Conference Report: The Third ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce David C. Parkes Division of Engineering and Applied Science, Harvard University, 33 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 parkes@eecs.harvard.edu The 3rd ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce (EC 01) took place in Tampa, Florida, from October 14th until October 17th, 2001. The conference contained 35 research papers in topics at the interface between computer science, economics, commerce and law. The 2001 Trading Agent Competition (TAC) was also associated with the conference. This report summarizes the program. 1. INTRODUCTION The 3rd ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce (EC 01) took place in Tampa, Florida, from October 14th until October 17th, 2001. The conference contained 35 research papers in topics at the interface between computer science, economics, commerce and law [EC 2001]. The EC 01 general chair was Michael Wellman and the program chair was Yoav Shoham.1 The EC conference continues to attract researchers from across the traditional computer science disciplines theoretical computer science, AI, systems, and networking in addition to researchers from operations research, economics, and schools of information science. Following EC 99 and EC 00, the conference once again attracted high quality papers, with the presentation of both theoretical and experimental
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