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SoCal NEGT Symposium 2009


2009 Southern California Symposium on

Network Economics and Game Theory

October 1-2, 2009


Kerckhoff Hall, University of Southern California

734 W. Adams Blvd., Los Angeles, California 90007

Programs


Thursday, Oct. 1, 2009

8:45-9:00am Opening Remarks
9:00-10:00am Plenary 1: Matthew Jackson (Stanford) (Introduced by S. Wilkie)

Identifying the Roles of Choice and Chance in Social Network Formation
10:00-10:30am Coffee Break
10:30-12:00pm Session 1 (Chair R. Jain)



Robustness mechanisms: markets and efficiency

J. Copic (UCLA)



The effect of Altruism and Spite in Game-Theoretic Settings

D. Kempe (USC)



Overcoming Limitations of Game-Theoretic Distributed Control

J. Marden (Caltech)
12:00-1:30pm Lunch
1:30-3:00pm Session 2 (Chair: W. Zame)



Welfare effects of spectrum management regimes

E. Bayrak (USC)



Evolution of the Internet Ecosystem

D. Krioukov (UCSD)



Strategic Multi-user Communications

M. van der Schaar (UCLA)
3:00-4:00pm Coffee and Poster Session
4:00-5:00pm Session 3 (Chair: M. van der Schaar)


Competition and Cooperation in Spectrum Redistribution

H. Zheng (UCSB)



Bargaining to Improve Channel Sharing between Selfish Cognitive Radios

H. Liu (USC)
5:00-6:00pm Panel (J. Ledyard, S. Low, J. Walrand, W. Zame) (Moderator: S. Wilkie)
6:30-8:30pm Dinner

Friday, Oct. 2, 2009
9:00-10:00am Session 4 (Chair: B. Krishnamachari)


Games in which agents communicate by sending messages

M. Chandy (Caltech)



Game Theory for Security: Lessons learned from deployed applications

M. Tambe (USC)
10:00-10:30am Coffee Break
10:30-11:30pm Session 5(Chair: A. Wierman)


Some Algorithmic Problems in Network Economics

S. Suri (UCSB)



Similarity and Polarization in Groups

L. Yariv (Caltech)
11:30-1:00pm Lunch
1:00-2:00pm Plenary 2: Jean Walrand (UC Berkeley) (Introduced by R. Jain)

Network protocols and economics