There has been a growing interest in the area as Web search becomes a part of everyday life as the most frequently used method of finding information and the search industry is growing at a rapid pace. However, despite its fast growth the industry faces major challenges on its path to a healthy mature industry ... read more

NetEcon merges two workshops held in previous years: P2PEcon (Economics of Peer-to-Peer Systems) and PINS (Practice and Theory of Incentives in Networked Systems). The goal of the workshop is to promote a cross-disciplinary exchange of ideas on the role of game-theoretic and economic principles in the design and analysis ... read more

Are you interested in e-commerce / machine learning / operations research / data mining / artificial intelligence? Put your skills to the ultimate test. Enter an intelligent bidding agent in the 2006 Sponsored Search Bidding Agent Competition . The winner of the 2006 Sponsored Search Bidding Agent Competition will be announced during the banquet on Wednesday, June 14. Your intelligent agent will need to balance exploration versus exploitation in real-time (the classic k-armed bandit problem), and react intelligently to fickle and potentially explosive changes ... read more