The first TAC market design competition

Paper:

An analysis of entries in the first TAC market design competition

Appears:

IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology

Abstract:

This paper presents an analysis of entries in the first TAC Market Design Competition final that compares the entries across several scenarios. The analysis complements previous work analyzing the 2007 competition, demonstrating some vulnerabilities of entries that placed highly in the competition. The paper also suggests a simple strategy that would have performed well.

Keywords:

Double auction, mechanism design, trading agent competition.

Availability:

This paper is available as a PDF file.

Other information:

This paper is a copy of the camera-ready version that appeared in the conference proceedings.