[agents] Call For Papers: 19th Conference On Web And Internet Economics (WINE 2023)

[Dengji Zhao]

Shanghai, China, December 04 - 08, 2023

Over the past two decades, researchers in theoretical computer science,
artificial intelligence, operations research, and economics have joined
forces to understand the interplay of incentives and computation. These
issues are of particular importance in the Internet, enabling the
interaction of large and diverse populations. The Conference on Web and
Internet Economics (WINE) is an interdisciplinary forum for exchanging
ideas and results on incentives and computation arising from these various
fields. WINE 2023 continues the successful tradition of the Conference on
Web and Internet Economics (named Workshop on Internet & Network Economics
until 2013), held annually from 2005 to the present.

WINE 2023 is planned as an in-person event from December 4 through December
8, 2023, hosted by ShanghaiTech University. The conference website is:
https://wine2023.shanghaitech.edu.cn

The program will feature invited talks, tutorials, and paper presentations.
All paper submissions will be peer-reviewed and evaluated based on the
quality of their contribution, originality, soundness, and significance.
Submissions are invited in, but not limited to, the following topics:
· Auctions and pricing
· Behavioral economics and behavioral modeling
· Blockchains and their applications
· Contract design
· Computational advertising
· Computational aspects of equilibria
· Computational social choice
· Coalitions, coordination, and collective action
· Decision theory
· Econometrics, ML, and Data Science
· Fair division
· Information design
· Learning in games and markets
· Market design
· Matching markets
· Mechanism design
· Online platforms and applications
· Privacy, fairness, and security
· Revenue Management
· Social networks and network games

IMPORTANT DATES

Paper submission deadline: July 7, 2023, AoE

Author notification: before September 8, 2023

SUBMISSION SERVER

Easychair submission link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wine2023

SUBMISSION FORMAT

Authors are invited to submit extended abstracts presenting original
research on any of the research fields related to WINE 2023.

Submissions must be anonymous (see below). An extended abstract submitted
to WINE 2023 should start with the title of the paper followed by a brief
summary of the paper’s contributions. This should then be followed by a
technical exposition of the main ideas and techniques used to achieve these
results, including motivation and a clear comparison with related work.

The extended abstract should not exceed 18 single-spaced pages (including
references) using reasonable margins (at least one-inch margins all around)
and at least 11-point font. If the authors believe that more details are
essential to substantiate the claims of the paper, they may include a
clearly marked appendix (with no space limit) that will be read at the
discretion of the Program Committee. It is strongly recommended that
submissions adhere to the specified format and length. Submissions that are
clearly too long may be rejected immediately. The above specifications are
meant to provide more freedom to the authors at the time of submission.
Note that accepted papers will be allocated 18 pages (including references)
in the LNCS format in the proceedings (see below).

The proceedings of the conference will be published by Springer-Verlag in
the ARCoSS/LNCS series, and will be available for distribution at the
conference. Accepted papers will be allocated 18 pages total in the LNCS
format in the proceedings. Submissions are encouraged, though not required,
to follow the LNCS format (Latex, Word). More information about the LNCS
format can be found on the author instructions page of Springer-Verlag
<https://www.springer.com/cn/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines>
.

WINE 2023 will use double-blind reviewing like all other major
conferences. Submissions
should not reveal the identity of the authors in any way. In particular,
authors’ names, affiliations, and email addresses should not appear
anywhere in the submission. (In LNCS do not include \author{} and
\institute{} fields.) Authors should refer to their prior work in a neutral
manner (i.e., instead of saying “We showed …” say “XYZ et al. showed”).

It is acceptable to submit work that has been presented in public (provided
there are no published proceedings) or has been uploaded to arXiv or
similar online archives, provided the submission itself is anonymized.

Questions regarding the submissions can be directed to the PC chairs via
wine2023chairs at gmail.com.

CONFLICT OF INTEREST POLICY

A conflict of interest (COI) is limited to the following categories:
- Family member or close friend.
- Ph.D. advisor or advisee (no time limit), or postdoctoral or
undergraduate mentor or mentee within the past five years.
- Person with the same affiliation.
- Involved in an alleged incident of harassment (it is not required that
the incident be reported).
- Reviewer owes author a favor (e.g., recently requested a reference
letter).
- Frequent or recent collaborator whom you believe cannot objectively
review your work.

Authors will have the opportunity to declare COIs with (Senior) Program
Committee members. This must be done separately for each submission.
Declaring COIs prevents the specified person from reviewing a paper,
thereby constraining the matching process and so potentially negatively
impacting review quality. For this reason, COIs should not be declared
automatically based on a prior relationship (e.g., coauthor, friend,
colleague in the same institution, etc.). (Senior) Program Committee
members can also declare a COI with authors as well as with specific papers.


EasyChair asks the authors to specify the type of conflict of interest when
they declare one. Authors do *not* need to answer that question. They can
simply choose the option “other” and write “other” in the textbox.

BEST PAPER AWARD

The program committee will decide upon a best paper award and a best
student paper award.

IMPORTANT NOTICE

To accommodate the publishing traditions of different fields, authors of
accepted papers can ask that only a one-page abstract of the paper appear
in the proceedings, along with a URL pointing to the full paper. The
authors should guarantee the link to be reliable for at least two years.
This option is available to accommodate subsequent publication in journals
that would not consider results that have been published in preliminary
form in conference proceedings. Such papers must be submitted and formatted
just like papers submitted for full-text publication.

Simultaneous submission of results to another conference with published
proceedings is not allowed. Results previously published or presented at
another archival conference prior to WINE 2023, or published (or accepted
for publication) at a journal prior to the submission deadline of WINE
2023, will not be considered. Simultaneous submission of results to a
journal is allowed only if the authors intend to publish the paper as a
one-page abstract in WINE 2023. Papers that are accepted and appear as a
one-page abstract can be subsequently submitted for publication in a
journal but may not be submitted to any other conference that has a
published proceeding.

FORWARD TO JOURNAL

Upon submission, WINE authors would have a chance to select at most one
from the following journals:
- Management Science
<https://pubsonline.informs.org/page/mnsc/editorial-statement>, Revenue
Management and Market Analytics area
- Operations Research
<https://pubsonline.informs.org/page/opre/editorial-statement/area-editors-statements>,
Revenue Management and Market Analytics area
- Games and Economic Behavior
<https://www.journals.elsevier.com/games-and-economic-behavior>
- Social Choice and Welfare <https://www.springer.com/journal/355/>
- ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation
<https://dl.acm.org/journal/teac>
- Artificial Intelligence
<https://www.journals.elsevier.com/artificial-intelligence>
- Theoretical Economics <https://econtheory.org/>

How does it work? If a WINE paper is accepted and the authors plan to use
the forward-to-journal option, the authors must submit a one-page extended
abstract by the deadline for the camera-ready version of the conference
proceeding.

The authors then have the option of submitting their journal paper by
January 22, 2024, to the journal they have selected. The cover letter to
the journal should specify that the submission is part of the WINE 2023
forward-to-journal process. The authors should also include a formal
response document to the conference comments and how these were addressed
in the revised manuscript.

WINE papers that submit a final version by this deadline will be forwarded
to the journal of choice, along with the de-anonymized conference reviews.
Note that a journal's participation in the WINE forward-to-journal option
does not mean that other forms of previous publication are acceptable.

What are the implications? The journal's department editor and/or associate
editor can use the conference reviews to guide the decision-making process
in whatever way the journal finds appropriate. We suspect the AEs might
choose referees from among the set of conference reviewers, especially if
they found the conference reviews informative. We would like to emphasize,
however, that the conference reviewers are not required to accept such
review requests. Furthermore, journals are not required to accept these
papers (and may even choose to desk-reject them depending on fit).
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