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

Tutorials

• Foundations of Electronic Marketplaces
• Recommender Systems in E-Commerce: How Collaborative Filtering is Helping Business Serve Customers Better

• Scaling for E-Business: technologies, models, performance
• Mobile E-Commerce: Challenges and Solutions