Algorithms, Information Technology Modeling, Network Design and Analysis, Optimization

Office: 222 Rhodes

Phone: 607.255.9130

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Eric Friedman received an A.B. in Physics from Princeton and an M.A. in Physics, M.S. and Ph.D (1992) in Operations Research from the University of California at Berkeley. He was on the faculty at Duke and Rutgers before joining the faculty at the School of Operations Research and Information Engineering at Cornell in 2001.

His research is at the intersection of game theory computer science, and operations research. Current projects include: constructing robust and effective ranking and reputation systems, designing fair and efficient Web-serving algorithms, and allocating bandwidth in heterogeneous wireless systems. He is also interested in combinatorial games, self-organized critical systems, learning in games and the geometric structure of cost-allocation methods, and the interconnections between these various topics.

Select Publications

Sybilproof Reputation Mechanisms, Proceedings of Third Workshop on Economics of Peer-to-Peer Systems. (2005). (With Alice Cheng)

Fairness and Efficiency in Processor Sharing Protocols to Minimize Sojourn Times, SIGMETRICS 229 -237 (2003). (With S. Henderson)

Reputation Systems: Facilitating Trust on the Internet, Communications of the ACM, 43(12). (2000). (With K. Kuwabara, P. Resnick, and R. Zeckhauser)

Corporate Governance in the Asian Financial Crisis (2000), 1997-98, with S. Johnson, P. Boone and A. Breach, Journal of Financial Economics.

Three Methods to Share Joint Costs or Surplus. Journal of Economic Theory 87(2) pp.275-312. (1999). (With H. Moulin)

Professional Activities

Third Workshop on the Economics of Peer-to-Peer Systems: Co-chair

Workshop on the Economics, Technology and Policy of Unlicensed Spectrum: Co-organizer