Essaid Sabir : An Outlook on Volunteer Dilemma : Theory, Applications, and Insights
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Heure et date : Le 2 novembre 2022 à 12h30
Lieu : PK-5115 et Zoom
Conférencier : Essaid Sabir
Titre : An Outlook on Volunteer Dilemma : Theory, Applications, and Insights
Abstract: This talk provides a comprehensive discussion on a fascinating social phenomenon known as the Volunteer’s Dilemma (VoD). A volunteer’s dilemma occurs when a prosocial individual decides to bear a cost to make the whole society benefit from a certain good or service. Acting this way (i.e., volunteering) makes this individual better off than if no one had volunteered, but worse off than if someone else had volunteered instead. To make the problem more interesting, a collective inaction results in lack of good/service, or a full calamity in some situations. First, we present some examples and discuss the counter-intuitive outcome of the individuals’ (agents/players) behavior. To understand such a paradoxical behavior, we construct a non-cooperative game to capture the induced interaction between individuals. Next, we solve the game for finite n-person system and derive its Nash equilibria. Then, we analyze the price of anarchy to assess the effect of volunteering cost in controlling/avoiding overvolunteering. The rest of this talk exhibits briefly some of our recent works identifying a VoD-like situations in wireless networks and mobile communications. Some important conclusions and insights are drawn at the end of this talk.
Bio : Essaid Sabir received the B.Sc. degree and the M.Sc. degree in electrical and computer engineering from Mohammed V University of Rabat in 2004 and 2007 respectively, and the Ph.D. degree (with the highest honors) in networking and computer engineering from Avignon University, France, in 2010. He held a non‐tenure‐track assistant professor position at Avignon University, from 2009 to 2012. He has been a professor at the national higher school of electricity and mechanics (ENSEM) ‐ Hassan II university of Casablanca, where he was leading the Networking, Embedded Systems and Telecommunications (NEST) research Group. Since august 2022, he joined the department of computer science, Université du Québec à Montréal, as an associate professor. He has been the main investigator of many (inter)national research projects and has been involved in several other (inter)national projects. His research interests include 5G/6G, Cloud/Edge, IoT, URLLC, AI/ML for communications, and networking games. He has (co)authored more than 170 journal articles and conference papers. His work has been awarded in many international venues (IEEE 5GWF’21, IEEE WF‐IoT’20, IEEE IWCMC’19, etc.). To bridge the gap between academia and industry, and promote high-quality research, he founded the International Conference on Ubiquitous Networking (UNet), and co‐founded the International Conference on Wireless Networks and Mobile Communications (WINCOM). Dr. Sabir is an IEEE Senior Member, who serves as an associate/guest editor for many international journals (Elsevier COMCOM, Frontiers in Communications, Springer Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing, etc.). He organized numerous international events (IEEE 5G Summit series, UNet, WINCOM, etc.) and played executive roles (General Chair, TPC Chair, etc.) for many major venues (IEEE FNWF/5GWF, IEEE WF‐IoT, IEEE GIoTS, IEEE GeenTech, etc.).
