ASIAN INTERNET ENGINEERING CONFERENCE (AINTEC) 2013
Date: 13th-15th November 2013
Venue: Doi Suthep 1 – 2, Kantary Hills Hotel, Chiang Mai, Thailand

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Internet Science: a manifesto

Kavé Salamatian

Abstract
The purpose of this talk is to describe a newemerging science: Internet science. Networks areobservedin a large scale of context ranging from Internet type to social network and Biological networks. We will attempt a generaland generic definition of a network that will be relevant for the large set of application and context of networks and we will discuss the different possible alternatives. This definition will show the major importance of cooperation at the conceptual core of networks. We willfollow up by describing how cooperation in networkshappens at two conceptual levels: on the structure and thegrowth of the network and on the information exchange (orforwarding). After describing a potential approach to understandthe growth of a network as resulting from an iterative prisoners’dilemma game, we will explain how cooperation can bedivided into three classes: full cooperation, selfishness and nonrationalcases. This discussion opens a discussion on the needto develop a new economical theory for understanding networksand information exchange.

Biography
Kavé Salamatian
Kavé Salamatian has been a full professor of computer science at University of Savoie from 2009. His main areas of researches are Internet measurement and modelling and networking information theory. He was previously reader at Lancaster University, UK and associate professor at University Pierre et Marie Curie. Kavé has graduated in 1998 from Paris SUD-Orsay university, where he worked on joint source channel coding applied to multimedia transmission over Internet for his Phd. In a former life, he graduated with a MBA, and worked on market floor as a risk analyst and on enjoyed being an urban traffic modeler for some years.

During the past decade he has pursued an active research in Network security in particular in Anomaly/Attack detection and on application recognition, where he is a well-known expert with several papers with more than 300 citations.

From 2002 to 2005 he has acted as the coordinator of the Metropolis project that deployed the first large scale Internet measurement network in France. After that he has been several years coordinator of the STIC-ASIA program of cooperation between France and Asia on Internet Measurements. In this context he has done several long visits to Japan and South Korea where he held invited professor positions. He has co-advise several Asian Phd students in Internet Measurement.

From 2011 he is holding a research chair at the Chinese Academy of Science where he have a strong research relationship with China on Future Internet Architecture. He has published in the past couple of year several papers on Chinese social networks like Weibo, RenRen as well as PPTV and Baidu.

During the past years, KavéSalamatianhave developed a multidisciplinary research activity on Internet Science. He has been the Technical Committee Chair of the First "Internet Science" Conference that was organized in April 2013 in Brussels.