Final Program

(registration includes breakfast, lunch, AM break, and PM gathering Monday through Wednesday; for Thursday only breakfast and AM break are included).

Monday June 9

Tutorials (two in the morning and two in the afternoon)

Tuesday June 10

8:30-9:00 Conference Opening Remarks: General Chair, Program Chair, and announcement of Best Student Paper Award (sponsored by IBM Research).

9:00-10:00

Convergent Algorithms for Collaborative Filtering
by Jon Kleinberg, Mark Sandler

Efficiency through feedback-contingent fees and rewards in auction marketplaces with adverse selection and moral hazard
by Chrysanthos Dellarocas

10:00-10:25 coffee

10:25--11:25

k-Implementation
by Dov Monderer, Moshe Tennenholtz

Envy-Free Auctions for Digital Goods
by Andrew Goldberg, Jason Hartline

11:30-12:30 FCRC plenary sessions

12:30-2:00 lunch

2:00 -- 3:30

Playing Large Games Using Simple Strategies
by Richard Lipton, Vangelis Markakis, Aranyak Mehta

Correlated Equilibria in Graphical Games
by Sham Kakade, Michael Kearns, John Langford, Luis Ortiz

A polynomial-time Nash equilibrium algorithm for repeated games
by Michael Littman, Peter Stone

3:30 -- 4:00 coffee

4:00 -- 6:00 Poster papers session

Wednesday June 11

9:00-10:00

Agent-Based Service Composition Through Simultaneous Negotiation
by Chris Preist, Claudio Bartolini, Andrew Byde

Highly Efficient, Budget-Balanced, Incentive-Compatible, Individually Rational Auctions for Supply Chain Formation
by Moshe Babaioff, William Walsh

10:00-10:25 coffee

10:25--11:25

On Cheating in Sealed-Bid Auctions
by Ryan Porter, Yoav Shoham

A robust open ascending-price multi-unit auction protocol against false-name bids
by Atsushi Iwasaki, Makoto Yokoo, Kenji Terada

11:30-12:30 FCRC plenary sessions

12:30-2:00 lunch

2:00-3:30

On the Core of the Multicommodity Flow Game
by Vangelis Markakis, Amin Saberi

How Much Can Taxes Help Selfish Routing?
by Richard Cole, Yevgeniy Dodis, Tim Roughgarden

Strategyproof Cost-sharing Mechanisms for Set Cover and Facility Location Games
by Nikhil R Devanur, Vijay V. Vazirani, Milena Mihail

3:30-4:00 coffee

4:00-5:30

Exploring Bidding Strategies for Market-Based Scheduling
by Michael Wellman, Jeffrey K. MacKie-Mason, Daniel Reeves, Sowmya Swaminathan

Selling Online versus Offline: Theory and Evidences at Sotheby's
by Eiichiro Kazumori, John McMillan

Searching Dynamically Bundled Goods with Pairwise Relations
by Yuan-Chi Chang, Chung-Sheng Li, John Smith

Thursday June 12

9:00-10:00

Betting Boolean-style: A Framework for Trading in Securities Based on Logical Formulas
by Lance Fortnow, Joe Kilian, David Pennock, Michael Wellman

Computation in a Distributed Information Market
by Joan Feigenbaum, Lance Fortnow, David Pennock, Rahul Sami

10:00-10:25 coffee

10:25--11:25

Approximately-Strategyproof and Tractable Multi-Unit Auctions
by Anshul Kothari, David Parkes, Subhash Suri

On Polynomial-Time Preference Elicitation
by Martin Zinkevich, Tuomas Sandholm, Avrim Blum

11:30-12:30 FCRC plenary sessions