Final reminder; submissions due December 6, 2005. ============================================= CALL FOR PAPERS, WORKSHOPS, AND TUTORIALS ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce (EC'06) =============================================
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. ================ 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 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/ =============================== 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, 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] ========= KEY DATES ========= 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 ==================== ORGANIZING COMMITTEE ==================== 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 =================== FURTHER INFORMATION =================== 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] _______________________________________________ uai mailing list uai@ENGR.ORST.EDU https://secure.engr.oregonstate.edu/mailman/listinfo/uai