CMPW03
15 December 2002 to 21 December 2002
The Internet raises all sorts of completely new algorithmic questions, and it is these that form the focus for this workshop. An important aspect of communication on the Internet (and in other modern networks) is absence of centralised control: users communicate with each other by sending messages over the net, and use local protocols to control transmissions and to handle collisions.
One would like to study protocols, for example TCP/IP, with the aim of providing a rigorous analysis of the performance of the network. This study combines traditional probabilistic analysis (characterising the long-term behaviour of Markov chains and other stochastic processes, which are used to model protocols) with economic analysis (issues of fairness/utility) and with more traditional network algorithmics (routing methods).
Evaluating the quality of the long-term equilibrium is related to game-theory. One would like to know, for example, how close the Nash equilibrium (which arises from local control) is to the overall optimum. However, the new twist is that issues of computational tractability must be taken into account.
A further category of problems, more combinatorial in nature, arises in the modelling of the web graph and its evolution. For this purpose, standard random-graph models are unsuitable. New models are required which are consistent with empirical observations, for example that the degree-sequence of the web graph apparently obeys a power law.
Monday 16th December 2002 | |||
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08:30 to 10:00 | No Room Required | ||
10:00 to 11:00 |
Frank Kelly University of Cambridge |
Room 1 | |
11:00 to 11:30 | No Room Required | ||
11:30 to 12:30 | Room 1 | ||
12:30 to 13:30 | No Room Required | ||
14:00 to 15:00 |
Berthold Voecking |
Room 1 | |
15:00 to 15:30 | No Room Required | ||
15:30 to 16:00 |
Thomasz Luczak Adam Mickiewicz University |
Room 1 | |
16:00 to 17:00 |
Jennifer Chayes Microsoft (UK) |
Room 1 | |
17:15 to 18:15 | No Room Required | ||
18:45 to 19:30 | No Room Required |
Tuesday 17th December 2002 | |||
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10:00 to 11:00 |
Christos Papadimitriou |
Room 1 | |
11:00 to 11:30 | No Room Required | ||
11:30 to 12:30 |
Elias Koutsoupias National and Capodistrian University of Athens |
Room 1 | |
12:30 to 13:30 | No Room Required | ||
14:00 to 15:00 |
Vijay Vazirani |
Room 1 | |
15:00 to 15:30 | No Room Required | ||
15:30 to 16:00 |
Adrian Vetta McGill University |
Room 1 | |
16:00 to 16:30 |
Jose Nino-Mora |
Room 1 | |
16:30 to 17:00 |
Ramesh Johari Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
Room 1 | |
18:45 to 19:30 | No Room Required |
Wednesday 18th December 2002 | |||
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10:00 to 11:00 |
Prabhakar Raghavan |
Room 1 | |
11:00 to 11:30 | No Room Required | ||
11:30 to 12:30 | Room 1 | ||
12:30 to 13:30 | No Room Required | ||
14:00 to 15:00 |
Anna Karlin University of Washington |
Room 1 | |
15:00 to 15:30 | No Room Required | ||
15:30 to 16:00 |
Niclas Carlsson Åbo Akademi University |
Room 1 | |
16:00 to 16:30 |
Ingemar Kaj |
Room 1 | |
19:15 to 18:00 | No Room Required |
Thursday 19th December 2002 | |||
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10:00 to 11:00 |
Eva Tardos Cornell University |
Room 1 | |
11:00 to 11:30 | No Room Required | ||
11:30 to 12:30 | Room 1 | ||
12:30 to 13:30 | No Room Required | ||
14:00 to 15:00 |
Eli Upfal Brown University |
Room 1 | |
15:00 to 15:30 | No Room Required | ||
15:30 to 16:00 |
Anthony Brooms |
Room 1 | |
16:00 to 17:00 |
Jin-Yi Cai University of Wisconsin-Madison |
Room 1 | |
18:00 to 18:30 |
Cambridge University Press Bookshop 1 Trinity Street, Cambridge - Wine \& snacks will be served |
No Room Required |
Friday 20th December 2002 | |||
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10:00 to 11:00 |
Adi Rosen Aalborg Universitet |
Room 1 | |
11:00 to 11:30 | No Room Required | ||
11:30 to 12:30 |
Richard Gibbens University of Cambridge |
Room 1 | |
12:30 to 13:30 | No Room Required | ||
15:00 to 15:30 | No Room Required | ||
18:45 to 19:30 | No Room Required |
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