From: Jakka Sairamesh <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 17 Mar 1998 18:54:18 -0500 (EST)

First International Conference on Information and Computation Economies

                                   ICE-98

                             October 25-28, 1998
                            The Mills House Hotel
                            Charleston, SC, USA

            Sponsor: IBM (Institute for Advanced Commerce, IAC)
                    Co-sponsors: NSF*, ACM and IEEE DLTF*

          URL: http://www.ibm.com/iac/events-ice98-conference.html

	  IMPORTANT: 
	      A. Deadline for Abstract Submission is April 5th.
              B. Deadline for full Paper submission is May 5th.
              C. For review, abstract and full paper need to be submitted.

Today's inter-networked world enables electronic, commercial interactions
between tens of thousands of organizations and tens of millions of
individuals. This creates a vast, dynamic and heterogenous market economy of
information and computation services and resources. The scale and dynamicism
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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IMPORTANT DATES

   * ABSTRACTS: Due April 5th, 1998.
   * FULL PAPER SUBMISSIONS: Due May 5th, 1998.

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Index to Conference Information

     Conference Topics
     Conference Submissions
     Conference Committees

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Conference Topics (not limited to):

   * Economics of Information and Computation
        o Market Models for Information Systems
        o Economic paradigms for design of large information systems.
        o Pricing models for computer and information resources.
        o Information and Computation market organizations.
        o Speed, costs and dynamics of electronic transactions.
        o Emergent phenomena in information and computation.
   * Multi-Agent and Distributed Systems Technologies
        o Market based network systems, architectures and protocols.
        o Simulation systems and testbeds for information markets.
        o Specification of, and guaranteeing, Quality of Service.
        o Electronic extensions to price negotiation mechanisms.
        o Directory Services, Advertising and Trading Services.
        o Language and protocols for economic transactions in information
          and computation.
   * Network and Economic Interaction
        o Models for network centric economies.
        o Co-evolution of networks and economies.
        o Organizational structures and policies for the network economy.

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CONFERENCE SUBMISSIONS

SUBMISSIONS REFERRED:

REGULAR PAPERS: All submitted papers should be typed in 1-1/2 spaced
12 point font. All accepted material will be published in the
proceedings by ACM Press. Selected papers will be recommended for
publication in the Netnomics Journal

PANEL PROPOSALS: These should include topic (s), the description of the
panel objectives, and names and addresses of probable panelists.

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES (VERY IMPORTANT):

The conference call for papers requires that all authors submit an
abstract first and then the full paper for review by the program
committee. The deadlines and formats of submission for the abstracts
and full papers are given below.

ABSTRACTS: Due April 5th, 1998. One copy of a 150 word abstract and a
list of five keywords should be submitted to the program chairs. Email
submissions are accepted. Formats accepted for email submissions are
the following: Text, Postscript, PDF, HTML, MS Word and Lotus Word
Pro.

FULL PAPER SUBMISSIONS: Due May 5th, 1998. Five copies of a 5000 word
paper have to be submitted to the program chairs. All submitted papers
must be typed in a 12 point font. The title page must include the
title, author name (s), affiliations, mailing and email addresses, a
150 word abstract and five keywords. Email and ftp submissions are
accepted. The submission details are as follows:

1. Email submissions for full papers are accepted in the following
formats: Postscript, PDF, HTML, MS Word, WordPerfect and Lotus Word
Pro. Please notify the program chairs of the title and format of the
submitted paper(s). An acknowledgment will be sent by the Program
Chairs to the authors once the paper has been printed successfully. If
a submitted paper cannot be read or printed by the program chairs,
then the authors will be asked to resubmit the paper.

2. Ftp submissions for full papers are accepted in the following
formats: Postscript, PDF, HTML, MS Word, WordPerfect and Lotus Word
Pro. The ftp site is ftp://king.econ.lsa.umich.edu/pub/incoming/.
Please notify the Program Chairs via email the following: A. File
name, extension and format of the paper once submitted.  B. The paper
title and list of authors.  An acknowledgment will be sent by the
Program Chairs once the paper has been printed successfully.  If a
submitted paper cannot be read or printed by the program chairs, then
the authors will be asked to resubmit the paper.

NOTIFICATION of ACCEPTANCE: June 25th, 1998.

CAMERA READY SUBMISSION: Due August 10th. The accepted papers need to
be submitted to ACM press for publication. The format of the papers
for final print in the conference proceedings will be provided by
ACM.

Submit all material to:

 Dr. Donald Ferguson               Prof. Jeff MacKie-Mason
 IBM T. J. Watson Research Center  Department of Economics
 30, Saw Mill River Road           University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
 Hawthorne, NY, 10532-USA          48109-1220
 [email-masked]                    [email-masked]

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CONFERENCE COMMITTEES

General Chair

 Yechiam Yemini     Columbia University ([email-masked]).

Program Chairs

 Don Ferguson       IBM Research ([email-masked]).
 Jeff MacKie-Mason  University of Michigan, Ann Arbor ([email-masked]).

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.

Panel Chairs

 Christos NikolaouICS-FORTH, Greece ([email-masked]).
 Jakka Sairamesh  IBM Research ([email-masked]).

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)
Bernardo Huberman (Xerox)
Toru Ishida (Univ. of Kyoto)
Sverker Janson (SICS, Sweden)
Anant Jhingran (IBM)
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 U.)
Gilad Zlotkin (Classdata systems)

Organizing Chairs
 Jakka Sairamesh    IBM Research ([email-masked]).
 Danillo Florissi   Columbia University ([email-masked]).
 Apostolos Dailianas Columbia University ([email-masked]).

Finance Chair
 Susan Tritto Columbia University ([email-masked]).

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Contacts

For more information on the conference, contact the program chairs or the
organizing chairs.

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Notes

(* implies pending final approval)