Who we are...
Who we are...
Game theory is the term given to the methodology of using mathematical tools to model and analyze situations where decision-making is interactive, usually called ”strategic”. Hence, it is concerned with the choice of decision-makers, usually called ”players”, with different goals, where the decisions of each decision-maker may have an impact on the outcome for all decision-makers. This interactive nature distinguishes game theory from classical decision theory where a single decision-maker has to make a choice facing a ”passive” environment. Game theory aims to clarify the structure of interactive decision-making situations, to predict the behavior of decision-makers and to give advice to decision-makers in such situations. Since the fact that game theory is a theory that can be characterized as a context-free mathematical toolbox, it can be applied in any situation of interactive decision-making. The foundations of modern game theory go back to the book ”The Theory of Games and Economic Behavior”, published in 1944 by the mathematician John von Neumann and the economist Oskar Morgenstern. Today, game theory as an important tool in many fields is widely recognized. Since 1994 eleven game-theorists won the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences: John Forbes Nash Jr., John Harsanyi, Reinhard Selten, William Vickrey, Robert Aumann, Thomas Schelling Alvin Roth, Lloyd S. Shapley, Eric S. Maskin, Roger B. Myerson, and Jean Tirole. Moreover, John Maynard Smith was awarded the Crafoord Prize for his application of game theory to biology. In the past, some of these have attended the SING meetings.
Game theory is the term given to the methodology of using mathematical tools to model and analyze situations where decision-making is interactive, usually called ”strategic”. Hence, it is concerned with the choice of decision-makers, usually called ”players”, with different goals, where the decisions of each decision-maker may have an impact on the outcome for all decision-makers. This interactive nature distinguishes game theory from classical decision theory where a single decision-maker has to make a choice facing a ”passive” environment. Game theory aims to clarify the structure of interactive decision-making situations, to predict the behavior of decision-makers and to give advice to decision-makers in such situations. Since the fact that game theory is a theory that can be characterized as a context-free mathematical toolbox, it can be applied in any situation of interactive decision-making. The foundations of modern game theory go back to the book ”The Theory of Games and Economic Behavior”, published in 1944 by the mathematician John von Neumann and the economist Oskar Morgenstern. Today, game theory as an important tool in many fields is widely recognized. Since 1994 eleven game-theorists won the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences: John Forbes Nash Jr., John Harsanyi, Reinhard Selten, William Vickrey, Robert Aumann, Thomas Schelling Alvin Roth, Lloyd S. Shapley, Eric S. Maskin, Roger B. Myerson, and Jean Tirole. Moreover, John Maynard Smith was awarded the Crafoord Prize for his application of game theory to biology. In the past, some of these have attended the SING meetings.
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The SING community dedicated to game theory is guided by a diverse and dynamic group of scholars and researchers, each bringing expertise in areas such as mathematics, economics, and computer science. Ours is a community and it is committed to advancing the field of game theory through collaboration among scholars primarily working in European research institutions. By organizing a yearly game theory meeting and promoting initiatives for young researchers, we strive to cultivate a vibrant community that inspires new ideas in both the theory and applications of game theory in academic and real-world settings. SING,or SINGMeeting, means an European Meeting on Game Theory. The organization of our community is the following.
The SING community dedicated to game theory is guided by a diverse and dynamic group of scholars and researchers, each bringing expertise in areas such as mathematics, economics, and computer science. Ours is a community and it is committed to advancing the field of game theory through collaboration among scholars primarily working in European research institutions. By organizing a yearly game theory meeting and promoting initiatives for young researchers, we strive to cultivate a vibrant community that inspires new ideas in both the theory and applications of game theory in academic and real-world settings. SING,or SINGMeeting, means an European Meeting on Game Theory. The organization of our community is the following.
SING Assembly is the assembly of those participants to a SING Meeting which are citizens of European countries. The Assembly takes place during each SING annual meeting. The SING Assembly takes decisions on the proposals of the Representatives’ Council. Multi-organizing Countries are those European countries that organized at least two SING Meetings (taking into account previous SING editions, since 2005). Country representatives are two persons for each Multi-organizing-Country, appointed at the end of each annual SING Assembly by the participants of that Country attending the Assembly, according the following rules:
SING Assembly is the assembly of those participants to a SING Meeting which are citizens of European countries. The Assembly takes place during each SING annual meeting. The SING Assembly takes decisions on the proposals of the Representatives’ Council. Multi-organizing Countries are those European countries that organized at least two SING Meetings (taking into account previous SING editions, since 2005). Country representatives are two persons for each Multi-organizing-Country, appointed at the end of each annual SING Assembly by the participants of that Country attending the Assembly, according the following rules:
each Country Representative lasts for three annual Assemblies, except for the younger of the two Country representatives of Country (if any) inserted for the first year as a Multi-organizing-Country; in this case the representative will last for four Assemblies. After three years the representative could be confirmed for three more years. The Country representatives have the duties of:
attending the Representatives’ Council, directly or through a delegate;
deciding, in agreement with the organizer of the next SING Meeting, the invited speakers, and the dates;
belonging to the Scientific Committee of the meeting, that includes all the present SING representatives, some chosen among the former SING representatives, the Chair of the organizing committee, and at most four members invited by her/him;
being the reference point for any possible urgent decision before the following Assembly.
SING Representatives’ Council is the meeting of Country representatives, held annually during every SING Meeting, some days before the Assembly. The organizers of the current and of the next SING Meetings belong to this Council only for the topics regarding the respective meetings. Each Country representative that cannot attend the Council has to be represented by a delegate. The Chair and the Secretary of the SING Representatives Council (Chair and Secretary of SING for short) are selected by the Assembly for three year terms. They must be citizens of a European country. The main task of the Chair of SING is to act as the main contact person of the SING organization. S/he will also act as a chair of the Assembly and the SING Representatives Council, and the Secretary will keep the minutes of the Assembly. The minutes must be sent within a month of the conclusion of the meeting to the Country Representatives for their approval (with a tacit approval after two weeks).The Chair and Secretary of SING will inform the Chair of the Organizing Committee of the next SING Meeting about updating the web page of the meeting reflecting the decisions made by the Assembly.
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Chair of the Representative Council of SING: Joaquín Sanchez-Soriano, joaquin@umh.es
Secretary of the Representatives Council of SING: Stefano Moretti, stefano.moretti@dauphine.fr
Country Representatives:
France: Michel GRABISCH, michel.grabisch@univ-paris1.fr; Agnieszka RUSINOWSKA, agnieszka.rusinowska@univ-paris1.fr
Italy: Michela CHESSA, michela.chessa@gredeg.cnrs.fr; Francesco CIARDIELLO, fciardiello@unisa.it
Spain: Encarnación ALGABA, ealgaba@us.es; Elena Molis, emolis@ugr.es
The Netherlands: Marco SLIKKER, M.Slikker@tue.nl; Bas DIETZENBACHER, b.dietzenbacher@maastrichtuniversity.nl
Poland: Izabella STACH, istach@agh.edu.pl; Marcin MALAWSKI, mmn@alk.edu.pl
On the European Meetings on Game Theory
On the European Meetings on Game Theory
As usual for the SlNG conference programme will consist of small number invited lectures by highly distinguished scholars in the field and a larger number of contributed papers, which are selected among all applications by a scientific committee of established researchers in the field to ensure a high scientific standard of the papers presented at the conference (see below). However, also contributions from Ph.D. students and researchers being at the beginning of their career are explicitly invited and a Best Paper Prize is awarded. Even SING is the European Meeting on Game Theory, participants from all over the world attend the conference on a regular basis. The language of the meeting is English. The European Meetings on Game Theory welcome contributions from all areas of game theory, including, but not limited to:
Cooperative games and their applications
Mechanism design
Networks
Dynamic games
Evolutionary games
Stochastic games
Voting and power indices
Auctions
Bargaining
Learning and experimentation in games
Computational game theory
The Scientific Committee
Encarnación Algaba (University of Seville, Spain)
Gustavo Bergantinos (University of Vigo, Spain)
Sylvain Béal (University of Franche-Comté, France)
Giuseppe Caristi (University of Messina, Italy)
André Casajus (HHL Leipzig Graduate School of Management, Germany)
Michela Chessa (University of Côte d’Azur, France)
Francesco Ciardiello (University of Salerno, Department of Economics and Statistics, Italy)
Marco Dall'Aglio (LUISS University, Italy)
Bas Dietzenbacher (Maastricht University)
Andrea Di Liddo (University of Foggia, Italy)
Mostapha Diss (University of Franche-Comté, France)
Massimiliano Ferrara (University of Reggio Calabria & Bocconi University, Italy)
Vito Fragnelli (University of Eastern Piedmont, Italy)
Josep Freixas (UPC Barcelona, Spain)
Gianfranco Gambarelli (University of Bergamo, Italy)
Michel Grabish (Paris School of Economics, France)
Ruud Hendrickx (Tilburg University, The Netherlands)
Marcin Malawski (Leon Kozminski University, Poland)
Marco Marini (University of La Sapienza, Italy)
Ricardo Martinez (University of Granada, Spain)
Jacek Mercik (WSB University in Wroclaw, Poland)
Stefano Moretti (University Paris-Dauphine, France)
Antonio Nicolò (University of Padova, Italy)
Marina Núñez (University of Barcelona, Spain)
Agnieszka Rusinowska (Paris School of Economics, France)
Hannu Salonen (University of Turku, Finland)
Joaquín Sanchez-Soriano (University Miguel Hernández de Elche, Spain)
Riccardo Saulle (University of Padova, Italy)
Marcella Scrimitore (University of Reggio Calabria, Italy)
Marco Slikker (University of Technology Eindhoven, The Netherlands)
Izabella Stach (AGH University of Krakow, Poland)
Frank Steffen (University of Bayreuth, Germany)
Judith Timmer (University of Twente, The Netherlands)
René van den Brink (VU Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
Georges Zaccour (Hec Montréal, Business School, Canada)
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