[Tccc] CFP W-PIN 2012 (in conjunction with ACM SIGMETRICS/Performance 2012): The first Workshop on Pricing and Incentive in Networks

Patrick Loiseau patrick.loiseau
Tue Mar 13 14:26:43 EDT 2012


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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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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.)


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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.*


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COMMITTEES

ORGANIZING COMMITTE
     Patrick Loiseau (EURECOM, France)
     Jean Walrand (UC Berkeley, USA)

TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE
     Eitan Altman (INRIA, France)
     J?rn Altmann (Seoul National University, South Korea)
     Tamer Basar (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA)
     Rainer B?hme (WWU M?nster, 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 Maill? (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)


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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


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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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