Final reminder; submissions due December 6, 2005.

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            CALL FOR PAPERS, WORKSHOPS, AND TUTORIALS
          ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce (EC'06)
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                      June 11-15, 2006
          University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
               http://stiet.si.umich.edu/ec06/

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
Seventh ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce (EC'06) 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:

* Theory and Foundations,
   including
      - Computational aspects of economics, game theory, finance, and voting
      - Algorithmic mechanism design
      - Auction and negotiation technology
      - Formation of supply chains, coalitions, and virtual enterprises
      - Economics of information
      - Agency and contract theory in e-commerce
      - Preferences and decision theory

* Languages,
   including
      - Markup languages and semantic web
      - Languages for describing agents, goods, services, and contracts 

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

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

* Applications and Empirical Studies,
   including
      - Peer-to-peer, grid, and other open distributed systems
      - Mobile commerce
      - Economic approaches to spam control
      - Pricing for quality of service
      - Web analysis and characterization for e-commerce
      - Search and information retrieval for e-commerce
      - Web services
      - Online business models
      - Software and systems requirements, architectures, and performance
      - Experience with e-commerce systems and markets
      - Prediction/information markets
      - Behavioral economics; Empirical and laboratory experiments

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

The conference will be held from Sunday June 11th through Thursday
June 15th, 2006 at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan,
USA.

Tutorials and workshops will be held on Sunday June 11th and Monday
June 12th, 2006. Accepted technical papers and invited talks will be
presented from Tuesday June 13th through Thursday June 15th, 2006.
More detailed program and schedule information will be released as it
develops.


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PAPER SUBMISSION
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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 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.

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 published conference
proceedings.

All accepted submissions will need to be migrated to the publisher's
format/macros for the proceedings. Submissions must not have appeared
before (or be pending to appear) in a journal or conference with
published proceedings, nor may they be under review or submitted to
another forum during the EC'06 review process.

Electronic submission in PDF or Microsoft Word DOC format is
required. We are using the electronic submission system of Microsoft
Research. The submission site is:

https://msrcmt.research.microsoft.com/ACMEC2006/


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WORKSHOP AND TUTORIAL PROPOSALS
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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, and the names and short biographies of the
speakers. 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. Tutorial and workshop proposals
should be sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED]


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KEY DATES
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December 6, 2005:  Electronic paper submissions due;
                    Submit PDF or Microsoft Word Document to:
                    https://msrcmt.research.microsoft.com/ACMEC2006/

January 6, 2006:   Tutorial & workshop proposals due
                    Send to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

February 3, 2006:  Tutorial & workshop proposal accept/reject notifications
February 17, 2006: Paper accept/reject notifications
March 1, 2006:     Paper electronic camera-ready copy due

Before May 11, 2006:   Early registration
On/after May 12, 2006: Normal registration

June 11-12, 2006:  Conference Workshops and Tutorials, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
June 13-15, 2006:  Conference Technical Program, Ann Arbor, MI, USA


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ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
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General Chair:      Joan Feigenbaum, Yale University

Program Chairs:     John Chuang, University of California Berkeley
                     David M. Pennock, Yahoo! Research

Workshop Chair:     David Parkes, Harvard University
Tutorial Chair:     Kevin Leyton-Brown, University of British Columbia

Local Arrangements: Michael Wellman, University of Michigan
                     Jeffrey K. Mackie-Mason, University of Michigan

Program Committee:  Alessandro Acquisti, Carnegie Mellon University
                     Lada Adamic, University of Michigan
                     Ross Anderson, University of Cambridge
                     Kursad Asdemir, University of Alberta
                     Yan Chen, University of Michigan
                     Nicolas Christin, Carnegie Mellon University
                     Chris Dellarocas, University of Maryland
                     Rachna Dhamija, Harvard University
                     Jane Feng, University of Florida
                     Leslie Fine, HP Labs
                     Lance Fortnow, University of Chicago
                     Ian Foster, Argonne National Lab & University of 
Chicago
                     Eric Friedman, Cornell University
                     Lee Giles, Pennsylvania State University
                     Ashish Goel, Stanford University
                     Andrew Goldberg, Microsoft Research
                     Joshua Goodman, Microsoft Research
                     Oliver Gunther, Humboldt-Universitat zu Berlin
                     Jason Hartline, Microsoft Research
                     Edith Hemaspaandra, Rochester Institute of Technology
                     Jon Herlocker, Oregon State University
                     Teck-Hua Ho, University of California Berkeley
                     Kartik Hosanagar, University of Pennsylvania
                     Anna Karlin, University of Washington
                     Kevin Lai, HP Labs
                     Kate Larson, University of Waterloo
                     Ron Lavi, California Institute of Technology
                     John Ledyard, California Institute of Technology
                     Vangelis Markakis, University of Toronto
                     Chris Meek, Microsoft Research
                     Daniel Menasce, George Mason University
                     Noam Nisan, Hebrew University
                     Eugene Nudelman, Stanford University
                     Amir Ronen, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
                     Amin Saberi, Stanford University
                     Rahul Sami, University of Michigan
                     Tuomas Sandholm, Carnegie Mellon University
                     Rakesh Vohra, Northwestern University
                     Alma Whitten, Google
                     Makoto Yokoo, Kyushu University


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FURTHER INFORMATION
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More information and details are available at the conference web site:

http://stiet.si.umich.edu/ec06/

General inquiries and requests pertaining to the conference should be
sent to:

[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Inquiries and requests pertaining specifically to the program, and in
particular to paper submission and decision status, should be sent to:

[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Inquiries and requests pertaining specifically to workshop and
tutorials should be sent to:

[EMAIL PROTECTED]

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