Multilevel Strategic Interaction Game Models for Complex Networks

Part I: Multi-Level Evolutionary Games.- Introduction.- Altruism in Groups.- From Egoism to Altruism in Groups.- Interacting Communities.- Random Delays.- Coupled State Policy Dynamics.- Section II: Epidemics/Information Diffusion.- Introduction.- Community Networks.- Interconnected Networks.- Adaptive Networks.- Section III: Networking Games.- Introduction.- Beat your Rival.- Stochastic Coalitional Dynamics.- Peering versus Transit.- Network Neutrality.- Section IV: Intermittency in Complex Systems.- Introduction.- Models with Adaptive Intermittent Behaviour.- Outline of the Forecasting Procedure.- Forecasting Procedure Based on Full Information.- Procedures with Incomplete Information.

Konstantin Avrachenkov received Master degree in Control Theory from St. Petersburg State Polytechnic University (1996), Ph.D. degree in Mathematics from University of South Australia (2000) and Habilitation (Doctor of Science) from University of Nice Sophia Antipolis (2010). Currently, he is a Director of Research at Inria Sophia Antipolis, France. He is an associate editor of International Journal of Performance Evaluation, Stochastic Models, Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences and ACM TOMPECS . His main research interests are Markov processes, singular perturbation theory, queueing theory, mathematical programming, game theory and performance evaluation of communication networks.

Francesco De Pellegrini is full professor at the University of Avignon. He received the Ph.D. degree in 2004 in Telecommunication Engineering from the University of Padova, Italy. He has published more than 100 papers in conference and journals and received 2 best paper awards. He has been working on several subjects in the domain of computer science and networks. His interests are algorithms on graphs, epidemics and gossip processes, stochastic control of networks and game theory. He has promoted and chaired  several conferences in the field of networking and computer science. 


Huijuan Wang is currently a tenured assistant professor in the Multimedia Computing Group at Delft University of Technology. She received the M.Sc. degree (cum laude) and Ph.D. degree (cum laude) in Electrical Engineering from the Delft University of Technology in 2005 and 2009, respectively. She has been a visiting scientist in the Department of Physics at Boston University since 2011 and in the Department of Electrical Engineering at Stanford University for the period April-August 2015. Her main research areas are performanceanalysis of complex networks and systems ranging from technological