It pays to do the right thing:
     Incentive mechanisms for Societal Networks
    
               Balaji Prabhakar
             Stanford University


By "Societal Networks" we mean networks vital for 
society's functioning; for example, transportation 
networks, electricity networks and waste management 
systems.   In this talk, we describe how a combination
of technological and economic mechanisms can help
to vastly improve the efficiency of such networks.  
The primary motivating examples are from transportation 
(decongestion), recycling and electricity networks.