Intellectual Property and Economics Members Chairs: Mike Wellman, chair, U. of Michigan Ann Arbor, AI, information/agent economies Christos Nikolaou, chair, ERCIM (FORTH which is the greek member institute) and U. of Crete, microeconomic algorithms for load balancing, transaction processing systems, distributed systems American Side: Jeffrey MacKie-Mason, U. of Michigan Ann Arbor, information/internet economies, pricing Jakka Sairamesh, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, microeconomic algorithms for load balancing, performance management, distributed systems Ann Okerson, Yale University, policy issues for libraries Pamela Samuelson, U. of California, Berkeley, policy/legal issues for information society, electronic commerce Bernard Rous, ACM, electronic publishing European Side: Costis Dallas, Greek Ministry of Foreign Affairs, computational archaelogy, museum information systems, IPR issues for "online cultural objects" Christine Vanoirbeek, ERCIM (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland), electronic publishing and commerce Sebastien Steinmetz, Econometrics Lab of Ecole polytechnique P. Bernt Hugenholtz, Institute for Information Law, University of Amsterdam