Resource Allocation in Non-Cooperative P2P environments

Speaker: Yoni Peleg
Date: Wednesday, 16 January 2008
Time: 3pm
Place: Ross 201

Abstract:

Resource allocation is a fundamental task in multiagent systems,
allowing an agent to use other agents' resources in order to complete
its task. In this talk, I'll give a short overview of the area in
general, and of resource allocation in the P2P framework in
particular. I'll describe the difficulties that might arise when
extending existing resource-allocation protocols from cooperative P2P
environments into non-cooperative environments. Then I'll offer
solutions to these difficulties, based on cryptographic techniques
(using ideas taken from multi-hop cellular-phone networks) and on
random graph theory.