Notes and Reading - Lecture #6

Lecture #6 was on double auctions

Notes

Notes are available in two formats:

1 slide per page, PDF.
4 slides per page, PDF.

Reading

We have two readings in preparation for next week. One is a description of some previous work on designing entries for the market design game:

Niu, J., Cai, K., Gerding, E., McBurney, P. and Parsons, S. Characterizing effective auction mechanisms: Insights from the 2007 TAC market design competition, Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, Estoril, Portugal, 2008.

The other is the paper that Marcin will present if we have time:

Anthony, P. and Jennings, N. R. A Heuristic Bidding Strategy for Multiple Heterogeneous Auctions, Proceedings of the International Conference on Electronic Commerce, Pittsburgh, 2003.