San Diego, California
June 11, 2007

in conjunction with ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce (EC'07)

The emergence of the Internet as a global platform for computation and communication has sparked the development and deployment of many large-scale distributed systems. Often, these systems involve multiple stakeholders with divergent or even competing interests. Unmitigated selfish behavior in these systems can lead to high inefficiency or even complete collapse. There has been an increasing interest in applying economic and game-theoretic principles to help analyze and design such systems.

The NetEcon+IBC Workshop aims to promote a cross-disciplinary discussion on the role of incentives in computational and communication systems. It will bring together researchers from a diverse set of areas including systems, theory, distributed computing, artificial intelligence, and economics. The workshop is being held as part of the ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce (EC'07) which is part of the 2007 Federated Computer Research Conference (FCRC'07). In the spirit of FCRC, the workshop combines two successful workshops from previous years: the workshop on the Economics of Networked Systems (NetEcon) and the Workshop on Incentive-Based Computing (IBC).

Organizing Committee:

• Daniel Grosu, Wayne State University
• Ratul Mahajan, Microsoft Research
• Rahul Sami, University of Michigan