Call for Papers

Call for Papers

CALL FOR PAPERS

NETGCOOP 2025

https://netgcoop2025.univ-avignon.fr/

The 12th International Conference on Network Games, Control and Optimization

Bilbao, Spain, October 8-10, 2025

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IMPORTANT DATES

Full papers due: May 30, 2025

Author notification: July 16, 2025

Abstract for poster due: August 27, 2025

Notification for poster: September 5, 2025

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SCOPE AND TOPICS

Internet communications and services are experiencing an increase in volume and diversity both in their capacity and demand along with an underlying increase in the complexity of their control and optimization, mainly due to heterogeneity in architecture as well as usage. The need for new ways of effectively and fairly allocating resources belonging to a wide set of not necessarily cooperative networks to a collection of possibly competing users is urgent.

 

The goal of the conference is to bring together researchers and practitioners from different areas of game theory, control, and optimization, with a special focus on their applications to network science.

NetGCoop 2025 welcomes submissions on all aspects of efficient and robust control, operation, optimization and performance evaluation. Both theoretical and experimental submissions are encouraged; the areas of interest include (but are not limited to):

  • Optimization and control-theoretic tools in networking

  • Differential games and mean-field games over networks

  • Network models based on algorithmic game theory

  • Learning mechanisms in networks

  • Incentives for cooperation in networks

  • Static and dynamic network pricing

  • Auctions, bargaining, and contract design in networks

  • Optimization of wireline, wireless, and power networks

  • Economics of cloud, fog, and edge computing

  • Performance and economics of software-defined networking

  • Trust and reputation management in networks

  • Games for ad placement, influence networks

  • Network formation games and routing

  • Resource allocation

  • AI optimization

  • Quantum consensus and game theory

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

  • Rayadurgam Srikant (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA)

  • Rosa E. Lillo (UC3M, Spain, and Santander-IBIDat Institute, Spain)

  • Patrick Loiseau (Inria, France)

PAPER SUBMISSION

Papers are solicited as full papers (in English), of no more than 10 single-spaced single-column pages, each of which will be subject to a full review process. Submitted papers must not have been published elsewhere nor currently be under review by another conference or journal. Submissions should follow the author guidelines as specified below and must include: 
title, authors, affiliations, abstract, and a list of at most five keywords. The corresponding author should be identified clearly, including name and e-mail address. An electronic, PDF-based submission of papers is mandatory.

 

The conference proceedings are being published as hard copy and electronically by Springer Verlag, Heidelberg, Germany, in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) Series and will be available during the event. In preparing their manuscript, authors are obliged to follow the LNCS guidelines (see https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines) strictly and without exception, including the 10 page limit.

Papers can be submitted via the web site: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=netgcoop2025

SPECIAL ISSUE

A selection of the best papers will be invited to submit an extended version of their work to a special issue in the Elsevier Performance Evaluation (PEVA) journal.

POSTER SUBMISSION

Abstracts are solicited for presentation as posters during the conference. The abstracts are not going to be published in the proceedings.

  • Submission deadline (posters): August 27, 2025

  • Acceptance notification (posters): September 5, 2025

Abstracts must be submitted by e-mail to the poster session chair (albert.senen-cerda@irit.fr)

General Chairs:

Josu Doncel (University of the Basque Country, Spain)

Nicolas Gast (Inria, France)

Technical Program Co-Chairs:

Yezekael Hayel (Avignon University, France)

Vincenzo Mancuso (IMDEA Networks, Spain, and University of Palermo, Italy)

Publicity Chair:

Elene Anton-Balerdi (University of Pau, France)

Poster Session Chair:

Albert Senen-Cerda (IRIT, and LAAS-CNRS, France)

Program Committee:

Khushboo Agarwal (Inria, France)

Tansu Alpcan (The University of Melbourne, Australia)

Elene Anton (University of Pau, France)

E. Veronica Belmega (ETIS / ENSEA – UCP – CNRS, France)

Ana Busic (INRIA, France)

Livia Chatzieleftheriou (IMDEA Networks, Spain)

Salah Eddine Elayoubi (CentraleSupélec, France)

Jocelyne Elias (Università di Bologna, Italy)

Dieter Fiems (Ghent University, Belgium)

Luis Guijarro (Technical University of Valencia, Spain)

Vasileios Karyotis (Ionian University, Greece)

Lasse Leskelä (Aalto University, Finland)

Patrick Maille (IMT Atlantique, France)

Andrea Marin (University of Venise, Italy)

Iriniel-Constantin Morarescu (University of Lorraine, France)

Ariel Orda (Technion, Israel)

Adam Ouorou (Orange Labs, France)

Balakrishna Prabhu (LAAS-CNRS, France)

Dominique Quadri (University of Paris-Saclay, France)

Alexandre Reiffers-Masson (IMT Atlantique, France)

Matteo Sereno (University of Torino, Italy)

Nahum Shimkin, (Technion, Israel)

Alonso Silva (Nokia Bell Labs, France)

Corinne Touati (Inria, France)

Sabine Wittevrongel (Ghent University, Belgium)

SATELLITE EVENT:

PhD students and other researchers interested in Game Theory are invited to participate in the “VI SEIO Course on Game Theory: Applications to Blockchain and Networking”, which will take place on the 6th and 7th of October in Bilbao, Spain.

Confirmed speakers: J. M. Zarzuelo (University of the Basque Country, Spain) and Balakrishna J. Prabhu (LAAS-CNRS, France).