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Schedule

Friday

August 21, 2009

Time Event Location
6:30 pm - 8:00 pm Welcome Reception AT&T Executive Center,

Gabriel Cafe

Saturday

August 22, 2009

8:00– 9:00am

Registration and Breakfast

Legacy Events Room

9:00 -9:15am

Welcome and opening remarks

Legacy Events Room

9:15 - 9:45am

Invited speaker: Alexader Tuzhilin, New York University.    From Marketing Science towards Marketing Engineering… and Back Again

Legacy Events Room

9:45-10:25 am

User Profiling using Web Browsing Data (Alan Montgomery and Ashish Agarwal)

Co-Clustering for Multi-Relational Market Survey Data (Priyank Patel, Meghana Deodhar, and Joydeep Ghosh)

Legacy Events Room

10:25– 10:45 am

Coffee break

Legacy Events Room

10:45-12:00pm

Improving Recommendation Diversity: A Ranking-Based Approach (Gediminas Adomavicius and YoungOk Kwon, University of Minnesota)

Impact of Social Network Structure on Content Propagation: A Study using YouTube Data (Hema Yoganarasimhan, University of Clifornia, Davis)

Estimating the Sales Impact of Recommend Intention Within a Social Network (Lerzan Aksoy, Alexander Buoye, Bruce Cooil, Timothy L. Keiningham, DeDe Paul, and Chris Volinsky)

Legacy Events Room

12:00 – 1:15 pm

Lunch

Legacy Events Room

1:15– 2:30 pm

BANTER -- Social Media Analytics in the Blogosphere (Pei-Yun Hsueh, Richard Lawrence, Yan Liu, Estephan Meliksetian, Prem Melville, Claudia Perlich , Vikas Sindhwani)

Can You See Us Now? A Study on Web Site Visibility (Gautam Pant, Shagun Pant, and Padmini Srinivasan)

The Economic Impact of User-Generated Content: Combining Text Mining with Demand Estimation in the Hotel Industry (Anindya Ghose, Panagiotis Ipeirotis, and Beibei Li)

Legacy Events Room

2:30–3:00pm

Coffee break

Legacy Events Room

3:00–4:30pm

Invited Speaker: Gerald Fahner, FICO. Estimating Causal Effects of Credit Decisions Using Propensity Score Methodologies

 Imbalanced Learning for Online Consumer Behavior: Noise-based Selective Under-Sampling Method (Zhuo Yang    Olivia R. Liu Sheng, and Xiao Fang)

 The Effects of Technique and Data Complexity on the Quality of Forecasts: Predicting SKU Demand in A Grocery Retail Environment (Özden Gür Ali, Serpil Sayın, Tom van Woensel and Jan Fransoo)

Legacy Events Room

6:30 pm

Bus pick up for dinner. Meet at the AT&T Center lobby

 AT&T Center lobby

7:00–9:30pm

Dinner

Shoreline Grill. Lake Austin

    Sunday

    August 23, 2009

Time

Event

Location

7:30 am - 8:30 am

 Breakfast

Legacy Events Room

8:30 am -9:45 am

Invited speaker: Foster Provost, New York University. "Audience Selection for On-line Brand Advertising:
Privacy-friendly Social Network Targeting"

Deriving Value from Consumer Networks (Shawndra Hill)

Who Wants What's Hot? A Joint Model of Customers’ Choices of Popular Products and Customer Value with an Application to the DVD Rental Business  (Anita Elberse and David A. Schweidel)

Legacy Events Room

9:45 am -10:15am

Coffee break

Legacy Events Room

10:15 am - 12:00 pm

Securities Trading of Concepts (STOC)  (Ely Dahan, Adlar J. Kim, Andrew W. Lo, Tomaso Poggio,  and Nicholas Chan)

TacTex: A Champion Autonomous Agent for Sponsored Search Advertising (David Pardoe, Doran Chakraborty, and Peter Stone)

 Online Retail Keyword Characteristics and Search Engine Marketing Performance (Han-fen Hu and Olivia R. Liu Sheng)

 Simultaneous Auctions of Identical Goods by Sellers of Different Reputations: Theory and Experimental Evidence (Ravi Bapna, Chrysanthos Dellarocas, and Sarah Rice)

Legacy Events Room

12:00 pm 

Lunch

Legacy Events Room