NETECON 11: WORKSHOP ON THE ECONOMICS OF NETWORKS, SYSTEMS, AND COMPUTATION
June 6, 2011
San Jose, California
Workshop Web site:
http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/redmond/events/NetEcon2011/
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 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-disciplinary work and discussion about the role of
incentives in communication and computation.
Topics of interest to NetEcon'11 include, but are not limited to:
· Use of incentives and economic mechanisms in peer-to-peer systems, grids, cloud computing, spam prevention, security, Internet routing
and peering, wireless networks, and other computational systems
· 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
· Mathematical models and empirical studies on learning, information exchange, diffusion, dynamics of cooperation and network formation,
and 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
· Privacy, security, and anonymity in incentive-compatible computational systems
Information about previous NetEcon workshops can be found at: http://netecon.seas.harvard.edu/
NetEcon 2011 will be held in conjunction with EC'11 as part of the ACM Federated Computing Research Conference.
Important Dates:
o Submissions due: Friday, March 25, 2011 (23:59 EST)
o Reviews due: Monday, April 17, 2011
o Acceptance Notification: Monday, April 24, 2011
o Workshop: June 6, 2011
Program Chairs:
John Douceur (Microsoft Research)
Asu Ozdaglar (LIDS, MIT)
NetEcon'11 Program Committee:
Randall Berry (Northwestern)
Kostas Bimpikis (MSR New England and Stanford)
Sharon Goldberg (Boston University)
Sergey Gorinsky (Institute IMDEA Networks)
Krishna P. Gummadi (Max Planck Institute for Software Systems)
Jianwei Huang (CUHK)
Ali Jadbabaie (UPenn)
Ian Kash (Harvard)
Arvind Krishnamurthy (University of Washington)
Dave Levin (HP Labs)
Alan Mislove (Northeastern University)
John Musacchio (UC Santa Cruz)
Keith Ross (Polytechnic University)
Nahum Shimkin (Technion)
Nicolas Stier (Columbia)
A. Kevin Tang (Cornell)
Jean Walrand (Berkeley)
Gabriel Weintraub (Columbia)
Rebecca N. Wright (Rutgers University)
June 6, 2011
San Jose, California
Workshop Web site:
http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/redmond/events/NetEcon2011/
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 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-disciplinary work and discussion about the role of
incentives in communication and computation.
Topics of interest to NetEcon'11 include, but are not limited to:
· Use of incentives and economic mechanisms in peer-to-peer systems, grids, cloud computing, spam prevention, security, Internet routing
and peering, wireless networks, and other computational systems
· 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
· Mathematical models and empirical studies on learning, information exchange, diffusion, dynamics of cooperation and network formation,
and 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
· Privacy, security, and anonymity in incentive-compatible computational systems
Information about previous NetEcon workshops can be found at: http://netecon.seas.harvard.edu/
NetEcon 2011 will be held in conjunction with EC'11 as part of the ACM Federated Computing Research Conference.
Important Dates:
o Submissions due: Friday, March 25, 2011 (23:59 EST)
o Reviews due: Monday, April 17, 2011
o Acceptance Notification: Monday, April 24, 2011
o Workshop: June 6, 2011
Program Chairs:
John Douceur (Microsoft Research)
Asu Ozdaglar (LIDS, MIT)
NetEcon'11 Program Committee:
Randall Berry (Northwestern)
Kostas Bimpikis (MSR New England and Stanford)
Sharon Goldberg (Boston University)
Sergey Gorinsky (Institute IMDEA Networks)
Krishna P. Gummadi (Max Planck Institute for Software Systems)
Jianwei Huang (CUHK)
Ali Jadbabaie (UPenn)
Ian Kash (Harvard)
Arvind Krishnamurthy (University of Washington)
Dave Levin (HP Labs)
Alan Mislove (Northeastern University)
John Musacchio (UC Santa Cruz)
Keith Ross (Polytechnic University)
Nahum Shimkin (Technion)
Nicolas Stier (Columbia)
A. Kevin Tang (Cornell)
Jean Walrand (Berkeley)
Gabriel Weintraub (Columbia)
Rebecca N. Wright (Rutgers University)
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