[UAI] CFP: ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce, Chicago, July 8-12, 2008 =============================================
CALL FOR PAPERS, WORKSHOPS, AND TUTORIALS
ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce (EC'08)
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July 8-12, 2008
Chicago, Illinois, USA
http://www.acm.org/sigs/sigecom/ec08

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
Ninth ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce (EC'08) 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:

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

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

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

Â· 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, viral marketing
     - Databases and data mining
     - Machine learning for e-commerce applications
     - Mobile and location-based services
     - Search and information retrieval for e-commerce

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

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

The conference will be held in Chicago from Tuesday July 8th through
Saturday July 12th.

Tutorials and workshops will be held on Tuesday July 8th and Wednesday
July 9th, 2008. Accepted technical papers and invited talks will be
presented from Thursday July 10th through Saturday July 12th, 2008.

This conference is scheduled immediately before the Game Theory
Society Congress being held in Evanston, Illinois and AAAI held in
Chicago, both July 14-17, 2008.

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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 to be considered for publication may be up to 10 pages
(including the bibliography), in 11-point font 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, nor may they be under review or submitted to
another forum during the EC'08 review process. All accepted
submissions will need to be migrated to the ACM format for the
proceedings.  Detailed 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 create dialog about the papers, and further improve the accuracy of
the decisions made, EC'08 will add an opportunity for authors to
respond to their reviewers. During this one week period, authors who
choose to do so may provide a brief response to the reviewers. The
reviews and responses will be considered in forming the final
acceptance decisions about papers.

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 not for
publication in the proceedings. These submissions need not conform to
the conference paper format. Abstracts of accepted working papers will
be included in the proceedings and must be coupled 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 PDF is required. Details on the submission
procedure will be made available on the main conference web page.

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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, 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.

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KEY DATES
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February 1, 2008: Electronic abstract due
Upload at http://www.acm.org/sigs/sigecom/ec08

February 7, 2008: Full electronic paper submissions due
Upload at http://www.acm.org/sigs/sigecom/ec08

February 15, 2008: Workshop and Tutorial proposals due
Send to: tu36-ywelfkhcc-fgwtu@acm.org and it30-shaqlnkx-bgsai@acm.org

March 15, 2008: Tutorial & workshop proposal accept/reject
notifications

March 25, 2008: Initial Reviews Returned
April 1, 2008: Responses from Authors Due
April 8, 2008: Paper accept/reject notifications
July 8-9, 2008: Conference Workshops and Tutorials, Chicago, IL, USA
July 10-12, 2008: Conference Technical Program, Chicago, IL, USA

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ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
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General Chair: Lance Fortnow, University of Chicago
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Program Chairs:
John Riedl, University of Minnesota
Tuomas Sandholm, Carnegie Mellon University
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Workshops Chair: Amin Saberi, Stanford University
tu36-ywelfkhcc-fgwtu@acm.org

Tutorials Chair: Yiling Chen, Yahoo! Research
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Local Arrangements:
Jason Hartline, Microsoft Research/Northwestern University
Nicole Immorlica, Northwestern University
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Webmaster: Daniel Reeves, Yahoo! Research
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Program Committee: TBA

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FURTHER INFORMATION
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More information and details are available at the conference web site:
http://www.acm.org/sigs/sigecom/ec08

General inquiries and requests pertaining to the conference should be
sent to: sl95-feagtxq-ynomc@acm.org

Inquiries and requests pertaining specifically to the program, and in
particular to paper submission and decision status, should be sent to:
bp66-xg-gnnsdj@acm.org

Inquiries and requests pertaining specifically to workshop and
tutorials should be sent to tu36-ywelfkhcc-fgwtu@acm.org and
it30-shaqlnkx-bgsai@acm.org respectively.


