david pennock sdfbizteyahooinccom call papers workshops tutorials acm conference electronic commerce ec08 july 812 2008 chicago illinois usa httpwwwacmorgsigssigecomec08 since 1999 acm special interest group electronic commerce sigecom sponsored leading scientific conference advances theory systems applications electronic commerce ninth acm conference electronic commerce ec08 feature invited speakers paper presentations workshops tutorials covering areas electronic commerce natural focus conference computer science issues conference interdisciplinary nature addressing research related limited following topics applications empirical studies including predictioninformation markets experience ecommerce systems markets economic approaches spam control pricing quality service web analysis characterization ecommerce open access publishing user contributed content economics online textual content behavioral experimental economics related ecommerce theory foundations including computational aspects economics game theory finance voting automated mechanism design including computational pricing algorithmic mechanism design auction negotiation technology formation supply chains coalitions virtual enterprises agency contract theory ecommerce gametheoretic aspects network formation internet preferences decision theory economics information architectures languages including peertopeer grid open distributed systems mobile commerce software systems requirements architectures performance languages describing agents goods services contracts automation personalization targeting including ai autonomous agent systems ecommerce automated shopping trading contract management recommendation reputation trust systems advertising marketing technology sponsored web search viral marketing databases data mining machine learning ecommerce applications mobile locationbased services search information retrieval ecommerce security privacy encryption digital rights including intellectual property digital rights management digital payment systems authentication privacyenhancing technologies economics information security privacy social factors including usability ecommerce systems human factors security privacy human factors agents mechanism design ecommerce legal policy social issues conference held chicago tuesday july 8th saturday july 12th tutorials workshops held tuesday july 8th wednesday july 9th 2008 accepted technical papers invited talks presented thursday july 10th saturday july 12th 2008 conference scheduled immediately game theory society congress held evanston illinois aaai held chicago july 1417 2008 paper submission conference soliciting full papers well workshop tutorial proposals see aspects electronic commerce submitted papers evaluated significance originality technical quality exposition clearly establish research contribution relevance electronic commerce relation prior research submissions considered publication may 10 pages including bibliography 11point 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