes (Online).
    • RDTMA: Regional Days on Model Theory and Applications - 5th edition (Université de Mons, Belgium).
  • 2019:
    • CONCUR 2019: The 30th International Conference on Concurrency Theory (Amsterdam, Netherlands).

Teaching

Mathématiques Effectives

Teaching Assistant
Sept 2021 - Present
4th year
Exercise sessions for the course on game theory given by Thomas Brihaye.

Elementary Mathematics

Student teaching Assistant
Sept - Nov 2018, 2019, 2020
1st year
Supervision of in-class and remote exercise sessions, and test grading.