[Nets-seminars] Talk in EE this Friday (9th October) 4:00pm GS/302

[Richard G. Clegg]

The first of this term's talks is Friday 9th October at 4:00pm in 
GS/302.  See you all there I hope.

The talk is by Raul Landa and the title is "Using Vickrey Auctions for 
Incentive-compatible Resource Allocation in Peer-to-Peer Networks"

We present a model based on multi-item Vickrey auctions which balances 
overlay optimisation with incentives by making access to resources 
contingent on service value to the receiving peer, thus giving 
preference to those overlay links that increase overall system utility 
the most, while at the same time giving peers with
greater contributions to the overlay better quality service. In this 
case, there source allocation tension between the incentives mechanism 
and the maximisation of overlay utility is resolved by breaking resource 
allocation in two phases (access and quality mapping) and allowing each 
one of the aforementioned processes to drive one of these phases. The 
system uses Vickrey auctions to decide which requests to accept, a 
greedy utility maximisation heuristic to decide which peers to send 
requests to and how many requests to send, and a ranking procedure for 
the contribution-based assignment of service quality to service requests.

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The full list of talks is below and can be found online at
http://www.ee.ucl.ac.uk/research/comminfosys/seminars

# October 9th -- Raul Landa (UCL, EE), "Using Vickrey Auctions for 
Incentive-compatible Resource Allocation in Peer-to-Peer Networks"
# October 23rd -- Bob Briscoe (UCL, CS and BT) title TBA
# November 6th -- Emil Lupu (Imperial College), "Engineering Ubiquitous 
Systems - What does it take to make it easier?"
# November 20th -- Christopher Pluntke (UCL, EE) title TBA
# December 4th -- Wei Chai (UCL, EE) title TBA



-- 
Richard G. Clegg,
Dept of Elec. Eng.,
University College London
http://www.richardclegg.org/