ACM EC 2022 Call for Papers (Submission deadline Feb 10, 2022)

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The ACM Special Interest Group on Electronic Commerce (SIGecom) solicits submissions for presentation at the 23rd ACM Conference on Economics and Computation (EC’22), the premier venue for research at the interface of economics and computer science. Submissions are due on February 10, 2022. The conference website is available here: https://ec22.sigecom.org/

EC’22 is currently planned as a primarily in-person event, taking place from July 11 through July 15, 2022 at the University of Colorado Boulder. Some components (e.g., poster sessions and tutorials) may be held either virtually or in a hybrid format. Presenters of accepted papers who cannot (or do not feel comfortable to) travel will have the option to present their paper virtually. Full details of the call for papers are available here: https://ec22.sigecom.org/call-for-contributions-acm/papers/

Each paper submission must select one of four methodological tracks and up to two content areas as described below. Submissions will be evaluated according track specific criteria, and a Track Chair will ensure that consistent reviewing standards are applied to all papers in a track. For each paper, an Area Chair, who is a content area expert, will shepherd the paper through the review process. The full list of Track Chairs and Area Chairs can be found here: https://ec22.sigecom.org/committees-acm/program-committee/

EC’22 will use the following four tracks:

Theory: Typical papers in this track make progress on existing theoretical problems, propose new ones, or introduce significant new techniques that could be applied more broadly. These papers are often similar in methodology to papers that are published in FOCS, STOC, SODA, ICALP, JACM, Econometrica, JET, TE, or Math of OR. Theory Track Chairs: Robert Kleinberg (Cornell University) and Aaron Roth (University of Pennsylvania)
Applied Modeling: Typical papers in this track propose and analyze novel models that capture real-world phenomena or provide fresh perspectives on previously studied applied problems. These papers are often similar in methodology to papers that are published in Operations Research, Management Science, RAND Journal of Economics, or MSOM. Applied Modeling Track Chair: Gabriel Weintraub (Stanford University)
Empirics: Typical papers in this track draw significant insights from real or synthetic data, through access to new data sources or experiments, or through novel analysis of existing data sources. These papers are often similar in methodology to papers that are published in the Journal of Marketing Research, Management Science, Organization Science, Strategic Management Journal, Experimental Economics, Quantitative Marketing and Economics, Review of Economics and Statistics, or MSOM. Empirics Track Chair: Georgios Zervas (Boston University)
AI: Typical papers in this track study the design or analysis of intelligent agents or intelligent systems, broadly construed. These papers are often similar in methodology to papers that are published in AAAI, IJCAI, NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, UAI, TARK, AAMAS, AIJ, JAIR, JMLR, or MLJ. AI Track Chair: Kevin Leyton-Brown (University of British Columbia)

EC’22 will use the following areas:

Mechanism design
Auctions and pricing
Market design and matching markets
Contract design
Online platforms and applications
Econometrics, ML, and data science
Equilibria, learning, and dynamics in games
Social choice and voting theory
Social networks and social learning
Fair division
Market equilibria
Crowdsourcing and information elicitation
Privacy, algorithmic fairness, social good, and ethics
Blockchain and cryptocurrencies
Behavioral economics and bounded rationality

Reviewing Process: Each paper will be reviewed in detail by at least two Program Committee members (who are not assigned to a particular track or content area). Between April 12-14, authors will be able to submit responses to the reviews, which will be taken into account by the review team. The whole review process is double blind, with author information hidden from Track Chairs, Area Chairs, and PC members, and reviewer information hidden from authors.

Publication policies: To accommodate the publishing traditions of different fields, authors of accepted papers can ask that only a one-page abstract of the paper appear in the proceedings. As in prior years, it is also acceptable to simultaneously submit a paper to a journal and to EC’22. Details on those policies are available at the conference website.

Forward-to-journal: EC’22 is continuing the forward-to-journal program started at EC’19. The following journals are participating in the process this year: TEAC, AIJ, Econometrica, Games and Economic Behavior, JET, Management Science, Marketing Science, Math of OR, OR, QME, RAND, REStud, and TE. Details on this process are available at the conference website.

INFORMS feature: EC’22 is continuing the feature-at-INFORMS option whereby authors of accepted papers can choose to have their papers considered for fast-track selection to the 2022 INFORMS Annual Meeting. Further details can be found on the conference website.

Patent filings: The official publication date is the date the proceedings are made available in the ACM Digital Library. This date may be up to two weeks prior to the first day of your conference. The official publication date affects the deadline for any patent filings related to published work. (For those rare conferences whose proceedings are published in the ACM Digital Library after the conference is over, the official publication date remains the first day of the conference