THE SIXTH ACM CONFERENCE ON ELECTRONIC COMMERCE (EC-05)

Registration now Open!
See Accepted Papers, Workshops, Tutorials, below.

June 5-8, 2005, Vancouver, Canada
http://www.acm.org/ec05

Registration is now open for ACM EC-05!  Early registration ends May
16th, so sign up now at:
        http://www.acm.org/sigs/sigecom/ec05/registrations.shtml

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.  Below
is the schedule for the 4 tutorials, 1 workshop, and 32 papers
accepted for ACM EC-05.  For additional information, please visit:
        http://www.acm.org/ec05.

This year, ACM EC-05 will be held from Sunday, June 5 through
Wednesday, June 8, 2005 at the Vancouver Marriott Pinnacle resort, a
first-class hotel located downtown in the stunning city of Vancouver,
Canada. For more information about the conference surroundings, visit
Vancouver's tourism Web site:
        http://www.tourismvancouver.com


Tutorials
        http://www.acm.org/sigs/sigecom/ec05/tutorials.shtml

Sun, Jun 5, 2005 - Morning

1) Optimal Mechanism Design without Priors - Jason Hartline
2) Trading Agent Design and Analysis - Michael P. Wellman

Sun, Jun 5, 2005 - Afternoon (two one-hour talks)

1) Polynomial Time Algorithms for Market Equilibria
   - Kamal Jain and Vijay Vazirani
2) Algorithms for Combinatorial Auctions and Exchanges
   - Tuomas Sandholm


Workshop
        http://research.yahoo.com/~pennockd/ext/ssa/

Sun, Jun 5 2005 - All Day

Workshop on Sponsored Search Auctions - David Pennock and Kursad Asdemir

Final program

MONDAY
08:30 - 10:10

Ranking Systems: The PageRank Axioms
Alon Altman, Moshe Tennenholtz

Weak monotonicity suffices for truthfulness on convex domains
Michael Saks, Lan Yu

Marginal Contribution Nets: A Compact Representation Scheme for
Coalitional Games
Samuel Ieong, Yoav Shoham

Cost Sharing in a Job Scheduling Problem Using the Shapley Value
Debasis Mishra, Bharath Rangarajan

10:10 - 10:40: BREAK

10:40 - 12:20

Interconnected Communication Networks Provisioned Selfishly
Pedro Ferreira, Marvin Sirbu

Hidden-Action in Multi-Hop Routing
Michal Feldman, John Chuang, Ion Stoica, Scott Shenker

Content Availability, Pollution and Poisoning in Peer-to-Peer File
Sharing Networks
Nicolas Christin, Andreas Weigend, John Chuang

A Price-Anticipating Resource Allocation Mechanism for Distributed
Shared Clusters
Michal Feldman, Kevin Lai, Li Zhang

12:20 - 02:00: LUNCH

02:00 - 03:00     Invited Speaker: Ehud Kalai, Northwestern University

03:00 - 03:30: BREAK

03:30 - 05:10

Nearly Optimal Multi Attribute Auctions
Amir Ronen, Daniel Lehmann

Optimal Design of English Auctions with Discrete bid Levels
Esther David, Alex Rogers, Nicholas Jennings, Jeremy Schiff, Sarit Kraus

Robust Solutions for Combinatorial Auctions
Alan Holland, Barry O'Sullivan

Online Auctions with Re-usable Goods
MohammadTaghi Hajiaghayi, Robert D. Kleinberg, Mohammad Mahdian, David 
Parkes

TUESDAY

08:30 - 10:10

First-Price Path Auctions
Nicole Immorlica, David Karger, Evdokia Nikolova, Rahul Sami

 From Optimal Limited to Unlimited Supply Auctions
Robert McGrew, Jason Hartline

True Costs of Cheap Labor Are Hard To Measure: Edge Deletion and VCG
Payments in Graphs
Edith Elkind

Multi-unit auctions with budget-constrained bidders
Christian Borgs, Jennifer Chayes, Nicole Immorlica, Mohammad Mahdian,
Amin Saberi

10:10 - 10:40: BREAK

10:40 - 12:20

Graceful Service Degradation (or, How to Know your Payment is Late)
Alexandr Andoni, Jessica Staddon

Privacy-Preserving Credit Checking
Keith Frikken, Mikhail Atallah, Chen Zhang

Dynamic and Secure B2B E-contract Update Management
Samuil Angelov, Sven Till, Paul Grefen

Secure Distributed Human Computation
Craig Gentry, Zulfikar Ramzan, Stuart Stubblebine

12:20 - 02:00: LUNCH

02:00 - 03:00     Invited Talk: Jennifer Rexford, Princeton University

03:00 - 03:30: BREAK

03:30 - 05:10

Communication Complexity of Common Voting Protocols
Vincent Conitzer, Tuomas Sandholm

On the Computational Power of Iterative Auctions: Demand Queries and
Ascending Auctions
Liad Blumrosen, Noam Nisan

Fairness and Optimality in Congestion Games
Deeparnab Chakrabarty, Aranyak Mehta, Viswanath Nagarajan, Vijay Vazirani

Congestion Games with Failures
Maria Polukarov, Michal Penn, Moshe Tennenholtz

WEDNESDAY

08:30 - 10:10

ICE: An Iterative Combinatorial Exchange
David Parkes, Ruggiero Cavallo, Nick Elprin, Adam Juda, Sebastien
Lahaie, Benjamin Lubin, Loizos Michael, Jeffrey Shneidman, Hassan
Sultan

Self-Selection, Salvaging, Slacking, and Stoning: the Impacts of
Negative Feedback at eBay
Tapan Khopkar, Xin Li, Paul Resnick

Information Markets vs. Opinion Pools: An Empirical Comparison
Yiling Chen, Chao-Hsien Chu, Tracy Mullen, David Pennock

Integrating Tradeoff Support in Product Search Tools for E-Commerce Sites
Pearl Pu, Li Chen

10:10 - 10:40: BREAK

10:40 - 11:55

Complexity of (Iterated) Dominance
Vincent Conitzer, Tuomas Sandholm

On Decentralized Incentive Compatible Mechanisms for Partially
Informed Environments
Ahuva Mu'alem

Towards Truthful Mechanisms for Binary Demand Games: A General Framework
MingYang Kao, XiangYang Li, WeiZhao Wang