The Third Conference on Auctions, Market Mechanisms and Their Applications (AMMA 2015)
http://ammaconference.org/2015/
August 8-9, 2015
Chicago, IL, USA


CALL FOR PAPERS

AMMA focuses on the economic, algorithmic, technical, and practical issues that arise in developing and deploying market mechanisms. This includes, but is not limited to, theoretical and empirical examination of questions like:
+ Is a market the right mechanism for the problem? What are the externalities involved?
+ How should novel markets be organized? What is the "right" micro-structure for a given setting?
+ What is the best way to provide incentives? Is (real) money necessary?
+ How do markets function in artificial economies (cf. bank runs in Second Life and similar games)?
+ What protocols maximize the social value of market intermediaries?
+ Is there a need for new mechanisms for specific applications?


TOPICS

We welcome papers in all areas of market design. In addition to more traditional academic papers, we are especially interested in papers presenting experiences from the real world (case studies and new applications).

Relevant topic areas include (this list is illustrative rather than exhaustive):
+ Content delivery networks
+ Resource allocation in networks and distributed computing
+ Online auctions and exchanges
+ Markets and incentives in crowdsourcing
+ Entrepreneurial market design
+ Prediction markets
+ Airport landing slot allocation
+ Road congestion pricing
+ School choice matching
+ Organ exchange
+ Financial market design
+ Combinatorial auctions and exchanges


SUBMISSION INFORMATION

Papers can be submitted via EasyChair, at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=amma2015.

Please note that in order to accommodate the different fields' publishing traditions, authors of accepted papers will have the option of publishing only a single-page abstract in the proceedings.


IMPORTANT DATES

Full Papers due: April 16, 2015, 11:59pm EDT
Notification of Acceptance: May 31, 2015
Camera-ready Manuscripts due: June 26, 2015
Conference Dates: August 8-9, 2015


VENUE

Becker Friedman Institute and Booth School of Business, University of Chicago


ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

General & Program Chairs:
Scott Duke Kominers, Harvard University
Lirong Xia, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Local Chair:
Alexander Frankel, University of Chicago Booth School of Business

Steering Committee:
Imrich Chlamtac, Create-Net
Peter Coles, eBay
Vincent Conitzer, Duke University
Sanmay Das, Washington University in St. Louis
Sebastien Lahaie, Microsoft Research
Michael Ostrovsky, Stanford Graduate School of Business
David Pennock, Microsoft Research
Boleslaw Szymanski, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

ABOUT EAI
The European Alliance for Innovation is a dynamic eco-system for fostering ICT enabled innovation to improve European competitiveness and to benefit society. EAI uses open e-platforms to inspire grassroots collaboration among all relevant actors, from organizations to individuals, to stimulate community driven innovation to its institutional and individual members worldwide. Through EAI, organizations find ideas and talent, and individual innovators find organizations for their ingenuity and craft. Join the innovation community at www.eai.eu