[AISWorld] Call for Papers: Smart Data Pricing Workshop -IEEE INFOCOM, Toronto

[Soumya Sen]

3rd WORKSHOP ON SMART DATA PRICING (SDP 2014)



May 2, 2014 – Toronto, Canada

Workshop of IEEE INFOCOM 2014


Website: http://www.ieee-infocom.org/Workshops_SDP.html



Call for Papers



Demand for data in both wired and wireless broadband networks is growing
every year, inducing Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to use pricing both
as a congestion management tool and a revenue generation model. This
changing landscape is evidenced by the elimination of flat-rate plans in
favor of $10/GB usage based fees in the US and various other countries in
Asia and Europe. Consequently, Smart Data Pricing (SDP) has been playing a
major role in the future of mobile, broadband, and content. SDP can refer
to (a) time/location/app/congestion dependent dynamic pricing, (b) usage
based pricing with throttling/booster, (c) WiFi offloading/proactive
caching, (d) two-sided pricing/reverse billing/sponsored content, (e)
quota-aware content distribution, (f) shared data pricing, and any
combination or extension of the above. SDP can help create happier
consumers and enterprise users, less congestion, and better Quality of
Experience, lower CapEx/OpEx, higher revenue/profit margin, less churn,
more consumption and ad revenue to content/app providers. But it also
requires developing pricing models that capture the interplay between
technical and economic factors, interfaces among network providers and
content/app providers, effective user interface designs, field trials, and
a combination of smart ideas, smart execution, and smart policy.

The 1st workshop on SDP was held on July 30-31, 2012, in Princeton, USA,
and the 2nd workshop was held on April 19, 2013 at IEEE INFOCOM in Turin,
Italy. The SDP workshop has a history of nurturing multidisciplinary
research by bringing together academics and practitioners from top
Universities, research labs (like Microsoft Research, INRIA), service
providers (like AT&T, Korea Telecom, Telefonica), hardware vendors
(Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs, Microsoft, Cisco), and representatives from US
FCC and the National Exchange Carrier Association. Likewise, the
3rdworkshop on SDP will provide an interdisciplinary platform for
researchers
in engineering, economics, and business schools, to exchange novel ideas to
jointly address the challenges and opportunities presented by the recent
explosive growth in demand for broadband data.

The 3rd Workshop on Smart Data Pricing (SDP), to be held on May 2, 2014, as
a part of IEEE INFOCOM in Toronto, Canada, solicits contributions
describing analyses of state-of-the-art pricing mechanisms, results of
ongoing research, open issues, trends, pricing-related signaling protocols,
net-neutrality related policy implications, standardization activities, and
new ideas in smart pricing and economic models that can help alleviate
network congestion.


Keynotes & Panel

This year’s Keynote speakers at SDP 2014 are Dr. Alok Gupta, Chair of
Information & Decision Sciences at the Carlson School of Management,
University of Minnesota, and Mr. Keith Cambron, former President & CEO of
AT&T Labs. We will also host an Industry-Academia Panel with position
papers from different industry sectors.

Topics

Topics of particular interest to SDP 2014 include, but are not limited to:

•           Theories, models, and analyses of access pricing

•          Use of incentives and economic mechanisms to alleviate network
congestion

•           Economics of WiFi offloading, femtocells, heterogeneous networks

•           Empirical studies of user behavior in response to price
incentives

•           Novel system implementation, deployment, or field trials of
smart pricing

•           Challenges in monetization of spectrum and emerging pricing
trends

•           Two-sided pricing, billing, and sponsored content

•           Network neutrality and regulatory aspects of pricing policies

•           Pricing of smart grids, cloud computing, etc.

•           Hardware and software support for enabling smarter pricing
practices

•           Security and privacy issues in smart pricing

•           Human-computer interaction aspects of pricing practices

•           Activities on standardization of signaling protocols for smart
pricing

Important Dates



Abstract Registration Deadline:  December 7, 2013

Full Paper Submission Deadline:  December 15, 2013

Author Notification: January 15, 2014

Camera-ready paper due: February 10, 2014



Submission Instructions



SDP 2014 invites submission of both technical papers and position papers.
Submitted papers should be original: Papers that have already appeared in
conference proceedings or journals or are currently under review are
ineligible for consideration. Questions about the eligibility of a
potential submission should be mailed to the Organizing Committee. Papers
will be selected based on both technical merit and potential to spark
interesting discussion at the workshop.



Paper submissions should be at most 6 pages in length. Your paper should be
typeset in two-column format with 10-point fonts or larger. Additional
information (including detailed proofs or experimental data) may be
included in a clearly marked appendix that will be read at the discretion
of the program committee members. Please review instructions at INFOCOM
site.



Organizing Committee Chairs

Soumya Sen, University of Minnesota

Matthew Andrews, Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs

Mung Chiang, Princeton University
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