Third ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce

14 - 17 October 2001

Tampa, Florida, USA

Technical Program

Monday 15 October

8:45 welcome
9:00 Invited lecture: Al Roth
10:00 break
10:30 long-paper session (auctions)
Concurrent Auctions Across The Supply Chain
Moshe Babaioff (Hebrew University Jerusalem), Noam Nisan (Hebrew University Jerusalem)
On Approximating Optimal Auctions (extended abstract)
Amir Ronen (Stanford University)
Combinatorial Auctions with Decreasing Marginal Utilities
Daniel Lehmann (Hebrew University), Benny Lehmann (Digital Fuel), Noam Nisan (Hebrew University Jerusalem)
Accelerating Information Revelation in Ascending-Bid Auctions - Avoiding Last Minute Bidding -
Shigeo Matsubara (NTT Communication Science Laboratories)
12:30 lunch
2:00 long-paper session (mixed topics)
E-privacy in 2nd generation E-Commerce: privacy preferences versus actual behavior
Sarah Spiekermann (Humboldt University Berlin, Institute of Information Systems), Jens Grossklags (Humboldt University Berlin, Institute of Information Systems), Bettina Berendt (Humboldt University Berlin)
Concepts for Personal Location Privacy Policies
Einar Snekkenes (Norwegian Computing Center)
Forecasting Uncertain Events with Small Groups
Kay-Yut Chen (HP Labs), Leslie Fine (HP Labs), Bernardo Huberman (HP Labs)
Discovering Critical Edge Sequences in E-Commerce Catalogs
Debra VanderMeer (Georgia Institute of Technology), Kaushik Dutta (Georgia Institute of Technology), Anindya Datta (Georgia Institue of Technology), Krithi Ramamritham (Univ. Massachusetts and IIT-Bombay)
4:00 break
4:30 long-paper session (economic issues)
Endogenous Differentiation of Information Goods Under Uncertainty
Jeffrey MacKie-Mason (University of Michigan), Robert Gazzale (University of Michigan)
Escrow Services and Incentives in Peer-to-Peer Networks
Benny Pinkas (STAR Lab, Intertrust Technologies), Bill Horne (STAR Lab, Intertrust Technologies), Tomas Sander (STAR Lab, Intertrust Technologies)
Dynamic Pricing Strategies under a Finite Time Horizon
Joan Morris DiMicco (MIT Media Lab), Amy Greenwald (Brown University), Pattie Maes (MIT Media Lab)
7:00 Banquet

Tuesday 16 October

8:30 long-paper session (auctions)
Mechanism Design with Incomplete Languages
Amir Ronen (Stanford University)
RoxyBot: A Dynamic Bidding Agent for Simultaneous Auctions
Amy Greenwald (Brown University), Justin Boyan (ITA Software)
An Efficient Approximate Allocation Algorithm for Combinatorial Auctions
Edo Zurel (Hebrew University Jerusalem Israel), Noam Nisan (Hebrew University Jerusalem)
10:00 break
10:30 long-paper session (human-related issues)
First Impressions: The Influence of Different Communication Media on E-Commerce
Steve Greenspan (AT&T), Dave Weimer (AT&T), Andrea Basso (AT&T), David Goldberg (AT&T)
Q-Eval: Evaluating Multiple Attribute Items Using Queries
Vijay Iyengar (IBM Research), Jon Lee (IBM Research), Murray Campbell (IBM Research)
Computing and Using Reputations for Internet Ratings
Mao Chen (Department of Computer Science, Princeton University), Jaswinder Pal Singh (Department of Computer Science, Princeton University)
Recommending or Persuading? -- The Impact of a Shopping Agent's Algorithm on User Behavior
Gerald Häubl (University of Alberta), Kyle Murray (University of Alberta)
12:30 lunch
2:00 Invited lecture: Jeremy Bulow
3:00 long-paper session (economic issues)
Analyzing the economic efficiency of eBay-like online reputation reporting mechanisms
Chrysanthos Dellarocas (MIT Sloan School of Management)
Pricing Information Bundles in a Dynamic Environment
Jeffrey Kephart (IBM Research), Rajarshi Das (IBM T. J. Watson Research Center), Christopher Brooks (University of Michigan), Edmund Durfee (University of Michigan), Robert Gazzale (University of Michigan), Jeffrey MacKie-Mason (University of Michigan)
4:00 break
4:30 short-paper session
Classes of service under competition and technological change: A model for the dynamics of the Internet?
Daniel Lehmann (Hebrew University)
User Modelling for Live Help Systems: Initial Results
Johan Aberg (Linkopings Universitet), Nahid Shahmehri (Linkopings Universitet), Dennis Maciuszek (Technical University of Braunschweig)
DIR-XML^2 - Unambiguous Access to XML-based Business Documents in B2B E-Commerce
Christian Huemer (University of Vienna)
Competitive Market-based Allocation of Consumer Attention Space
Han La Poutre (CWI (National Research Institute for Mathematics and Computer Science)), Sander Bohte (CWI), Enrico Gerding (CWI, Amsterdam)
High-Performance Bidding Agents for the Continuous Double Auction
Rajarshi Das (IBM T. J. Watson Research Center), Gerald Tesauro (IBM Research)
Bid Determination in Simultaneous Auctions
Amy Greenwald (Brown University), R.M. Kirby (Brown University), Jon Reiter (Brown University), Justin Boyan (ITA Software)
5:30 Panel

Wednesday 17 October

8:30 long-paper session (QoS)
On Maximizing Service-Level-Agreement Profits
Zhen Liu (IBM T. J. Watson Research Center), Mark Squillante (IBM T. J. Watson Research Center), Joel Wolf (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center)
Preserving QoS of E-commerce Sites Through Self-Tuning: A Performance Model Approach
Daniel Menasce (George Mason University), Daniel Barbara (George Mason University), Ronald Dodge (George Mason University)
On The Quantification of eBusiness Capacity
Bikash Sabata (Peakstone Corporation), Moises Goldszmidt (Peakstone Corporation), Derek Palma (Peakstone Corporation)
10:00 break
10:30 short-paper session
Smoothing Out Demand for Network Resources
Kevin Leyton-Brown (Stanford University), Ryan Porter (Stanford University), Shobha Venkataraman (Stanford University), Balaji Prabhakar (Stanford University)
Adaptive Pricing that can Withstand Buyer Collusion of False-type-declaration
Shigeo Matsubara (NTT Communication Science Laboratories)
Approximation and Collusion in Multicast Cost Sharing
Joan Feigenbaum (Yale University), Arvind Krishnamurthy (Yale University), Rahul Sami (Yale University), Scott Shenker (International Computer Science Institute/ACIRI)
Preference Elicitation in Combinatorial Auctions
Wolfram Conen (Xonar GmbH), Tuomas Sandholm (Computer Science Department, Carnegie Mellon University)
Pricing Price Information in E-Commerce
Panos Markopoulos (University of Pennsylvania), Lyle Ungar (University of Pennsylvania)
Incentives in Peer-to-Peer File Sharing
Philippe Golle (Stanford University), Kevin Leyton-Brown (Stanford University), Ilya Mironov (Stanford University)
11:30 Invited lecture: Tom Leighton


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