[This conference is encouraging papers on UIs for E-Commerce -- MAH]
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Announcement and Final Call for Papers:
ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce (EC-00)
17-20 October 2000
Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
(at the same time as OOPSLA)
sponsored by: ACM Special Interest Group on E-Commerce (SIGecom)
The second annual ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce (EC-00) will
feature invited talks, panel discussions, refereed paper presentations
and tutorials covering all areas of electronic commerce. The natural
focus of the conference is on issues that are computer scientific
in nature, but we seek also seek research relevant to those issues but
which draw in a significant way on economics, game theory, management,
law, and other disciplines. Topics within the scope of the conference
include but are not limited to:
Auction and negotiation technology
Automated shopping and trading
Commerce-oriented middleware services
Competitive strategies
Computational markets for information services
Content creation & management
Economic analysis
Formation of supply chains, coalitions, and virtual enterprises
Intellectual property license management
Languages for describing goods, services, and contracts
Legal issues
Marketing and advertising technology
Online transactions for community and non-profit services
Payment and exchange protocols
Privacy issues
Reputation and trust mechanisms and issues
Security and cryptographic issues, methods and applications
Social implications
Software requirements and architectures for e-commerce
User interface support for e-commerce
Visualization of market activity
SUBMISSIONS
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. Accepted papers will be presented at the
conference, and included in the published proceedings. Submissions may
be up to 6000 words, and may not have appeared before (or be pending)
in a journal or conference with published proceedings, nor may they be
under review or submitted to another forum during the EC-00 review
process. Electronic submissions (in PDF or postscript format) are
strongly preferred.
Authors are required to submit electronic title pages through our
automated submission site:
http://cmt.research.microsoft.com/EC00
by 21 April 2000. Full papers are due one week later, on 28 April
2000.
If you are interested in presenting a tutorial, please contact Pattie
Maes, mailto:[log in to unmask]
*REVISED* TIMETABLE
12 May 00: Electronic title pages due
19 May 00: Paper submissions due
8 Jul 00: Author notifications
22 Aug 00: Camera-ready copy due
17 Oct 00: Tutorials
18 Oct 00: Conference technical program begins
CONFERENCE OFFICIALS
General Chair: Anant Jhingran, IBM
Program Co-Chairs: Jeff MacKie-Mason, Univ Michigan
Doug Tygar, Univ California Berkeley
Tutorials Chair: Pattie Maes, MIT
Program Committee:
Mark Ackerman, Univ California Irvine
Ross Anderson, Univ Cambridge (UK)
Jack Breese, Microsoft
Karen Clay, Carnegie-Mellon Univ
Michael Froomkin, Univ Miami
Marti Hearst, Univ California Berkeley
Manoj Kumar, IBM
Larry Lessig, Harvard Univ
Pattie Maes, MIT
Paul Resnick, Univ Michigan
John Riedl, Univ Minnesota
Yoav Shoham, Stanford Univ
Gene Tsudik, Univ California Irvine
Michael Wellman, Univ Michigan
FURTHER INFORMATION
Inquiries and requests to join the mailing list for further information
may be directed to:
mailto:[log in to unmask]
The conference Web site, including this announcement, is available at:
www.ibm.com/iac/ec00.
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