[UCI-Calit2] The Internet as a Complex System -- 4/9

Anna Lynn Spitzer aspitzer at calit2.uci.edu
Tue Apr 6 14:35:06 PDT 2010


Title:		The Internet as a Complex System

Speaker: 		Prof. Kihong Park, Purdue University

Time: 		11 a.m.-noon

Date: 		Friday, April 9, 2010

Location: 		Donald Bren Hall, Room 6011        


Abstract:	Park will discuss "complex system" aspects of networked
systems with a focus on the Internet. Over the past couple of decades,
the Internet and its component systems have been shown to exhibit
complex system features such as fractalness, correlation-at-a-distance,
phase transition and chaos, among others. Three empirical discoveries -
self-similarity of Internet traffic, power-law connectivity of
autonomous systems and the World Wide Web - have significantly impacted
science and engineering, transcending the confines of networked
communication systems. What is perhaps especially noteworthy about
complex system aspects of the Internet is their real-world relevance
with engineering implications. Park will discuss select features, some
well-known, others less so, that despite their varied nature may be
examined from a shared viewpoint of stability and optimality of
dynamical systems.

Bio:		Kihong Park is an associate professor in the Department
of Computer Science at Purdue University. He received a B.A. from Seoul
National University and a Ph.D. in computer science from Boston
University. Park's research interests include non-cooperative game
theory of networks with externalities, containment of network attacks in
power-law networks, and fault-tolerant cellular automata. He has edited
two books with Walter Willinger, "Self-Similar Network Traffic and
Performance Evaluation," Wiley-Interscience (2000), and "The Internet as
a Large-Scale Complex System," Oxford University Press (2005). Park was
a recipient of the NSF CAREER Award and a Fellow-at-Large of the Santa
Fe Institute.



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