Overview

The MIS Research Center will host a symposium for the research community that will focus on interdisciplinary research involving the use of statistical methods in the development of e-commerce and Internet-related research results. The 2nd Statistical Challenges in E-Commerce Research Symposium, scheduled for Monday, May 22 and Tuesday, May 23, 2006, follows up the inaugural event held at the R. H. Smith School of Management of the University of Maryland last year.

The purpose of the symposium is to showcase issues and solutions at the interface of statistics, econometrics and data mining as they relate to current e-commerce and technology research that touches upon electronic markets, financial services, auction markets, Internet-based selling and strategic pricing, electronic procurement, customer relationship management, and other current topics. Our hope is to bring together scholars from the statistics, economics, marketing, computer science, IS, and public affairs disciplines for the presentation and development of research that is of joint interest.

Participation will be by invitation and through the submission of two-page abstracts of the proposed research presentation. Participating authors will be invited to submit related papers in September 2006, for consideration to publish in a journal in 2007. Doctoral students, university faculty and industry participants are all welcome to participate.

Co-Chairs. The Research Symposium co-chairs, Sudipto Banerjee, Mark Bergen, Rob Kauffman and Shashi Shekhar, are faculty members at the University of Minnesota with interests in the study of e-commerce phenomena from their respective interdisciplinary viewpoints in: Biostatistics and Public Health (Sudipto), Marketing and Logistics Management (Mark), Information and Decision Sciences (Rob), and Computer Science (Shashi).

If you would like to discuss any aspect of planned scientific program coverage or have ideas about how you might wish to participate, feel free to contact the co-chairs by phone or email.

Sudipto Banerjee , Assistant Professor, Division of Biostatistics, School of Public Health ,
Email: sudiptob@biostat.umn.edu . Phone: 612-624-0624.

Mark Bergen , Carolyn I. Anderson Professor in Business Education Excellence, Marketing and Logistics Management Department, Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota. Email: berge039@umn.edu or mbergen@csom.umn.edu . Phone: 612-624-1821.

Rob Kauffman , Director, MIS Research Center , and Professor and Chair, Information and Decision Sciences, Carlson School of Management , University of Minnesota . Email: rkauffman@csom.umn.edu or kauff002@umn.edu . Phone: 612-624-8562.

Shashi Shekhar, McKnight Distinguished University Professor and Director, Army High Performance Computing Research Center, Department of Computer Science, Institute of Technology, University of Minnesota. Email: shekhar@cs.umn.edu . Phone: 612-624-8307.

Event Manager
Donna Sarppo, Assistant Director, MIS Research Center, Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota . Email: dsarppo@csom.umn.edu . Phone: 612-624-9520.