Program:
The workshop opens with breakfast at 8.30am on Friday
June 4th, and ends at 3:45pm on Saturday, June 5th.
Out of the 63 submissions, the PC selected the following 22
papers.
Friday
June 4
8:30 Breakfast
8:50 Welcoming Comments
9:00 Session 1 - File and
Computational Sharing
Session Chair: Emin Gun Sirer, Cornell University
Over-contribution in discretionary databases
(Paper, Slides)
Mike Klaas
P2P's Impact on Recorded Music Sales
(Paper)
Felix Oberholzer, Koleman Strumpf
CompuP2P: An Architecture for Sharing of Compute Power In Peer-to-Peer Networks With Selfish Nodes
(Paper, Slides)
Rohit Gupta, Arun K. Somani
10:30 Break
11:00 Session 2 - Reputation
and Trust
Session Chair: Roger Dingledine, Free Haven Project
A Game-Theoretic Framework for Analyzing Trust-Inference Protocols
(Paper, Slides)
Ruggero Morselli, Jonathan Katz, Bobby Bhattacharjee
A Robust Reputation System for P2P and Mobile Ad-hoc Networks
(Paper, Slides)
Sonja Buchegger, Jean-Yves Le Boudec
Maximum Likelihood Estimation of Peers` Performance in P2P Networks
(Paper, Slides)
Zoran Despotovic, Karl Aberer
12:30 Lunch Session
Jean Camp* to speak on Third Annual Workshop on Economics and Information Security (WEIS'04)
*Associate Professor of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School of Government
1:30 Session 3 - Routing
Session Chair: Dan S. Wallach, Rice University
Hidden-Action in Multi-Hop Routing
(Paper)
Michal Feldman, John Chuang
Designing Incentives for Peer-to-Peer Routing
(Paper, Slides)
Alberto Blanc, Yi-Kai Liu, Amin Vahdat
Incentives-Compatible Peer-to-Peer Multicast
(Paper, Slides)
Tsuen-Wan "Johnny" Ngan, Dan S. Wallach, Peter Druschel
3:00 Break
3:30 Session 4 - Game
Theoretic
Analysis
Session Chair: Simon Wilkie, Caltech
Keeping Peers Honest in EigenTrust
(Paper, Slides)
Zoe Abrams, Robert McGrew, Serge Plotkin
Agent-based Modeling for Differentiated Admission in P2P systems Using Evolutionary Game Theory Focused on Ownership Reputation
(Paper, Slides)
Junseok Hwang, Choong Hee Lee
Overcoming Incentive Constraints by Linking Decisions
(Paper)
Matthew O. Jackson, Hugo F. Sonnenschein
5-6:00 Social Activities
Saturday
June 5
8:30 Breakfast
9:00 Session 5 - Network
Structures
Session Chair: David C. Parkes, Harvard University
Farsightedly Basic Networks
(Paper)
Frank H. Page, Jr., Myrna H. Wooders, Samir Kamat
Search and the The Strategic Formation of Large Networks: When and Why do We See Power Laws and Small Worlds?
(Paper)
Matthew O. Jackson, Brian W. Rogers
Middlemen in Peer-to-Peer Networks: Stability and Efficiency
(Paper, Slides)
Robert P. Gilles, Subhadip Chakrabarti, Sudipta Sarangi, Narine Badasyan
10:30 Break
11:00 Session 6 - Pricing
Session Chair: Matthew Jackson, Caltech
An Asymptotically Optimal Scheme for P2P File Sharing
(Paper, Slides)
Panayotis Antoniadis, Costas Courcoubetis, Richard Weber
Optimal Pricing Policy with Recommender Systems
(Paper)
Dirk Bergemann, Deran Ozmen
Optimal Peer Selection in a Free-Market Peer-Resource Economy
(Paper)
Micah Adler, Rakesh Kumar, Keith Ross, Dan Rubenstein, David Turner,
David Yao
12:30 Lunch
1:30 Session 7 - Markets and Incentives
Session Chair: Mema Roussopoulos, Harvard University
SWIFT: A System With Incentives For Trading
(Paper)
Karthik Tamilmani, Vinay Pai, Alexander E. Mohr
SPIES: Secret Protection Incentive-based Escrow System
(Paper, Slides)
N. Boris Margolin, Matthew K. Wright, Brian N. Levine
An Incentive Mechanism for Message Relaying in Peer-to-Peer Discovery
(Paper, Slides)
Cuihong Li, Bin Yu, Katia Sycara
Foundations of Information Aggregation Mechanisms
(Paper)
Eiichiro Kazumori
3:30 Closing Remarks
3:45 Workshop Closes