Call For Papers
GameNets 2009
International Conference on Game Theory for Networks
20-22 May 2009, Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey
Important dates
Submission deadline : November 15, 2008 (see website for details)
Acceptance notification : March 1, 2009
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Game theory provides a formal mathematical framework to study complex
interactions among interdependent rational players. For more than half a
century, game theory has led to revolutionary developments in economics,
and has also found important applications in politics, sociology,
psychology, engineering, and transportation.
Recently, there has been a surge in research activities that employ game
theory to model and analyze the performance of various networks, such as
communication networks, computer networks, social networks, biological
networks, molecular networks, and neural networks. There already exist
several successful examples where game theory provides deeper
understanding of complex network dynamics and leads to better design of
efficient, scalable, and robust networks. Still, there remain many
interesting open research problems yet to be identified and explored, and
many issues to be addressed. Moreover, studies of different networks
heretofore have largely been performed independently, although in many
cases it is apparent that they share many similarities in terms of problem
structures and the technical challenges they offer.
GameNets 2009, which will be held on the campus of Bogazici University, in
Istanbul, Turkey, on 20-22 May 2009, will bring together researchers who
apply game theory to analyze, design, and assess the performance of
networks. The conference will highlight synergies between various related
research areas and encourage discussions regarding the benefits and
limitations of game theory as a performance assessment and design tool for
networks. Both the application of game theory to networking problems and
the development of new game-theoretic methodologies that can be applied in
that context are of interest. The conference will feature plenary talks,
organized sessions focused on specific topics, and contributed papers.
GameNets topics include (but are not limited to)
* Distributed network resource allocation
* Trust and reputation management
* Security assessment and enhancement
* Dynamic spectrum assignment and management
* Cognitive radio networks
* Dynamic topology formation in networks
* Incentives for cooperation in networks
* Node mobility and route adaptation
* Fairness in forwarding and medium access
* Peer to peer and overlay networks
* Network pricing
* Multiple service provider interactions
* Powerline communication networks
* Electrical power networks
* Formation of social networks
* Biological networks
* Biologically-inspired network design
* Applicability and limitations of game theory in the networking domain
* Algorithmic game theory
* Equilibrium selection among multiple equilibria
* Paradigms of bounded rationality and consequences
* S-modular and potential games
* Price of anarchy
* Games of imperfect or asymmetric information
* Learning mechanisms in games
* Computation of Nash, correlated, and market equilibria
* Preference elicitation and winner determination in combinatorial auctions
* Stackelberg games
* Cooperative game theoretical models
* Multi-stage and repeated games
* Mechanism design
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Instructions for Submission:
Prospective authors are invited to submit their contributions as extended
abstracts of up to 8 pages in single-column IEEE conference format pages
in a font no smaller than 10-points, with one-and-a-half line spacing, and
containing sufficient information to allow for a detailed review. Deadline
for submissions is November 15, 2008, and submissions will be web based.
Further information, with appropriate links and instructions will be
available on the conference website two months before the submission
deadline. Acceptance decisions will be sent to the authors by March 1,
2009. Final versions of papers to be included in the program will be up to
10 pages in double column IEEE format. A proceedings volume will be
available at the conference, as part of the conference registration
package.
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Organizing Committee
General Chair: Tamer Basar, Univ. of Illinois at U-C, USA
Steering Committee Chair: Imrich Chlamtac, Create-Net
Steering Committee Members:
Eitan Altman, INRIA, France
Anthony Ephremides, Univ. Maryland, USA
Thomas L. Vincent, Univ. of Arizona, USA
TPC Co-Chairs:
Jianwei Huang, The Chinese Univ. of Hong Kong
R. Srikant, Univ. of Illinois at U-C, USA
Local Arrangements Chair: Kivanc Mihcak, Bogazici Univ., Turkey
Finance Co-Chairs:
Mehmet Akar, Bogazici Univ., Turkey
Karen Decker, ICST
Publications Chair: Hitay Ozbay, Bilkent University, Turkey
Publicity Chair: Tansu Alpcan, Deutsche Telekom Labs., Germany
Conference Coordinator: Dorothy Bany, ICST
Conference Secretary: Rebecca Lonberger, Univ. of Illinois at U-C, USA
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Technical Program Committee:
Tansu Alpcan, Deutsche Telekom Labs.,Germany
Eitan Altman, INRIA, France
Gurdal Arslan, Univ. of Hawaii, USA
Mario Cagalj, University of Split, Croatia
Peter Caines, McGill Univ., Canada
Mung Chiang, Princeton Univ., USA
Costas Courcoubetis, Athens Univ. of Econ., Greece
Munther Dahleh, MIT, USA
Luiz Dasilva, Virginia Tech., USA
Alfredo Garcia, Univ. of Virginia, USA
Josef Hofbauer, Univ. Vienna, Austria
Zhu Ji, Qualcomm, USA
George Kesidis, Penn State, USA
Sunil Kumar, Stanford Univ., USA
Amir Leshem, Bar-Ilan Univ., Israel
XiangYang Li, IIT, India
Mingyan Liu, Univ. of Michigan, USA
Tom Luo, Univ. of Minnesota, USA
Allen MacKenzie, Virginia Tech., USA
Ravi Mazumdar, Univ. of Waterloo, Canada
Jacqueline Morgan, UNINA, Italy
Aris Moustakas, Univ. of Athens, Greece
Y. Narahari, Indian Inst. of Science, India
Steven Patek, Univ. of Virginia, USA
Lacra Pavel, Univ. of Toronto, Canada
Volkan Rodoplu, Univ. of California SB, USA
Gesualdo Scutari, Univ. of Rome, Italy
Jeff Shamma, Georgia Tech., USA
Anthony So, Chinese Univ. of Hong Kong
Kevin Tang, Cornell Univ., USA
Athanasios Vasilakos, Univ. of West Macedonia, Greece
Yang Yang, Yale Univ., USA
Honggang Zhang, Suffolk Univ., USA
Chi Zhou, IIT, USA
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