[please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this email] ******************************************************************* W-PIN 2012: The first Workshop on Pricing and Incentive in Networks In conjunction with ACM SIGMETRICS/Performance 2012 Monday, June 11, 2012 (London, UK)
http://www.eurecom.fr/~loiseau/W-PIN2012/ ******************************************************************* CALL FOR PAPERS Today's communication networks 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 pure engineering performance considerations. Instead, they must be accompanied by the right economic incentive mechanisms. Recent changes in regulations of the telecommunication industry make such economic considerations even more urgent. For instance, new debates such as the network neutrality debate have a significant impact on the evolution of communication networks. On the other hand, communication networks support an ever growing economic activity based on applications and services such as cloud computing, social networks, peer-to-peer networks, etc. These applications pose new challenges such as the development of good pricing mechanisms taking into account the network characteristics. In relation to these applications, security and privacy questions also require consideration of economic aspects to be fully understood. The aim of the W-PIN workshop 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. We invite submission of original papers not currently under review by another venue, describing research work on theoretical/methodological contributions or on applications to cases of interest for the workshop. Submission of early research results and work-in-progress is encouraged. Industrial applications and position papers presenting novel ideas, issues, challenges and directions are also welcome if they can contribute to the workshop discussion. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): * Pricing of network resources and congestion control * Pricing and resource allocation in Clouds * Effect of network structure (e.g., social network) on pricing of goods * Effect of market structure and regulations (e.g., network neutrality) * Economic issues in universal broadband access and economics of peering * Pricing of copyrighted goods distributed online (with or without network structure) * Economics of networks security and privacy * Monetization of private data * Auctions for networks: spectrum auctions, auction-based marketplaces for network and cloud resources trading * Incentive mechanisms for networks (peer-to-peer, decongestion, cooperation in wired and wireless networks, etc.) * Design of incentive-aware network architecture and protocols * Game-theoretic models and techniques for network economics (large games, mean-field games, learning, mechanism design, interaction of game theory and information theory or queueing theory, etc.) ******************************************************************* SUBMISSION FORMATTING INSTRUCTIONS Submissions must be in the form of extended abstracts of 2-4 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 there are no copyright issues with PER: authors retain the copyright of their work with freedom to submit it elsewhere.* ******************************************************************* COMMITTEES ORGANIZING COMMITTE Patrick Loiseau (EURECOM, France) Jean Walrand (UC Berkeley, USA) TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE Eitan Altman (INRIA, France) Jörn Altmann (Seoul National University, South Korea) Tamer Basar (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA) Rainer Böhme (WWU Münster, Germany) Costas Courcoubetis (Athens Univ. Economics and Business, Greece) Roch Guerin (UPenn, USA) Ekram Hossain (University of Manitoba, Canada) Jianwei Huang (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong) Stratis Ioannidis (Technicolor Palo Alto, USA) Rahul Jain (USC, USA) Ramesh Johari (Stanford University, USA) Nikolaos Laoutaris (Telefonica, Spain) Patrick Loiseau (EURECOM, France) Richard T.B. Ma (NUS, Singapore) Patrick Maillé (Telecom Bretagne, France) John Musacchio (UC Santa Cruz, USA) Ariel Orda (Technion, Israel) Peter Reichl (FTW Vienna, Austria) Galina Schwartz (UC Berkeley, USA) R. Srikant (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA) Hamidou Tembine (Supelec, France) Bruno Tuffin (INRIA, France) Jean Walrand (UC Berkeley, USA) Adam Wierman (Caltech, USA) ******************************************************************* IMPORTANT DATES *Extended abstract submission: Mon. April 23, 2012* Notification of acceptance/rejection: Mon. May 14, 2012 Workshop date: Mon. June 11, 2012 Final versions of accepted abstracts: July 2012 ******************************************************************* ADDITIONAL INFORMATION For more information, please contact the organizers or visit the workshop website: http://www.eurecom.fr/~loiseau/W-PIN2012/. -- -------------------------------------------- Patrick Loiseau Assistant Professor, Networking and Security EURECOM, Sophia-Antipolis, France Web: http://www.eurecom.fr/~loiseau/ -------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ IEEE Communications Society Tech. Committee on Computer Communications (TCCC) - for discussions on computer networking and communication. [email protected] https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc
