JACK: A Java Auction Configuration Kit

Thomas Goff; Amy Greenwald; Elizabeth Hilliard; Wolfgang Ketter; Andrew Loomis; Eric Sodomka

doi:10.1007/978-3-642-40864-9_4

JACK: A Java Auction Configuration Kit

Thomas Goff, Amy Greenwald, Elizabeth Hilliard, Wolfgang Ketter, Andrew Loomis, Eric Sodomka

Department of Technology and Operations Management

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Abstract

A key step in the evaluation of an intelligent agent (either autonomous or human) is determining the agent’s success as compared to other agents designed to participate in the same environment. Such comparisons are the basis for the Trading Agent Competition (TAC), in which autonomous trading agents compete in simulated market scenarios. TAC servers and agents alike are highly specialized, and typically require teams of developers as TAC simulations tend to be rather complex. In this work, we present a client-server infrastructure that is capable of simulating not just one complex market and its corresponding set of agents, but a wide space of markets and potentially more robust agents. Supported market mechanisms include both user-designed auctions and a configurable set of auctions whose basic building blocks are commonly-studied (e.g., first-price, second-price, simultaneous, sequential auctions). Our so-called Java Auction Configuration Kit (JACK) is intended to facilitate research on the interplay between a variety of auction mechanisms and a variety of agent strategies (both autonomous and human) by simplifying the orchestration of auction simulation.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Agent-Mediated Electronic Commerce
Subtitle of host publication	Designing Trading Strategies and Mechanisms for Electronic Markets - AMEC and TADA 2012, Revised Selected Papers
Editors	Esther David, Valentin Robu, Sebastian Stein, Christopher Kiekintveld, Onn Shehory
Publisher	Springer Science+Business Media
Pages	45-60
Number of pages	16
ISBN (Print)	9783642408632
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-40864-9_4
Publication status	Published - 2013
Event	International Workshop on Agent-Mediated Electronic Commerce and Trading Agent Design and Analysis, AMEC/TADA 2012 - Valencia, Spain Duration: 4 Jun 2012 → 4 Jun 2012

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Series	Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing
Volume	136
ISSN	1865-1348

Conference

Conference	International Workshop on Agent-Mediated Electronic Commerce and Trading Agent Design and Analysis, AMEC/TADA 2012
Country/Territory	Spain
City	Valencia
Period	4/06/12 → 4/06/12

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Goff, T., Greenwald, A., Hilliard, E., Ketter, W., Loomis, A., & Sodomka, E. (2013). JACK: A Java Auction Configuration Kit. In E. David, V. Robu, S. Stein, C. Kiekintveld, & O. Shehory (Eds.), Agent-Mediated Electronic Commerce: Designing Trading Strategies and Mechanisms for Electronic Markets - AMEC and TADA 2012, Revised Selected Papers (pp. 45-60). Springer Science+Business Media. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-40864-9_4

Goff, Thomas ; Greenwald, Amy ; Hilliard, Elizabeth et al. / JACK : A Java Auction Configuration Kit. Agent-Mediated Electronic Commerce: Designing Trading Strategies and Mechanisms for Electronic Markets - AMEC and TADA 2012, Revised Selected Papers. editor / Esther David ; Valentin Robu ; Sebastian Stein ; Christopher Kiekintveld ; Onn Shehory. Springer Science+Business Media, 2013. pp. 45-60 (Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, Vol. 136).

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Goff, T, Greenwald, A, Hilliard, E, Ketter, W, Loomis, A & Sodomka, E 2013, JACK: A Java Auction Configuration Kit. in E David, V Robu, S Stein, C Kiekintveld & O Shehory (eds), Agent-Mediated Electronic Commerce: Designing Trading Strategies and Mechanisms for Electronic Markets - AMEC and TADA 2012, Revised Selected Papers. Springer Science+Business Media, Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol. 136, pp. 45-60, International Workshop on Agent-Mediated Electronic Commerce and Trading Agent Design and Analysis, AMEC/TADA 2012, Valencia, Spain, 4/06/12. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-40864-9_4

JACK: A Java Auction Configuration Kit. / Goff, Thomas; Greenwald, Amy; Hilliard, Elizabeth et al.
Agent-Mediated Electronic Commerce: Designing Trading Strategies and Mechanisms for Electronic Markets - AMEC and TADA 2012, Revised Selected Papers. ed. / Esther David; Valentin Robu; Sebastian Stein; Christopher Kiekintveld; Onn Shehory. Springer Science+Business Media, 2013. p. 45-60 (Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, Vol. 136).

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Goff T, Greenwald A, Hilliard E, Ketter W, Loomis A, Sodomka E. JACK: A Java Auction Configuration Kit. In David E, Robu V, Stein S, Kiekintveld C, Shehory O, editors, Agent-Mediated Electronic Commerce: Designing Trading Strategies and Mechanisms for Electronic Markets - AMEC and TADA 2012, Revised Selected Papers. Springer Science+Business Media. 2013. p. 45-60. (Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, Vol. 136). doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-40864-9_4

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