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There is now a CONTENT FREEZE for Mercury while we switch to a new platform. It began on Friday, March 10 at 6pm and will end on Wednesday, March 15 at noon. No new content can be created during this time, but all material in the system as of the beginning of the freeze will be migrated to the new platform, including users and groups. Functionally the new site is identical to the old one. webteam@gatech.edu
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The proliferation of electronic marketplaces opens new opportunities for deploying automated trading strategies. Much of the existent literature on trading agents concerns isolated markets employing continuous double auction mechanisms. Alternative market mechanisms (including combinatorial), as well as complexes of interrelated markets, present distinct strategic issues. Lessons for trading agents can be gleaned
from studies of a variety of market games, including studies of
scenarios in scheduling, supply chain formation, and travel shopping. The latter has served as the basis for an international Trading Agent Competition (http://tac.eecs.umich.edu), providing a forum to compare
approaches from a diverse collection of agent developers.
