Current announcements

2007 announcements

A reminder: Submit papers to the Netecon-IBC and Prediction Markets workshops at EC07! -- RahulSami - 12 Mar 2007

2006 announcements

This joint paper is forthcoming in the RAND Journal of Economics: Benjamin Chiao, Josh Lerner, and Jean Tirole. "The Rules of Standard Setting Organizations: An Empirical Study". -- BenjaminChiao - 24 Oct 2006

Jeff and I submitted to the Telecommunications Policy Research Conference our accepted draft paper "Using Uncensored Communication Channels to Divert Spam Traffic". Download PDF. Comments will be greatly appreciated. This is one of our ICD group's works on email markets. Here's a hypothetical uncensored channel:

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-- BenjaminChiao - 01 Sep 2006

Jeff and I got our paper accepted to the Telecommunications Policy Research Conference. The title is "Using Uncensored Communication Channels to Divert Spam Traffic". Here is a prerecorded presentation in Macromedia Flash format with audio. The abstract is available here. -- BenjaminChiao - 03 Jun 2006

My preliminary draft entitled "Torts in Open Innovation: Liability Indemnification through Patent Pools" is accepted to Academy of Management--Open Source Software Research Development Workshop. The ICD group can also access other updated versions here. Comments will be greatly appreciated. -- BenjaminChiao - 30 May 2006

I gave a presentation about ICD and STIET to a recent NSF PI meeting. - (JMKM) - 25 May 2006

Jeff and I have a position paper on using ICD in Information Security accepted to HotSec 06, a new workshop this year co-located with USENIX Security: Incentive Centered Design and Information Security -- (RW) - 16 May 2006

Our P2P equilibrium free-riding paper (Lian and Jeff) was accepted to NetEcon'06, a workshop co-located here with EC-06 this summer. We have much to do, comments very welcome: "Generalized Reciprocity on Peer-to-Peer Networks". -- (JMKM) - 11 May 2006

The Handbook of Computational Economics, vol. 2, is shipping; you can order from the link, but if you have me order for you I can get a 30% discount. This volume is devoted to "Agent-Based Economics", includes chapters from some prominent people in the complex systems community as well as from economists and computer scientists. Mike Wellman and I wrote a chapter ("Automated Markets and Trading Agents").

The STIET program submitted a program renewal proposal to an internal UM competition. Only four proposals from UM can be developed and submitted to NSF this year. We were selected as one of the four, and we are now preparing the full proposal for NSF. This is for over $3 million to continue the STIET fellowship program. -- (JMKM) - 23 Feb 2006

Yan, Sherry (Xin) Li and I have the final version of a public goods incentive design paper accepted: "Online Fund-Raising Mechanisms: A Field Experiment", Yan Chen, Xin Li, and Jeffrey K. MacKie-Mason, 2006, Contributions to Economic Analysis & Policy, vol 5, no 2. -- (JMKM) - 15 Feb 2006

Rick (and Thede and Marshall) have completed the final version of their spam ICD paper, which will be forthcoming soon (probably within weeks). Here is the final version. An Economic Response to Unsolicited Communication. Thede Loder, Marshall Van Alstyne and Rick Wash. Advances in Economic Analysis and Policy. 2005. Berkeley Electronic Press, 2006. -- (JMKM) - 08 Feb 2006

I've started an experiment: an ICD blog. I doubt I"m going to become a daily blogger, but my idea is to post links to ICD-related things I find, and occasionally offer thoughts about ICD research questions. Take a lot, comment on entries, send me links or ideas you think might be appropriate for me to add. I"m doing this in part as a notebook to store examples to use in teaching and research, and zygotes of future research papers. -- (JMKM) - 07 Feb 2006

One of the workshops at EC "06, here in Ann Arbor, is the workshop on Economics of Networked Systems, http://www.cs.duke.edu/nicl/netecon06/cfp.html . This workshop is a merger of two earlier workshops, P2PEcon and PINS. The paper submission deadline is March 27th. -- RahulSami - 02 Feb 2006

Update: The IBC deadline is now extended to Feb 18th. -- RahulSami - 13 Jan 2006

2005 announcements

An upcoming conference of interest is the Second Workshop on Incentive-Based Computing, http://ibc.cs.wayne.edu . Sorry for the short notice! -- RahulSami - 14 Dec 2005

Today my open innovation paper got accepted to the first Asia-Pacific Regional meeting of Economic Science Association. The hosting site is the lab I helped establish in Hong Kong. I will present some new results if my experiments are run as scheduled. -- BenjaminChiao - 18 Nov 2005

Mike Afergan and I just got an ICD paper accepted to the IEEE INFOCOM 2006 conference, on "Repeated-Game Modeling of Multicast Overlays". We're currently revising the paper, I'll put up a draft soon. Update: The draft is at http://www.umich.edu/~rsami/papers/infocom06.pdf -- RahulSami - 11 Nov 2005

STIET is hosting the 2006 ACM Electronic Commerce conference in Ann Arbor, June 2006. The web site with initial information, including the Call for Papers, is now available: http://stiet.si.umich.edu/ec06. -- (JMKM) - 29 Sep 2005

The poster of my research works is now on my website: http://www.umich.edu/~bchiao Comments are very welcome. -- BenjaminChiao - 28 Sep 2005

I bumped into these two journals. some of you might be interested.

http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itweb/lom_umichanna?db=GRGM

Incentive ISSN: 1042-5195 Publisher: Vnu Emedia, Inc. Issues/Year: 12 Audience: Trade Format: Magazine/Journal Index coverage: Jul 1 2000 - current Full-text coverage: Jul 1 2000 - current

Incentive Today ISSN: 1351-4555 Publisher: Cmp Information Ltd. Issues/Year: 12 Audience: Trade Format: Magazine/Journal Index coverage: Sep 1 2003 - current Full-text coverage: Sep 1 2003 - current JinfangNiu^?

I just submitted an extended abstract to WISE: drm.pdf -- RickWash - 12 Sep 2005

There is a new page, accessible to the ICD members, called FieldPrelim for ICD students who want to post their field preliminary materials there. -- BenjaminChiao

This ICD homepage (http://www.socialcomputingresearch.net/twiki/bin/edit/ICD/WebHome) can now be accessed using a shorter url: http://www.si.umich.edu/icd/wiki -- BenjaminChiao - 13 Jul 2005

Our first border-crossing paper (a village member and others in the SI Community)! Libby, Erik, and Ixchel wrote SieveProposal on how we can leverage our own research to improve the transition of new students into SI. This paper was also submitted to the iSchool conference.

-- ErikJohnston - 12 Jul 2005

Our first village paper! Paul, Yan and Jeff wrote an ICD manifesto to submit to the Sept 2005 iSchool conference: ICD manifesto. Update: This paper was accepted and will be presented by Yan at the iSchool conference (JMM) - 03 Sep 2005).

--JMM - 11 Jul 2005

8 July 2005 was moving day (click to see pictures)! We now have most of the ICD students from SI, and the ICD faculty from SI co-located in the 3rd floor east wing of SI North.

--JMM - 8 Jul 2005

-- JeffMacKieMason - 14 Mar 2006
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