Fifth Symposium on Statistical Challenges in Electronic Commerce Research

Fifth Symposium on Statistical Challenges in Electronic Commerce Research

Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
May 30 and 31, 2009

PROGRAM

Please note that all presentations will be held in the Heinz College at Carnegie Mellon University. Directions to the building hosting the different events are available on our Travel page.

SCECR_Program in pdf

Saturday, May 30th

7:45-8:15 Room 1002 Breakfast

8:15-8:30    Room 1000   Welcome and opening remarks

8:30-9:45    Room 1502   Session I (Data learning)

1. Social Network Signatures: A Random Graph Approximation Framework for Re-Identification (S Hill)

2. Active Learning for Recommender Systems with Multiple Localized Models (M Deodhar, J Ghosh, M Tsechansky)

3. Identification of Churn and Fraud Communities in Large Scale Customer Networks (T Dierkes, M Bichler, R Krishnan)

8:30-9:45    Room 1001   Session I (Media and Competition)

1. The market is flat: Does electronic Trading Reduce Geographic Price Variance? (E Overby, C Forman)

2. How inter-organizational systems affect geography based competition: Evidence from the Dutch Insurance industry (W Vermeer, O Koppius, D Liere)

3. User Generated Content in Mobile Digital Media: Modeling Interdependencies, Social Effects and Geographic Mobility (A Ghose, S P Han)

9:45- 10:15    Room 1002   Coffee Break

10:15-11:30 Room 1502 Session II (Media Sharing)

1. Understanding the Impact of Social Influence in an Online Music Community (J Ramprasad, S Dewan)

2. Characterizing Digital Media Exchanges in a university Campus Network (A Mateus, J Peha)

3. Social Influence and Social Norms in P2P networks – A Longitudinal Analysis of Individual Contributions and Peer Enforcements in a Music Sharing Network (B Gu, Y Huang, W Duan, A Whinston)

10:15-11:30 Room 1001 Session II (Social Networks)

1. Informational Cascades and Contagion in online social networks (J Oh, A Susarla, Y Tan)

2. Judging Borrowers by the Company they keep: The value of Social Networks in Online P2P Lending (M Lin, S Viswanathan, N Prabhala)

3. Campus Vs Facebook: When Offline Communities Meet Online (X Bai, Y Yao)

11:45-12:45 Lunch – The Great Hall in the College of Fine Arts

1-1:45pm     Room 1000    Keynote address, Andrei Broder, Yahoo!

1:45-2:30      Room 1502   Session III (Outsourcing)

1. Social Networks and Contract Enforcement in IT outsourcing (V. Gurbaxani, K. Ravindran, A. Susarla)

2. Does Training Improve Performance of Offshore IT workers? (R Bapna, R Gopal, A Gupta, N Langer, A Mehra)

1:45-2:30      Room 1001   Session III (Auction)

1. Heterogeneous User Behavior in Multiple Overlapping online Auctions (S Chang, G Tayi

2. Evolution of Demand Distribution in Sequential Online Auctions (P Goes, A Tripathi)

2:30-4pm      Room 1000   Industry Panel

Social Media Research in practice

Chris Volinsky, Director, Statistics Research, AT&T, Charita Johnson - ESPN, Bonin Bough, Director of Digital and Social Media at Pepsico, Jay Srini, Chief Innovation Officer, Univ. of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC)

4-4:45pm Room 1502 Session IV (Long Tail)

1. The moderating role of Search costs on Long Tail (M. Wimble, J. Tripp, B. Phillips, V. Sambamurthy)

2. The influence of Online word-of-mouth of long tail formation in online book sale: An empirical analysis (Bin Gu, Q. Tang, A. Whinston)

4-4:45pm Room 1001 Session IV 1001 (Online Privacy)

1. Inferring Sensitive information from Online Public Data (A. Acquisti)

2. Audience Selection for Online Brand Advertising: Privacy-Friendly Social Network Targeting (F.Provost, B .Dalessandro, R. Hook, X. Zhang, A. Murray)

5pm: Buses Depart the circular driveway area near the East Campus parkging garage for PNC Park and Dinner

5:30-7pm: Dinner at the PNC Park

7-11pm: Pirates Baseball Game and Fireworks

Sunday, May 31st

8-8:30 Room 1002 Breakfast

8:30-10 Room 1502 Session I (Media Forecasting)

1. Music Sales and Online user activity at Social Networking Sites (C Chen and R Chellappa)

2. Forecasting the Sales of Music Albums: A functional Data Analysis of Demand and Supply side P2P Data (Il-Horn Hann, J Oh, G James)

3. A Million dollar Reward: Accurate Online Prediction of Movie Ratings (S Bhattacharjee, M Bragin, D Zhdanov)

4. No Meaningful Impact? The Effect of Pre-Release Piracy on Movie Box Office Sales (L. Ma, P. Vir Singh, M. Smith)

8:30-10 Room 1001 Session I (Online Diffusion)

1. Spreading the Oprah Effect: The Diffusion of Demand Shocks in an Online Recommendation Network (E Carmi, G Oestreicher-Singer, A Sunderarajan)

2. Peer Influence and Information Diffusion in Online Networks (R Garg, M Smith, R Telang)

3. New Product Diffusion over a Social Network: The case of iPhone (D Birke)

4. Modeling Network Effects with Markov Logic Networks for Churn Prediction in the Telecommunication Industry (T Dierkes, M Bichler, R Krishnan)

10 -10:30 Room 1002 Coffee Break

10:30-11:45 Room 1000 Policy Panel

Statistical Challenges of Ecommerce Data for Policy Analysis

Co-Chairs: Jon Peha (Chief Technologist, FCC and Professor, CMU), Elizabeth Andrion (Chief, Office of Strategic Planning and Policy Analysis, FCC)

Panelists: Jonathan Levy (Deputy Chief Economist FCC), Amit Schejter (Co-Director, Institute for Information Policy, PSU), John Horrigan (Associate Director of Research, Pew Internet Project)

12-1:30 Room 1000 Lunch

Keynote address, Steve Fienberg

1:30-3pm Room 1502 Session III (Product Design)

1. Optimizing Screen ‘Real Estate’ at a B2C e-Commerce site: Design and Analysis of a 7-dimensional Field Experiment (N Lenten, O Koppius, R Lans)

2. Impact of Online Health Communities on Patients with Rare Disease (J Goh, G Gao, R Agarwal)

3. Providing Free Samples of Creative Content: Issues, Models and Analysis (P. K. Kannan)

4. Impact of health web based self service on call center (A Kumar and R Telang)

1:30-3pm Room 1001 Session III (Online Search and Text mining)

1. Using Field Experiments to Examine the Linkages Between User Generated Content and Search Engine Advertising (A Ghose)

2. Modeling User Click Behavior in Sponsored Search (V Abhishek, P Fader, K Hosanagar)

3. Avoiding the Blind Spots: Competitor Identification using Web Text and Linkages Structure (G Pant, O Sheng)

4. Searching for “something”: The role of Product networks and social networks in ill defined searches in Online environment (J Goldenberg, G Oestreicher-Singer, S Reichman)

End of the Symposium

Questions? Email scecr-workshop@andrew.cmu.edu.