[agents] Final CFP: ICEC 2011 Workshop on Robustness and Reliability of Electronic Marketplaces

[Enrico Gerding]

      (apologies for cross-postings)


      CALL FOR PAPERS


      ICEC 2011 Workshop on Robustness and Reliability of Electronic
      Marketplaces (RREM 2011)

2 August 2011, Liverpool, UK

http://rrem2011.ecs.soton.ac.uk

In conjunction with:

The Thirteenth International Conference on Electronic Commerce - ICEC 
2011 <http://icec11.csc.liv.ac.uk/ICEC_2011.html>

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Electronic marketplaces are ever more ubiquitous, and cover a wide range 
of application areas such as financial exchanges, online auctions and 
advertising, as well as electric power trading. With so much of the 
economy depending on these systems working properly, it is of paramount 
importance that they are robust and reliable. Robustness in this context 
means that the marketplaces are stable, and resilient to changes such as 
market shocks. Nothing exemplifies the importance of robustness more 
than the recent financial crisis, and the flash crash on the 6th of May 
2010. Related to this, reliability refers to the ability of the system 
to function properly, and that there is little scope for manipulation. 
For example, in electric power trading, the market must ensure that 
demand is matched by supply to prevent blackouts occurring. In online 
advertising, markets need to work efficiently and compute results within 
seconds or less. In online auctions, bidders should be discouraged to 
snipe or to shade their bids.

In order to obtain robust and reliable electronic marketplaces, it is 
important to design the right incentives, structures and rules, and to 
gain a fundamental understanding of such systems using modelling 
techniques. This is achieved through the use of theoretical tools, such 
as game theory, as well as empirical tools such as agent-based 
simulation. The aim of this workshop is to bring together researchers 
from a variety of backgrounds, including economics, mathematics, 
finance, computer science, and operations research, and working on 
different application areas. In particular, topics of interest for the 
workshop include, but are not limited to:

* Resilience in financial markets

* Algorithmic trading

* High-frequency trading

* Risk management

* Market bubbles and crashes

* Networks of markets

* Competition between markets

* Agent-based simulation of electronic marketplaces

* Market-based control of distributed systems

* Mechanism design

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*Important Dates*

* MAY 9, 2011-Submission deadline

* JUNE 9, 2011-Paper acceptance notification

* JUNE 24, 2011-Program announced

* AUGUST 2, 2011-Workshop

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*Submission

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   Papers should be formatted using single column, 11pt, times roman 
font,  A4 size paper, and submitted in PDF format.

   Two types of paper are invited for submission:

     * Long papers, up to a maximum of 16 pages.

     * Extended abstracts, up to a maximum of 4 pages.

Papers should be submitted through EasyChair:

http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=rrem2011

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*Organisers*

Enrico Gerding (ECS, University of Southampton)

http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~eg <http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/%7Eeg>

Peter McBurney (Department of Informatics, King's College London)

http://www.dcs.kcl.ac.uk/staff/mcburney/

Frank McGroarty (School of Management, University of Southampton)

http://www.management.soton.ac.uk/people/details.php?Name=FrankMcGroarty

*Contact*

     Enrico Gerding, email: eg at ecs.soton.ac.uk <mailto:eg at ecs.soton.ac.uk>