The 1st International Electronic Conference on Games
The 1st International Electronic Conference on Games
Event's Timezone: Central European Summer Time
17th June 2025
18th August 2025
13th October 2025
Algorithmic and computational game theory, Experimental Game Theory, Applied Game Theory, Learning and Evolution in Games, Cooperative and Non-Cooperative Game Theory
Annoucements
What's NEW
Instead of a live poster session, all IECGA 2025 participants have the opportunity to upload and display their poster at the poster gallery on the conference website.
Please click HERE for more instructions on poster and oral submissions.
We look forward to receiving your abstracts at the IECGA 2025
Abstract Submission Deadline: 17 June 2025
Abstract acceptance notification: 18 August 2025
Submit your abstracts here:
https://sciforum.net/user/submission/create/1120
Welcome from the Chair
Dear Colleagues,
We are pleased to announce the 1st International Electronic Conference on Games (IECGA 2025), which will occur virtually over two days, from 15 to 16 October 2025.
This conference will focus on the following four sessions:
1. Algorithmic, Computational and Applied Game Theory
2. Behavioral, Experimental, and Cooperative Game Theory and Bargaining
3. Learning, Evolution, Market Design and Auctions
4. Non-Cooperative and General Game Theory
The 1st International Electronic Conference on Games is sponsored by MDPI and the scientific journal Games (ISSN 2073-4336). Games is a scholarly, peer-reviewed, open access journal of studies on game theory and its applications published bimonthly online by MDPI.
This event will be held online fully, allowing participants from all over the world to participate without concerns on travel and related expenditures. This conference format is particularly appropriate and useful because research concerned with games is progressing rapidly. An electronic conference provides a platform for rapid and direct exchanges about the latest research findings and novel ideas.
Participation, as well as the "attendance" of this online conference, is free. Participants will have the opportunity to examine, explore and critically engage with issues and advances in these areas. We hope to facilitate discussions and exchange within the community.
Accepted abstracts will be published in the Proceedings Journal (ISSN: 2504-3900). Outstanding contributions from each session will have the chance to be selected for oral presentations and may be eligible for conference awards.
Moreover, instead of limiting presentations to a live poster session, all IECGA 2025 participants have the opportunity to upload and display their research in the form of a poster at the poster gallery on the conference website. Therefore, all participants with poster submissions at the poster gallery are now eligible for awards! Please click HERE for more instructions on poster and oral submissions.
We hope the community will share in this enthusiasm and help make the 1st International Electronic Conference on Games, a success!
Kind Regards,
Prof. Kjell Hausken
Chair of the 1st International Electronic Conference on Games
Event Chair
Kjell Hausken is a professor of economics and societal safety at the University of Stavanger, Norway, since 1999. He holds a PhD from the University of Chicago (1990-1994), was a postdoc at the Max Planck Institute for the Studies of Societies (Cologne) 1995-1998, and a visiting scholar at Yale School of Management 1989-1990. He has published 280 articles, various books, is/was on the Editorial Board for Theory and Decision (May 20, 2007 -), Games (February 21, 2021-), Reliability Engineering & System Safety (January 17, 2012 -), and Defence and Peace Economics (December 4, 2007 - December 31, 2015) and has advised seven PhD students.
Session Chairs
Dr. Isamu Okada
Soka University, Japan
Dr. Okada has research interests and experience in the field of evolutionary game, evolution of cooperation, social dilemmas, indirect reciprocity, punishments and rewards.
Dr. Tatsuya Sasaki
Koriyama Women's University, Japan
Tatsuya graduated from Osaka University in Japan in 1996 with a master's degree in natural science, supervised by Kazuhiro Konno (complex algebraic geometry). Following graduation, he joined Okazaki Shinkin Bank, where he focused on risk management. From 2004 to 2009, Tatsuya pursued a PhD in information systems science at Soka University (Tokyo, Japan) under the supervision of Tatsuo Unemi. During his doctoral studies, he conducted numerical and analytical research on the evolution of cooperation, earning his doctorate in the spring of 2010. In 2009, Tatsuya joined the Evolution and Ecology Program at IIASA (Laxenburg, Austria). He transitioned to the Institute of Mathematics at the University of Vienna (Vienna, Austria) in 2012. In June 2017, after completing his FWF program on the joint evolution of indirect reciprocity and voluntary participation, he returned to Japan to take a position at F-Power Inc. (Tokyo), where he worked in risk management and business planning. In spring 2022, Tatsuya moved to the Department of Community Development at Koriyama Women's University (Koriyama, Japan), where he is researching the evolution of cooperation using evolutionary game theory and teaching information literacy and data science.
Prof. Konstantinos Serfes
Drexel University, USA
Professor Konstantinos Serfes is a Professor of Economics in the School of Economics at LeBow College of Business at Drexel University. Prof. Serfes is also a Visiting Scholar at the Consumer Finance Institute of the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia and a Member of the Board of Directors at the Athens University of Economics and Business. His areas of specialization include Industrial Organization, Competition Policy, Game Theory, Microeconomics and Financial Economics.
Prof. Marco A. Marini
Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
The distinguished Prof. Marco Marini is currently Editor-in-chief of Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics. He is also in the Editorial Board of Games and Ciriec Journal of Public, Social and Cooperative Economics. Prof. Marini is also in the Board of Directors of the Edgard Milhaud Foundation, a member of the Scientific Committee of CIRIEC International for Social Economics, Program Chair of the Oligo Workshop, Faculty President of the Assurance Quality Office, Sapienza and Fellow of the Game Theory Society, European Economic Association for Industrial Economics and Società Italiana degli Economisti. His research research applies game-theoretic models to investigate microeconomics, I.O., public economics, environmental and development economics issues.
Registration
Registration for IECGA 2025 will be free of charge! The registration includes attendance at all conference sessions.
When registering with several people under the same registration, please do not use the same email address for each person, but their individual university email addresses. Thank you for your understanding.
Please note that abstract submission and registration are two different processes. Only those who have registered will receive a link to access the conference live streaming. The deadline for registration is 13 October 2025.
Instructions for Authors
The 1st International Electronic Conference on Games will accept abstracts only. The accepted abstracts will be available online on Sciforum.net during and after the conference.
Submit your abstracts HERE
1. Deadline for abstract submission: 17 June 2025.
2. Abstract acceptance notification: 18 August 2025.
You will be notified of the acceptance of an oral/poster presentation in a separate email.
Abstract submissions should be completed online by registering with www.sciforum.net and using the "New Submission" function once logged into the system. No physical template is necessary.
1. The structure abstract should include the introduction, methods, results, and conclusions sections of about 150–300 words in length.
2. All accepted abstracts will be published as one dedicated volume in MDPI’s Proceedings series journals (ISSN: 2504-3900) after quality check. If you wish to publish a research article in the journal, please refer to the “Publication Opportunities” Section.
3. All abstracts should be submitted and presented in clear, publication-ready English with accurate grammar and spelling.
4. You may submit multiple abstracts. However, only one abstract will be selected for oral presentation.
5. The abstracts submitted to this conference must be original and novel, without prior publication in any journals or it will not be accepted to this conference.
1. The submitting author must ensure that all co-authors are aware of the contents of the abstract.
2. Please select only one presenter for each submission. If you would like to change the presenter after submission, please email us accordingly.
Note: We only accept live presentations.
The slot for the oral presentation is 15 mins. We advise that your presentation lasts for a maximum of 12 mins, leaving at least 3 mins for the Q&A session.
Authors are encouraged to prepare a presentation in PowerPoint or similar software.
To recognize the research contributions of participants, we are very pleased to announce that instead of limiting poster presentations to a live poster session, all participants have the opportunity to upload and display their research in the form of a poster at the Poster Gallery on the conference website.
Benefits of submitting to our poster gallery
Unlike a live poster session, the poster gallery would be ‘LIVE’ throughout and available for viewing during and permanently after the event:
i) Showcase your research to an international audience
This provides an excellent opportunity for participants to publicize and be recognized by a broader international audience for their research.
ii) Award and Poster Certificate Opportunities
All participants with poster submissions are now eligible for the Best Poster Award, where winners of outstanding poster submissions will receive a certificate and 200 CHF! Moreover, All participants with poster submissions to the poster gallery are also entitled to obtain a poster participation certificate in recognition of their contributions.
All authors with accepted submissions who wish to display a poster in the gallery are invited to email it to iecga2025@mdpi.com. Please be advised that all successfully submitted posters will be permanently displayed online in the poster gallery.
Poster Preparation Guide:
a. Your submission should include the title, authors, contact details, and main research findings, as well as tables, figures, and graphs where necessary.
b. File format: PDF (.pdf).
c. Size in cm: 60 width x 80 height–portrait orientation.
d. Font size: ≥20.
e. Maximum size: 250 M and update the size of your PPT template into 60*80 cm.
Examples of successful submissions can be viewed here at the following links: (1), (2), (3)
You can use our free template to create your poster. The poster template can be downloaded here.
It is the authors' responsibility to identify and declare any personal circumstances or interests that may be perceived as inappropriately influencing the representation or interpretation of clinical research. If there is no conflict, please state "The authors declare no conflicts of interest." This should be conveyed in a separate "Conflict of Interest" statement preceding the "Acknowledgments" and "References" sections at the end of the manuscript. Any financial support for the study must be fully disclosed in the "Acknowledgments" section.
MDPI, the publisher of the Sciforum.net platform, is an open access publisher. We believe authors should retain the copyright to their scholarly works. Hence, by submitting an abstract to this conference, you retain the copyright to the work, but you grant MDPI the non-exclusive right to publish this abstract online on the Sciforum.net platform. This means you can easily submit your full paper (with the abstract) to any scientific journal at a later stage and transfer the copyright to its publisher if required.
Publication Opportunities
Proceedings Paper Publication
You are welcome to submit a proceeding paper (3-6 pages) to the Proceedings Journal (ISSN: 2504-3900), after the conference. Proceedings papers must be prepared in MS Word or LaTeX template and should be converted into PDF format prior to submission. Publication of the proceedings will be free of charge.
Authors are asked to disclose that it is a proceeding paper of the IECGA 2025 conference paper in their cover letter. Carefully read the rules outlined in the 'Instructions for Authors' on the journal’s website and ensure that your submission adheres to these guidelines.
Manuscripts for the proceedings issue must be formatted as follows:
-Title.
-Full author names.
-Affiliations (including full postal address) and authors' e-mail addresses.
-Abstract.
-Keywords.
-Introduction.
-Methods.
-Results and Discussion.
-Conclusions.
-Acknowledgements.
-References.
The deadline for submission of proceeding paper: 30 November 2025
Games Journal Publication
Participants in this conference are cordially invited to contribute a full manuscript to the Special Issue, Selected Papers from The 1st International Electronic Conference on Games, published in Games (ISSN 2073-4336, Impact Factor: 0.6), with a 10% discount on the Article Processing Charges (APC). Please note that if you have IOAP/association discounts, conference discounts will be combined with IOAP/association discounts. Conference discounts cannot be combined with reviewer vouchers. All submitted papers will undergo MDPI’s standard peer-review procedure. The abstracts should be cited and noted on the first page of the paper.
Event Awards
To acknowledge the support of the conference's esteemed authors and recognize their outstanding accomplishments in research, we are pleased to announce that the conference will provide 6 awards, across two categories; the Best Oral Presentation Award and Best Poster Award.
There will be six winners selected for these two categories of award. Each winner will receive a certificate and 200 CHF each.
The Awards
Number of Awards Available: 6
The Best Oral Presentation Awards are given for the Presentations judged to have made the most significant contribution at the conference.
The Best Poster Awards are given for the Posters judged to have made the most significant contribution at the conference.
Sponsors and Partners
For information regarding sponsorship and exhibition opportunities, please click here.
Organizers
Media Partners
Conference Secretaries
Mr. Benjamin Tay
Ms. Susie Huang
Email: iecga2025@mdpi.com
For inquiries regarding submissions and sponsorship opportunities, please feel free to contact us.
