DIMACS Workshop on Large-Scale Games at Northwestern University

[Linda Casals]

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DIMACS Workshop on Large-Scale Games
     April 17 - 19, 2005
     **Location:  Evanston Campus, Northwestern University,
           Evanston, Illinois**

Organizers:
     Lance Fortnow, University of Chicago, fortnow at cs.uchicago.edu 
     Rakesh Vohra, Northwestern University, r-vohra at kellogg.northwestern.edu 
     
Presented under the auspices of the Special Focus on Computation and
the Socio-Economic Sciences.

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On the Internet we have games with a large number of agents,
asynchronous play, and an the absence of full knowledge about the
number of agents one is playing against or the beliefs they
possess. The Internet is not the only institution to possess these
features nor the first. Markets for traditional goods and services as
well as travel networks all possess these features.

This workshop is devoted to the analysis of large scale games of the
kinds inspired by the Internet and other computer networks, markets,
traffic networks and other large systems. We invite papers that will
show how to adapt and extend classical game theoretic models to deal
with a large number of players, accommodate the absence of common
knowledge, common priors, asynchrony in play and distributed
computation.

Examples of the kind of work that would be suitable for this workshop
include price of anarchy models, robust and on-line mechanism design,
timing games, asymptotic analysis of traditional auctions, continuous
double auctions (two-sided markets) and network formation.

Please submit an extended abstract or paper (in .pdf form only) to
m-stuart at kellogg.northwestern.edu by January 15, 2005. Include the
word `DIMACS' in the subject heading.  Acceptance decisions will be
made by February 15, 2005.

It will consist of 5 invited overview talks (hour long) and a
collection of submitted talks (half hour). The overview talks are
listed below. This workshop is supported by DIMACS, the Managerial
Economics and Decision Sciences Department of the Kellogg School
(http://www.kellogg.nwu.edu/meds/index.htm) and Northwestern
University's Institute for Complex Systems
(http://ccl.northwestern.edu/nico/).

The workshop will take place at Northwestern University's Evanston
Campus. It will start on the morning of the 17th and end around lunch
time on the 19th.

OVERVIEW TALKS:

*       Network and Coalition Formation: Matthew Jackson
*       Price of Anarchy Models: Tim Roughgarden
*       Equilibrium Notions for Games with Many Players: Ehud Kalai
*       Mechanism Design Models without the Common Prior: Jason Hartline
*       Asymptotic Analysis of Market Mechanisms: Mark Satterthwaite


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Call For Participation:

Please submit an extended abstract or paper (in .pdf form only) to
m-stuart at kellogg.northwestern.edu by January 15, 2005. Include the
word `DIMACS' in the subject heading.  Acceptance decisions will be
made by February 15, 2005.

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Registration Fees:

(Pre-registration deadline: March 15, 2005)

Please see website for additional registration information.

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Information on participation, registration, accomodations, and travel 
can be found at:

http://dimacs.rutgers.edu/Workshops/Games/

   **PLEASE BE SURE TO PRE-REGISTER EARLY**

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