Agent-Mediated Electronic Commerce and Trading Agent Design and Analysis
AAMAS Workshop, AMEC 2008, Estoril, Portugal, May 12-16, 2008, and AAAI Workshop, TADA 2008, Chicago, IL, USA, July 14, 2008, Revised Selected Papers
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Open AccessDegrees of Rationality in Agent-Based Retail Markets
The imperfect decision-making of human buyers participating in retail markets varies from fundamental models that assume rational economic choices: even in markets with identical items human buyers are not rat...
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Open AccessRenewable electricity trading through SLAs
Energy systems are in transition towards more sustainable generation portfolios. In the envisioned smart grid generation will primarily depend on renewable power sources making uncertain quantities of electric...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
An Effective Broker for the Power TAC 2014
The Power TAC is a competition-based simulation of an electricity market. The goal of the competition is to test retailer (broker) strategies in a competitive environment. Participants create broker agents tha...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Now, Later, or Both: A Closed-Form Optimal Decision for a Risk-Averse Buyer
Motivated by the energy domain, we examine a risk-averse buyer that has to purchase a fixed quantity of a continuous good. The buyer has two opportunities to buy: now or later. The buyer can spread the quantit...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Market Garden: A Simulation Environment for Research and User Experience in Smart Grids
Market Garden is a scalable research environment and demonstration tool, in which market mechanisms for smart energy systems and the interaction between end users, traders, system operators, and markets can be...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Medium-Voltage Distribution Network Expansion Planning with Gene-pool Optimal Mixing Evolutionary Algorithms
Medium-voltage distribution network expansion planning involves finding the most economical adjustments of both the capacity and the topology of the network such that no operational constraints are violated an...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
A Successful Broker Agent for Power TAC
The Power TAC simulates a smart grid energy market. In this simulation, broker agents compete for customers on a tariff market and trade energy on a wholesale market. It provides a platform for testing strateg...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Acceptance Strategies for Maximizing Agent Profits in Online Scheduling
In the global logistics market, agents need to decide upon whether to accept jobs offered sequentially. For each offer, an agent makes an immediate selection decision with little knowledge about future jobs; t...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Agent Perception within CIGA: Performance Optimizations and Analysis
When agents are integrated in a game engine for embodiment in a virtual environment, perception often leads to performance issues due to the lack of control over the sensing process. In previous work a percept...
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Chapter
Multi-player Multi-issue Negotiation with Complete Information
This paper presents a multi-player multi-issue negotiation model to solve a resource allocation problem. We design a multilateral negotiation protocol, by which rational players bid sequentially in consecutive...
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Simulation of Sequential Auction Markets Using Priced Options to Reduce Bidder Exposure
This paper studies the benefits of using priced options for solving the exposure problem that bidders with valuation synergies face in sequential auctions. We consider a model in which complementary-valued ite...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Using Priced Options to Solve the Exposure Problem in Sequential Auctions
This paper studies the benefits of using priced options for solving the exposure problem that bidders with valuation synergies face when participating in multiple, sequential auctions. We consider a model in w...
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Open AccessRobust Evolutionary Algorithm Design for Socio-Economic Simulation: A Correction
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Evolutionary Multiobjective Optimization for Dynamic Hospital Resource Management
Allocating resources to hospital units is a major managerial issue as the relationship between resources, utilization and patient flow of different patient groups is complex. Furthermore, the problem is dynami...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Learning the Structure of Utility Graphs Used in Multi-issue Negotiation through Collaborative Filtering
Graphical utility models represent powerful formalisms for modeling complex agent decisions involving multiple issues [2]. In the context of negotiation, it has been shown [10] that using utility graphs enable...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Efficient Methods for Multi-agent Multi-issue Negotiation: Allocating Resources
In this paper, we present an automated multi-agent multi-issue negotiation solution to solve a resource allocation problem. We use a multilateral negotiation model, by which three agents bid sequentially in co...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
The Complex Dynamics of Sponsored Search Markets
This paper provides a comprehensive study of the structure and dynamics of online advertising markets, mostly based on techniques from the emergent discipline of complex systems analysis. First, we look at how...
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Designing Risk-Averse Bidding Strategies in Sequential Auctions for Transportation Orders
Designing efficient bidding strategies for agents participating in multiple, sequential auctions remains an important challenge for researchers in agent-mediated electronic markets. The problem is particularly...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Designing Bidding Strategies in Sequential Auctions for Risk Averse Agents: A Theoretical and Experimental Investigation
Designing efficient bidding strategies for sequential auctions remains an important, open problem area in agent-mediated electronic markets. In existing literature, a variety of bidding strategies have been pr...
