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Deadline in one month (Monday April 7, firm) -- Full
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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
Monday, June 16, 2014 (Austin, USA)
http://www.eurecom.fr/~loiseau/W-PIN+NetEcon2014/
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KEYNOTE SPEAKER
* Paul Milgrom, Stanford University (Economics)
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INVITED SPEAKERS
* Asu Ozdaglar, MIT (EECS)
* Aaron Roth, UPenn (CS)
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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 / PC CHAIRS
John Chuang (UC Berkeley, USA)
Patrick Loiseau (EURECOM, France)
TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Matthew Andrews (Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs, USA)
Tamer Basar (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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SPONSORS
EURECOM
Institut Mines-Telecom
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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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