1. “ecom”: Electronic Commerce http://www.sigecom.org
Founded 1999 by Stuart Feldman; Elected officers, 2003
250 members
Main activities: EC Conference, Exchanges Newsletter, (new) ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation
Fund balance: $210K (required: $19K)
…dedicated to the advancement of electronic commerce, principles and practice. As the leading computing-centric professional organization in the field, SIGecom seeks to promote the informed development of commerce automation technology, employing the best available engineering methods and economic understanding.

2. ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce 1999-
Date
City
Co-Loc
Att
Sub
Acc
Nov ‘99
Denver
OOPSLA
110 72
29%
Oct ‘00
Minneapolis
106
150
19%
Oct ‘01
Tampa 85
100
35%
Jun ‘03
San Diego
FCRC 91
May ‘04
New York
WWW 97
146
16%
Jun ‘05
Vancouver
none 77
113
28%
Jun ‘06
Ann Arbor
175
127
Jun ‘07
136
154
27%
Jul ‘08
Chicago
AAAI
156
198
Jul ‘09
Stanford
TARK
177
161
25%
Jun ‘10
Cambridge
STOC, WEIS
228
33%
Jun ‘11
San Jose
182
189
26%
Jun ‘12
Valencia
AAMAS
170
219
Jun ’13
Philadelphia -
Premier forum for CS research on commerce and economics

3. SIGecom Finances
Conference
Revenue
Expenses
Net**
EC’12 (Valencia)
$130,00*
$113,500*
$14,000*
EC’11 (San Jose)
$27,000
$27,200
($300)
EC’10 (Cambridge)
$115,000
$67,000
$40,000
EC’09 (Palo Alto)
$89,000
$71,000
$15,000
EC’08 (Chicago)
$93,000
$79,000
$12,000
EC’07 (San Diego)
$50,000
$28,000
$18,000
EC’06 (Ann Arbor)
$88,000
$20,000
$57,000
EC’05 (Vancouver)
$30,000
$11,000
$16,000
EC’04 (New York)
$32,000 $0
Annual Conference averaging a surplus of $19,000 to SIG since 2004
* Estimated **after SIG overhead

4. TEAC and Exchanges SIG Exchanges newsletter
Published 2-3/year since 2000
Original research, conf reports, book reviews, surveys
Continued rejuvenation under Yiling Chen 2010+; Publishing timely and topical surveys from area leaders; Editor’s puzzle.
New editor: Ariel Procaccia
Past Editors: Yiling Chen, Vincent Conitzer, William Walsh, Amy Greenwald, Peter Wurman
ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation
Launched August, 2011
EiCs: Vince Conitzer (Duke) and Preston McAfee (Google)
42+ unique submissions, 9 accepted

5. SIGecom activities
New award proposals (“test of time”, best dissertation, best paper and best student paper)
In-cooperation events:
RecSys’09-13, WINE 12, SAGT 10-11, AMMA’11
Supported events: CAEC, CAOSS, BAGT, NYCE …
Annual conference:
Embracing breadth (1.5 tracks, short abstracts, posters)
Inter-disciplinary: co-locate with Decentralization in 2014
Workshops: auctions;
Challenges:
Membership at 250, was 326 in 2009
Ensuring relevance to breadth of “econ + CS” research (more than just theory)

6. SIGecom Volunteers SIGecom Officers EC’13, Philadelphia 6/16-20
Chair: David Parkes (Harvard)
Vice: Tim Roughgarden (Stanford)
Treas: Yiling Chen (Harvard)
Info director: Felix Fischer (Cambr.)
EC’13, Philadelphia 6/16-20
General: M. Kearns (Penn)
Program: P. McAfee (Google), E. Tardos (Cornell)
ACM TEAC
EiCs: V Conitzer (Duke), P McAfee (Google)
SIGecom Exchanges
Editor: A Procaccia (CMU)
Upcoming young leaders
Nicole Immorlica, Yiling Chen, Moshe Babaioff, Shuchi Chawla, Arpita Ghosh, Costis Daskalakis, Aaron Roth, Jason Hartline,…
Past Conference Officials:
S Feldman (IBM)
M Wellman (U Michigan)
A Jhingran (IBM)
J MacKie-Mason (U Mich)
D Tygar (UC Berkeley)
Y Shoham (Stanford)
D Menascé (GMU)
N Nisan (Hebrew U)
J Breese (Microsoft)
J Feigenbaum (Yale)
M Seltzer (Harvard)
J Riedl (U Minnesota)
M Kearns (U Penn)
M Reiter (CMU)
J Chuang (UC Berkeley)
D Pennock (Yahoo!)
D Parkes (Harvard)
P Resnick (U Michigan)
L Fortnow (Northwestern)
T Sandholm (CMU)
P Pu (EPFL)
C Dellarocas (BU)
M Tennenholtz (Technion)
T Roughgarden (Stanford)
Y Chen (Michigan)
B Faltings (EPFL)
K Leyton-Brown (UBC)
P Ipeirotis (NYU)