NETGCOOP 2011 - International Conference on Network Games, Control and Optimization

International Conference on Network Games, Control and Optimization

12-14 October 2011, Universite Paris Descartes
Rue de l'Ecole de Medecine, Paris, France

http://netgcoop.imag.fr

Scope
The topic of network control and optimization has been of increasing
importance in many networking application domains, such as mobile and
fixed access networks, computer networks, social networks, and
transportation networks. These all require tools (both conceptual and
algorithmic) for a better and more efficient control operation, for
optimization of their performance, and/or for a better understanding of
the relationships between entities that may be cooperative or act
selfishly, and in an uncertain and possibly adversarial environment.

The goal of this international forum is to bring together researchers from
different areas with theoretical expertise in game theory, control, and
optimization, and with applications in the domains listed above.

Topics of interest to NetGCOOP include (but are not limited to):
* Hierarchical optimization in networking
* Resource allocation and their optimization
* Optimization and control theoretical tools in networking
* Algorithmic game theory
* Learning mechanisms in games
* Computation of Nash, correlated, and market equilibria
* Stackelberg games in networking
* Incentives for cooperation between network entities
* Network pricing
* Preference elicitation and winner determination in combinatorial
auctions
* Flow and congestion control in networks
* Transport networks
* Control of queuing networks
* Scheduling transmissions in networking
* Optimization of wireless networks
* Grid applications
* Trust and reputation management
* Formation of social networks
* Competitive routing
* Biological networks

Important Dates
Deadline for submissions: July 1, 2011
Notification of acceptance: September 1, 2011
Camera ready version: November 15, 2011
Conference dates: October 12-14, 2011

Papers and Submission
Submissions should be written in English and include no more than 4
double-column pages, 10pt, IEEE format
(http://www.ieee.org/web/publications/pubservices/c...).
Papers can be submitted via: http://netgcoop.imag.fr
Each paper will be subject to a full review process. Submissions must be
original work not under review at any other workshop, conference or
journal.
Camera-ready versions of accepted papers can be up to 8 double-column
pages, 10pt, IEEE format. The conference proceedings will be accessible
through IEEE Xplore (pending).
An award will be given to the best paper presented at the conference.

General Chair
Tamer Basar, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

General Co-Chairs
Tijani Chahed, Telecom SudParis
Salah Eddine Elayoubi, Orange Labs

Program Chairs
Roberto Cominetti, Universidad de Chile
Sylvain Sorin, Univ. Paris 6
Bruno Tuffin, INRIA

Organizing Committee Chairs
Tijani Chahed, Telecom SudParis
Jocelyne Elias, Paris Descartes University

Web Chair
Corinne Touati, INRIA

Publicity Chairs
Amar P. Azad, UCSC
Majed Haddad, INRIA
Manoj Panda, INRIA

Steering Committee
Eitan Altman (Inria Sophia-Antipolis, France), Chair
Tijani Chahed (Telecom SudParis, France), Co-Chair
Daniel Kofman (Telecom ParisTech, France)
Alexandre Proutière (Microsoft, France)
Sergei Foss (Heriot-Watt, UK)
Laurent Massoulié (Technicolor, France)
Peter Glynn (Stanford University)
Sem Borst (TUE, The Netherlands)
Onno Boxma (TUE, The Netherlands)
Eilon Solan (Tel-Aviv Univ)
Tamer Basar (UIUC, USA)
Sylvain Sorin (Univ Paris 6, France)
Tony Ephremides (Univ of Maryland, USA)
Nahum Shimkin (Technion, Israel)
Bruno Tuffin (INRIA Rennes, France)

Program Committee
Ivo Adan, TUE
Tansu Alpcan , Tech. Univ. of Berlin
Gürdal Arslan, Univ. of Hawaii
Konstantin Avrachenkov, INRIA
Amar P. Azad, UCSC
Giulio Cantarella, Univ. Salerno
Jose Correa, Univ. of Chile
Costas Courcoubetis, Athens Univ Economics and Business
Jocelyne Elias, Paris Descartes University
Atilla Eryilmaz, OSU, Columbus
Michael Florian, Univ. of Montreal
Majed Haddad, INRIA
Rahul Jain, USC
Hisao Kameda, Univ. of Tsukuba
Lasse Leskela, Univ. of Jyväskylä
Tom Luo, Univ. Of Minnesota
Michel Mandjes, UVA
D. Manjunath, IIT Bombay
Fabio Martignon, Univ. Bergamo
Ravi Mazumdar, Univ. of Waterloo
Angelia Nedich, Univ. of Illinois
José Niño-Mora, Carlos III Univ. of Madrid
Fernando Paganini, Univ. ORT
Manoj Panda, INRIA
Michael Patrickson, Chalmers University
Lacra Pavel, Univ. of Toronto
Balakrishna J. Prabhu, CNRS
William H Sandholm, Univ. of Wisconsin
Gesualdo Scutari, Univ. of Buffalo
Yutaka Takahashi, Kyoto Univ.
Hwee-Pink Tan, Institute for Infocomm Research
Eva Tardos, Cornell Univ.
Johan van Leeuwaarden, Eindhoven Univ. of Tech.
Kavitha Voleti Veeraruna, INRIA
Sabine Wittevrongel, Ghent Univ.
Yang Richard Yang, Yale Univ.

Contacts: Bruno Tuffin (bruno.tuffin-AT-inria.fr), Tijani Chahed
(tijani.chahed-AT-it-sudparis.eu)