Abstract Machines powered by artificial intelligence increasingly mediate our social, cultural,
economic and political interactions. Understanding the behaviour of artificial intelligence …

There is a veritable menagerie of auctions—single-dimensional, multi-dimensional, single-
sided, double-sided, first-price, second-price, English, Dutch, Japanese, sealed-bid—and …

A fundamental problem in building open distributed systems is to design mechanisms that
compute optimal system-wide solutions despite the self-interest of individual users and …

Abstract The Continuous Double Auction (CDA) is the dominant market institution for real-
world trading of equities, commodities, derivatives, etc. We describe a series of laboratory …

This paper presents an in-depth analysis and the key insights gained from the Second
International Automated Negotiating Agents Competition (ANAC 2011). ANAC is an …

In a symmetric game, every player is identical with respect to the game rules. We show that a
symmetric 2strategy game must have a pure-strategy Nash equilibrium. We also discuss …

Motivated by the challenges of bilateral negotiations between people and automated agents
we organized the first automated negotiating agents competition (ANAC 2010). The purpose …

We envision a future economy where e–markets will play an essential role as exchange
hubs for commodities and services. Future e–markets should be designed to be robust to …

The cloud system is designed, implemented and conceptualized as a marketplace where
resources are traded. This demands efficient allocation of resources to benefit both the cloud …

Multi-agent systems (MASs) is an area of distributed artificial intelligence that emphasizes
the joint behaviors of agents with some degree of autonomy and the complexities arising …