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<span style="color: black;">Dear IS community, <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: black;"><b>One week</b> left </span><span style="color: black;">to submit a <b>2-page extended abstract</b> to the <b>21st annual Symposium on Statistical Challenges in Electronic Commerce Research (SCECR)</b>, held in the beautiful
coastal city of Paphos, Cyprus, from June 22-24 2025.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="color: black;">Topics of interest include</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black;">,</span><span style="color: black;"> but are not limited to, electronic markets, digital platforms, digitization of products and services, online social exchanges,
artificial intelligence, the future of work, social media, fintech, health care, education, and sustainability. We want to encourage papers that study technological, algorithmic, social, economic, policy, management, and legal aspects. We welcome methodological
contributions to statistics, data science, machine learning, artificial intelligence, econometrics, agent-based modeling, and other empirical approaches. Submissions should highlight the statistical and empirical challenges that arise from these approaches.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="color: black;">We seek to gather interdisciplinary scholars interested in the careful and robust application of empirical and analytic methods to tackle their research questions. Scholars with early-stage and risky work are encouraged to submit
to receive feedback from the diverse audience of the SCECR community.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="color: black;">The deadline for submission is <b>March 7, 2025</b>, and notifications of paper decisions will be communicated by <b>April 7, 2025</b>. Authors should submit a two-page extended abstract (excluding references, figures, and tables)
that outlines their research questions, the corresponding empirical challenges, the research approach pursued to address their questions and these challenges, and a preview of results obtained.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="color: black;">Abstracts should be submitted via EasyChair:<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=scecr2025" title="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=scecr2025" style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 134, 240);">https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=scecr2025</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: black;">For more info, please have a look at SCECR’s website<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.scecr.com/" title="http://www.scecr.com" style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 134, 240);">www.scecr.com</span></a></span><span style="color: black;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="color: black;">Best,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="color: black;">Michail Batikas<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="color: black;">Assistant Professor<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="color: black;">Nova School of Business and Economics<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="color: black;">Webpage:<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.batikas.io/" style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 134, 240);">www.batikas.io</span></a></span></p>
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