Section: Partnerships and Cooperations

European Initiatives

• Title: Dynamics and COevolution in Multi-Level Strategic INteraction GAmeS

• Programm: FP7

• Duration: October 2012 - September 2015

• Coordinator: Create-Net

• Partners:

  • iNSPIRE, Create-Net (center for Research and Telecommunication Experimentation for Networked Communities) (Italy)

  • Mathematics department, Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine (United Kingdom)

  • Electrical Engineering, Technion Israel Institute of Technology

  • Telecommunications Department, Technische Univ. Delft (Netherlands)

  • Computer Science Laboratory, Univ. d'Avignon et des Pays de Vaucluse (France)

  • Department of Information Engineering, Univ. di Pisa (Italy)

• Inria contact: Konstantin Avrachenkov

• Many real world systems possess a rich multi-level structure and exhibit complex dynamics that are the result of a web of interwoven interactions among elements with autonomous decision-making capabilities. CONGAS will develop new mathematical models and tools, rooted in game theory, for the analysis, prediction and control of dynamical processes in such complex systems. It will provide a coherent theoretical framework for understanding the emergence of structure and patterns in such systems, accounting for interactions spanning various scales in time and space, and acting at different structural and aggregation levels. This framework will be built around game theoretical concepts, in particular evolutionary and multi-resolution games, and will include also techniques drawn from graph theory, statistical mechanics, control and optimization theory. Specific attention will be devoted to systems that are prone to intermittency and catastrophic events due to the effect of collective dynamics. The theory developed in the project will be validated by considering three use cases, one on the growth of the Internet, one on business ecosystems and one on viral marketing dynamics in Internet marketplaces. The CONGAS Consortium comprises seven universities and research institution and includes leading scientists in game theory, evolutionary games, complex systems science, network science and data-driven analysis of socio-technical systems.

  Maestro 's task is to develop game theoretic models to model (a) the formation of technological and social network; (b) the routing for competing agents; and (c) the competition of information in social networks.

  http://www.congas-project.eu/

• Program: EU COST

• Project acronym: ACROSS

• Project title: Autonomous Control for a Reliable Internet of Services

• Duration: November 2013 - November 2017

• Coordinator: Rob Van Der Mei (CWI) and J.L. Van Den Berg (TNO), The Netherlands

• Other partners: see http://www.cost-across.nl/

• Abstract: Currently, we are witnessing a paradigm shift from the traditional information-oriented Internet into an Internet of Services (IoS). This transition opens up virtually unbounded possibilities for creating and deploying new services. Eventually, the ICT landscape will migrate into a global system where new services are essentially large-scale service chains, combining and integrating the functionality of (possibly huge) numbers of other services offered by third parties, including cloud services. At the same time, as our modern society is becoming more and more dependent on ICT, these developments raise the need for effective means to ensure quality and reliability of the services running in such a complex environment. Motivated by this, the aim of this Action is to create a European network of experts, from both academia and industry, aiming at the development of autonomous control methods and algorithms for a reliable and quality-aware IoS.