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CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
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FIRST INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
ON INFORMATION AND
COMPUTATION ECONOMIES
ICE-98
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http://www.cs.columbia.edu/ICE-98 (FOR REGISTRATION)
http://www.ibm.com/iac/events-ice98-conference.html
October 25-28, 1998, The Mill House Hotel
Charleston, SC, USA
Sponsor: IBM (Institute for Advanced Commerce, IAC)
Co-sponsors: ACM
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MESSAGE FROM THE GENERAL CHAIR PROF. YECHIAM YEMINI
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The economy of the 21-st century is widely expected to depend
substantially on an increasing range of information products and
services. The economics of physical goods will need to be
substantially extended to incorporate these information
goods. There is a substantial
long term need to develop fundamental technology infrastructures to
support this information economy, and to understand the fundamental
laws governing this economy. Already at present, the lack of effective
market infrastructures, pricing and payment mechanisms presents
difficult bottlenecks and challenges in the evolution of global network
information products and services. These have attracted a rapidly
growing community of information system builders and economists. The
goal of this first ICE conference is to establish a lead forum for this
community to share research knowledge.
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CONFERENCE THEME
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Today's Internetworked world enables electronic, commercial
interactions between tens of thousands of organizations and
tens of millions of individuals. This creates a vast,
dynamic and heterogeneous market economy of information and
computation services and resources. The scale and dynamics
of this system fundamentally changes the way engineers,
economists, corporations and governments think about the
structure of computing systems and the economy itself. In
the same way that the network is the computer, it is
increasingly the case that the economy is the network.
The First International Conference of Information Systems
and Economies will bring together researchers and scientists
to form a community to discuss and share leading research
on:
* information and computation economies
* networking and economics
* economic models for managing networked
computing systems
There has been a recent explosive growth in research
projects and papers in these areas, and this conference will
bring together the leading researchers from these fields for
the first time. The conference will also serve as the
starting point for creating an electronic community and web
linking the various researchers and projects from academia,
industry and government.
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CONFERENCE COMMITTEES
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General Chair
Yechiam Yemini: DCC Lab, Columbia University
http://www.cs.columbia.edu/dcc/
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Program Chairs
Don Ferguson: IBM Research ([log in to unmask])
Jeff MacKie-Mason: University of Michigan, Ann
Arbor
Department of Economics
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Steering Committee
Alfred Aho (Lucent and Columbia University)
Stu Feldman (IBM Research)
Donald Ferguson (IBM Research)
Bernardo Huberman (Xerox Parc)
Marvin Sirbu (Carnegie Mellon University)
Hal Varian (University of California, Berkeley)
Yechiam Yemini (Columbia University)
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Panel Chairs
Christos Nikolaou: ICS-FORTH, Greece
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Jakka Sairamesh: IBM Research
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Program Committee
Nabil Adams (Rutgers)
Al Aho (Columbia, Lucent)
Jack Breese (Microsoft)
Scott Clearwater (USA)
Nicholas Economides (Stern, NYU)
Stuart Feldman (IBM)
Donald Ferguson (IBM)
Jeff Heal (Columbia)
Bernardo Huberman (Xerox)
Toru Ishida (Kyoto University)
Sverker Janson (SICS, Sweden)
Zvi Kedem (NYU)
Frank Kelly (Cambridge, UK)
Jeff Kephart (IBM)
Arvind Krishna (IBM)
Shay Kutten (Technion, Israel)
Michael Lesk (Bellcore)
Lorne Mason (INRS, Canada)
Jeff MacKie-Mason (Umich)
Christos Nikolaou (ICS, Greece)
Jakka Sairamesh (IBM)
Scott Shenker (Xerox)
Marvin Sirbu (CMU)
Dale Stahl (UT Austin)
Sebastian Steinmetz (France)
Hal Varian (Berkeley)
Mike Wellman (Umich)
Steve White (IBM)
Andrew Whinston (UT Austin)
Yechiam Yemini (Columbia)
Gilad Zlotkin (Classdata)
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Organizing Chairs
Jakka Sairamesh: IBM Research
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Apostolos Dailianas: Columbia University
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Danillo Florissi: Columbia University
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Finance Chair
Susan Tritto: Columbia University
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For more information on the conference, please
contact the program chairs or the organizing
chairs.
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ADVANCE PROGRAM
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Monday
Session 1: Artificial Agent Economies
- Vulkan, N., and N. Jennings Efficient Mechanisms for the Supply of
Services in Multi-Agent Environments
- Preist, C., and M. van Tol Adaptive Agents in a Persistent Shout
Double Auction
- Mullen, T., and J. Breese Experiments in Designing Computational
Economies for Mobile Users
- Sairamesh, J. and J. Kephart Price Dynamics of Vertically
Differentiated Information Markets
- Tesauro, G., and J. Kephart Foresight-based pricing algorithms in an
economy of software agents
- Lukose, R., and B. Huberman Surfing as a Real Option
Session 2: Network Pricing
- Schnizlein, J. How Can Routers Help Internet Economics?
- Ogino, N. Connection Establishment Protocol Based on Mutual
Selection by Users and Network Providers
- Stahl, D., A. Whinston, and K. Zhang A Simulation Study of
Competitive Internet Pricing: AOL Flat Rates versus GSW Usage
Prices
- Courcoubetis, C., V. A. Siris, and G. D. Stamoulis Network control
and usage-based charging: Is charging for volume adequate?
Tuesday
Session 1: Quality of Service Provision
- Katchabaw, M., H. Lutfiyya, and M. Bauer Driving Resource
Management With Application-Level Quality of Service Specifications
- Lalis, S., C. Nikolaou, D. Papadakis, and M. Marazakis
Market-driven Service Allocation in a QoS-capable Environment
- Reininger, D., D. Raychaudhuri and M. Ott Market Based Bandwidth
Allocation Policies for QoS Control in Boradband Networks
- Park, K., M. Sitharam, and S. Chen Quality of Service Provision in
Noncooperative Networks: Heterogenous Preferences,
Multi-Dimensional QoS Vectors, and Burstiness
- Fishburn, P., and A. Odlyzko Dynamic Behavior of Differential Pricing
and Quality of Service Options for the Internet
Session 2: Market-based System Control
- Amir, Yair, Baruch Awerbuch, R. Sean Borgstrom A Cost-Benefit
Framework for Online Management of a Metacomputing System
- Regev, O. and N. Nisan The POPCORN Market - an Online Market
for Computational Resources
- Karaul, M., Y. Korilis, and A. Orda A Market-Based Architecture for
Management of Geographically Dispersed, Replicated Web Servers
- Anastasiadi, A., and S. Kapidakis, A Computational Economy for
Dynamic Load Balancing and Data Replication
- Yemini, Y., A. Dailianas, D. Florissi, and G. Huberman MarketNet:
Market-Based Protection of Information Systems
Wednesday
- Panel on Information Economies
- Invited Sessions
12.30 P.M. (End of Conference)
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