Since 1999 the ACM Special Interest Group on Electronic Commerce (SIGECOM) outlink has sponsored the leading scientific conference on advances in theory, systems, and applications for electronic commerce. The Tenth ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce (EC'09) will feature invited speakers, paper presentations, workshops, and tutorials covering all areas of electronic commerce. The natural focus of the conference is on computer science issues, but the conference is interdisciplinary in nature.

The conference will be held from Monday, June 7 through Friday June 11 at Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Tutorials and Workshops will be held on Monday June 7 and Tuesday June 8. Accepted technical papers and invited talks will be presented from Wednesday June 9 through Friday June 11, 2010.


Co-Located Conferences:

9th Workshop on the Economics of Information Security (WEIS), held at Harvard University, June 7-8, 2010

42nd ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing (STOC 2010), held at the Hyatt Regency Cambridge, MA, June 6-8, 2010.

25th IEEE Conference on Computational Complexity, held at Harvard University, June 9-12, 2010.


PAPER SUBMISSION The conference is soliciting full papers (as well as workshop and tutorial proposals; see below) on all aspects of electronic commerce. Submitted papers will be evaluated on significance, originality, technical quality, and exposition. They should clearly establish the research contribution, its relevance to electronic commerce, and its relation to prior research. Submissions to be considered for publication in the archival ACM proceedings may be up to 10 pages (including the bibliography), in 10-point font, double-column format, with reasonable margins and interline spacing. Additional details may be included in appendices beyond the 10 page limit but will only be read at the discretion of the reviewers. These submissions must not have appeared before (or be pending to appear) in a journal or conference with published proceedings. All accepted submissions will need to be migrated to the publisher's format/macros for the proceedings. Instructions will be given by the publisher after the paper is accepted. Accepted papers will be presented at the conference in one of two formats: (1) a long oral presentation or (2) a short oral presentation. Presentation format will be chosen by the program committee with the goal of encouraging breadth and diversity among presentations. Presentation format will have no bearing on how papers appear in the archival conference proceedings: all accepted papers will be allotted 10 pages in the proceedings.

Submissions will be accepted by January 11, 2010, 23:59 GMT (6:59 PM EST). This is a hard deadline.

IMPORTANT NOTICE: To accommodate the publishing traditions of different fields, authors may instead submit working papers that are under review or nearly ready for journal review. These submissions will be subject to review and considered for presentation at the conference but only a one page abstract will appear in the proceedings with a URL that points to the full paper and that will be reliable for at least two years. Open access is preferred although the paper can be hosted by a publisher who takes copyright and limits access, as long as there is a link to the location. Electronic submission in is required. Details on the submission procedure will be made available on the main conference web page.