Conference report: the second ACM conference on electronic commerce

ABSTRACT

The second Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Conference on Electronic Commerce (EC'00)--held October 17-20, 2000, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA--featured twenty-nine talks chronicling the latest progress on research at the boundary between computers and commerce. Other conference highlights included four tutorials covering ecommerce foundations, recommender systems, scaling for ebusiness, and mobile ecommerce; a keynote address by Robert Weber; and a panel discussion on the results of a recent trading agent competition.

REFERENCES

• 1: MacKie Mason, J. K. and Tygar, D. Eds. 2000. Proceedings of the Second ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce (EC-00). ACM Press, New York.

INDEX TERMS

Primary Classification:
  K. Computing Milieux
  K.4 COMPUTERS AND SOCIETY
      K.4.4 Electronic Commerce
          Subjects: Distributed commercial transactions

Additional Classification:
  C. Computer Systems Organization
  C.2 COMPUTER-COMMUNICATION NETWORKS
      C.2.5 Local and Wide-Area Networks
          Subjects: Internet (e.g., TCP/IP)

  H. Information Systems
  H.2 DATABASE MANAGEMENT
      H.2.1 Logical Design
          Subjects: Schema and subschema
  H.3 INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL
      H.3.5 On-line Information Services
          Subjects: Web-based services

  K. Computing Milieux
  K.4 COMPUTERS AND SOCIETY
      K.4.4 Electronic Commerce
          Subjects: Cybercash, digital cash; Electronic data interchange (EDI)

General Terms:
Design, Management, Standardization

Keywords:
association for computing machinery (ACM), conference on electronic commerce (EC'00) report and summary, ecommerce, special interest group on electronic commerce (SIGecom)