NetEcon '08 — The 2008 Workshop on the Economics of Networks, Systems, and Computation
The organizing committee is delighted to invite you to NetEcon '08, co-located with ACM SIGCOMM 2008 in Seattle, WA, USA.
Call for Papers
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 divergent or even 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
Topics of interest to NetEcon '08 include, but are not limited to:
- Use of incentives and economic mechanisms in peer-to-peer systems, grids, SPAM prevention, security, Internet routing and peering, wireless networks, and other computational systems
- Algorithmic mechanism design
- 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
- Critique 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 NetEcon'06 and NetEcon'07 can be found at http://www.cs.duke.edu/nicl/netecon06/ and http://netecon-ibc.si.umich.edu/ respectively.
Submission Instructions
Submission of both technical papers and position papers is encouraged. Submitted papers should contain original material: Papers that have already appeared in conference proceedings or journals or are currently under review are ineligible for consideration by NetEcon '08. If you have questions about the eligibility of a potential submission, please email the PC chairs at netecon08@cs.yale.edu. Papers will be selected based on both technical merit and potential to spark interesting discussion at the workshop. Accepted papers will be published by ACM SIGCOMM.
Paper submissions should be at most 6 pages in length (not counting the bibliography) with 10pt fonts or larger. Additional information (including detailed proofs or experimental data) may be included in a clearly marked appendix that will be read at the discretion of the program-committee members.
Proposals for panel discussions are also solicited. Panel proposals should be no longer than 2 pages in 10pt font or larger and should contain a brief topic description, a list of specific questions that the panel members will be expected to answer, the name and affiliation of the moderator, and a list of at least three potential panel members. (The final list of panelists need not be fixed before submission.)
Submit papers and panel proposals electronically at the submission
site: http://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=6167
All submissions should be in PDF format only. If you are unable to
produce a PDF submission or to upload your paper at the submission site, please
email the PC chairs at netecon08@cs.yale.edu.
Important Dates
| Submissions due | March 8, 2008 (2359 PST) |
| Notification of acceptance | April 15, 2008 |
| Camera ready version due | June 6, 2008 |
| Workshop date | August 22, 2008 |
Program Committee
| PC Chairs | Joan Feigenbaum | Yale University |
|---|---|---|
| Y. Richard Yang | Yale University | |
| PC Members | Kevin Almeroth | UC Santa Barbara |
| Lorenzo Alvisi | U. of Texas at Austin | |
| Jeff Chase | Duke University | |
| Jon Crowcroft | University of Cambridge | |
| Nick Feamster | Georgia Tech | |
| Michal Feldman | Hebrew University | |
| Daniel Grosu | Wayne State University | |
| Jean-Pierre Hubaux | EPFL | |
| John C.S. Lui | Chinese University of Hong Kong | |
| Ratul Mahajan | Microsoft Research, Redmond | |
| Jean-Phillipe Martin | Microsoft Research, Cambridge | |
| Tim Roughgarden | Stanford University | |
| Rahul Sami | U. of Michigan at Ann Arbor | |
| R. Srikant | U. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | |
| Xiaowei Yang | UC Irvine | |
| Sheng Zhong | SUNY Buffalo | |
| Steering Committee Chair | David Parkes | Harvard University |
| Steering Committee | Nick Feamster | Georgia Tech |
| Emin Gun Sirer | Cornell University | |
| John Chuang | UC Berkeley | |
| Joan Feigenbaum | Yale University | |
| Daniel Grosu | Wayne State University | |
| Paul Spirakis | University of Patras | |
| Milan Vojnović | Microsoft Research, Cambridge |