EC 2009

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========================================================= CALL FOR PAPERS, WORKSHOPS, AND TUTORIALS Tenth ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce (EC'09)

July 6-10, 2009 Stanford, California, USA http://www.acm.org/sigs/sigecom/ec09/

Since 1999 the ACM Special Interest Group on Electronic Commerce (SIGecom) has sponsored the leading scientific conference on advances in theory, systems, and applications for electronic commerce. The Tenth ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce (EC'09) will feature invited speakers, paper presentations, workshops, and tutorials covering all areas of electronic commerce.

The natural focus of the conference is on computer science issues, but the conference is interdisciplinary in nature, addressing research related to (but not limited to) the following topics:

o Prediction/information markets o Experience with e-commerce systems and markets o Economic approaches to spam control o Pricing for quality of service o Web analysis and characterization for e-commerce o Open access publishing o User contributed content o Economics of online textual content o Behavioral and experimental economics related to e-commerce
 * Applications and Empirical Studies, including

o Computational aspects of economics, game theory, finance, and voting o Automated mechanism design, including computational pricing o Algorithmic mechanism design o Auction and negotiation technology o Formation of supply chains, coalitions, and virtual enterprises o Agency and contract theory in e-commerce o Game-theoretic aspects of network formation on the Internet o Preferences and decision theory o Economics of information
 * Theory and Foundations, including

o Peer-to-peer, grid, and other open distributed systems o Mobile commerce o Software and systems requirements, architectures, and performance o Languages for describing agents, goods, services, and contracts
 * Architectures and Languages, including

o AI and autonomous agent systems in e-commerce o Automated shopping, trading, and contract management o Recommendation, reputation, and trust systems o Advertising and marketing technology o Sponsored web search, viral marketing o Databases and data mining o Machine learning for e-commerce applications o Mobile and location-based services o Search and information retrieval for e-commerce
 * Automation, Personalization, and Targeting, including

o Intellectual property and digital rights management o Digital payment systems o Authentication o Privacy-enhancing technologies o Economics of information security and privacy
 * Security, Privacy, Encryption, and Digital Rights, including

o Usability of e-commerce systems o Human factors in security and privacy o Human factors in agents and mechanism design for e-commerce o Legal, policy, and social issues
 * Social factors, including

The conference will be held from Monday July 6th through Friday July 10th in the Frances C. Arrillaga Alumni Center at Stanford University, Palo Alto, Calfornia. Tutorials and workshops will be held on Monday July 6th and Wednesday July 7th, 2009. Accepted technical papers and invited talks will be presented from Wednesday July 8th through Friday July 10th, 2009. This conference is co-located with the TARK XII conference (Theoretical Aspects of Rationality and Knowledge) at Stanford on July 6-8, 2009.

PAPER SUBMISSION

The conference is soliciting full papers (as well as workshop and tutorial proposals; see below) on all aspects of electronic commerce. Submitted papers will be evaluated on significance, originality, technical quality, and exposition. They should clearly establish the research contribution, its relevance to electronic commerce, and its relation to prior research. Submissions to be considered for publication in the archival ACM proceedings may be up to 10 pages (including the bibliography), in 10-point font, double-column format, with reasonable margins and interline spacing. Additional details may be included in appendices beyond the 10 page limit but will only be read at the discretion of the reviewers. These submissions must not have appeared before (or be pending to appear) in a journal or conference with published proceedings. All accepted submissions will need to be migrated to the publisher's format/macros for the proceedings. Instructions will be given by the publisher after the paper is accepted. Accepted papers will be presented at the conference in one of two formats: (1) a long oral presentation or (2) a short oral presentation coupled with placement in a poster session. Presentation format will be chosen by the program committee with the goal of encouraging breadth and diversity among oral presentations. Presentation format will have no bearing on how papers appear in the archival conference proceedings: all accepted papers will be allotted 10 pages in the proceedings. To accommodate the publishing traditions of different fields, authors may instead submit working papers that are under review or nearly ready for journal review. These submissions will be subject to review and considered for presentation at the conference but only a one page abstract will appear in the proceedings with a URL that points to the full paper and that will be reliable for at least two years. Open access is preferred although the paper can be hosted by a publisher who takes copyright and limits access, as long as there is a link to the location. Electronic submission in is required. Details on the submission procedure will be made available on the main conference web page.

WORKSHOP AND TUTORIAL PROPOSALS

The conference is soliciting proposals for tutorials and workshops to be held in conjunction with the conference. Tutorial proposals should contain the title of the tutorial, a two-page description of the topic matter, the names and short biographies of the tutor(s), and dates/venues where earlier versions of the tutorial were given (if any). Workshop proposals should contain the title of the workshop, the names and short biographies of the organizers, and the names of confirmed or candidate participants. Workshop proposals should also include a two-page description describing the theme, the reviewing process for participants, the organization of the workshop, and required facilities for the workshop. Informal suggestions for workshop or tutorial ideas can also be sent without a full proposal to the workshop and tutorial chairs at any time. Submission information can be found on the conference website.

KEY DATES

o February 9, 2009: Full electronic paper submissions due o Upload at http://www.acm.org/sigs/sigecom/ec09/ o February 13, 2009: Workshop and Tutorial proposals due o Send to: ec09-workshops-chair@acm.org and ec09-tutorial-chair@acm.org. o March 13, 2009: Tutorial & workshop proposal accept/reject notifications o March 27, 2009: Initial Reviews Returned o April 3, 2009: Responses from Authors Returned o April 10, 2009: Paper Accept/Reject Notifications o July 6-7, 2009: Conference Workshops and Tutorials, Stanford, CA, USA o July 8-10, 2009: Conference Technical Program, Stanford, CA, USA

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

General Chair: John Chuang, University of California at Berkeley

Program Chairs: Lance Fortnow, Northwestern University and Pearl Pu, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne

Workshop Chair: Mohammad Mahdian, Yahoo! Research

Tutorial Chair: Vincent Conitzer, Duke University

Local Arrangements: Gagan Aggarwal, Google, Ashish Goel, Stanford University and Suzanne Bigas, Stanford Computer Forum

Program Committee: TBD

FURTHER INFORMATION

More information and details are available at the conference web site: http://www.acm.org/sigs/sigecom/ec09

General inquiries and requests pertaining to the conference should be sent to: ec09-general-chair@acm.org

Inquiries and requests pertaining specifically to the program, and in particular to paper submission and decision status, should be sent to: ec09-pc-chairs@acm.org

Inquiries and requests pertaining specifically to workshop and tutorials should be sent to ec09-workshops-chair@acm.org and ec09-tutorial-chair@acm.org respectively. This CfP was obtained from WikiCFP