[agents] 19th ACM CONFERENCE ON ECONOMICS AND COMPUTATION (ACM EC'18): Call for papers

[Edith Elkind]

*19th ACM CONFERENCE ON ECONOMICS AND COMPUTATION (ACM EC'18)Call for
Papers, Workshops and Tutorials*

The 19th ACM Conference on Economics and Computation
June 18-22, 2018
Cornell, Ithaca, NY, USA
http://www.sigecom.org/ec18/

*Conference overview*

Since 1999 the ACM Special Interest Group on Electronic Commerce (SIGecom)
has sponsored the leading scientific conference on advances in theory,
systems, and applications at the interface of economics and computation,
including applications to electronic commerce.
The Nineteenth ACM Conference on Economics and Computation (EC'18) will
feature invited speakers, paper presentations, workshops, tutorials, and
poster sessions.
The conference will be held from *Monday, June 18, 2018* through *Friday,
June 22, 2018* at Cornell in Ithaca, NY, USA. Accepted technical papers
will be presented from June 19 through June 21; tutorials and workshops
will be held on June 18 and June 22. Accepted papers will be available in
the form in which they are published in the ACM Digital Library prior to
the conference.

AUTHORS TAKE NOTE: The official publication date is the date the
proceedings are made available in the ACM Digital Library. This date may be
up to two weeks prior to the first day of the conference. The official
publication date affects the deadline for any patent filings related to
published work.
The focus of the conference is research at the interface of economics and
computation related to (but not limited to) the following three
non-exclusive focus areas:



*Theory and FoundationsArtificial Intelligence and Applied Game
TheoryExperimental, Empirical, and Applications*

Authors can designate a paper for one or two of these focus areas. The
program committee includes Senior Program Committee (SPC) and Program
Committee (PC) members that are experts in all three focus areas, to ensure
appropriate review of papers.
EC publishes relevant papers on topics and methodologies that include:

MECHANISM DESIGN, including: algorithmic mechanism design, auctions,
revenue maximization, pricing, resource allocation, matching, computational
social choice

ECONOMIC AND STRATEGIC EQUILIBRIUM, including: equilibrium computation,
price of anarchy, markets

INFORMATION ELICITATION AND GENERATION, including: incentive compatibility,
prediction markets, recommender, reputation and trust systems, privacy

BEHAVIORAL MODELS, including: preference and decision theory, experiments,
consumer search, econometrics

ONLINE BEHAVIOR AND SYSTEMS, including: machine learning, automated agents,
trading agents, data mining, experience with e-commerce and systems,
economics of the Cloud, social networks, crowdsourcing

*PAPER SUBMISSION*
Submissions should be made at http://www.sigecom.org/ec18/papers.html

The conference is soliciting full papers (as well as workshop and tutorial
proposals; see below) on all aspects of research mentioned above. Submitted
papers should clearly establish the research contribution, its relevance,
and its relation to prior research. All submissions must be made in the
appropriate format, and within a specified length limit; details and a
LaTeX template can be found at the submission site. Additional pages beyond
the length limit may be included as appendices, but will only be read at
the discretion of the reviewers.

IMPORTANT NOTICE: To accommodate the publishing traditions of different
fields, authors of accepted papers can ask that only a one-page abstract of
the paper appear in the proceedings, along with a URL pointing to the full
paper. Authors should guarantee the link to be reliable for at least two
years. This option is available to accommodate subsequent publication in
journals that would not consider results that have been published in
preliminary form in a conference proceedings. Such papers must be submitted
electronically and formatted just like papers submitted for full-text
publication.
Simultaneous submission of results to another conference with published
proceedings is not allowed. Results previously published or presented at
another primarily archival conference prior to EC, or published (or
accepted for publication) at a journal prior to the submission deadline to
EC, cannot be submitted. Simultaneous submission of results to a journal is
allowed only if the author intends to publish the paper as a one-page
abstract in EC'18. Papers that are accepted and appear as a one-page
abstract can be subsequently submitted for publication in a journal but may
not be submitted to any other conference that has a published proceedings.

A separate call for posters will be announced later.

*WORKSHOP AND TUTORIAL PROPOSALS*
The conference is soliciting proposals for tutorials and workshops.
Tutorial proposals should contain the title of the tutorial, a two-page
description of the topic matter, the names and short biographies of the
tutor(s), and dates/venues where earlier versions of the tutorial were
given (if any). Workshop proposals should contain the title of the
workshop, the names and short biographies of the organizers, and the names
of confirmed or candidate participants. Workshop proposals should also
include a two-page description describing the theme, the reviewing process
for participants, the organization of the workshop, required facilities for
the workshop, and a desired length (half day, full day, etc.). We
especially encourage submissions that bring together participants with
diverse backgrounds and experience. For accepted workshops, the desired
length will be honored as closely as possible. Submission information will
be available soon on the conference website.

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*KEY DATES*

*February 15, 2018, 11:59 PM PST*: Full electronic paper submissions due.
Please see http://www.sigecom.org/ec18/papers.html

March 1, 2018: Workshop and tutorial proposals due. Submission instructions
will be available shortly on the conference website.
March 15, 2018: Tutorial & workshop proposal accept/reject notifications
March 27, 2018: Reviews sent to authors for author feedback
March 29, 2018: Author responses due
April 20, 2018: Paper accept/reject notifications
June 18 and June 22, 2018: Conference workshops and tutorials
June 19-21, 2018: Conference technical program

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ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

*General Chair:*
Eva Tardos, Cornell

*Program Chairs:*
Edith Elkind, University of Oxford
Rakesh Vohra, University of Pennsylvania

Workshop Chairs:
Scott Kominers, Harvard Business School
Jenn Wortman Vaughan, Microsoft Research

Tutorial Chairs:
Itai Ashlagi, Stanford University
Katrina Ligett, Caltech and Hebrew University

Senior Program Committee:

Theory and Foundations:
Adam Wierman                California Institute of Technology
Adrian Vetta                     McGill University

Jay Sethuraman               Columbia University
Thanh Nguyen                  Purdue University
Brendan Lucier                 Microsoft Research

Ramesh Johari                 Stanford University
Eduardo Azevedo             University of Pennsylvania
Debasis Mishra                 Indian Statistical Institute
Mohammad Mahdian        Google Research
Ben Golub                         Harvard University

Ozan Candogan                University of Chicago
Azarakhsh Malekian          University of Toronto
Yaron Singer                     Harvard University
Nicole Immorlica               Microsoft Research

Katrina Ligett                     Hebrew University of
Jerusalem
David Kempe                    University of Southern California
Alex Slivkins                      Microsoft Research

Martin Hoefer                    Goethe University Frankfurt
Michal Feldman                 Tel Aviv University
Moshe Babaioff                 Microsoft Research
Grant Schoenebeck          University of Michigan

Artificial Intelligence and Applied Game Theory:

Ioannis Caragiannis         University of Patras
Haris Aziz                         Data61
Vincent Conitzer               Duke University
Sanmay Das                     Washington University in St. Louis
Sebastien Lahaie             Google Research
Evangelos Markakis         Athens University of Economics and
Business
Tuomas Sandholm           Carnegie Mellon University
Sven Seuken                    University of Zurich
Maria Polukarov                King's College London

Experimental, Empirical, and Applications:

Denis Nekipelov               University of Virginia

Eric Budish                       University of Chicago
Sharad Goel                     Stanford University
David Rothschild              Microsoft Research
David Manlove                 University of Glasgow
Craig Boutilier                  Google Research
Michael Bailey                  Facebook Research
Nicolas Stier                     Facebook Research
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