[Tccc] Call for participation W-PIN 2012: The first ACM SIGMETRICS/Performance Workshop on Pricing and Incentive in Networks

Patrick Loiseau patrick.loiseau
Wed May 16 06:13:51 EDT 2012


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Please note the early registration deadline on Friday, May 18, 2012.


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Call For Participation:


         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/


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BACKGROUND

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.


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KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

  * Andrew Odlyzko, Professor in the School of Mathematics, University 
of Minnesota (Minneapolis)
  * Tommaso Valletti, Professor of Economics at Imperial College 
Business School (London) and titular Professor of the "Innovation & 
Regulation in Digital Services" Chair at Telecom ParisTech and Ecole 
Polytechnique (Paris)


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PRELIMINARY PROGRAM

10 contributed talks have been accepted for presentation at W-PIN 2012. 
A list of accepted papers can be found at 
http://www.eurecom.fr/~loiseau/W-PIN2012/program.html.


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REGISTRATION

Registration is handled by the main ACM SIGMETRICS/Performance 
conference: http://www.sigmetrics.org/sigmetrics2012/registration.php. 
Please note that *the early registration deadline is Friday May 18, 
2012* (May 25 for students).


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SPONSORS

Institut Mines-Telecom
EURECOM


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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

For more information, please contact the organizers or visit the 
workshop website: http://www.eurecom.fr/~loiseau/W-PIN2012/.


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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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