Workshop on Network design: Optimization and Algorithmic Game Theory

August 14-16, 2006

Program

 

Monday, August 14, 2006

Session - Afternoon
Meeting room(s) : 6214

14:00 - 14:40
14:40 - 15:20
Gordon Wilfong
(Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies)
The Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) and Harmonious Routings
Abstract
15:20 - 15:50
Coffee break
Room(s) 6245
15:50 - 16:30
Kamal Jain
(Microsoft Research)
Primal-dual algorithm for convex optimization - a work in progress
Abstract

16:45
Welcoming reception
Room(s) 6245

 

Tuesday, August 15, 2006

09:00 - 09:30
Coffee & Croissants
Room(s) 6245

Session - Morning
Meeting room(s) : 6214

09:30 - 10:10
Vahab S. Mirrokni
(Microsoft Research)
Convergence and Approximation in Games
Abstract
10:10 - 10:50
Seffi Naor
(Microsoft Corporation)
Non-Cooperative Multicast and Facility Location Games
Abstract
10:50 - 11:20
Coffee break
Room(s) 6245
11:20 - 12:00
Nahum Shimkin
(Technion)
Capacity Management and Equilibrium for Proportional QoS
Abstract

12:00 - 14:00
Lunch Break

Session - Afternoon
Meeting room(s) : 6214

14:00 - 14:40
Kate Larson
(University of Waterloo)
Mechanism Design with Limited Information
Abstract
14:40 - 15:20
Jason Hartline
(Microsoft Research)
Collusion Resistant Mechanism Design
Abstract
15:20 - 15:50
Coffee break
Room(s) 6245
15:50 - 16:30
Bruce Shepherd
(McGill University)
Robust Minimum Cost Networks
Abstract

19:00
Workshop Dinner
Bistro L’Entrepont 4622, rue Hôtel-de-ville (Metro Mont-Royal)

 

Wednesday, August 16, 2006

09:00 - 09:30
Coffee & Croissants
Room(s) 6245

Session - Morning
Meeting room(s) : 6214

09:30 - 10:10
Mohammad Taghi Hajiaghayi
(Carnegie Mellon University)
Auctions for dynamic environments: WiFi, last-minute tickets and grid computing
Abstract
10:10 - 10:50
Nicole Immorlica
(Microsoft Research)
Matroids, Secretary Problems, and Online Mechanisms
Abstract
10:50 - 11:20
Coffee break
Room(s) 6245
11:20 - 12:00
Yishay Mansour
(Tel Aviv University)
Strong Price of Anarchy
Abstract

12:00 - 14:00
Lunch Break

Session - Afternoon
Meeting room(s) : 6214

14:00 - 14:40
Tim Roughgarden
(Stanford University)
Approximately Efficient Cost-Sharing Mechanisms for Network Design
Abstract
14:40 - 15:20
Jochen Konemann
(University of Waterloo)
An Efficient Cost-Sharing Mechanism for the Prize-Collecting Steiner Forest Problem
Abstract
15:20 - 15:50
Coffee break
Room(s) 6245
15:50 - 16:30
Andreas S. Schulz
(MIT)
On the computational complexity of congestion games
Abstract