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CALL FOR PAPERS, WORKSHOPS, AND TUTORIALS
ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce (EC'06)
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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.


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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 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 postscript format is required. We are
using the electronic submission system of Microsoft Research. The
submission site is:

http://msrcmt.research.microsoft.com/ACMEC2006/


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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, 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 ec06-tutwork@....


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KEY DATES
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December 6, 2005: Electronic paper submissions due
Submit to:
http://msrcmt.research.microsoft.com/ACMEC2006/

January 6, 2006: Tutorial & workshop proposals due
Send to: ec06-tutwork@...

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


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ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
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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

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FURTHER INFORMATION
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More information and details are available on the conference web site:

http://stiet.si.umich.edu/ec06/

General inquiries and requests pertaining to the conference should be
sent to:

ec06-general@...

Inquiries and requests pertaining specifically to the program, and in
particular to paper submission and decision status, should be sent to:

ec06-program@...

Inquiries and requests pertaining specifically to workshop and
tutorials should be sent to:

ec06-tutwork@...