Since 1999 the ACM Special Interest Group on Electronic Commerce (SIGecom) has sponsored the leading scientific conference on advances in theory, systems, and applications at the interface of economics and computation, including applications to electronic commerce.

The Nineteenth ACM Conference on Economics and Computation (EC'18) will feature invited speakers, paper presentations, workshops, tutorials, and poster sessions.

The conference will be held from Monday, June 18, 2018 through Friday, June 22, 2018 at Cornell in Ithaca, NY, USA. Accepted technical papers will be presented from June 19 through June 21; tutorials and workshops will be held on June 18 and June 22. Accepted papers will be available in the form in which they are published in the ACM Digital Library prior to the conference. AUTHORS TAKE NOTE: The official publication date is the date the proceedings are made available in the ACM Digital Library. This date may be up to two weeks prior to the first day of the conference. The official publication date affects the deadline for any patent filings related to published work.

The focus of the conference is research at the interface of economics and computation related to (but not limited to) the following three non-exclusive focus areas:

Theory and Foundations
Artificial Intelligence and Applied Game Theory
Experimental, Empirical, and Applications

Authors can designate a paper for one or two of these focus areas. The program committee includes Senior Program Committee (SPC) and Program Committee (PC) members that are experts in all three focus areas, to ensure appropriate review of papers.

EC publishes relevant papers on topics and methodologies that include:

MECHANISM DESIGN, including: algorithmic mechanism design, auctions, revenue maximization, pricing, resource allocation, matching, computational social choice
ECONOMIC AND STRATEGIC EQUILIBRIUM, including: equilibrium computation, price of anarchy, markets
INFORMATION ELICITATION AND GENERATION, including: incentive compatibility, prediction markets, recommender, reputation and trust systems, privacy
BEHAVIORAL MODELS, including: preference and decision theory, experiments, consumer search, econometrics
ONLINE BEHAVIOR AND SYSTEMS, including: machine learning, automated agents, trading agents, data mining, experience with e-commerce and systems, economics of the Cloud, social networks, crowdsourcing


Submissions should be made at http://www.sigecom.org/ec18/papers.html

The conference is soliciting full papers (as well as workshop and tutorial proposals; see below) on all aspects of research mentioned above. Submitted papers should clearly establish the research contribution, its relevance, and its relation to prior research. All submissions must be made in the appropriate format, and within a specified length limit; details and a LaTeX template can be found at the submission site. Additional pages beyond the length limit may be included as appendices, but will only be read at the discretion of the reviewers.

IMPORTANT NOTICE: To accommodate the publishing traditions of different fields, authors of accepted papers can ask that only a one-page abstract of the paper appear in the proceedings, along with a URL pointing to the full paper. Authors should guarantee the link to be reliable for at least two years. This option is available to accommodate subsequent publication in journals that would not consider results that have been published in preliminary form in a conference proceedings. Such papers must be submitted electronically and formatted just like papers submitted for full-text publication.

Simultaneous submissions of results to another conference with published proceedings is not allowed. Results previously published or presented at another archival conference prior to EC, or published (or submitted for publication) at a journal prior to the submission deadline to EC, will not be considered. Papers that are submitted with the intention to appear as a one page abstract, or accepted as a one page abstract can be subsequently submitted for publication in a journal, but may not be submitted to any other conference that has a published proceedings.

A separate call for posters will be announced later.

WORKSHOP AND TUTORIAL PROPOSALS We invite proposals for tutorials and workshops to be held in conjunction with the ACM Conference on Economics and Computation (ACM EC) in Ithaca, NY this June.

Tutorials:

Tutorials provide an opportunity to educate the community about emerging topics of interest, or about topics from related fields that merit additional attention from the EC community. Think of a tutorial as an opportunity to invite colleagues and young researchers to get excited about a well-defined topic, to prepare them to dive into the literature, and to guide them to the most exciting developments and open problems. Typically, tutorials run anywhere between two hours and a full day, and consist of a series of presentations by experts in the field.

Tutorial proposals should contain:

Tutorial proposals should be emailed to ec18-tutorials-chair@acm.org.

Workshops:

Workshops provide an opportunity to bring together researchers to discuss emerging areas of research in an informal forum. Workshop schedules should be designed to promote discussion and debate. A workshop may include invited talks, contributed talks, panel discussions, open problem sessions, presentations of work in progress, or any other activities that stimulate new ideas for research. It is up to the workshop organizers to determine the format and technical content of each workshop and to solicit contributions, but we encourage workshops that devote some time to contributed content.

Workshop proposals should contain:

Note that most EC workshops are full days, but for accepted workshops, the desired length will be honored as closely as possible.

We especially encourage submissions that bring together participants with diverse backgrounds and experience.

Workshop proposals should be emailed to ec18-workshops-chair@acm.org.


February 15, 2018, 11:59 PM PST: Full electronic paper submissions due. Please see http://www.sigecom.org/ec18/papers.html .
March 1, 2018: Workshop and tutorial proposals due.
March 5, 2018: Deadline for nominations for the SIGecom Test of Time Award.
March 15, 2018: Tutorial & workshop proposal accept/reject notifications
March 27, 2018: Reviews sent to authors for author feedback
March 29, 2018: Author responses due
April 20, 2018: Paper accept/reject notifications
June 18 and June 22, 2018: Conference workshops and tutorials
June 19-21, 2018: Conference technical program



ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

General Chair:
Eva Tardos, Cornell University
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Program Chairs:
Edith Elkind, University of Oxford
Rakesh Vohra, University of Pennsylvania
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Local Chair:
Robert Kleinberg, Cornell
David Easley, Cornell
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Workshop Chairs:
Scott Duke Kominers, Harvard Business School
Jenn Wortman Vaughan, Microsoft Research
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Tutorial Chairs:
Itai Ashlagi, Stanford University
Katrina Ligett, Hebrew University
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SENIOR PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Theory and Foundations:

Adam Wierman, California Institute of Technology
Adrian Vetta, McGill University
Jay Sethuraman, Columbia University
Thanh Nguyen, Purdue University
Brendan Lucier, Microsoft Research
Ramesh Johari, Stanford University
Eduardo Azevedo, University of Pennsylvania
Debasis Mishra, Indian Statistical Institute
Mohammad Mahdian, Google Research
Ben Golub, Harvard University
Ozan Candogan, University of Chicago
Azarakhsh Malekian, University of Toronto
Yaron Singer, Harvard University
Nicole Immorlica, Microsoft Research
Katrina Ligett, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
David Kempe, University of Southern California
Alex Slivkins, Microsoft Research
Martin Hoefer, Goethe University Frankfurt
Michal Feldman, Tel Aviv University
Moshe Babaioff, Microsoft Research
Grant Schoenebeck, University of Michigan

Artificial Intelligence and Applied Game Theory:

Ioannis Caragiannis, University of Patras
Haris Aziz, Data61
Vincent Conitzer, Duke University
Sanmay Das, Washington University in St. Louis
Sebastien Lahaie, Google Research
Evangelos Markakis, Athens University of Economics and Business
Tuomas Sandholm, Carnegie Mellon University
Sven Seuken, University of Zurich
Maria Polukarov, King's College London

Experimental, Empirical, and Applications:

Denis Nekipelov, University of Virginia
Eric Budish, University of Chicago
Sharad Goel, Stanford University
David Rothschild, Microsoft Research
David Manlove, University of Glasgow
Craig Boutilier, Google Research
Michael Bailey, Facebook Research
Nicolas Stier, Facebook Research