Overview
The organizing committee is delighted to invite you to contribute to NetEcon 2017, held in conjunction with EC 2017, on June 27, 2017, at MIT, Cambridge, MA.
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 aim of NetEcon 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. The NetEcon Workshop also seeks to promote multi-disciplinary investigations in the role of incentives in communication and computation. NetEcon was established in 2006 (succeeding to the P2PECON, IBC and PINS workshops) and merged with the W-PIN workshop in 2013.
We invite submission of extended abstracts describing original research on theoretical/methodological contributions or on applications to cases of interest. It is our hope that NetEcon will serve as a feeder workshop, with expanded and more polished versions of the NetEcon extend abstracts submitted to major conferences and refereed journals of the relevant research communities.
Important Dates
- Saturday April 22, 2017, 11:59pm EST: Submission deadline (firm)
- Monday May 22, 2017: Notification to authors
- Monday June 19, 2017: Final version for the workshop’s website due
- Tuesday June 27, 2017: Workshop at MIT
- Friday July 28, 2017: Final version for the proceedings due
Topics
Topics of interest to NetEcon’16 include but are not restricted to:
- Pricing of resources in communication networks, grids, and cloud computing
- Pricing of information goods and services; copyright issues, effect of network externalities (e.g., in social network)
- Economic issues in universal broadband access; economics of interconnection and peering
- Effects of market structure and regulations (e.g., network neutrality, differential pricing and zero rating)
- Economics of network security and privacy; valuation of personal data
- Auctions with applications to networks: spectrum auctions, auction-based marketplaces for network and cloud resources
- Incentive mechanisms for networks: peer-to-peer systems, clouds, wireless networks, spam prevention, security
- Methods for engineering incentives and disincentives (e.g., reputation, trust, control, accountability, anonymity)
- Empirical studies of strategic behavior (or the lack thereof) in existing, deployed systems
- Design of incentive-aware network architectures and protocols
- Game-theoretic models and techniques for network economics: large games, learning, mechanism design, interaction of game theory and information theory or queuing theory, information exchange, diffusion, dynamics of cooperation and network formation, trades in social and economic networks
- Algorithmic mechanism design for network systems
- Critiques of existing models and solution concepts, as well as proposals of better models and solution concepts
- Studies of open collaboration, peer production, crowdsourcing, and human computation.
Information about previous NetEcon workshops can be accessed at
http://netecon.eurecom.fr/
Submission Formatting Guidelines And Proceedings
Submissions must be in the form of extended abstracts of at most 6 pages in the standard two-column format of ACM proceedings (including all figures, tables, references, etc.) containing all important results to allow evaluation of the novelty and scope of the contribution. In case 6 pages are not sufficient to provide enough information (e.g., proofs) to properly substantiate the paper’s results, we encourage the authors to provide supplementary material either as a clearly marked appendix (without page limit) or by including a link to the full version of their extended abstract. Such supplementary material will, however, be read only at the discretion of the PC members and will not appear in the proceedings in case of acceptance.
Papers should be submitted through the submission website here.
Note that authors for whom publication of a 6-page extended abstract in the NetEcon proceedings would preclude later publication of an expanded version in the relevant venue may elect to contribute only a one-page abstract of their submitted extended abstract to the NetEcon proceedings. Such an abstract should include the URL of a working paper or preprint that contains the main results presented at the NetEcon workshop. Authors can make this decision after receiving a notice of acceptance.
The workshop proceedings will be published by ACM and available through the ACM Digital Library (DL). Authors will need to assign publication rights to ACM either in the form of a copyright assignment or a license grant as described on ACM’s copyright policy page. Papers will be freely available through the DL for a month around the time of the workshop through the ACM OpenSurround policy. In addition, the SIGecom EC’17 website will post a table-of-content of the workshop’s paper that will offer permanent free access to the DL version of the papers using ACM OpenTOC service.