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:
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
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
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
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
Security, Privacy, Encryption, and Digital Rights, including
- Intellectual property and digital rights management
- Digital payment systemsAuthentication
- Privacy-enhancing technologies
- Economics of information security and privacy
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.
