About SING
The SING history
The history of SING dates back to the beginning of the 1980s with the first
meetings held in Italy.
Then, subsequently, meetings were added in Spain,
the Netherlands
and Poland.
Italy
The first time the Italian researchers joined together for a meeting on
Game Theory was due to the initiative of the mathematician Gianfranco Gambarelli and the economist Michele Grillo.
On the 12th October 1983,
a working day was held in Bergamo
entitled: "A discussion between economists and mathematicians: recent
contributions of Game Theory to Economics". One year later, Pierangelo Mori and Fioravante Patrone organized in Pavia (December 14 and 15) the
first meeting under the name that would last for a long time: "Convegno di Teoria
dei Giochi ed Applicazioni", called the "second
meeting" to acknowledge the relevance of the “working day” held in Bergamo
the year before. From then on meetings took place almost annually with the
name "Convegno di Teoria dei Giochi
ed Applicazioni": Florence (1986, organised by Andrea Battinelli),
again Bergamo (1987, Gianfranco Gambarelli),
Cagliari (1988, Andrea Battinelli), Modena 1989
(Gianni Ricci), Florence (1991, Piero Tani), Pisa (1992, Giacomo Costa), Genoa
(1993, Fausto Mignanego and Fioravante Patrone),
Siena (1995, Stefano Vannucci), Bergamo (1996,
Gianfranco Gambarelli), Milan
(1997, Michele Polo and Mario Gilli), Genoa (1998, Fioravante Patrone) and Bologna (1999, Elettra
Agliardi). After this date, the
conferences began to form part of the joint venture described later.
Spain
The first Spanish Meeting on Game Theory was organised in 1994 in Bilbao by Federico Valenciano and
Jose Zarzuelo. This was followed by meetings in
Santiago de Compostela (1996, organised by Ignacio García Jurado), Barcelona
(1998, Carles Rafels) and Valencia
(2000, Amparo Urbano).
During the world meeting on Game Theory Society, organised in 2000 in Bilbao by Federico Valenciano, the idea arose of a joint venture that will be
discussed later.
The Netherlands
There is no tradition of organising Dutch Game Theory conferences. Before
the SING joint venture only periodic seminars and impromptu conferences were
held. As far as seminars are concerned, monthly ones were organised by Stef Tijs in Nijmegen at the beginning of the
1980s; others followed in Tilburg
under the responsibility of Peter Borm. Again in Tilburg,
a monthly seminar has been held since the mid 1980s on the closely related area
of social choice organised by Ton Storcken, Ad van Deemen, and Harrie de Swart.
Several workshops on cooperative game theory have been organised by Gerard van der Laan and René van den Brink
in Amsterdam and by Theo Driessen in Enschede.
Regarding conferences, in 1996 the Third International Meeting of the Society
for Social Choice and Welfare was organised in Maastricht
by Hans Peters and Ton Storcken. In 1998, the 8th
International Symposium on Dynamic Games and Applications was organised in
Maastricht-Va by Frank Thuijsman
and Koos Vrieze. The first
conference on Logic, Game Theory and Social Choice (LGS1) was organised in
Tilburg-Oisterwijk by Harrie
de Swart in 1999. In 2002, Peter Borm c.s. organised a Game Theory conference on the occasion of Stef Tijs' 65th birthday in Tilburg.
Poland
While some of the pioneering works in Game Theory
are due to Polish mathematicians such as Hugo Steinhaus
and Jan Mycielski, no national meeting on this area
was ever established in Poland.
Since the 1970s the groups working on Game Theory and related topics in Warzaw and Wrocław
held regular seminars that used to be rather interdisciplinary. In 2004 Andrzej Wieczorek organised an
international conference in Game Theory and mathematical economics in Warzaw, and in 2008 the 13th International Symposium of
Dynamic Games was organised by Andrzej Nowak in Wrocław just after SING4.
SING: the joint venture
In 2000 Federico Valenciano organized in Bilbao GAMES 2000, the first Meeting of the Game Theory
Society. During this conference Fioravante Patrone,
director of the Italian CITG, took the initiative of looking for a "joint
venture" between Italy
and Spain,
suggesting the alternation of Italian and Spanish meetings. The agreement of
this idea by the involved researchers lead to the meetings of Ischia (2001), Sevilla
(2002), Urbino (2003) and Elche (2004).
During the Meeting of Urbino the idea of The
Netherlands as a “new entry” into the Italian-Spanish alternation, proposed by Patrone, was eagerly approved. The first edition of
SING (Spanish-Italian-Netherlands Game Theory Meeting) was organized by Hans
Peters in Maastricht from 24 to 26 June 2005. Andrea di Liddo organized the second
edition, SING2, in Foggia.
Juan Tejada organized SING3 in Madrid
in 2007. It was then agreed that other European countries wishing to enter the
rota had to participate first as guest organisers and only after a second
participation in this role could they then actually join SING. In 2008 the
conference was organized outside one of the three SING countries for the first
time: Jacek Mercik
organized SING4 in Wroclaw. In 2009
SING5 was held in Amsterdam,
organized by René van der Brink. In 2010 SING6 has
been organized in Palermo by Dario Bauso. The following two years the conference is again
outside the SING countries: in 2011 Michel Grabisch
organized SING7 in Paris; in 2012 László Á. Kóczy organized SING8
in Budapest. SING9 was organized respectively in Vigo in 2013 by Gustavo Bergantińos. Poland
was the guest organiser for the second time in 2014 (Kraków,
organized by Izabella Stach)
for SING10 and Poland
became an actual member of SING. In 2014, a decision has been made not to
change the acronym, in view of the fact that it has become well-known, but to
transform the name of the meetings from 2015 on to “SING - European Meeting on
Game Theory”. In 2015, the SING11 Meeting taken place
in St. Petersburg, organised by
Leon Petrosyan. The 2015 edition (SING11) also
involved the 9th International Conference on Game Theory and Management
(GTM2015). The 2016 edition (SING12) took place in Odense, Denmark,
organized by Peter Sudhölter. The 2017 edition
(SING13) is planned to take place in Paris Dauphine
(organized by Stefano Moretti). Bayreuth
(with Frank Steffen) is candidate for the following meeting.
A Synthesis of the Joint Venture
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Year
|
Name
|
Location
|
Organiser
|
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2001
|
Italy/Spain 1
|
Ischia
|
Jacqueline Morgan
|
|
2002
|
Italy/Spain 2
|
Sevilla
|
Jesús Mario Bilbao, Francisco
Fernández
|
|
2003
|
Italy/Spain 3
|
Urbino
|
Gian Italo Bischi
|
|
2004
|
Italy/Spain 4
|
Elche
|
Joaquín Sánchez Soriano
|
|
2005
|
SING 1
|
Maastricht
|
Hans Peters
|
|
2006
|
SING 2
|
Foggia
|
Andrea Di Liddo
|
|
2007
|
SING 3
|
Madrid
|
Juan Tejada
|
|
2008
|
SING 4
|
Wrocław
|
Jacek Mercik
|
|
2009
|
SING 5
|
Amsterdam
|
René Van den Brink
|
|
2010
|
SING 6
|
Palermo
|
Dario Bauso
|
|
2011
|
SING 7
|
Paris
|
Michel Grabish
|
|
2012
|
SING 8
|
Budapest
|
László Kóczy
|
|
2013
|
SING 9
|
Vigo
|
Gustavo Bergantińos
|
|
2014
|
SING 10
|
Kraków
|
Izabella Stach
|
|
2015
|
SING 11
|
St. Petersburg
|
Leon Petrosyan
|
|
2016
|
SING 12
|
Odense
|
Peter Sudhölter
|