
Paphos - Cyprus
October 18 - 20,
2009
















Supported by:
University of Cyprus
Integrated Project
IST-015964

European
Association for Theoretical Computer
Science

Limassol Co-operative Savings
Bank Ltd

IBM Cyprus

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The session room will have a data/video-projector, a laptop, a screen and an
overhead projector.
Speakers planning an electronic
presentation may either
(i)
use the provided laptop
or
(ii)
bring their own laptop. (If you plan
to bring and use a mac/apple laptop,
you must also bring the adaptor
required for connecting to a
data/video-projector cable.)
Each contributed talk should go for
20 minutes, leaving some additional
minutes for discussion.
Tentative schedule
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Saturday 17 October 2009
Sunday 18 October 2009
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8:00-9:15 Registration
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9:15-10:15 Invited Talk by Elias Koutsoupias:
Approximate Price of Anarchy and Stability
Session
Chair: Marios Mavronicolas
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10:15-10:45 Coffee Break
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10:45-12:25 Session 1 (Congestion Games)
Session Chair: Edith Elkind
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Tobias Harks, Max Klimm
and Rolf H. Moehring, Characterizing the Existence of Potential Functions in Weighted
Congestion Games
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Vittorio Bilò, Angelo Fanelli, Michele Flammini and Luca Moscardelli, Performances of One-Round Walks in Linear Congestion Games
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Tanmoy Chakraborty and
Sanjeev Khanna, Nash Dynamics in Constant Player and Bounded Jump Congestion Games
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Andrew Byde, Maria
Polukarov and Nicholas Jennings, Games with Congestion-Averse Utilities
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12:30-14:30 Lunch Break
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14:30-16:10 Session 2 (Potpourri)
Session Chair: Elias Koutsoupias
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Yoram Bachrach, Edith
Elkind, Reshef Meir, Dmitrii Pasechnik, Michael Zuckerman,
Joerg Rothe and Jeffrey
Rosenschein, The Cost of Stability and Its Application to Weighted Voting Games
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Hyunwoo Jung and
Kyung-Yong Chwa, The Balloon Popping Problem Revisited: Lower and Upper Bounds
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Rajiv Raman, Khaled
Elbassioni, Saurabh Ray and Rene Sitters, On Profit-Maximizing Pricing for the Highway and Tollbooth Problems
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Edith Elkind, Piotr
Faliszewski and Arkadii Slinko, Swap Bribery
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16:10-16:40 Coffee Break
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16:40-18:20 Session 3 (Scheduling and Routing)
Session Chair: Vittorio Bilo
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Elliot Anshelevich and
Satish Ukkusuri, Equilibria in Dynamic Selfish Routing
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Ronald Koch and Martin
Skutella, Nash Equilibria and the Price of Anarchy for Flows Over Time
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Kim Thang Nguyen and
Christoph Dürr, Non-Clairvoyant Scheduling Games
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Christine Chung and
Evangelia Pyrga, Stochastic Stability in Internet Router Congestion Games
Monday 19 October 2009
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9:15-10:15 Invited Talk by Mihalis Yannakakis:
Computational Aspects of Equilibria
Session
Chair: Paul Spirakis
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10:15-10:45 Coffee Break
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10:45-12:25 Session 4 (Solution Concepts and Complexity)
Session Chair: Pino Persiano
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Felix Brandt, Markus Brill, Felix Fischer and Jan Hoffmann, The Computational Complexity of Weak Saddles
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Michal Feldman and Moshe
Tennenholtz, Partition Equilibrium
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Joshua Letchford, Vincent Conitzer and Kamesh Munagala, Learning and Approximating the Optimal Strategy to Commit To
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Felix Brandt, Markus
Brill, Felix Fischer and Paul Harrenstein, On the Complexity of Iterated Weak Dominance in Constant-Sum Games
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12:30-14:00 Lunch Break
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14:00 Bus departure to excursion (excursion program)
Tuesday 20 October 2009
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9:15-10:15 Invited Talk
by
Noam Nisan
:
Google´s Auction for TV ads
Session
Chair: Burkhard
Monien
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10:15-10:45 Coffee
Break
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10:45-12:25 Session 5 (Potpourri)
Session
Chair:
Michal
Feldman
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Elliot Anshelevich, Sanmay Das and Yonatan
Naamad, Anarchy, Stability, and Utopia: Creating
Better Matchings
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Leah
Epstein and Asaf Levin, On equilibria for ADM minimization games
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Martin Hoefer, Lars Olbrich and Alexander
Skopalik, Doing Good with Spam is Hard
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Elliot Anshelevich and Bugra Caskurlu,
Price of Stability in Survivable Network
Design
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12:30-14:30 Lunch
Break
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14:30-16:10 Session 6
(Mechanism Design and Auctions)
Session Chair: Krzysztof Apt
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Shahar
Dobzinski and Noam Nisan, A Modular Approach to Roberts' Theorem
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Oren Ben-Zwi, Ilan Newman and Guy Wolfovitz,
A Perfect Auction Derandomization
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Po-An Chen and David Kempe.
Bayesian Auctions with Friends and Foes
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Moshe Babaioff,
Michal
Feldman
and Noam
Nisan,
Free-Riding and Free-Labor in Combinatorial
Agency
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16:10-16:40 Coffee
Break
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16:40-18:45 Session 7 (Mechanisms)
Session Chair: George Christodoulou
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Andre
Berger, Rudolf Mόller and Seyed Hossein
Naeemi, Characterizing Incentive Compatibility for
Convex Valuations
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Clemens Thielen and Sven Krumke,
Truthful Mechanisms for Selfish Routing and
Two-Parameter Agents
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Abraham Othman and Tuomas Sandholm,
Better with Byzantine: Manipulation-Optimal
Mechanisms
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Jose
Correa
and
Nicolas
Figueroa,
On the planner’s loss due to lack of
information in Bayesian mechanism design
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Krzysztof Apt and Arantza
Estevez-Fernandez,
Sequential pivotal mechanisms for public
project problems
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