2 August 2011, Liverpool, UK
http://rrem2011.ecs.soton.ac.uk
In conjunction with:
The Thirteenth
International Conference on Electronic Commerce - ICEC 2011
Electronic marketplaces are ever more ubiquitous, and cover a wide range of
application areas such as financial exchanges, online auctions and advertising,
as well as electric power trading. With so much of the economy depending on
these systems working properly, it is of paramount importance that they are
robust and reliable. Robustness in this context means that the marketplaces are
stable, and resilient to changes such as market shocks. Nothing exemplifies the
importance of robustness more than the recent financial crisis, and the flash
crash on the 6th of May 2010. Related to this, reliability refers to the ability
of the system to function properly, and that there is little scope for
manipulation. For example, in electric power trading, the market must ensure
that demand is matched by supply to prevent blackouts occurring. In online
advertising, markets need to work efficiently and compute results within seconds
or less. In online auctions, bidders should be discouraged to snipe or to shade
their bids.
In
order to obtain robust and reliable electronic marketplaces, it is important to
design the right incentives, structures and rules, and to gain a fundamental
understanding of such systems using modelling techniques. This is achieved
through the use of theoretical tools, such as game theory, as well as empirical
tools such as agent-based simulation. The aim of this workshop is to bring
together researchers from a variety of backgrounds, including economics,
mathematics, finance, operations research and computer science, and working on
different application areas. In particular, topics of interest for the workshop
include, but are not limited to:
* Resilience in
financial markets
* Algorithmic trading
* High-frequency
trading
* Risk management
* Market bubbles and
crashes
* Networks of markets
* Competition between
markets
* Agent-based
simulation of electronic marketplaces
* Market-based control
of distributed systems
* Mechanism design
Important Dates
* MAY 9, 2011
- Submission deadline
* JUNE 9, 2011
- Paper acceptance
notification
* JUNE 24, 2011
- Program announced
* AUGUST 2, 2011
- Workshop
Submission
Papers should be formatted using single column, 11pt, times roman font, A4 size paper, and submitted in PDF format.
Two types of paper are invited for submission:
* Long papers, up to a maximum of 16 pages.
* Extended abstracts, up to a maximum of 4 pages.
Papers should be
submitted through EasyChair:
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=rrem2011
Organisers
Enrico Gerding (ECS,
University of Southampton)
http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~eg
Peter McBurney
(Department of Informatics, King's College London)
http://www.dcs.kcl.ac.uk/staff/mcburney/
Frank McGroarty
(School of Management, University of Southampton)
http://www.management.soton.ac.uk/people/details.php?Name=FrankMcGroarty
Contact
Enrico Gerding, email: eg@ecs.soton.ac.uk