Day 1 – Thursday May 24, 2012
8.15 Registration opens
8.30 - 9.00 Welcome Breakfast
9.00 – 10.00 Plenary Talk
Peter E. Caines - McGill University
"The Mean Field Control of Large Population Networks of Economic and Communicating Agents"
10.00 – 10.30 Coffee break
10.30 – 11.45 Session: Game Models and Theories
Session Chair: Minyi Huang
- 10.30-10.55 Mean Field Stochastic Games with Discrete States and Mixed Players
Minyi Huang, Carleton University
- 10.55-11.20 Learning Correlated Equilibria in Noncooperative Games with Cluster Structure
Omid Namvar Gharehshiran, University of British Columbia
Vikram Krishnamurthy, University of British Columbia
- 11.20-11.45 Convergence Dynamics of Graphical Congestion Games
Richard Southwell, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Yanjiao Chen, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Jianwei Huang, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Qian Zhang, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
11.45 – 13.30 Lunch
13.30 – 15.35 Session: Design and Analysis of Economic Games
Session Chair: Mihaela Van Der Schaar, UCLA
- 13.30-13.55 Revenue Maximization in Customer-to-Customer Markets
Shaolei Ren, UCLA
Mihaela Van Der Schaar, UCLA
- 13.55-14.20 Efficiency Loss in a Cournot Oligopoly with Convex Market Demand
John Tsitsiklis, MIT
Yunjian Xu, MIT
- 14.20-14.45 Token-Based Incentive Protocol Design for Online Exchange Systems
Jie Xu, UCLA
William Zame, UCLA
Mihaela van der Schaar, UCLA
- 14.45-15.10 Marketing Games in Social Commerce
Dohoon Kim, Kyung Hee University, Korea
- 15.10-15.35 Optimal Contract Design for an Efficient Secondary Spectrum Market
Shang-Pin Sheng, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
Mingyan Liu, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
15.35 – 16.00 Coffee Break
16.00 – 17.15 Session: Game-Theoretic Approaches to Network Security
Session Chair: TBD
- 16.00-16.25 Primary User Emulation Game in Cognitive Radio Networks: Queuing Aware Dogfight in Spectrum
Husheng Li, The University of Tennessee
Vasu Chakravarthy, Air Force Research Lab
Sintayehu Dehnie, Air Force Research Lab,
Zhiqiang Wu, Wright State University
- 16.25-16.50 Toward a Metric for Communication Network Vulnerability to Attacks: A Game Theoretic Approach
Assane Gueye, National Institute of Standards and Technology
Vladimir Marbukh, National Institute of Standards and Technology
Jean C Walrand, University of California Berkeley
- 16.50-17.15 Establishing Network Reputation via Mechanism Design
Parinaz Naghizadeh Ardabili, University of Michigan
Mingyan Liu, University of Michigan
19.00 Banquet
Day 2 - Friday, May 25 2012
8.30 - 9.00 Welcome breakfast
9.00 – 11.05 Session: Games in Communication Networks
Session Chair: George Kesidis, PSU
- 9.00-9.25 Game-theoretic Robustness of Many-to-one Networks
Aron Laszka, Budapest University of Technology and Economics
Dávid Szeszlér, Budapest University of Technology and Economics
Levente Buttyán, Budapest University of Technology and Economics
- 9.25-9.50 A Game Theoretic Optimization of the Multi-Channel Aloha Protocol
Kobi Cohen, Bar-Ilan University
Amir Leshem, Bar-Ilan University
Ephraim Zehavi, Bar-Ilan University
- 9.50-10.15 A Competitive Rate Allocation Game
Yanting Wu, University of Southern California
George Rabanca, The City University of New York
Bhaskar Krishnamachari, University of Southern California
Amotz Bar-Noy, The City University of New York
- 10.15-10.40 Stochastic Loss Aversion for Random Medium Access
George Kesidis, Pennsylvania State University
Youngmi Jin, KAIST, Korea
- 10.40-11.05 Network Formation Game for Interference Minimization Routing in Cognitive Radio Mesh Networks
Zhu Han, university of Houston
Zhou Yuan, University of Houston
Ju Bin Song, Kyung Hee University
11.05 – 13.30 Lunch
13.30 – 15.10 Session: Games in Self-Configuring Networks and Infrastructure Networks
Session Chair: Lifeng Lai, University of Arkansas, Little Rock
- 13.30-13.55 Achievability of Efficient Satisfaction Equilibria in Self-Configuring Networks
François Meriaux, Laboratoire des Signaux et Systemes - LSS (CNRS-SUPELEC-Paris Sud)
Samson Lasaulce, Laboratoire des Signaux et Systemes - LSS (CNRS-SUPELEC-Paris Sud)
Vincent Poor, Department of Electrical Engineering, Princeton University
Samir Perlaza, Department of Electrical Engineering, Princeton University
Zhu Han, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Houston
- 13.55-14.20 Hybrid Pursuit-Evasion Game between UAVs and RF Emitters with Controllable Observations: A Hawk-Dove Game
Husheng Li, The University of Tennessee
Vasu Chakravarth, Air Force Research Lab
Sintayehu Dehni, Air Force Research Lab
Deborah Walter, Rose Hulman Institute of Technology
Zhiqiang Wu, Wright State University
- 14.20-14.45 Noncooperative Games for Autonomous Consumer Load Balancing over Smart Grid
Tarun Agarwal, Amazon Corporate LLC.
Shuguang Cui, Texas A&M
- 14.45-15.10 A Stackelberg game to optimize the distribution of controls in transportation networks
Ralf Borndörfer, Zuse Institut Berlin (ZIB)
Bertrand Omont, Ecole Centrale Paris
Guillaume Sagnol, Zuse Institut Berlin (ZIB)
Elmar Swarat, Zuse Institut Berlin (ZIB)
