An analysis of entries in the first TAC market design competition

Proceedings - 2008 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology, IAT 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 431-437

  Niu, Jinzhong ^a   Cai, Kai ^a   McBurney, Peter ^b   Parsons, Simon ^c  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^c CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MARKET DESIGNS;

COMPETITION;

EID: 62949232042     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/WIIAT.2008.272     Document Type: Conference Paper

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