Section: Overall Objectives

Highlights of the Year

The book by K. Avrachenkov, J. Filar and P. Howlett, “Analytic Perturbation Theory and Its Applications” [68] has been completed and published in December 2013. The book provides a unifying treatment of analytic perturbations with particular emphasis on singular perturbations. The applications considered in the book include: linear and non-linear optimization, Markov chains, Markov Decision Processes.

G. Neglia got the one-minute madness award at the conference IFIP 12th Intl. Conference on Networking (IFIP Networking 2013), for his one-minute presentation of the paper [49] .

Best Papers Awards :

[58] Signaling Game-based Approach to Power Control Management in Wireless Networks in ACM PM2HW2N - 8th Workshop on Performance Monitoring and Measurement of Heterogeneous Wireless and Wired Networks.
K. Ibrahimi, E. Altman, M. Haddad.

[60] On Optimal Packet Routing in Deterministic DTNs in IEEE VTC - 77th Vehicular Technology Conference.
G. Neglia, X. Zhang, J. Kurose, D. Towsley, H. Wang.