CALL FOR PAPERS 2008 Workshop on the Economics of Networks, Systems, and Computation (NetEcon'08) Co-located with the ACM Sigcomm'08 Conference http://www.sigcomm.org/sigcomm2008/workshops/netecon/ The emergence of the Internet as a global platform for computation and communication has sparked the development and deployment of many large-scale networked systems. Often, these systems involve multiple stakeholders with divergent or even competing interests. Unmitigated selfish behavior in these systems can lead to high inefficiency or even complete collapse. Research interest in the application of economic and game-theoretic principles to the design and analysis of networked systems has grown in recent years. The NetEcon Workshop promotes multi-discplinary work and discussion about the role of incentives in communication and computation. Topics of interest to NetEcon'08 include, but are not limited to: * Use of incentives and economic mechanisms in peer-to-peer systems, grids, SPAM prevention, security, Internet routing and peering, wireless networks, and other computational systems * Algorithmic mechanism design * Methods for engineering incentives and disincentives (e.g., reputation, trust, control, accountability, anonymity, etc.) * Mathematical modeling and analysis of strategic behavior (or the lack thereof) in existing, deployed systems * Empirical studies of strategic behavior (or the lack thereof) in existing, deployed systems * Critique of existing models and solution concepts (as well as proposals of better models and solution concepts) * Privacy, security, and anonymity in incentive-compatible computational systems Information about NetEcon'06 and NetEcon'07 can be found at http://www.cs.duke.edu/nicl/netecon06/ and http://netecon-ibc.si.umich.edu/ respectively. Submission Instructions: Submission of both technical papers and position papers is encouraged. Submitted papers should contain original material: Papers that have already appeared in conference proceedings or journals or are currently under review are ineligible for consideration by NetEcon'08. If you have questions about the eligibility of a potential submission, please email the PC chairs at [log in to unmask] Papers will be selected based on both technical merit and potential to spark interesting discussion at the workshop. Accepted papers will be published by ACM SIGCOMM. Paper submissions should be at most 6 pages in length (not counting the bibliography) with 10pt fonts or larger. Additional information (including detailed proofs or experimental data) may be included in a clearly marked appendix that will be read at the discretion of the program-committee members. Proposals for panel discussions are also solicited. Panel proposals should be no longer than 2 pages in 10pt font or larger and should contain a brief topic description, a list of specific questions that the panel members will be expected to answer, the name and affiliation of the moderator, and a list of at least three potential panel members. (The final list of panelists need not be fixed before submission.) Submit papers and panel proposals electronically at the submission site: http://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=6167 All submissions should be in PDF format only. If you are unable to produce a PDF submission or to upload your paper at the submission site, please email the PC chairs at [log in to unmask] Important Dates: * Submissions due: Friday, March 7, 2008 * Acceptance Notification: Tuesday, April 15, 2008 * Camera Ready Due: Friday, May 9, 2008 * Workshop: August 22, 2008 Workshop Web site: http://www.sigcomm.org/sigcomm2008/workshops/netecon/ Program Chairs: Joan Feigenbaum Department of Computer Science Yale University 51 Prospect Street New Haven, CT 06511 USA Phone: +1-203-432-6432 Fax: +1-203-432-6373 e-mail: [log in to unmask] Y. Richard Yang Department of Computer Science Yale University 51 Prospect Street New Haven, CT 06511 USA Phone: +1-203-432-6400 Fax: +1-203-432-0593 e-mail: [log in to unmask] NetEcon '08 Program Committee: * Kevin Almeroth (UC Santa Barbara) * Lorenzo Alvisi (U. of Texas at Austin) * Jeff Chase (Duke) * Jon Crowcroft (Cambridge) * Nick Feamster (Georgia Tech) * Michal Feldman (Hebrew University) * Daniel Grosu (Wayne State) * Jean-Pierre Hubaux (EPFL) * John C.S. Lui (Chinese University of Hong Kong) * Ratul Mahajan (Microsoft Research, Redmond) * Jean-Phillipe Martin (Microsoft Research, UK) * Tim Roughgarden (Stanford) * Rahul Sami (U. of Michigan at Ann Arbor) * R. Srikant (U. of Illinois at Urbana-Campaign) * Xiaowei Yang (U. of California at Irvine) * Sheng Zhong (SUNY Buffalo) NetEcon Steering Committee: * David Parkes (committee chair, Harvard) * Nick Feamster (Georgia Tech) * Emin Gun Sirer (Cornell) * John Chuang (Berkeley) * Joan Feigenbaum (Yale) * Daniel Grosu (Wayne State) * Paul Spirakis (University of Patras) * Milan Vojnovic (Microsoft) -----------------------------------