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From: ramesh@csi.forth.gr Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1998 23:31:48 +0300 Organization: Institute of Computer Science, Foundation for Research and Technology-Hellas (FORTH) Science and Technology Park of Crete Vassilika Vouton, P.O.Box 1385 GR 711 10 Heraklion, Crete, Greece tel.: +30 (81) 39 16 00, fax: +30 (81) 39 16 01 Subject: ICE-98

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CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

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FIRST INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON INFORMATION AND COMPUTATION ECONOMIES

ICE-98 --------

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/ (yemini@cs.columbia.edu)

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Program Chairs Don Ferguson: IBM Research (dff@us.ibm.com)

Jeff MacKie-Mason: University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Department of Economics (jmm@umich.edu)

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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 (nikolau@ics.forth.gr)

Jakka Sairamesh: IBM Research (jramesh@watson.ibm.com)

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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 (jramesh@watson.ibm.com)

Apostolos Dailianas: Columbia University (apostolo@cs.columbia.edu)

Danillo Florissi: Columbia University (df@cs.columbia.edu)

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Finance Chair Susan Tritto: Columbia University (tritto@cs.columbia.edu)

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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

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