Columbia Workshop on Telecommunications

Networking Games and Economic Organization: the Interface

(Resource Allocation in Multimedia Networks and Economic Systems)

Thursday and Friday, March 21 and 22, 1996, New York, NY

Workshop Co-Chairs: Prajit K. Dutta, Department of Economics, and Aurel A. Lazar, Department of Electrical Engineering

Location: The workshop will take place in the auditorium of the Schapiro Research Building on the Morning-side Campus of Columbia University at 530 West 120th Street, between Amsterdam Avenue and Broadway. The workshops attendance is limited to 100 participants.

Sponsors: The workshop is sponsored by the Center for Telecommunications Research at Columbia University.

For a copy of the registration form for the symposium click here

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Program: First Day

Reviews and Perspectives on Resource Allocation and Networking Games

8:15 am
Coffee

8:50-9:00 am
Welcoming Remarks: Zvi Galil, Dean of the SEAS, Columbia University

9:00-10:00 am
Resource Allocation in Multimedia Networks
Speaker: Aurel A. Lazar, Columbia University

10:00-11:00 am
Pricing in ATM Networks
  • part 1
  • part 2
    Speaker: Costas Courcoubetis, University of Crete

    11:00-11:30 am
    Break

    11:30-12:30 am
    Information Processing and Returns to Scale in Organizations
    Speaker: Roy Radner, New York University

    12:30-2:00 pm
    Lunch Break

    • Reviews and Perspectives on Resource Allocation and Economic Systems

    2:00-3:00 am
    Learning in Distributed Systems: Implications for Mechanism Design
    Speaker: Scott Shenker, Xerox Parc, Palo Alto

    3:00-4:00 am
    Information and Incentives in U-Form and M-Form Organizations
    Speaker: Eric Maskin, Harvard University

    4:00-4:30 am
    Break

    4:30-5:00 am
    Real Time Decentralized Information Processing
    Speaker: Tim van Zandt, Princeton University

    5:00-6:00 am
    Panel Discussion: The Interface (I)
    Chair: Prajit K. Dutta, Columbia University
    Panelists: Costas Courcoubetis, University of Crete; Aurel A. Lazar, Columbia University; Roy Radner, New York University; Scott Shenker, Xerox Parc.

    Program: Second Day

    Contributions to Resource Allocation and Networking Games

    9:00-9:30 am
    Applications of H-Infinity to Rate Control in High-Speed Telecommunication Networks
  • viewgraphs part 1
  • viewgraphs part 2
    Speaker: Eitan Altman, Inria, Sophia Antipolis

    9:30-10:00 am
    Competitive Management of Network Resources
    Speaker: Baruch Awerbruch, Johns Hopkins University

    10:00-10:30 pm
    Architecting Noncooperative Networks
  • viewgraphs part 1
  • viewgraphs part 2
  • paper
    Speaker: Yannis A. Korilis, AT&T Bell Laboratories

    10:30-11:00 pm
    Break

    11:00-11:30 am
    Incentive Pricing in Multi-Class Communication Networks
    Speaker: Ariel Orda, Technion

    11:30-12:00 pm
    Networking Games for Virtual Path Capacity Allocation
  • part 1
  • part 2
  • part 3
    • Speaker: Dimitrios E. Pendarakis, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center

    12:00-2:00 pm
    Lunch Break

    Contributions to Resource Allocation and Economic Systems

    2:00-2:30pm
    Pricing Paradigms for Resource Sharing in Information Networks
    Speaker: Jakka Sairamesh, European Research at ICS-FORTH

    2:30-3:00 pm
    Migration-Proof Coalitions
    Speaker: Hsueh-Ling Hyunh, AT&T Bell Laboratories

    3:00-3:30 pm
    Mechanism Design in Networks
    Speaker: Rich McLean, Rutgers University

    3:30-4:00 pm
    Break

    4:00-4:30 am
    Market Structure and the Timing of Technology Adoption with Network Externalities
    Speaker: Jay Pil Choi, Columbia University

    4:30-6:00 pm
    Panel Discussion: The Interface (II)
    Chair: Aurel A. Lazar, Columbia University;
    Panelists: Eitan Altman, INRIA; Prajit K. Dutta, Columbia University; Ariel Orda, Technion; Andrew Schotter, NYU;

    For further information please send email to workshop@ctr.columbia.edu

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