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*Call for Papers
ACM Transactions on Internet Technology**
**Theme Section on Pricing and Incentives in Networks and Systems*
http://toit.acm.org/CfP.html
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CALL FOR PAPERS
Today's communication networks and networked systems are highly complex
and heterogeneous, and are often owned by multiple profit-making
entities. For new technologies or infrastructure designs to be adopted,
they must not be only based on sound engineering performance
considerations but also present the right economic incentives. Recent
changes in regulations of the telecommunication industry make such
economic considerations even more urgent. For instance, new concerns
such as network neutrality have a significant impact on the evolution of
communication networks.
At the same time, communication networks and networked systems support
increasing economic activity based on applications and services such as
cloud computing, social networks, and peer-to-peer networks. These
applications pose new challenges such as the development of good pricing
and incentive mechanisms to promote effective system-wide behavior. In
relation to these applications, security and privacy also require
consideration of economic aspects to be fully understood.
The aim of this theme section is to bring together state-of-the-art
research contributions on the application of economic and game-theoretic
models and principles to address challenges in the development of
networks and network-based applications and services. We invite
submission of original completed work not currently under review by any
other journal describing theoretical/methodological contributions or
applications to cases of interest. Topics of interest include (but are
not limited to):
* Pricing of resources in communication networks, grids, and cloud
computing
* Pricing of online goods, copyright issues, effect of network
structure (e.g., social network)
* Economic issues in universal broadband access and economics of
peering
* Effect of market structure and regulations (e.g., network neutrality)
* Economics of networks security and privacy
* Auctions and applications to networks: spectrum auctions,
auction-based marketplaces for network and cloud resources
* Incentive mechanisms for networks: peer-to-peer systems, clouds,
wireless networks, spam prevention, security
* Methods for engineering incentives and disincentives (e.g.,
reputation, trust, control, accountability, anonymity)
* Empirical studies of strategic behavior (or the lack thereof) in
existing, deployed systems
* Design of incentive-aware network architecture and protocols
* Game-theoretic models and techniques for network economics: large
games, learning, mechanism design, interaction of game theory and
information theory or queuing theory, information exchange, diffusion,
dynamics of cooperation and network formation, trades in social and
economic networks
* Algorithmic mechanism design
* Critiques of existing models and solution concepts, as well as
proposals of better models and solution concepts
* Studies of polarization, online collaboration, crowdsourcing, and
human computation
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SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS
Initial submissions must be at most 20 pages and comply with the ACM
Transactions on Internet Technology policies. Please refer to
http://toit.acm.org/submission.html for complete formatting and
submission instructions.
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GUEST EDITORS
* Costas Courcoubetis, AUEB, Greece
* Roch Guerin, UPenn, USA
* Patrick Loiseau, EURECOM, France
* David Parkes, Harvard University, USA
* Jean Walrand, UC Berkeley, USA
* Adam Wierman, Caltech, USA
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IMPORTANT DATES
* *Submission deadline: September 30, 2013*
* First notification: January 31, 2014
* Revised version due: March 17, 2014
* Final notification: May 2, 2014
* Final version due: July 1, 2014
* Publication: early Fall 2014
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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
For further information, please contact the guest editors at: patrick
[dot] loiseau [at] eurecom [dot] fr.
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Patrick Loiseau
Assistant Professor, Networking and Security
EURECOM, Sophia-Antipolis, France
Web: http://www.eurecom.fr/~loiseau/
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