[agents] CFP for The 2nd International Workshop on Mechanism Design in Social Networks at IJCAI'25

[Dengji Zhao]

***The submission deadline is May 9, 2025***

We are excited to announce the Call for Papers for the 2nd International
Workshop on Mechanism Design in Social Networks (MNet 2025), a pivotal
event that brings together leading researchers from multi-agent systems,
algorithmic game theory, and the social, economic, and organizational
sciences. MNet 2025 is part of the IJCAI 2025 conference taking place in
Montreal, Canada, from August 16 to August 22, 2025. The first edition of
the workshop (MNet-2024) was held with IJCAI 2024.

Important Date:

Paper submission deadline: May 9, 2025

Author notification: June 6, 2025

Camera-ready deadline: June 25, 2025

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

Submission site:

https://easychair.org/conferences?conf=mnet2025

The workshop website:
https://smart.sist.shanghaitech.edu.cn/MNet2025/index.html

Post-proceedings:

We will have post-proceedings of all the accepted papers of the workshop
with Springer <https://www.springer.com/series/7899> (Communications in
Computer and Information Science (CCIS) abstracted/indexed in DBLP, Google
Scholar, EI-Compendex, Mathematical Reviews, SCImago, Scopus). Each
accepted paper can choose to publish a full paper or a short paper. 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 paper to another
venue, then a short paper or not publish at all is also a good choice.

Aim:

The aim of the workshop is to provide an internationally respected forum
for scientific research tackling the fundamental challenges of mechanism
design on networks. Research on mechanism design has brought many novel
solutions to the practice such as spectrum allocations, kidney exchanges,
and student-school matching systems. However, traditional solutions do not
specifically consider complex interactions between participants. Therefore,
since 2017, we have seen many studies focused on mechanism design problems
to enlarge the game through social networks, including auctions, matching,
and cooperative games. Almost all traditional games/mechanisms can be
revisited under the network setting, and there are also many challenging
open questions that warrant further investigation. Hence, we hope that this
workshop stimulates studies in this trend and offers a platform to related
researchers and practitioners to quickly exchange mature and immature ideas.

Topics and Research Questions:

Research contributions on algorithmic game theory, mechanism design,
auctions, social choice, and other topics that are related to social
networks are welcome for the proposed workshop. Topics and research
questions to be explored include, but not limited to, the following:

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   Auctions on Networks
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   Coalition Formation under Networks
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   Reward/Cost Sharing under Networks
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   Invitation Incentive Design
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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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   Matching Markets on Networks
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   Network Games and Liquid Democracy
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   Distributed Mechanisms on Networks
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   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
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   Social Network Analysis and Graph Algorithms
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   Network Formation Games
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   Social Influence and Learning on Social Networks
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   Influence Maximization
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   Economic Networks and Market Analysis


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 2025.

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. MNet-2025 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).

Best Regards,

Workshop Organization Committee

Dong Hao, Bin Li, Swaprava Nath, Taiki Todo, and Dengji Zhao

Dengji Zhao
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Associate Professor (Tenured)
School of Information Science and Technology
ShanghaiTech University, Shanghai, China
Tel: +86 (0)21 20685387
http://dengji-zhao.net
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