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ACM SIGecom

ACM SIGecom. “ecom”: Electronic Commerce http://www.acm.org/sigecom History Founded 1999 by Stuart Feldman First elected officers, 2003 Currently 549 members.

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ACM SIGecom

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  1. ACM SIGecom • “ecom”: Electronic Commerce • http://www.acm.org/sigecom • History • Founded 1999 by Stuart Feldman • First elected officers, 2003 • Currently 549 members …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. Annual since 1999 Premier forum for CS research in E-Commerce Strengths: Rigorous technical standards, reputation Bridging disciplines: economics/incentives with computation/technology Participation by top CS researchers in Theory, AI Weaknesses: Below target size/scope Subcritical participation from security, databases, other relevant “systems” areas ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce

  3. Officers Chair: Michael Wellman Vice: Daniel Menascé Sec/Treas: Peter Wurman EC-05 J Riedl, U Minn (general) M Kearns, U Penn (prog) M Reiter, CMU (prog) T Roughgarden, UCB (tut) A De Bruyn, ESSEC B-school (publicity) Past Conference Officials: S Feldman (IBM) M Wellman (U Michigan) A Jhingran (IBM) J MacKie-Mason (U Michigan) D Tygar (UC Berkeley) Y Shoham (Stanford) D Menascé (GMU) N Nisan (Hebrew U) J Breese (Microsoft) J Feigenbaum (Yale) M Seltzer (Harvard) Volunteers

  4. SIGecom Exchanges • Electronic newsletter http://www.acm.org/sigecom/exchanges • Published 3 times/year since Summer ‘00 • Complements conference in topic and level of research contributions • Editor • 2004+: Amy Greenwald, Brown University • 2000–2003: Peter Wurman, North Carolina State U

  5. Finances Negative balance due to unprofitable conferences in 2000 & 2001, skipped 2002. Need 2-3 good conferences to get back in fiscal health

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