Prof. Costas A Courcoubetis (http://nes.aueb.gr/users/cc.htm) is heading the Network
Economics and Services Group and the Theory, Economics and Systems Lab at the Athens
University of Economics and Business. He was born in Athens, Greece and received his Diploma
(1977) from the National Technical University of Athens, Greece, in Electrical and Mechanical
Engineering, his MS (1980) and PhD (1982) from the University of California, Berkeley, in
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. Since autumn 1999 he is a Professor in the
Department of Informatics at the Athens University of Economics and Business. His current
research interests are economics of networks with emphasis in the development of pricing
schemes that reduce congestion and enhance stability and robustness, quality of service and
management of integrated services, performance and traffic analysis of large systems, applied
probability models. He has published over 100 papers in scientific journals such as Operations
Research, Mathematics of Operations Research, Journal on Applied Probability, IEEE
Transactions in Communications, IEEE JSAC, SIAM Journal on Computing etc. and in conferences
such as FOCS, STOC, LICS, INFOCOM. GLOBCOM, ITC, ACM SIGMETRICS. His work has over 9000
citations according to the Publish or Perish citation analysis software program. He is co-author
with Richard Weber of “Pricing Communication Networks: Economics, Technology and
Modeling” (Wiley, 2003).