Call for Papers

Call for Papers

                         FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS

                             NETGCOOP 2024

The 11th International Conference on Network Games, Control and Optimization 

                  Lille, France, October 9-11, 2024

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IMPORTANT DATES

Full papers due:       May 31, 2024

Author notification:  July 15, 2024

Final version due:   July 31, 2024

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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 2024 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

SPECIAL ISSUE

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

PLENARY SPEAKERS

The conference is pleased to announce three plenary speakers:

  • Michel Mandjes (Mathematical Institute, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) on learning in networks
  • Nadia Oudjane (EDF, France)
  • Sergio Grammatico (Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands): Equilibrium seeking in complex systems.

PAPER SUBMISSION

Papers are solicited as full papers (in English), of no more than 10 single-spaced 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, 100-word 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=netgcoop2024

General Chairs: 

Hélène Le Cadre (Inria, France)

Yezekael Hayel (Université d’Avignon, France)

Technical Program Co-Chairs:

Tijani Chahed (Telecom SudParis, France)

Bruno Tuffin (Inria, France)

Publicity Chairs

Alexandre Reiffers-Masson (IMT Atlantique, France)

Program Committee

Tansu Alpcan (The University of Melbourne)

Eitan Altman (Inria, France)

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

Randall Berry (Northwestern University, USA) 

Quentin Cappart (Polytechnique Montreal, Canada)

Xu Chen (Sun Yat-sen University, China)

Hanane Dagdougui (Polytechnique Montréal, France)

Francesco De Pellegrini (Université d’Avignon, France) 

Salah Eddine Elayoubi (CentraleSupélec, France)

Jocelyne Elias (Università di Bologna, Italy) 

Anthony Ephremides (University of Maryland, USA) 

Dieter Fiems (Ghent University, Belgium)

Vasileios Karyotis (Ionian University, Greece) 

George Kesidis (Pennsylvania State University, USA) 

Seong-Lyun Kim (Yonsei University, Korea)

Iordanis Koutsopoulos (Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece)   

Lasse Leskelä (Aalto University, Finland)

D. Manjunath (IIT Bombay, India)

Daniel Sadoc Menasché (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) 

Iriniel-Constantin Morarescu (Université de Lorraine, France)

Ariel Orda (Technion, Israel)

Adam Ouorou (Orange Labs, France)

Balakrishna Prabhu (LAAS-CNRS) 

Nahum Shimkin, (Technion, Israel) 

Alonso Silva (Nokia Bell Labs, France)

Nicolas Stier (Facebook Core Data Science, USA) 

Alexandre Reiffers-Masson (IMT Atlantique, France)

Sabine Wittevrongel (Ghent University, Belgium)