Society sponsor:

ACM Special Interest Group on E-Commerce (SIGecom)

In conjunction with:

13^th International World Wide Web Conference: WWW2004

Conference Web Site:

http://research.microsoft.com/acmec04

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 fifth ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce (EC'04) will feature paper presentations, brief announcements, 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 the following topics:

*          Algorithmic mechanism design

*          Auction and negotiation technology

*          Automated shopping, trading, and contract management

*          Computational markets for information services

*          Databases and online transaction processing

*          Economic and game-theoretic analysis

*          Experience with fielded electronic-commerce systems

*          Formation of supply chains, coalitions, and virtual enterprises

*          Intellectual property and digital rights management

*          Languages for describing goods, services, and contracts

*          Legal, political, and social issues

*          Marketing and advertising technology

*          Payment and exchange protocols

*          Recommendation, reputation, and trust systems

*          Security and privacy issues in electronic commerce

*          Software and systems requirements, architectures, and performance

*          User-interface issues in electronic commerce

The conference will be held simultaneously and co-located with the 13^th International World Wide Web Conference 2004 at the Sheraton Hotel in New York City, New York, USA. Tutorials will be held on May 17^th, and the conference will start on May 18^th and end on May 20^th .

 PAPER SUBMISSION

 The conference is soliciting papers, brief announcements, and tutorial proposals on all aspects of electronic commerce listed above. Submitted papers and brief announcements 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 full papers will be presented at the conference, and allotted 10 pages in the published conference proceedings. Submissions may be up to 10 pages (not including bibliography and appendices, in at least 10pt font with reasonable margins), 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'04 review process.

Accepted brief announcements will be presented at the conference (in shorter presentations than those for full papers) and will be allotted 2 pages in the published conference proceedings.  Submissions may be up to 3 pages (including everything, in at least 10pt font with reasonable margins), and may overlap with papers appearing in or submitted to journals or other conferences.  Brief announcements that do overlap other papers should so indicate on the first page of the submission.  It is the responsibility of the authors of these brief-announcement submissions to verify that such overlap is not prohibited by the journal or other conference in question. The program committee may also choose to provide some authors of rejected full-paper submissions with the option of contributing brief announcements.

Electronic submissions (in PDF or postscript format) are strongly preferred. We are using the electronic submission system of Microsoft Research; authors are asked to initially submit titles and abstracts, and then the full papers or brief announcements, through this system. The submission site is: http://msrcmt.research.microsoft.com/ec04/.

TUTORIALS

Submit your tutorial proposals containing the title of the tutorial, a two-page description of the topic matter, name and short bio of the speakers, and proposed duration to David Parkes [ec04-tutorials@eecs.harvard.edu ]. See Call for Tutorial Proposals (http://research.microsoft.com/acmec04/cftp.htm)  for more information.  Tutorial proposals are due November 17^th, 2003.

KEY DATES

November 7, 2003: Paper and brief announcement submissions due

November 17, 2003: Tutorial proposal submissions due

January 9, 2004: Tutorial notifications

January 30, 2004: Paper and brief announcement accept/reject notifications

March 10, 2004: Paper and brief announcement electronic camera-ready copy due

April 26, 2004: Tutorial electronic notes due

CONFERENCE OFFICIALS

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Ross Anderson (Cambridge University, UK)

Yair Bartal (Hebrew University, Israel)

Martin Bichler (Technical University of Munich, Germany)

Aaron Brown (IBM , USA)

Chris Dellarocas (MIT, USA)

Joan Feigenbaum (Co-chair, Yale University, USA)

Amos Fiat (Tel Aviv University, Israel)

Lance Fortnow (University of Chicago, USA)

Nick Jennings (University of Southampton, UK)

Michael Littman (Rutgers University, USA)

Mark Manasse (Microsoft, USA)

Moni Naor (Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel)

David Pennock (Overture, USA)

Mema Roussopoulos (Harvard University, USA)

Margo Seltzer (Co-chair, Harvard University, USA)

Subhash Suri (UC Santa Barbara, USA)

Jim Waldo (Sun Microsystems, USA )

Tim van Zandt (Insead , France)

FURTHER INFORMATION

General inquiries and requests pertaining to the conference should be sent to:

ec04-general@eecs.harvard.edu

Inquiries and requests pertaining specifically to the program, and in particular to paper submission and decision status, should be sent to:

ec04-program@eecs.harvard.edu

Inquiries and requests pertaining specifically to the tutorial program should be sent to:

ec04-tutorials@eecs.harvard.edu