We would greatly appreciate it if you could contribute and share this CFP with your colleagues who may be interested.

Private ownership of infrastructures does not seem to solve the traditional problems of the Tragedy of Commons: pollution (spam and bot networks on social media), over-exhaustion of resources (net neutrality), and fairness (gig economy). Privatization of digital commons also introduces the potential for monopolistic abuse, such as stifled innovation, price discrimination, and distorted market knowledge discovery. This workshop aims to explore viable alternatives to 'winner-takes-all' platform ecosystems. Failure of market mechanisms to address these issues suggests that such infrastructures could be treated as commons. We recognize the promising avenue of research built on Nobel laureate Ostrom's idea that commons is the third way to organize complex human cooperation beyond capitalist regulation or governmental regulations.

Scientific challenges include, but are not limited to: the Tragedy of the Commons in shared-resource systems, fake identities with Sybil attacks, robot economy, trustworthiness in general, self-organizing machine learning, market infrastructures in cashless society, and governance issues in decentralized systems.

This workshop focuses on tools, frameworks, and algorithms for supporting the common good in a distributed environment. Both theoretical work and experimental approaches are welcomed. Reproducibility, open source, and public datasets are endorsed.

Scope:

The topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Distributed algorithms
• Trust and reputation systems
• Fault tolerance
• Decentralized machine learning
• Self-sovereign identity
• Peer-to-peer networks
• Solutions to the tragedy of the commons
• Decentralized markets, mechanism design
• Incentives for participants
• Fairness in market systems
• Decentralized governance
• Local-first Software
• Collaborative Systems

Important Dates:

• Paper submissions: March 10, 2025 (AOE)
• Notification of acceptance: April 2, 2025 (AOE)
• Camera-ready version: April 16, 2025 (AOE)
• Workshop: July 20, 2025

Submission Guidelines:

All paper submissions should follow the IEEE 8.5" x 11" two-column format using 10pt fonts and the IEEE Conference template (downloadable by selecting "Conferences" in the IEEE-Template Selector. Each submission can have up to seven (7) pages (including figures, tables, appendices, and references). All submitted papers will be judged through single-blind reviewing.

Please submit your manuscripts at https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=icdcsw2025.

All accepted papers will appear in an ICDCS 2025 companion proceedings, which will be available in the IEEE Digital Library prior to the workshop. At least one of the authors will have to register for the workshop and present the paper.