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“ecom”: Electronic Commerce sigecom

“ecom”: Electronic Commerce http://www.sigecom.org Founded 1999 by Stuart Feldman; Elected officers, 2003 250 members Main activities: EC Conference, Exchanges Newsletter, (new) ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation Fund balance: $210K (required: $19K).

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“ecom”: Electronic Commerce sigecom

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  1. “ecom”: Electronic Commercehttp://www.sigecom.org • Founded 1999 by Stuart Feldman; Elected officers, 2003 • 250 members • Main activities: EC Conference, Exchanges Newsletter, (new) ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation • Fund balance: $210K (required: $19K) …dedicated to the advancement of electronic commerce, principles and practice. As the leading computing-centric professional organization in the field, SIGecom seeks to promote the informed development of commerce automation technology, employing the best available engineering methods and economic understanding.

  2. ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce 1999- Premier forum for CS researchon commerce and economics

  3. SIGecom Finances Annual Conference averaging a surplus of $19,000 to SIG since 2004 * Estimated **after SIG overhead

  4. SIG Exchanges newsletter Published 2-3/year since 2000 Original research, conf reports, book reviews, surveys Continued rejuvenation under Yiling Chen 2010+; Publishing timely and topical surveys from area leaders; Editor’s puzzle. New editor: Ariel Procaccia Past Editors: Yiling Chen, Vincent Conitzer, William Walsh, Amy Greenwald, Peter Wurman TEAC and Exchanges • ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation • Launched August, 2011 • EiCs: Vince Conitzer (Duke) and Preston McAfee (Google) • 42+ unique submissions, 9 accepted

  5. SIGecom activities • New award proposals (“test of time”, best dissertation, best paper and best student paper) • In-cooperation events: • RecSys’09-13, WINE 12, SAGT 10-11, AMMA’11 • Supported events: CAEC, CAOSS, BAGT, NYCE … • Annual conference: • Embracing breadth (1.5 tracks, short abstracts, posters) • Inter-disciplinary: co-locate with Decentralization in 2014 • Workshops: 5@Ad auctions; 4@NetEcon, 2@UGC • Challenges: • Membership at 250, was 326 in 2009 • Ensuring relevance to breadth of “econ + CS” research (more than just theory)

  6. SIGecom Officers Chair: David Parkes (Harvard) Vice: Tim Roughgarden (Stanford) Treas: YilingChen (Harvard) Info director: Felix Fischer (Cambr.) EC’13, Philadelphia 6/16-20 General: M. Kearns (Penn) Program: P. McAfee (Google), E. Tardos (Cornell) ACM TEAC EiCs: V Conitzer (Duke), P McAfee (Google) SIGecomExchanges Editor: A Procaccia (CMU) Upcoming young leaders Nicole Immorlica, Yiling Chen, Moshe Babaioff, ShuchiChawla, ArpitaGhosh, CostisDaskalakis, Aaron Roth, Jason Hartline,… Past Conference Officials: S Feldman (IBM) M Wellman (U Michigan) A Jhingran (IBM) J MacKie-Mason (U Mich) D Tygar (UC Berkeley) Y Shoham (Stanford) D Menascé (GMU) N Nisan (Hebrew U) J Breese (Microsoft) J Feigenbaum (Yale) M Seltzer (Harvard) J Riedl (U Minnesota) M Kearns (U Penn) M Reiter (CMU) SIGecom Volunteers • J Chuang (UC Berkeley) • D Pennock (Yahoo!) • D Parkes (Harvard) • P Resnick (U Michigan) • L Fortnow (Northwestern) • T Sandholm (CMU) • P Pu (EPFL) • C Dellarocas (BU) • M Tennenholtz (Technion) • T Roughgarden (Stanford) • Y Chen (Michigan) • B Faltings (EPFL) • K Leyton-Brown (UBC) • P Ipeirotis (NYU)

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