Yahoo!’s Outstanding List of Accepted Papers at EC 08

The Ninth ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce (EC 08) will be held July 8 to 12 in Chicago, IL. Yahoo! will be repeating its stellar technical presence, earning the honor of 7 out of 38 total accepted papers this year as a result of a highly rigorous selection process.

Yahoo!’s “Self-Financed Wagering Mechanisms for Forecasting” was one of two Outstanding Papers awarded at the conference after the selection committee narrowed the choices to 6 finalists. The 6 finalists had some of the strongest reviews of the 200 papers submitted to the conference, as candidates for Outstanding Papers.

EC 08 will feature invited speakers, paper presentations, workshops, and tutorials covering all areas of electronic commerce.

Yahoo! Accepted Papers:

Optimizing Query Rewrites for Keyword-Based Advertising
Azarakhsh Malekian, Chi-Chao Chang, Ravi Kumar, Grant Wang

Self-Financed Wagering Mechanisms for Forecasting**
Nicolas Lambert, John Langford, Jennifer Wortman, Yiling Chen, Daniel Reeves, Yoav Shoham, David Pennock

Elicitability
Nicolas Lambert, David Pennock, Yoav Shoham

Complexity of Combinatorial Market Makers
Yiling Chen, Lance Fortnow, Nicolas Lambert, David Pennock, Jennifer Wortman

Natural Language Generation for Sponsored Search Advertisements
Kevin Bartz, Cory Barr, Adil Aijaz

On the Communication Requirements of Verifying the VCG Outcome
Sebastien Lahaie, David Parkes

Optimal Envy-Free Pricing with Metric Substitutability
Ning Chen, Arpita Ghosh, Sergei Vassilvitskii

**Outstanding Paper Award