WINE 2025: The 21st Conference on Web and Internet Economics

Rutgers University, New Brunswick, USA

December 8–11, 2025

Overview

Over the past two decades, researchers from fields such as theoretical computer science, artificial intelligence, operations research, and economics have joined forces to explore the interplay of incentives and computation. These topics are of particular importance for the Internet and enable the interaction of large and diverse populations.

The Conference on Web and Internet Economics (WINE, originally known as the Workshop on Internet & Network Economics until 2013) is an interdisciplinary platform for exchanging ideas and findings on incentives and computation from these varied fields. The WINE conference has been held annually since its inception in 2005, and WINE 2025 (https://wine2025.cs.rutgers.edu/) will carry on this tradition, taking place on December 8–11, 2025, in New Brunswick, USA, and hosted by Rutgers University. WINE 2025 will be an in-person event.

Important Dates

  • Paper submission deadline: July 3, 2025, Anywhere on Earth
  • Author notification: September 15, 2025
  • Early registration deadline: TBD
  • Camera-ready deadline: TBD
  • Conference: December 8–11, 2025

News

Committees

General Chairs

Contact (regarding conference organization and logistics): wine2025general@gmail.com

Program Committee Chairs

Contact (regarding the technical program and proceedings): wine2025chairs@gmail.com

Senior Program Committee

Program Committee

  • TBD, Some Affiliation

Local Organizers

Steering Committee

Call for Papers

Over the past two decades, researchers from fields such as theoretical computer science, artificial intelligence, operations research, and economics have joined forces to explore the interplay of incentives and computation. These topics are of particular importance for the Internet and enable the interaction of large and diverse populations.

The Conference on Web and Internet Economics (WINE, originally known as the Workshop on Internet & Network Economics until 2013) is an interdisciplinary platform for exchanging ideas and findings on incentives and computation from these varied fields. The WINE conference has been held annually since its inception in 2005, and WINE 2025 (https://wine2025.cs.rutgers.edu/) will carry on this tradition, taking place on December 8–11, 2025, in New Brunswick, USA, and hosted by Rutgers University. WINE 2025 will be an in-person event.

The program will feature invited talks, tutorials, and paper presentations. All paper submissions will be peer-reviewed and evaluated for their originality, technical soundness, significance, and overall contribution.

Topics

We welcome submissions in the area of Web and Internet Economics, including but not limited to the following topics:

  • Auctions and pricing
  • Behavioral economics and behavioral modeling
  • Blockchains and their applications
  • Computational advertising
  • Computational aspects of equilibria
  • Computational social choice
  • Coalitions, coordination, and collective action
  • Decision theory
  • Econometrics, ML and Data Science
  • Economic and strategic aspects of machine learning models
  • Fair division
  • Information design including contest and contract design
  • Information elicitation
  • Learning in games and markets
  • Market design
  • Matching markets
  • Mechanism design
  • Network games
  • Online platforms and applications
  • Privacy, fairness, and security
  • Revenue management
  • Social networks

Submissions deemed outside the scope of the WINE conference or not of sufficient interest to the WINE community will be desk-rejected.

Important Dates

  • Paper submission deadline: July 3, 2025, Anywhere on Earth
  • Author notification: September 15, 2025
  • Conference: December 8–11, 2025

FOCS Submissions

Authors with submissions under review at FOCS 2025 may simultaneously submit the same work to WINE 2025. However, if a submission is accepted to FOCS 2025, the authors must promptly withdraw the corresponding submission from WINE 2025. The scheduled notification date of FOCS 2025 is July 8, 2025.

Invited Talks

The program will feature three keynote talks. The keynote speakers and the topics of their talks will be announced soon.

Submission Server

Submissions should be made at https://wine2025.hotcrp.com/, which will open before June 19, 2025.

Submission Format

Authors are invited to submit papers presenting original research on any research topic related to WINE 2025.

Submissions must be anonymous (see below). A submission should start with the title of the paper followed by a brief summary of the paper’s contributions. This should then be followed by a technical exposition of the main ideas and techniques used to achieve these results, including motivation and a clear comparison with related work. Even if the authors choose the one-page abstract option for the proceedings, they must still submit the full paper as their initial submission to facilitate a comprehensive and rigorous review process.

Submissions must not exceed 12 single-spaced pages excluding references, and must use a font size of at least 11 points with margins of at least one inch on all sides. If the authors believe that more details are essential to substantiate the claims of the paper, they may include a clearly marked appendix of arbitrary length that will be read at the discretion of the Program Committee. Submissions that clearly deviate from the specified format and length risk desk rejection.

The proceedings of the conference will be published by Springer in the ARCoSS/LNCS series, and will be available for distribution at the conference. Accepted papers will be allocated 18 pages including references in the LNCS format in the proceedings. Submissions are encouraged, though not required, to follow the LNCS format. More information about the LNCS format can be found on the author instructions page of Springer.

WINE 2025 will use double-blind reviewing like all other major conferences. Submissions should not reveal the identity of the authors in any way. In particular, authors’ names, affiliations, and email addresses should not appear anywhere in the submission. (In LNCS, \author{} and \institute{} fields should not be included.) Authors should refer to their prior work in a neutral manner (for example, say “XYZ showed” instead of “we showed”). Submissions may include work that has been publicly presented (as long as it has not appeared in published proceedings) or posted on arXiv or similar online repositories, provided that the submission itself is properly anonymized.

Questions regarding the submissions can be directed to the Program Committee Chairs at wine2025chairs@gmail.com.

Conflict of Interest Policy

A conflict of interest (COI) is limited to the following categories:
  • Family member or close friend
  • Ph.D. advisor or advisee (no time limit), or postdoctoral or undergraduate mentor or mentee within the past five years
  • Person with the same affiliation
  • Involved in an alleged incident of harassment (it is not required that the incident be reported)
  • Reviewer owes the author a favor (e.g., recently requested a reference letter)
  • Frequent or recent collaborator whom you believe cannot objectively review your work

Authors will have the opportunity to declare COIs with (Senior) Program Committee members. This must be done separately for each submission.

Declaring COIs prevents the specified person from reviewing a paper, thereby constraining the matching process and potentially negatively impacting review quality. For this reason, COIs should not be declared automatically based on a prior relationship (coauthor, friend, colleague in the same institution, etc.).

(Senior) Program Committee members can also declare COIs with authors as well as with specific papers.

Policy Against Plagiarism

WINE 2025 adopts the official ACM policy against plagiarism.

Best Paper Awards

A Best Paper Award and a Best Student Paper Award will be presented. Only papers published in full length in the proceedings will be eligible for consideration.

One-Page Abstract Option

We offer the one-page abstract option to accommodate publishing norms in various fields where journals may decline to consider work that has appeared in preliminary form in conference proceedings. This allows authors of accepted papers to request that only a one-page abstract be included in the proceedings, accompanied by a URL linking to the full version of the paper. Authors should guarantee the URL to be reliable for at least two years. Even if authors choose the one-page abstract option for the proceedings, they must still submit the full paper as their initial submission to facilitate a comprehensive and rigorous review process.

Simultaneous Submission

The following submissions are not allowed:

  • Papers that are currently under review at another archival conference, with the only exception of FOCS 2025 (see “FOCS Submissions” above)
  • Papers that have been published or accepted for publication in a journal or archival conference before the WINE 2025 submission deadline
  • Papers in which one or more of the contributions have previously been published or accepted for publication in a journal or archival conference

Simultaneous submission of results to a journal is allowed only if the authors intend to publish the paper as a one-page abstract in WINE 2025. Papers that are accepted and appear as a one-page abstract may later be submitted to a journal, but may not be submitted to any other archival conference.

Forward to Journal

The list of participating journals will be finalized and announced in June 2025.

If the authors of a paper accepted to WINE 2025 wish to use the Forward-to-Journal option, they must choose to submit a one-page extended abstract by the camera-ready deadline for the conference proceedings. They may then submit their full journal version to the selected journal by January 23, 2026. The cover letter to the journal should specify that the submission is part of the WINE 2025 Forward-to-Journal process. The authors should also include a formal response document to the WINE 2025 conference reviews and explain how those reviews were addressed in the revised manuscript. In case the particular journal of choice needs a de-anonymized version of the conference reviews on the submission, WINE 2025 will provide them upon request by the journal. Note that a journal’s participation in the WINE 2025 Forward-to-Journal option does not mean that other forms of previous publication of the submission are acceptable for the journal.

The journal’s department editors and associate editors may use the conference reviews to inform their decision-making, in any manner deemed appropriate by the journal. We suspect that the associate editors might choose referees from the set of conference reviewers, especially if they found the conference reviews informative. We emphasize that the conference reviewers are not required to accept such review requests, and that journals are not required to accept these submissions (and may even choose to desk-reject them depending on fit).

Local Information

Main Venue

The main conference venue is the Rutgers University Inn and Conference Center. The address is 178 Ryders Lane, New Brunswick, NJ 08901, USA.

Transportation

Nearby major airports include
  • Newark Liberty International Airport (EWR), which is the closest
  • John F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK)
  • LaGuardia Airport (LGA)
  • Philadelphia International Airport (PHL)
  • Trenton–Mercer Airport (TTN)
The NJ Transit connects the EWR airport to the New Brunswick station, which is about 2.4 kilometers away from the main conference venue.

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