About SING

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". From then on meetings took place almost annually called "Convegno di Teoria dei Giochi ed Applicazioni": in Pavia (1984, organised by Pierangelo Mori and Fioravante Patrone), Florence (1986, 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.

SING: the joint venture
In 2000, Federico Valenciano organised GAMES 2000, the first Meeting of the Game Theory Society in Bilbao. During this conference, Fioravante Patrone took the initiative of setting up a "joint venture" between Italy and Spain, suggesting meetings be held alternately in Italy and Spain. The agreement on this idea by the researchers involved led to the meetings in Ischia (2001), Sevilla (2002), Urbino (2003) and Elche (2004). During the meeting in Urbino, the Netherlands asked to join the Italian-Spanish allternating agreement and so SING (Spanish-Italian-Netherlands Game Theory Meeting) was set up. The first Dutch edition was organised by Hans Peters in Maastricht from 24th to 26th June 2005; the subsequent meetings are shown in the table below. 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. As a result, the following countries acted as guest organisers: Poland in 2008 (Wrocław, organised by Jacek Mercik), France in 2011 (Paris, Michel Grabisch) and Hungary in 2012 (Budapest, László Kóczy). Poland was the guest organiser for the second time in 2014 (Kraków, Izabella Stach) and now become 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 also involved the 9th International Conference on Game Theory and Management (GTM2015). The 2016 edition is scheduled to take place in Odense (DK), organized by Peter Sudhölter. Paris Dauphine (with Stefano Moretti) and Bayreuth (with Frank Steffen) are candidates for the following meetings.

A Synthesis of the Joint Venture