The last decade has seen a shift in emphasis from centralised to decentralised systems to
meet the demanding coordination requirements of today's complex computer systems. In …

The prevalence of on-line auctions has stimulated the interest of both the economists and
computer scientists in an effort to understand and improve their rules. One famous form of …

This paper analyzes the entrants to the 2007 TAC Market Design competition. It presents a
classification of the entries to the competition, and uses this classification to compare these …

For a number of years we have been working towards the goal of automatically creating
auction mechanisms, using a range of techniques from evolutionary and multi-agent …

This paper analyzes the entrants to the 2007 tac Market Design Game. We present a
classification of the entries to the competition, and use this classification to compare these …

This paper presents an approach to automated mechanism design in the domain of double
auctions. We describe a novel parameterized space of double auctions, and then introduce …

Cloud computing is a promising way providing users computing resources. These resources
are provided by means of standard computing instances. Currently there are three price …

In this paper we describe the IAMwildCAT agent, designed for the TAC Market Design game
which is part of the International Trading Agent Competition. The objective of an agent in this …

Real market institutions, stock and commodity exchanges for example, do not occur in
isolation. Company stock is frequently listed on several stock exchanges, and futures …

Real market institutions, stock and commodity exchanges for example, do not occur in
isolation. The same stocks and commodities may be listed on multiple exchanges, and …