SCECR 2007
 On Saturday and Sunday, May 19th-20th, the OPIM department hosted the Third Statistical Challenges in eCommerce Research Symposium (SCECR 2007). The symposium was a tremendous success with presentations, tutorial and panel discussion by over 50 renowned scholars from more than twenty universities around the world, including Carnegie-Mellon, MIT, NYU, Texas, Georgia Tech, Maryland, Cornell, University of Toronto, Indian School of Business and Singapore School of Management. UConn’s OPIM had a strong presence with presentations by several of its faculty members. SCECR 07 was co-chaired by Paulo Goes, Gladstein Professor of IT and Innovation from UConn, Ravi Bapna, from the Indian School of Business, Dipak Dey, Head of Statistics Department at UConn, and P.K. Kannan from the University of Maryland.
“At the intersection of information systems, marketing, operations, strategy, statistics and computer science, the field of eCommerce continues to grow very rapidly”, said Paulo Goes. “The new Internet and web technologies that have been introduced in the past few years have unleashed tremendous opportunities and challenges to businesses. SCECR brings together researchers in several fields who are facing these fascinating problems related to how to deal with massive amounts of ecommerce data”. Goes also added, “The success of SCECR-07 reinforces the fact that UConn’s OPIM research is right at the center of leading edge research being done in eCommerce these days”.
Several interesting problems that require advanced statistics analysis and data mining solutions were presented and discussed at length. These included analyzing massive amounts of information from the growing space of social networks on the web, designing increasingly intelligent recommendation and personalization systems, analysis and design of advanced economic online auction mechanisms, strategic alignment of web operations by firms, etc.
The keynote speech was given by Yahoo! Research principal scientist David Pennock. Dr. Pennock heads the Microeconomics and ecommerce research group, and has been identified by MIT’s Technology Review magazine as one of the top 35 innovators under age 35 having the potential to profoundly impact the world. In his address he overviewed the rapidly growing application of web-based Information Markets and how the fields of machine learning and economic incentives are increasingly coupled together in the new web era.
The symposium was sponsored by OPIM’s CIDRIS – Center for Internet Data and Intelligence Services, CITI – Connecticut Information Technology Institute and GE's edgelab. The 2-day event was held in the edgelab facility, located on the University of Connecticut Stamford campus. Information on the symposium, presentations, tutorial and more is available at www.citi.uconn.edu/scecr07.
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