Publications

The following papers are based in part on research performed within the MARX project, which commenced in May 1997.

Journal Articles

published

• Market-aware agents for a multiagent world (MP Wellman and PR Wurman). Robotics and Autonomous Systems, 24:115-125, 1998. Based on an invited talk at the Eighth European Workshop on Modelling Autonomous Agents in a Multi-Agent World (MAAMAW-97).
• Flexible double auctions for electronic commerce: Theory and implementation (PR Wurman, WE Walsh, and MP Wellman). Decision Support Systems, 24:17-27, 1998.
• Auction protocols for decentralized scheduling (MP Wellman, WE Walsh, PR Wurman, and JK MacKie-Mason). Games and Economic Behavior, to appear.
• A parametrization of the auction design space (PR Wurman, WE Walsh, and MP Wellman). Games and Economic Behavior, to appear.

submitted

• A market protocol for decentralized task allocation and scheduling with hierarchical dependencies (WE Walsh and MP Wellman). Submitted March 1999. (Resubmission encouraged)
• One size doesn't fit all: Improving network QoS through preference-driven Web caching (YM Chan, J Womer, JK MacKie-Mason, and S Jamin). Submitted May 1999.
• Optimal resource allocation control in multi-service connection-oriented networks (P Thomas, D Teneketzis, and JK MacKie-Mason). Submitted July 1999.
• A market framework for pooling opinions (DM Pennock and MP Wellman). Submitted July 1999.

Conference Papers

published

• The Michigan Internet AuctionBot: A configurable auction server for human and software agents (PR Wurman, MP Wellman, and WE Walsh). Second International Conference on Autonomous Agents, pages 301-308, May 1998.
• Some economics of market-based distributed scheduling (WE Walsh, MP Wellman, PR Wurman, and JK MacKie-Mason). Eighteenth International Conference on Distributed Computer Systems, pages 612-621, May 1998.
• Real time issues in Internet auctions (MP Wellman and PR Wurman). IEEE Workshop on Dependable and Real-Time Electronic Commerce (DARE-98), June 1998.
• A market protocol for decentralized task allocation (WE Walsh and MP Wellman). Third International Conference on Multiagent Systems, pages 325-332, July 1998.
• Biased replacement policies for web caches: Differential quality-of-service and aggregate user value (TP Kelly, YM Chan, S Jamin, and JK MacKie-Mason). Fourth International Web Caching Workshop, March 1999.
• Efficiency and equilibrium in task allocation economies with hierarchical dependencies (WE Walsh and MP Wellman). Sixteenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, pages 520-526, August 1999.
• Automated strategy searches in an electronic goods market: Learning and complex price schedules (CH Brooks, S Fay, R Das, JK MacKie-Mason, JO Kephart, and EH Durfee). ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce, November 1999.
• The case for market-based push caching (Extended abstract) (YM Chan, J Womer, S Jamin, JK MacKie-Mason). International Telecommunications and Electronic Commerce Conference, November 1999.
• Survivability through market-based adaptivity: The MARX project (J Eggleston, S Jamin, TP Kelly, JK MacKie-Mason, WE Walsh, and MP Wellman). DARPA Information Survivability Conference, January 2000.

submitted

• Variable QoS from shared web caches: User-centered design and value-sensitive replacement (TP Kelly, S Jamin, JK MacKie-Mason). Submitted July 1999.

Miscellaneous Publications

• Reliability through market-based adaptivity: The MARX project (abstract) (MP Wellman, S Jamin, and JK MacKie-Mason). ISSAT International Conference on Reliability and Quality in Design, August 1998.
• An API for Internet auctions (K O'Malley and T Kelly). Dr. Dobb's Journal, pages 70-74, September 1998.
• Debugging CGI programs over TCP (K O'Malley). Linux Gazette, November 1998.
• Automated negotiations from formal contract descriptions (Work-in-progress report) (DM Reeves, BN Grosof, MP Wellman, and HY Chan). IBM/IAC Workshop on Internet-Based Negotiation Technologies, March 1999.
• A control architecture for flexible Internet auction servers (PR Wurman, MP Wellman, WE Walsh, and KA O'Malley). IBM/IAC Workshop on Internet-Based Negotiation Technologies, March 1999.
• Bilateral negotiations with fees (AZ Anderson, I Birgean, and JK MacKie-Mason). IBM/IAC Workshop on Internet-Based Negotiation Technologies, March 1999.
• One size doesn't fit all: Improving network QoS through preference-driven Web caching (YM Chan, J Womer, JK MacKie-Mason, and S Jamin). Second Berlin Internet Economics Workshop, May 1999.
• Equilibrium prices in bundle auctions (PR Wurman and MP Wellman). AAAI-99 Workshop on AI and Electronic Commerce. Also to appear as Santa Fe Institute working paper.
• Agent service for online auctions (J Hu, DM Reeves, HS Wong). AAAI-99 Workshop on AI and Electronic Commerce, July 1999.
• Toward a declarative language for negotiating executable contracts (DM Reeves, BN Grosof, MP Wellman, HY Chan). AAAI-99 Workshop on AI and Electronic Commerce, July 1999.
• Distributed quiescence detection in multiagent negotiation (MP Wellman and WE Walsh). AAAI-99 Workshop on Negotiation: Settling Conflicts and Identifying Opportunities, July 1999.
• Modeling supply chain formation in multiagent systems (WE Walsh and MP Wellman). IJCAI-99 Workshop on Agent-Mediated Electronic Commerce, August 1999.
• A trading agent competition for the research community (MP Wellman and PR Wurman). IJCAI-99 Workshop on Agent-Mediated Electronic Commerce, August 1999.
• Two-sided learning in an agent economy for information bundles (JO Kephart, R Das, and JK MacKie-Mason). IJCAI-99 Workshop on Agent-Mediated Electronic Commerce, August 1999.
• One size doesn't fit all: Improving network QoS through preference-driven Web caching (YM Chan, J Womer, JK MacKie-Mason, and S Jamin). 27th Annual Telecom Policy Research Conference, September 1999.

In Preparation

• Reserving resources in an integrated services information network: A smart market mechanism (JK MacKie-Mason). Draft September 1997.
• Market-based packet scheduling for realtime traffic (P Callaway and S Jamin).
• Competition between firms that bundle (JK MacKie-Mason and S Fay). Draft October 1998
• Expanding the design space: Buyer-chooses bundling (JK MacKie-Mason and JQ Riveros). Draft November 1998.
• A generic multiattribute auction mechanism (MP Wellman).
• A progressive price-driven combinatorial auction mechanism (PR Wurman and MP Wellman).
• An empirical analysis of Internet auctions (DM Reeves, D Bryan, MVN Prasad, D Lucking-Reiley).

updated 18 August 99