Fifth Workshop on Ad Auctions
July 6, 2009

Frances C. Arrillaga Alumni Center, Stanford University
326 Galvez St., Stanford, CA 94305

SUBMISSIONS DUE EXTENDED MAY 25, 2009

in conjunction with The ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce (EC'09)

We solicit submissions for the Fifth Workshop on Ad Auctions, to be held July 6, 2009 at Stanford University in conjunction with the ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce. The workshop will bring together researchers and practitioners from academia and industry to discuss the latest developments in advertisement auctions and exchanges. 

The workshop will include a significant portion of invited presentations along with presentations on accepted research contributions. There will be time for both organized and open discussion. Registration will be open to all EC'09 attendees.

Timeline

• EXTENDED May 25, 2009: Submissions due midnight Hawaii time 

    a. Submit to http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=adauctions2009

• June 11, 2009: Notification of accepted papers
• June 20, 2009: Final copy due Submissions of final copy due midnight Hawaii time

      a. Format your paper to fit up to ten pages long, in double-column ACM SIG proceedings format: http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates

      b. Resubmit to http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=adauctions2009

Invited Talks

The workshop will have a couple of invited talks by distinguished speakers.   We will announce the names of speakers as they confirm. Bellow is the set of confirmed speakers for the workshop:

--Hal Varian (Google Chief Economist)

--Tuomas Sandholm (CMU and CombineNet Founder and Chief Scientist)

Rica Gonen, Yahoo! Labs
Vahab Mirrokni, Google Research
Sasa Pekec, Duke University
David Pennock, Yahoo! Research