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GTHB Seminar

Speaker: Prof. Eric Friedman, Cornell University

Talk Title: Bargaining Theory in the Cloud

Abstract: The axiomatic theory of bargaining solutions was initiated by John Nash with his seminal paper in 1950 and has a long and mostly mathematical history. Surprisingly, it arises naturally in a variety of allocation problems arising in cloud computing. For example, the second most famous bargaining solution, the Kalai-Smorodinsky solution, is the outcome of a simple water filling algorithm used in the Mesos Platform and has many strong properties in that setting, including incentive compatibility and fairness. In this talk, he will explore these connections for a variety of cloud computing problems and show how axiomatic bargaining theory can be used to analyze allocation problems in the cloud and conversely how cloud computing sheds new light on axiomatic bargaining theory.
This talk is based on joint work with Ali Ghodsi, Scott Shenker and Ion Stoica.



Biography: Eric Friedman is Associate Professor of Operations Research and Information Engineering at Cornell University and a Senior Research Scientist at the International Computer Science Institute at Berkeley (ICSI). His research interests include applications of game theory and complex network theory to computer science and cognitive neuroscience.



Host: Prof. Yu-Han Chang

More Info: http://gthb.usc.edu/Seminars/

Location: Seeley Wintersmith Mudd Memorial Hall (of Philosophy) (MHP) - 101

Audiences: Everyone Is Invited

Contact: Kanak Agrawal

Event Link: http://gthb.usc.edu/Seminars/