NSF Decentralization Conference

27-29 October 2000
Yorktown, New York, USA

Conference information, including information about the conference hotel, is available at
(http://weber.ucsd.edu/~decent/)



NSF DECENTRALIZATION CONFERENCE PROGRAM:
(times and schedule items subject to change)

LOCATION: Yorktown Auditorium Front, T.J. Watson Research Center, IBM Corporation, Yorktown Heights, New York

Friday 27 October
8:45 - 9:15 Coffee
9:15 - 9:30 Welcome
9:30 - 10:30 Charles Zheng
"Optimal Auction meets Resale"
10:30 - 10:45 Break
10:45 - 11:45 Beth Allen
"On Process Planning with Multiple Agents: How to Decide which Process Plan to Use"
11:45 - 1:15 Lunch
1:15 - 2:15 Zvika Neeman
"Markets vs. Negotiation"
2:15 - 2:30 Break
2:30 - 3:30 David Lucking-Reilly
"Business-to-Business Electronic Commerce"
3:30 - 3:45 Break
3:45 - 4:45 Gary Bolton
"Centralized vs. Decentralized markets"
4:45 - 5:00 Break
5:00 - 6:00 Martin Sefton
"Risk, Pre-play Communication, and Equilibrium"

Saturday 28 October
8:15 - 8:45 Coffee
8:45 - 9:45 Eric Friedman
"The Social Cost of Cheap Pseudonyms"
9:45 - 10:00 Break
10:00 - 11:00 John Ledyard
"Evolutionary Learning and Mechanism Design"
11:00 - 1:00 Lunch
1:00 - 2:00 Nir Vulcan
"E-Commerce, Mass Customisation and Price Discrimination"
2:00 - 2:15 Break
2:15 - 3:15 John Wooders
"Reputations in Auctions: Theory, and Evidence from eBay"
3:15 - 3:30 Break
3:30 - 4:30 Yan Chen
"Asynchrony and Learning in Serial and Average Cost Pricing Mechanisms: An Experimental Study"
4:30 - 4:45 Break
4:45 - 5:45 Thijs ten Raa
"Outsourcing of Services and the Productivity Recovery in U.S. Manufacturing in the 1980s and 1990s"
7:30 - 9:00 Conference Dinner

Sunday 29 October
9:00 - 9:30 Coffee
9:30 - 10:30 Robert Axtell
"Roving Bands of Autonomous Software Agents"
10:30 - 10:45 Break
9:30 - 10:30 Robert Axtell
"Roving Bands of Autonomous Software Agents"
10:30 - 10:45 Break
10:45 - 11:45 Suzhou Huang
"Equilibrium Structure and Effective Dynamics of Sequential Pricing Games"
11:45 End of Conference

FURTHER INFORMATION
Inquiries and requests to join the mailing list for further information may be directed to: Steven Gjerstad, gjerstad@us.ibm.com