DAC '09 2009 - DAC '09: The 46th Annual Design Automation Conference 2009

CALLFORPAPERS, WORKSHOPS, ANDTUTORIALS
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 Tenth ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce (EC'09) 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.
The conference will be held from Monday July 6 through Friday July 10 in the Frances C. Arrillaga
Alumni Center at Stanford University, Palo Alto, Calfornia. Tutorials and workshops will be held on
Monday July 6th and Tuesday July 7th, 2009. Accepted technical papers and invited talks will be
presented from Wednesday July 8th through Friday July 10th, 2009. This conference is co-located with
the TARK XII conference (Theoretical Aspects of Rationality and Knowledge) at Stanford on July 6-8,
2009.
Applications and Empirical Studies, including
o Prediction/information markets
o Experience with e-commerce systems and
markets
o Economic approaches to spam control
o Pricing for quality of service
o Web analysis and characterization for
e-commerce
o Open access publishing
o User contributed content
o Economics of online textual content
o Behavioral and experimental economics related
to e-commerce
Theory and Foundations, including
o Computational aspects of economics, game
theory, finance, and voting
o Automated mechanism design, including
computational pricing
o Algorithmic mechanism design
o Auction and negotiation technology
o Formation of supply chains, coalitions, and virtual
enterprises
o Agency and contract theory in e-commerce
o Game-theoretic aspects of network formation
on the Internet
o Preferences and decision theory
o Economics of information
Architectures and Languages, including
o Peer-to-peer, grid, and other open distributed
systems
o Mobile commerce
o Software and systems requirements, architectures,
and performance
o Languages for describing agents, goods, services,
and contracts
TOPICS
Automation, Personalization, and Targeting,
including
o AI and autonomous agent systems in
e-commerce
o Automated shopping, trading, and contract
management
o Recommendation, reputation, and trust systems
o Advertising and marketing technology
o Sponsored web search, viral marketing
o Databases and data mining
o Machine learning for e-commerce applications
o Mobile and location-based services
o Search and information retrieval for e-commerce
Security, Privacy, Encryption, and Digital
Rights, including
o Intellectual property and digital rights management
o Digital payment systems
o Authentication
oPrivacy-enhancing technologies
o Economics of information security and privacy
Social factors, including
o Usability of e-commerce systems
o Human factors in security and privacy
o Human factors in agents and mechanism design
for e-commerce
o Legal, policy, and social issues
(including, but not limited to)
o February 9, 2009: Full electronic paper
submissions due
o February 13, 2009: Workshop and Tutorial
proposals due
o March 13, 2009: Tutorial & workshop proposal
accept/reject notifications
o March 27, 2009: Initial Reviews Returned
o April 3, 2009: Responses from Authors
Returned
o April 10, 2009: Paper Accept/Reject
Notifications
o July 6-7, 2009: Conference Workshops and
Tutorials, Palo Alto, California, USA
o July 8-10, 2009: Conference Technical
Program, Palo Alto, California, USA
KEYDATES
COMMITTEE
General Chair:
John Chuang, University of California at Berkeley
Program Chairs:
Lance Fortnow, Northwestern University
Pearl Pu, Ecole Polytechnique F¨¦d¨¦rale Lausanne
Workshop Chair:
Mohammad Mahdian, Yahoo! Research
Tutorial Chair:
Vincent Conitzer, Duke University
Local Arrangements:
Gagan Aggarwal, Google
Ashish Goel, Stanford University
Suzanne Bigas, Stanford Computer Forum
General Inquiries:
ec09-general-chair-AT-acm.org
Upcoming Website:
http://www.acm.org/sigs/sigecom/ec09
ACM CONFERENCE ON ELECTRONIC COMMERCE
July 6-10, 2009 | STANFORD, CALIFORNIA