STATISTICAL CHALLENGES IN ECOMMERCE
FIRST INTERDISCIPLINARY SYMPOSIUM BETWEEN INFORMATION SYSTEMS,
STATISTICS & RELATED FIELDS
Date: May 22-23, 2005
SYNOPSIS:
Electronic
commerce produces an increasing amount of data-related questions and problems. Modern
web-crawling technologies, which allow for a convenient collection of data from
the Internet, result in huge databases. The openness of online marketplaces
allows competitors to observe each others moves. Traditional statistical models
are not designed for the amount of data found on the web. They are also not suited
to take into account the dynamics of online transactions as competitors react to
each others moves in real time.
This workshop focuses on identifying problems and research questions related to empirical research in electronic commerce by bringing together researchers from Information Systems, Statistics and related fields to help better understand how these various lines of work connect to one another and how, together, they can contribute to the modernization and enhancement of empirical research methods for electronic commerce and our digital society at large.
| Workshop Chairs: |
| Wolfgang Jank |
| Galit Shmueli |
| Workshop Steering Committee: |
| Stephen Fienberg (CMU) |
| Donald Rubin (Harvard) |
| Chrysanthos Dellarocas (University of Maryland) |
| Erik Brynjolfsson (MIT) |
| Joni Jones (University of South Florida) |
| Sponsor: |
| The workshop is sponsored by the
National Science Foundation (Division of Information & Intelligent Systems)  |
| Also Supported By: |
| Center for Electronic Markets
and Enterprises Director: Joseph Bailey |
| Statistics Consortium Director: Partha Lahiri |