Design of a multi-unit double auction e-market

Computational Intelligence

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 596-617

  Huang, Pu ^a   Scheller Wolf, Alan ^b   Sycara, Katia ^c  

^a Carnegie Mellon University   (United States)

^b CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Auction; Electronic market; Market clearing; Mechanism design; Multi agent system

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; INTERNATIONAL TRADE; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

MARKET CLEARING;

ELECTRONIC COMMERCE;

EID: 0036860067     PISSN: 08247935     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-8640.t01-1-00206     Document Type: Article

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