---------- Forwarded Message ---------- Subject: Workshop on Electronic Market Design Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2001 18:43:45 +0200 From: Rudolf Mueller R.Muller@KE.UNIMAAS.NL To: ISWORLD@LISTSERV.HEANET.IE

Call for participation

Infonomics workshop on Electronic Market Design

July 11 - 13, 2001 Maastricht, The Netherlands www.etrade.infonomics.nl/workshop

With more and more firms using the Internet for selling and purchasing goods, the design of trading mechanisms becomes one of the most important issues in electronic commerce research. In the past economic theory has observed markets and tried to explain market outcome and agent behaviour. Electronic trading mechanisms change this picture as they can fix market rules. Market mechanisms can further rely on an amount of information exchange and processing that was not feasible before. An electronic marketplace therefore becomes an artifact that can be designed and planned specifically to the needs of participants. But not only electronic commerce has an interest in electronic market design. Market-based coordination in multi-agent systems, and market-based algorithms in combinatorial optimization, for example in scheduling, enjoy a significant research interest and require insights in strategies, incentives and equilibria in markets.

Research in electronic market design is interdisciplinary not only because of very different applications, but also because of different problems that require solutions. The design asks for a game theory analysis of strategies and equilibria. Then the implementation of a particular design has to take computational complexity into account. Finally, the question of behavior of a human agent has to be evaluated, for example by experimental economics.

The program committee of the workshop has invited excellent researchers from various fields to give a presentation on the most important research topics. Areas of research include combinatorial optimization, multi-agent systems, game theory, microeconomics, and information systems.

For further information and registration go to www.etrade.infonomics.nl/workshop

Registration including a hotel reservation has to be done until May 4, 2001. Registration without hotel reservation is possible until June 15, 2001.

With kind regards

Rudolf Mueller

-- Rudolf M�ller International Institute of Infonomics and University of Maastricht Web: www.personeel.unimaas.nl/r.muller E-Mail: r.muller@ke.unimaas.nl Phone: +31 43 388 3799 Fax: +31 43 388 4874

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