Software
During the project we developed two suites of software for simulating
auctions, and collaborated on the development of a third.
JCAT is a simulator, written in Java, designed and built to support
the Trading Agent
Competition Market Design game.In essence, JCAT provides the
means to set up many parallel auction markets, and traders that move
between them.
JCAT was designed and developed by the team at Brooklyn College.
JCAT is available under an open-source licence.
JASA is a high-performance auction simulator, written in Java, that
implements a variety of auction mechanisms and agent bidding
strategies. It is intended to be easily extensible, and one aim behind
its development is to provide reference implmentations of all commonly
used bidding strategies.
JASA was initially developed by Steve Phelps, University of Liverpool,
and the team at Brooklyn College has been responsible for adding a
number of features to the system.
JASA is available under an open-source licence.
CMAS
CMAS is flexible auction simulator written in Lisp. It is less
powerful than JASA, but was developed to provide a high degree of
parameterisation, allowing many different simulations to be run. It
also (at the cost of performance) allows a detailed view of the
internal machanics of the auction.
CMAS was designed and developed by the team at Booklyn College.
CMAS is available on request. We will make it available for download
in the near future.