ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce (EC'06)

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 releas