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Call For Papers:
*W-PIN+NetEcon 2014*: The Joint Workshop on Pricing and Incentive in
Networks and Systems
In conjunction with ACM SIGMETRICS 2014
Friday, June 16, 2014 (Austin, USA)
http://www.eurecom.fr/~loiseau/W-PIN+NetEcon2014/
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KEYNOTE SPEAKER
* *Paul Milgrom*, Stanford University
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INVITED SPEAKERS
* TBA
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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, 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 W-PIN+NetEcon is to foster discussions 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. W-PIN+NetEcon was formed as a merger of the successful NetEcon
(earlier P2PECON, IBC and PINS workshops) and W-PIN workshops. We invite
submission of extended abstracts describing original research on
theoretical/methodological contributions or on applications to cases of
interest. It is our hope that W-PIN+NetEcon will serve as a feeder
workshop, i.e., that expanded, polished versions of extended abstracts
will appear later in major conference proceedings and refereed journals
of relevant research communities.
Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):
* Pricing of resources in communication networks, grids, and cloud
computing
* Pricing of information goods and services; copyright issues,
effect of network externalities (e.g., in social network)
* Economic issues in universal broadband access; economics of
interconnection and peering
* Effects of market structure and regulations (e.g., network
neutrality)
* Economics of network security and privacy; valuation of personal data
* Auctions with 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 architectures 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 for network systems
* Critiques of existing models and solution concepts, as well as
proposals of better models and solution concepts
* Studies of open collaboration, peer production, crowdsourcing,
and human computation.
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SUBMISSION FORMATTING GUIDELINES
Submissions must be in the form of extended abstracts of 3-4 pages,
including all figures, tables, references, appendices, etc. They must be
formatted according to the standard alternate ACM PER double column
format using letter paper. You are encouraged to use the ACM
sig-alternate-per latex template
(http://www.sigmetrics.org/sig-alternate-per.cls).
Accepted extended abstracts will be published in a special issue of ACM
Performance Evaluation Review (PER) and will be available online through
ACM portal digital library. Authors of accepted abstracts grant ACM
permission to publish them in print and digital formats.
Note that authors retain the copyright of their work published in ACM
PER, with freedom to submit it elsewhere. Yet, authors for whom
publication of a 3-4 pages extended abstract in the W-PIN+NetEcon 2014
proceedings would preclude later publication of an expanded version in
the relevant venue may elect to contribute only a one-page abstract of
their submitted extended abstract to the W-PIN+NetEcon 2014 proceedings.
Such an abstract should include the URL of a working paper or preprint
that contains the main results presented at the W-PIN+NetEcon workshop.
Authors will make this decision after receiving a notice of acceptance.
If the number of excellent submissions is larger than we can accept,
some authors will be offered the opportunity to present their work
during a poster session.
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COMMITTES
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
John Chuang (UC Berkeley, USA)
Patrick Loiseau (EURECOM, France)
TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Matthew Andrews (Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs, USA)
Tamer Ba?ar (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA)
Bobby Bhattarcharjee (University of Maryland, USA)
Rainer Böhme (WWU Münster, Germany)
Augustin Chaintreau (Columbia University, USA)
Michela Chessa (EURECOM, France)
John Chuang (UC Berkeley, USA) -- co-chair
kc claffy (CAIDA / UC San Diego, USA)
Costas Courcoubetis (SUTD, Singapore and AUEB, Greece)
Amogh Dhamdhere (CAIDA / UC San Diego, USA)
Constantine Dovrolis (GeorgiaTech, USA)
Peter Druschel (Max Planck Institute for Software Systems, Germany)
Rachid Elazouzi (University of Avignon, France)
Michal Feldman (Tel-Aviv University, Israel)
Sergey Gorinsky (Institute IMDEA Networks, Spain)
Jens Grossklags (The Pennsylvania State University, USA)
Daniel Grosu (Wayne State University, USA)
Roch Guerin (Washington University in St. Louis, USA)
Ekram Hossain (University of Manitoba, Canada)
Jianwei Huang (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
Ramesh Johari (Stanford University, USA)
Ian Kash (Microsoft Research, UK)
Peter Key (Microsoft Research, UK)
Sébastien Lahaie (Microsoft Research, USA)
Dave Levin (University of Maryland, USA)
Patrick Loiseau (EURECOM, France) -- co-chair
Brendan Lucier (Microsoft Research, USA)
John C. S. Lui (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
Richard T.B. Ma (NUS, Singapore)
Thomas Maillart (UC Berkeley, USA)
Patrick Maillé (Institut Mines-Telecom / Telecom Bretagne, France)
Ravi Mazumdar (University of Waterloo, Canada)
Jeonghoon Mo (Yonsei University, South Korea)
Tyler Moore (SMU, USA)
John Musacchio (UC Santa Cruz, USA)
Andrew Odlyzko (University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA)
Galina Schwartz (UC Berkeley, USA)
Paul G. Spirakis (University of Liverpool, UK and CTI, Greece)
R. Srikant (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA)
Nicolás Stier Moses (Columbia University, USA)
John N. Tsitsiklis (MIT, USA)
Bruno Tuffin (Inria, France)
Milan Vojnovic (Microsoft Research, UK)
Jean Walrand (UC Berkeley, USA)
Adam Wierman (Caltech, USA)
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IMPORTANT DATES
* *Monday April 7, 2014, 11:59pm PST: Submission deadline (firm)*
* Monday May 5, 2014: Notification to authors
* Monday June 9, 2014: Final version due
* Monday June 16, 2014: Workshop in Austin
* Monday July 14, 2014: Final version for the ACM PER proceedings due
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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
For more information, please contact the organizers or visit the
workshop website: http://www.eurecom.fr/~loiseau/W-PIN+NetEcon2014/.
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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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