February 16, 1998

REGISTRATION

    10:10 am
    Welcome

• Andrew B. Whinston, Director of the CREC, Departments of Information Systems, Economics, and Computer Science. Professor Whinston is the Editor of the journals of Decision Support Systems and Organizational Computing and Electronic Commerce. He is also Co-Director of the International Center for Electronic Commerce. (Web Page: http://cism.bus.utexas.edu/abw/main.html)
• Anant Jhingran, IBM Watson Research Center
• George Kozmetsky, IC2 Institute
• Patrick Jaillet, MSIS Department
• R. Preston McAfee, Economics Department

    10:30am - 12:00am
    Economic Aspects of the Electronic Marketplace

• Electronic Markets: R. Preston McAfee, Chairman, Department of Economics, UT-Austin. Professor McAfee is Co-Editor of the American Economic Review and Associate Editor of the Journal of Economic Theory. His current research focuses on the theory of auctions and electronic markets. (Web Page: http://www.eco.utexas.edu/~mcafee/)
• EC Effects on Banking and Monetary System: Bruce Smith, Department of Economics, UT-Austin. Professor Smith's research areas include macroeconomics and monetary theory. Currently, he is investigating the continued use of checks and its effects on economy and monetary policy.
• Markets for Knowledge; Sulin Ba, University of Southern California.

LUNCH

    1:30pm - 3:00pm
    Digital Product Companies: Experimental Methods
    and Demonstration

• Experimental Methods in Electronic Commerce: Anitesh Barua, Department of MSIS, UT-Austin. Associate Director of the CREC. Professor Barua's research concerns a methodology to evaluate digital product companies. (Web Page: http://cism.bus.utexas.edu/barua/main.html)
• Implementation Issues in Building an Electronic Mall: Ramnath Chellappa, Department of Information and Operations Management, University of Southern California. Professor Chellappa's research centers on software implementation methods for digital product companies. (Web Page: http://www.usc.edu/dept/iom/)
• Demonstration of Electronic Malls and Review of Experiments

BREAK

    3:30pm - 4:30pm
    Keynote Address

• Research and Practice in Electronic Commerce (Tentative Title): Stuart Feldman, IBM Watson Research Center and Institute for Advanced Commerce.
   
  
  Stuart Feldman is a Fellow of the IEEE and a Fellow of the ACM, and has been a member of the Board of the Computing Research Association and chair of ACM SIGPLAN. After Bell Labs and Bellcore, he joined IBM in mid-1995, where he leads a department doing research in a wide variety of network-related technologies and application enablers, including parallel databases, content management and protection, e-commerce, system management, multimedia, and collaboration. He is also the Director of IBM's new Institute for Advanced Commerce, an organization created to accelerate creation of new technologies for support of advanced commerce through increased research and development, work and interactions with universities and other research organizations, and joint efforts with forward-looking companies.

February 17, Tuesday

BREAKFAST

    8:30am - 10:00am
    Electronic Markets

• Electronic Financial Clearing Systems: Sayee Srinivasan, Department of Economics, UT-Austin.
• Electronic Markets and Supply-Chain Management: Jan Stallaert, Department of MSIS, UT-Austin. Professor Stallaert focuses on the supply chain management and electronic markets.
• Demonstration of New Market Technology

BREAK

    10:30am - 12:00am
    Network Usage and Pricing

• Markets for Computational Resources: Architecture, Quality of Service, and Optimal Allocation Jakka Sairamesh, IBM Watson Research Center
• Real-Time Pricing of Highly Decentralized Networks: Dale O. Stahl, Department of Economics, UT-Austin. Professor Stahl's research areas include game theory and experimental economics. Currently, he focuses on pricing the Internet infrastructure. (Web Page: http://www.eco.utexas.edu/faculty_info/stahl.html)
• Efficient Multicasting with Pricing: Charging the Pushers Alok Gupta, Department of Operations and Information Management, University of Connecticut. Professor Gupta's research areas include infrastructure pricing and the issue of charging the "pushers" on the Internet. (Web Page: http://alok.sba.uconn.edu/)

LUNCH

    1:30pm - 3:00pm
    Digital Product Pricing: Product Choice,
    Bundling and Micropayments

• Product Pricing and Payment Systems: Hal Varian, Dean, School of Information Management Systems, U.C.-Berkeley. Dean Varian is one of the leading researchers in information economics and digital product pricing. (Web Page: http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/~hal)
• Pricing Personal Information: Soon-Yong Choi, Economist and Assistant Director of the CREC, UT-Austin. Dr. Choi is a coauthor of the CREC's new book "The Economics of Electronic Commerce," and will present his research on market-oriented solutions for Internet privacy. (Web Page: http://uts.cc.utexas.edu/~soon)
• Digital Content Pricing: Jeffrey MacKie-Mason, Department of Economics, School of Information, University of Michigan. Professor MacKie-Mason is one of the leading economists working on the economics of the Internet, computational markets and digital content pricing. (Web Page: http://www-personal.umich.edu/~jmm )

BREAK

    3:30pm - 4:30pm
    Research and Application to Industry Practices

• Industry Panel Discussion
   
  
  Anant Jhingran, IBM Watson Research Center
  Andy Greenawalt, V.P.& CIO, Dell Computers
  Mike Maples, Microsoft (to be confirmed)
  

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