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ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce (EC-99)
November 3-5, 1999
Denver, Colorado, USA
(at the same time as OOPSLA)

Sponsored by: ACM Special Interest Group on E-commerce (SIGecomm)
with financial support from the IBM Institute for Advanced Commerce



ACM EC-99 PRELIMINARY PROGRAM:
(times and schedule items subject to change)
(panel and invited talk topics to be finalized shortly)

Wednesday 3 November
9:00 Welcome and Introduction to the program Michael Wellman, ACM EC-99 Program Chair
9:10 Welcome and Introduce keynote speaker Stuart Feldman, ACM EC-99 Conference Chair
9:20 Keynote address: Elliot Maxwell, US Dept of Commerce Emerging Policy Issues for Electronic Commerce
10:15 Break
10:45 Paper Session 1: Privacy and Security
12:25 Lunch
2:00 Paper Session 2: User Interfaces
3:15 Break
3:45 Panel Discussion 1: Topic TBA
5:00 adjourn

Thursday 4 November
9:00 Paper Session 3: Network Pricing and QoS
10:15 Break
10:45 Paper Session 4: Auctions
12:25 Lunch
2:00 Panel Discussion 2: Topic TBA
3:15 Break
3:45 Paper Session 5: Middleware
5:00 Invited Talk
6:00 adjourn

Friday 5 November
9:00 Paper Session 6: Pricing and Contracting
10:45 Break
11:15 Panel Discussion 3: Electronic Commerce: Where are we as a field of research?
12:40 End of Conference

SESSIONS:
 
Privacy and Security
Huberman et al.: Xerox PARC Enhancing privacy and trust in electronic communities
Ackerman et al.: UCI/ATT/MIT Privacy in e-commerce: Examining user scenarios and privacy preferences
Matsuyama, Fujimura: NTT Distributed digital-ticket management for rights trading system
Briscoe, Fairman BT Labs Nark: Receiver-based multicast non-repudiation and key management

User Interfaces
Bryan, Gershman: Andersen Opportunistic exploration of large consumer product spaces
Herzberg, Mass: IBM Haifa VR commerce: Electronic commerce in virtual reality
Singh et al.: Ericsson/NCSU E-commerce over communicators: Challenges and solutions for user interfaces

Network Pricing and QoS
Cieliebak, Liver: IBM Zurich How many QoS classes are optimal?
Odlyzko: ATT Paris Metro Pricing for the Internet
Altmann et al.: UC Berkeley Internet demand under different pricing schemes

Auctions
Parkes: U Penn iBundle: An efficient ascending price bundle auction
Naor et al.: Weizmann Privacy preserving auctions and mechanism design
Lehmann et al.: Stanford Truth revelation in rapid, approximately efficient combinatorial auctions
Segev, Beam: UC Berkeley Brokering strategies in electronic commerce markets

Middleware
Jacobsen et al.: Humboldt Middleware for software leasing over the Internet
Menasce et al.: GMU/MG A methodology for workload characterization of e-commerce sites
Schafer et al.: U Minn Recommender systems in e-commerce

Pricing and Contracting
Grosof et al.: IBM NY A declarative approach to business rules in contracts: Courteous logic programs in XML
Braynov, Sandholm: Wash U - Contracting with uncertain level of trust
Brooks et al.: U Mich/IBM Automated strategy searches in an electronic goods market: Learning and complex price schedules
Greenwald et al.: IBM NY Strategic pricebot dynamics


FURTHER INFORMATION
Inquiries and requests to join the mailing list for further information may be directed to: ec99.info@umich.edu