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 2026 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
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PAPER SUBMISSION
Papers are solicited as full papers (in English), of no more than 11 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.