Publications

Papers written by Michael P. Wellman and colleagues that are available online, organized by year of latest publication.

[A partial compilation, to be extended. See CV for complete list.]

2008

• Bidding strategies for simultaneous ascending auctions (MPW, A Osepayshvili, JK MacKie-Mason, and DM Reeves).
• Searching for approximate equilibria in empirical games (PR Jordan, Y Vorobeychik, and MPW).

2007

• Autonomous Bidding Agents: Strategies and Lessons from the Trading Agent Competition (MPW, A Greenwald, and P Stone).
• Constrained automated mechanism design for infinite games of incomplete information (Y Vorobeychik, DM Reeves, and MPW).
• Constraint satisfaction algorithms for graphical games (V Soni, S Singh, and MPW).
• Empirical game-theoretic analysis of the TAC supply chain game (PR Jordan, C Kiekintveld, and MPW).
• Forecasting market prices in a supply chain game (C Kiekintveld, J Miller, PR Jordan, and MPW).
• Generalized value decomposition and structured multiattribute auctions (Y Engel and MPW).
• Learning payoff functions in infinite games (Y Vorobeychik, MPW, and S Singh).
• Market-based allocation with indivisible bids (LJ Schvartzman and MPW).

2006

• An analysis of the 2004 supply chain management trading agent competition (C Kiekintveld, Y Vorobeychik, and MPW).
• Automated markets and trading agents (JK MacKie-Mason and MPW).
• Bid expressiveness and clearing algorithms in multiattribute double auctions (Y Engel, MPW, and KM Lochner).
• Controlling a supply chain agent using value-based decomposition (C Kiekintveld, J Miller, PR Jordan, and MPW).
• CUI Networks: A Graphical Representation for Conditional Utility Independence (Y Engel and MPW).
• Empirical game-theoretic analysis of chaturanga (C Kiekintveld, MPW, and S Singh).
• Empirical mechanism design: Methods, with application to a supply chain scenario (Y Vorobeychik, C Kiekintveld, and MPW).
• Market efficiency, sales competition, and the bullwhip effect in the TAC SCM tournaments (PR Jordan, C Kiekintveld, J Miller, and MPW).
• Mechanism design based on beliefs about responsive play (position paper) (Y Vorobeychik and MPW).
• Methods for empirical game-theoretic analysis.
• Searching for Walverine 2005 (MPW, DM Reeves, KM Lochner, and R Suri).

2005

• Approximate strategic reasoning through hierarchical reduction of large symmetric games (MPW, DM Reeves, KM Lochner, S-F Cheng, and R Suri).
• Betting Boolean-style: A framework for trading in securities based on logical formulas (L Fortnow, J Kilian, DM Pennock, MPW).
• Exploring bidding strategies for market-based scheduling (DM Reeves, JK MacKie-Mason, MPW, and A Osepayshvili).
• Graphical models for groups: Belief aggregation and risk sharing (DM Pennock and MPW).
• Self-confirming price prediction for bidding in simultaneous ascending auctions (A Osepayshvili, MPW, DM Reeves, and JK MacKie-Mason).
• Strategic interactions in a supply chain game (MPW, J Estelle, S Singh, Y Vorobeychik, C Kiekintveld, and V Soni).
• Walverine: A Walrasian trading agent (S-F Cheng, E Leung, KM Lochner, K O'Malley, DM Reeves, LJ Schvartzman, and MPW).

2004

• Distributed feedback control for decision making on supply chains (C Kiekintveld, MPW, S Singh, J Estelle, Y Vorobeychik, V Soni, and M Rudary).
• Price prediction in a trading agent competition (MPW, DM Reeves, KM Lochner, and Y Vorobeychik).
• Price prediction strategies for market-based scheduling (JK MacKie-Mason, A Osepayshvili, DM Reeves, and MPW).
• Value-driven procurement in a supply chain game (C Kiekintveld, MPW, S Singh, and V Soni).
• Online marketplaces.
• Bounding probabilistic relationships in Bayesian networks using qualitative influences: Methods and applications (C-L Liu and MPW).
• Computing best-response strategies in infinite games of incomplete information (DM Reeves and MPW).
• Rule-based specification of auction mechanisms (KM Lochner and MPW).
• Computing approximate Bayes-Nash equilibria in tree-games of incomplete information (S Singh, V Soni, and MPW).

2003

• The 2001 Trading Agent Competition (MPW, A Greenwald, P Stone, and PR Wurman).
• Decentralized supply chain formation: A market protocol and competitive equilibrium analysis (WE Walsh and MPW).
• On market-inspired approaches to propositional satisfiability (WE Walsh, M Yokoo, K Hirayama, and MPW).
• Nash Q-learning for general-sum stochastic games (J Hu and MPW).
• Trading agents competing: Performance, progress, and market effectiveness (MPW, S-F Cheng, DM Reeves, and KM Lochner).

2002

• Automated negotiation from declarative contract descriptions (DM Reeves, MPW, and BN Grosof).
• Evaluation of Bayesian networks with flexible state-space abstraction methods (C-L Liu and MPW).

2001

• A parametrization of the auction design space (PR Wurman, MPW, and WE Walsh).
• Auction protocols for decentralized scheduling (MPW, WE Walsh, PR Wurman, and JK MacKie-Mason).
• Learning about other agents in a dynamic multiagent system (J Hu and MPW).
• Designing the market game for a trading agent competition (MPW, PR Wurman, K O’Malley, R Bangera, S-d Lin, DM Reeves, and WE Walsh).

2000

• Combinatorial auctions for supply chain formation (WE Walsh, MPW, and F Ygge).
• AkBA: A progressive, anonymous-price combinatorial auction (PR Wurman and MPW).
• Compact securities markets for Pareto Optimal reallocation of risk (DM Pennock and MPW).
• Probabilistic state-dependent grammars for plan recognition (DV Pynadath and MPW).
• Distributed quiescence detection in multiagent negotiation (MPW and WE Walsh).

1999

• Graphical representations of consensus belief (DM Pennock and MPW).

1998

• Market-aware agents for a multiagent world (MPW and PR Wurman).
• The WALRAS Algorithm: A convergent distributed implementation of general equilibrium outcomes (JQ Cheng and MPW).
• The Michigan Internet AuctionBot: A configurable auction server for human and software agents (PR Wurman, MPW, and WE Walsh).
• Flexible double auctions for electronic commerce: Theory and implementation (PR Wurman, WE Walsh, and MPW).
• Conjectural equilibrium in multiagent learning (MPW and J Hu).
• Generalized queries on probabilistic context-free grammars (DV Pynadath and MPW).

1996

• Market-oriented programming: Some early lessons.
• A market-based approach to allocating QoS for multimedia applications (H Yamaki, MPW, and T Ishida).
• Toward inquiry-based education through interacting software agents (10 co-authors).