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Leon Zamosc

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UC San Diego
Leon is a professor in the Department of Sociology at University of California, San Diego. His research interests are: Latin American societies; political sociology; ethnicity and indigenous peoples; social movements; civil society and citizenship.
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Ronit Matalon

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Haifa University
Ronit is a professor in the Department of Hebrew and Comparative Literature at Haifa University. Her research interests are women in literature.
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Roi Baer

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The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Institute of Chemistry, Faculty of Science
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

Research Interests: Electronic structure of molecules, clusters and nanoclusters. Solar cells based on nanoclusters, organic molecules and nanotubes.

Foundations of Technology-Assisted Trading

[RG #99] Foundations of Technology-Assisted Trading

September 1, 2004 - August 31, 2004

Organizers:

Daniel Lehmann (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Motty Perry (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

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The emergence of the Internet, about half a decade ago, is causing significant changes to society at large and to several academic disciplines in particular. Technologically-Assisted Trading (known colloquially as e-commerce) is now becoming a focus of increasing research interest at the boundary between Economics and Computer Science. While the first boom-and-bust cycle of these changes has passed, it is clear that profound changes still await us and that it will take society some time to fully develop all the consequences as well as adopt many of the new technical possibilities.

The group will conduct a program of interdisciplinary research on one of the most important new possibilities opened up by the internet: electronic commerce. Which much practical work has been done on the "mechanics" of electronic conmmerce (communication protocols, security, software tools, cash transfers, etc.), less attention has been paid to understand the nature of the content that is is supposed to be delivered by these "mechanics". In other words, what are the economic mechanisms that will or should be implemented by such "mechanics"?

We believe that there are theoretical foundations for electronic commerce and that the time is ripe to start formulating them.

 

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Daniel Lehmann

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The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Daniel is a professor in the School of Engineering and Computer Sciences at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His research interests are artificial intelligence: algorithmic mechanism design, optimization in economics, nonmonotonic reasoning and quantum logics.
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Virginia Burrus

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Syracuse University
Virginia Burrus is the Bishop W. Earl Ledden Professor of Religion at Syracuse University. Prior to joining the Syracuse faculty she taught for twenty-two years at Drew University.