Technical Program



Day 1

Time Event
8:45 - 9:00
Welcome and opening remarks
9:00 - 10:30
Auctions with Dynamic Populations: Efficiency and Revenue Maximization
Maher Said
Revenue Submodularity
Shaddin Dughmi, Tim Roughgarden and Mukund Sundararajan
Fair Package Assignment
Sebastien Lahaie and David Parkes
11:00 - 12:00
Invited talk
Tayfun Sonmez
12:00 - 1:30
Lunch Break
1:30 - 3:00
School Choice: The Case for the Boston Mechanism
Antonio Miralles
A Centralized Auction Mechanism for the Disability and Survivors Insurance in Chile
Gonzalo Reyes
The Combinatorial Assignment Problem: Approximate Competitive Equilibrium from Equal Incomes
Eric Budish
3:30 - 5:00
Manipulating Scrip Systems: Sybils and Collusion
Ian Kash, Eric Friedman and Joseph Halpern
Market Design for a Peer-to-Peer Backup System
Sven Seuken, Denis Charles, Max Chickering and Sidd Puri
Running Out of Numbers: Scarcity of IP Addresses and What To Do About It
Ben Edelman
6:00 - 8:00
Dinner

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Day 2

Time Event
8:30 - 10:00
Prediction Market Alternatives for Complex Environments
John Ledyard, Paul Healy, Sera Linardi and Richard Lowery
Turing Trade: A hybrid of a Turing test and a prediction market
Joseph Farfel and Vincent Conitzer
A Copula function approach to infer Correlation in Prediction Market
Agostino Capponi and Umberto Cherubini
Using Prediction Markets to Track Information Flows: Evidence from Google
Bo Cowgill, Eric Zitzewitz and Justin Wolfers
11:00 - 12:00
Invited talk
Leslie Fine
12:00 - 1:30
Lunch Break
1:30 - 3:00
Impact of Misalignment of Trading Agent Strategy under a Multiple Market
Jung-woo Sohn, Sooyeon Lee and Tracy Mullen
Solving Winner Determination Problems for Auctions with Economies of Scope and Scale
Stefan Schneider, Mehmet Sayal, Martin Bichler and Kemal Guler
Information Feedback and Efficiency in Multiattribute Double Auctions
Kevin Lochner and Michael Wellman
3:30 - 4:30
A Market-Based Approach to Multi-Factory Scheduling
Nicholas Jennings, Partha Dutta, Armin Stranjak, Douglas Macbeth, Perukrishnen Vytelingum, Alex Rogers
Effects of Suboptimal Bidding in Combinatorial Auctions
Stefan Schneider, Pasha Shabalin and Martin Bichler

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Dates & News

Submission Deadline
Nov 28, 2008

Notification of acceptance/rejection
Mid January 2009

Final versions of archival papers due
Late February 2009

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