Date | Presenter | Presentation Topic |
Tuesday, 29th Oct. | Akash and Tarun | "Group Strategyproofness and No subsidy via LP duality" Kamal Jain and Vijay V. Vazirani (1999). [ citeseer, ppt ] |
Friday, 1st Nov. | Dhan Mahesh and Satyavrata | "Perfectly Competitive Innovation," Boldrin, M. and D. K. Levine (2001). [ paper, related paper ] |
Tuesday, 5th Nov. | Ishan and Puneet | "The Utility Concept Applied to the Theory of Insurance" by Karl Borch. [ link ] |
Friday, 8th Nov. | Deepak Sethi |
Topics in Evolution of Cooperation.
[ links ]
"Does Mother Nature Punish Rotten Kids," Carl T. Bergstrom and Theodore C. Bergstrom. [ link ] |
Friday, 8th Nov. | Ankur Narang | "Selfish Behavior and Stability of the Internet: A Game-Theoretic Analysis of TCP," Aditya Akella et al. (2002) [ pdf ] and related papers. |
Saturday, 9th Nov. | Vishrut and Anuj | "iBundle: An efficient ascending price bundle auction" by David C. Parkes. [ citeseer ] |
Tuesday, 12th Nov. | Akshat and Rahul | "How bad is selfish routing?," Tim Roughgarden and Éva Tardos (2000). [ citeseer, ppt ] |
Friday 15th Nov. | Vineet and Mohit | "Market Equilibrium via a Primal-Dual Type Algorithm," Nikhil Devanur et al. (2002). [ ps ] |
Saturday, 16th Nov. | Ravi Krishna and Mayank Bansal |
"A Modest Proposal for Preventing Internet Congestion," Andrew
Odlyzko (1997). citeseer ]
"Analysis of Paris Metro Pricing strategy for QoS with a single service provider," R. Jain, T. Mullen and R. Hausman [ pdf ] |
Saturday, 16th Nov. | Tushar and Mayank K. | "Sharing the cost of Multicast Transmission," Papadimtriou, Feigenbaum and Shenker (2001). [ citeseer ] |
Tuesday, 19th Nov. | Deepak Ajwani and Amit Kumar | "Bad Reputation" [ pdf ], and "When is Reputation Bad," Ely, Fudenberg and Levin [ paper ] |
Thursday 21st Nov. | Amit and Vikas |
"Equilibrium, games and pricing in transportation and
telecommunication Networks," Eitan Altman and Laura Wynter;
[ ps ];
"Competitive Routing in Networks with Polynomial Costs," Altman et al.[ ps ]; "Differential QoS and Pricing in Networks: where flow control meets game theory," Peter Key and Derek McAuley. [ citeseer ] "Selfish Traffic Allocation for Server Farms," A. Czumaj, P. Krysta and B. Vöcking. [ link ] |
Friday, 22nd Nov. | Keshav Kunal and Ashish Rastogi |
"Truthful mechanisms for
one-parameter agents" [ citeseer ],
"Frugal Path Mechanisms" [ citeseer ppt ], "An approximate truthful mechanism for combinatorial auctions with single parameter agents," Archer et al. [ pdf ] |