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 2026 (https://wine2026conf.github.io/) will carry on this tradition, taking place on December 1–4, 2026, at University of Hong Kong. WINE 2026 will be an in-person event.
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Important Dates
- Paper submission deadline: July 2, 2026, Anywhere on Earth
- Rebuttal period: August 17-20, 2026
- Author notification: September 10, 2026
- Camera ready: September 30, 2026
- Early registration deadline: November 6, 2026, at 11:59 PM Hong Kong local time (HKT)
- Conference: December 1-4, 2026
News
Contacting Organizers
General chairs and local organizers can be reached at wine2026conf@outlook.com.
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 2026 (https://wine2026conf.github.io/) will carry on this tradition, taking place on December 1–4, 2026, at University of Hong Kong. WINE 2026 will be an in-person event.
The program will feature keynotes, 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:
- AI safety and alignment
- Auctions and pricing
- Automated market maker (AMM)
- Behavioral economics and behavioral modeling
- Blockchain governance and stakeholder voting
- Central bank digital currencies (CBDCs)
- Computational advertising
- Computational aspects of equilibria and solution concepts
- Computational social choice
- Coalitions, coordination, and collective action
- Decentralized finance (DeFi)
- Decision theory
- Economic and strategic aspects of machine learning models
- Fair division
- Game-theoretic analysis of blockchains and financial protocols
- 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 efficiency of equilibria
- 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 2, 2026, Anywhere on Earth
- Rebuttal period: August 17-20, 2026
- Author notification: September 10, 2026
- Camera ready: September 30, 2026
- Conference: December 1–4, 2026
FOCS, SAGT and AFT Submissions
Authors with submissions under review at FOCS 2026, SAGT 2026 and AFT 2026 may simultaneously submit the same work to WINE 2026. However, if a submission is accepted to those conferences, the authors must promptly withdraw the corresponding submission from WINE 2026. The scheduled notification date of FOCS 2026 is July 3, that of SAGT 2026 is July 9 and that of AFT 2026 is July 15.
Invited Talks
The program will feature keynote talks by
Michal Feldman,
Michael Jordan,
Tracy Xiao Liu, and
Ariel Procaccia.
The titles and abstracts of their talks will be announced later.
Submission Server
Submissions can be made here.
Submission Format
Authors are invited to submit papers presenting original research on any research topic related to WINE 2026.
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 the title page and 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, in an electronic version, and will be available for downloading 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 (in which case the authors may follow the font size and page margins of LNCS). More information about the LNCS format can be found on the author instructions page of Springer.
WINE 2026 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 wine2026chairs@gmail.com.
Rebuttal
The review process includes a rebuttal phase in August, giving authors the opportunity to address questions and concerns raised by the Program Committee.
License to Publish
The License to Publish can be found here.
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 should update their HotCRP account information to declare COIs with (Senior) Program Committee members.
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 2026 adopts the official ACM policy against plagiarism.
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. Up to 3 additional papers will be selected for Outstanding Paper Awards. In total, the awards represent roughly the top 5~7% of accepted papers.
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 2026, SAGT 2026 and AFT 2026 (see “FOCS, SAGT and AFT Submissions” above)
- Papers that have been published or accepted for publication in a journal or archival conference before the WINE 2026 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 2026. 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.
ACM TEAC Special Issue for WINE 2026
A special issue of ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation (ACM TEAC) will be organized in connection with WINE 2026. A selection of top papers presented at the conference will be invited to submit extended versions to the special issue, subject to the standard peer-review process of ACM TEAC. Further details will be communicated to the authors of invited papers in due course.
Forward to Journal
Our partner journals are:
If the authors of a paper accepted to WINE 2026 wish to use the Forward-to-Journal option, they may choose to submit a one-page extended abstract by the camera-ready deadline for the conference proceedings. They may then submit their journal version to the selected journal by January 22, 2027.Notice that most Econ, OR and MS journals only allow a one-page extended abstract at archival conferences, in order for the journal submission to be considered. The authors must follow the specific journal’s policy when using the Forward-to-Journal option.
The cover letter to the journal should specify that the submission is part of the WINE 2026 Forward-to-Journal process, and specify how the journal submission differs from the version in the conference proceedings. The authors should also include a formal response document to the WINE 2026 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 2026 will provide them upon request by the journal. Note that a journal’s participation in the WINE 2026 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).
Call for Tutorials
We invite you to submit proposals for tutorials at WINE 2026. Tutorials are planned to be held in person on December 1 as part of the conference program.
Tutorials provide a valuable opportunity to educate the community, especially younger scholars and researchers, about emerging research areas and topics that deserve greater attention. They offer a structured, formal setting to introduce colleagues to an area of interest. This year, while we welcome alternative formats (which should be described in your proposal), we recommend two possible options: (1) a two-hour session comprising two one-hour blocks of introductory material; or (2) a two-hour session with one hour of introductory material followed by a second hour featuring shorter talks that highlight recent research developments related to the tutorial content. In both cases, the two blocks would be separated by a short break (e.g., coffee break).
Tutorial proposals should be 2–3 pages long and contain:
- Title of the tutorial and brief (1–2 paragraph) abstract
- Keywords and sub-areas relevant to the WINE community
- Names, affiliations, contact information, and short biographies of the organizers
- Suggested format and duration of the tutorial
- Outline of the content
- Rationale for the tutorial (e.g., timeliness and goals)
- Target audience and required prior knowledge
- Other venues where a similar tutorial has been presented (if any)
- Any special accommodations required for the tutorial
Tutorial proposals should be emailed to wine26-tutorials@googlegroups.com. We look forward to reading your proposals!
Important Dates
- Deadline for submitting proposals: August 29, 2026
- Decision announcement: September 26, 2026
- Tutorials day: December 1, 2026
Tutorial Co-Chairs
- Yiding Feng, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
- Hanrui Zhang, Chinese University of Hong Kong
Contact:
wine26-tutorials@googlegroups.com
Graduating Bits
We are excited to continue hosting the Graduating Bits session, dedicated to graduating students and postdoctoral researchers, with priority given to those entering the job market this academic year. Held as a separate session, Graduating Bits will give each participant a few minutes to introduce themselves and present their research in a lightning-talk format. Our goal is to showcase the exciting work of the next generation of our community, highlight their contributions, and foster connections as they transition to the next stage of their careers. Participants need to register for the conference (or receive travel awards for registration waiver).
If you are interested in participating, please email wine2026conf@outlook.com with the subject line: Graduating Bits – [Your Name]. Please attach your CV and indicate whether you are entering the job market this academic year.
Registration
Please register for the 22nd Conference on Web and Internet Economics
(WINE 2026) using this link.
Important Warning: Fraudulent Travel and Hotel Emails
We have been informed that some authors have received unsolicited emails from reservation@gtravelhost.com requesting arrival and departure dates and offering hotel-booking services.
Please note that WINE 2026 has not appointed or authorized any travel agency, and this sender is not affiliated with the conference. Please do not reply, click any links, provide personal or payment information, or make reservations through this email.
Please rely only on information provided through the WINE 2026 official website and communications from the conference organizers. If you receive a similar message, please mark it as spam or phishing and delete it.
In-Person Presentation
At least one author of each accepted paper must register for the conference and present the paper in person at the conference in Hong Kong. Note that each paper must be covered by a separate full registration.
Travel Awards for Students and Postdoctoral Fellows
WINE 2026 will offer a limited number of registration waivers to students and postdocs short
on financial support. To apply, please email
wine2026conf@outlook.com
with the title “Travel Award Application” by October 31.
The email shall include a concise description of your name and affiliation, whether you will
be presenting an accepted paper or at the Graduating Bits, and a declaration from your advisor
(for PhD students and postdocs) or your department administration (for other students).
We will contact applicants about the results in early November, before the early-bird deadline.
Early Registration Deadline
Early registration deadline:
November 6, 2026, at 11:59 PM Hong Kong local time (HKT).
Late registration rates apply after this deadline.
Registration Rates
|
Student |
Regular |
| Early Registration |
2,800 HKD |
4,000 HKD |
| Late Registration |
3,500 HKD |
5,000 HKD |
