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Overview

• Presentations of 12 accepted papers: maximum 20 minutes each.
• At least 25% of the time in each session is reserved for questions and discussion.
• An additional 45 minutes is reserved for more general discussion.

Program

8:30 - 9:00 Coffee

9:00 - 9:10 Welcome and intro

9:10 - 10:20 Mechanism Design and Networking

Session Chair: Nick Feamster
• Assessing the assumptions underlying mechanism design for the Internet
  Steven Bauer (MIT), Peyman Faratin (MIT), Robert Beverly (MIT)

• Punishment in Selfish Wireless Networks: A Game Theoretic Analysis
  Dave Levin (University of Maryland, College Park)

• Discussion (15 minutes)

10:20 - 10:40: Morning break

10:40 - 12:30 Sustainable Peer-to-Peer File Sharing

Session Chair: Jeff Chase
• Why Share in Peer-to-Peer Networks?
  Lian Jian (School of Information, University of Michigan), Jeffrey MacKie-Mason (School of Information, University of Michigan)

• Peer-to-Peer Filesharing and the Market for Digital Information Goods
  Ramon Casadesus-Masanell (Harvard Business School), Andres Hervas-Drane (Universitat Aut��noma de Barcelona)

• Improving Robustness of Peer-to-Peer Streaming with Incentives
  Vinay Pai (Stony Brook University), Alexander E. Mohr (Stony Brook University)

• Dandelion: Secure Cooperative Content Distribution with Robust Incentives
  Michael Sirivianos (University of California, Irvine), Xiaowei Yang (University of California, Irvine), Stanislaw Jarecki (University of California, Irvine)

12:30 - 2:00 Lunch

2:00 - 3:20 Games and Markets

Session Chair: Tim Roughgarden
• Rational Secret Sharing, Revisited: "I'll Tell You if You'll Tell Me"
  S. Dov Gordon (University of Maryland), Jonathan Katz (University of Maryland)

• Path Auction Games When an Agent Can Own Multiple Edges
  Ye Du (EECS Department, University of Michigan), Rahul Sami (School of Information, University of Michigan), Yaoyun Shi (EECS Department, University of Michigan)

• Bootstrapping the Long Tail in Peer to Peer Systems
  Bernardo A. Huberman (HP Labs, Palo Alto), Fang Wu (HP Labs, Palo Alto)

3:20 - 3:40 Afternoon break

3:40 - 5:00 Ranking and Reputation

Session Chair: Rahul Sami
• Incentive based ranking mechanisms
  Rajat Bhattacharjee (Stanford University), Ashish Goel (Stanford University)

• Havelaar: A Robust and Efficient Reputation System for Active Peer-to-Peer Systems
  Dominik Grolimund (ETH Zurich) Luzius Meisser (ETH Zurich), Stefan Schmid (ETH Zurich), Roger Wattenhofer (ETH Zurich)

• Manipulability of PageRank under Sybil Strategies
  Alice Cheng (Cornell), Eric Friedman (Cornell)

5:00 - 5:30 Discussion and wrapup