ACM SIGecom ecom Electronic Commerce http www acm

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.

ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce • Strengths: • Annual since 1999 • Premier forum for CS research in E-Commerce – Rigorous technical standards, reputation – Bridging disciplines: economics/incentives with computation/technology – Participation by top CS researchers in Theory, AI Nov 99 Denver OOPSLA 110 Oct 00 Minneapolis OOPSLA ? Oct 01 Tampa OOPSLA 85 Jun 03 San Diego FCRC 91 May 04 New York WWW 97 Jun 05 Vancouver — • Weaknesses: – Below target size/scope – Subcritical participation from security, databases, other relevant “systems” areas

Volunteers • 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 Bschool (publicity) Past Conference Officials: – – – S Feldman (IBM) M Wellman (U Michigan) A Jhingran (IBM) J Mac. Kie-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)

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

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