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Call for Papers: The First Conference on Auctions, Market Mechanisms and Their
Applications (AMMA 2009)
May 8-9, Boston, USA
www.ammaconference.org
SCOPE
The conference seeks papers devoted to issues that arise in all stages
of deploying a market mechanism to solve a problem. This includes, but
is not limited to, theoretical and empirical examination of questions
such as:
* Is a market the right mechanism for the problem? What are the
externalities involved? What are the issues with central planning?
* How should novel markets be organized? What is the "right"
micro-structure for a given problem?
* What is the best way to provide incentives? Is (real) money
necessary?
* Will the use of markets lead to the creation of artificial
economies (cf. the recent bank run in Second Life) and what can we
say about these economies?
* What new problems arise because of the special nature of these
markets (e.g., from everyone wanting to use a cluster around the
time of a conference deadline)?
* What protocols need to be in place for agents to participate in
such markets (including everything from practical matters like
integrating bidding protocols into the system to theoretical
questions like incentive compatibility)?
* Is there a need for new mechanisms for specific applications
(e.g., auctions used in sponsored search were never used in other
settings)? If so, what properties of applications warrant such
mechanisms?
In addition to more traditional academic papers, we are also interested
in experiences from the real world (case studies and new applications).
Below are some potential areas, but the list is simply illustrative
rather than exhaustive---we welcome papers in all areas of market design.
Sample areas include:
* Content delivery networks
* Resource allocation in networks and distributed computing
* Sponsored search auctions
* Prediction markets
* Allocation of landing slots in congested airports
* Road pricing
* Student-school matching
* Kidney exchanges
* Combinatorial auctions
PAPERS
In order to accommodate people from different disciplinary traditions,
papers may be submitted in two tracks:
1. An archival track: papers will be considered for both presentation
and publication in the conference proceedings. Some papers will be
selected for oral presentation and some for poster presentation,
and both sets will be published together in the proceedings.
Papers submitted in the archival track must conform to the layout
specifications and page limits. Proceedings will be published by
Springer.
2. A non-archival track: working papers in any format will be
considered for oral presentation in the conference.
Authors can choose which track they are submitting to on the submission
website. All papers should be submitted through the conference website.
IMPORTANT DATES
Full Papers due: Oct 31, 2008
Notification of Acceptance: Dec 15, 2008
Camera-ready Manuscripts due: Jan 31, 2009
Conference Dates: May 8-9, 2009 (Boston)
SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS
Please visit the Submission page on the conference web page for detailed
submission requirements and procedures.
STEERING COMMITTEE
Imrich Chlamtac, University of Trento and Create-Net
Peter Coles, Harvard Business School
Vincent Conitzer, Duke University
Sanmay Das, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Michael Ostrovsky, Stanford GSB
David Pennock, Yahoo! Research
Boleslaw Szymanski, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
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