[agents] CFP for The 1st International Workshop on Mechanism Design in Social Networks @ IJCAI’24

[Dengji Zhao]

*** The submission deadline is May 4, 2024 ***

We are excited to announce the Call for Papers for The 1st International
Workshop on Mechanism Design in Social Networks (Mechanism.Net), a pivotal
event that brings together leading researchers from multi-agent systems,
algorithmic game theory, and the social, economic, and organizational
sciences. Mechanism.Net 2024 is part of the IJCAI 2024 conference taking
place at Jeju, South Korea from 3rd to 9th of August, 2024.

Important Date:

Paper submission deadline: May 4, 2024

Author notification: June 4, 2024

Camera-ready deadline: July 4, 2024

Workshop date: August 4, 2024

All deadlines are at the end of the day specified, anywhere on Earth
(UTC-12).

We are looking forward to receiving your submission. More information of
the workshop can be found via the website:

https://smart.sist.shanghaitech.edu.cn/MechanismNet/index.html
Aim:

The aim of the workshop is to provide an internationally respected forum
for scientific research tackling the fundamental challenges of mechanism
design in social networks. As a representative interface integrating
economics, game theory and artificial intelligence, mechanism design takes
an engineering approach to solve a wide range of problems where there are
interactions among individuals, markets and institutions. Research on
mechanism design has brought many novel solutions to the practice such as
spectrum allocations, kidney exchanges, student-school matching systems,
and digital/sharing economy platforms. However, the traditional
settings/solutions do not specifically consider the complex interactions of
individuals under the social networks. Therefore, since 2017, we have seen
many studies focused on the mechanism design problem under social networks,
including auctions, matching, cooperative games and many other games under
social networks. Almost all the traditional games/mechanisms can be
revisited under the network setting and there are also many challenging
open questions worth further investigations. We hope this workshop could
stimulate the studies in this trend and offer a platform to related
researchers and practitioners to swiftly exchange mature and immature
ideas. Research contributions related to algorithmic game theory, mechanism
design, and social choice that are considering social networks are welcome
for the workshop.
Topics and Research Questions:

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   Auctions and Market Design on Networks
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   Matching Markets on Networks
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   Coalition Formation under Networks
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   Reward Sharing under Networks
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   Cost Sharing under Networks
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   Invitation Incentive Design
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   Information Propagation and Influence Maximization
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   Crowdsourcing and Crowdsensing
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   Information Elicitation and Data Acquisition
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   Social Choice on Networks
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   Network Games and Liquid Democracy
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   Distributed Mechanisms on Network Security, Privacy, and Trust
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   Economic Aspects of Distributed Algorithms
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   Economics, Monetization, and Online Markets
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   Federated Learning and Social Learning


Workshop Format:

The workshop will feature invited speaker/s, paper presentations, and panel
discussions. It is a one-day workshop taking place during the workshop days
of IJCAI 2024.

Target Audience:

The workshop will be of interest to researchers (including young masters
and PhDs) engaged in modeling and analyzing economic mechanisms powered by
social networks, and those interested in putting mechanism design theory to
work. Mechanism.Net intends to be a place where researchers can exchange
and publish mature ideas and can also quickly get useful feedback about
immature results (and publish short abstracts).
Awards:

Best student paper award: Papers where the main author is a student should
be identified as such and will be eligible for the best student paper award.

Best regular paper award: We will also select the best paper amongst the
regular papers where the main author is not a student.
Publication:

We plan to organize post-proceedings of all the accepted papers of the
workshop. Each accepted paper can choose to publish a full paper, a short
paper or not publish at all. We are still negotiating the possibility with
publishers and we will update on the web once we have confirmed
post-proceedings. The goal is that if you have some new results that you
want to get published quickly, the post-proceedings is a good venue. Also
if you just want to get a promotion of your results but still want to send
the full paper to another venue, then a short paper or not publish at all
is also a good choice.
Contacts:

For more information or if you have queries relating to the workshop,
please contact the Workshop Organization Committee Members:

Dong Hao - haodong at uestc.edu.cn

Bin Li - cs.libin at njust.edu.cn

Swaprava Nath - swaprava at cse.iitb.ac.in

Taiki Todo - todo at inf.kyushu-u.ac.jp
Dengji Zhao (Chair) - zhaodj at shanghaitech.edu.cn
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