Bidding Strategies in Agent-Based Continuous Double Auctions

by Huiye Ma

Overview

Online auctions are a platform to trade goods on the Internet. In this context, negotiation capabilities for software agents in continuous double auctions (CDAs) are a central concern. Agents need to be able to prepare bids for and evaluate offers on behalf of the users they represent with the aim of obtaining the maximum benefit for their users.

For the agents, their bids are decided according to some bidding strategy. However, in CDAs, it is a complex decision problem because of the inherent uncertainty and dynamics of the auction market. In this book, we present a new bidding strategy for agents to adopt in CDAs and propose tools to enhance the performance of existing bidding strategies in CDAs. The superior performance of the new bidding strategy as well as the tools presented in this book are illustrated through extensive experiments.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783764387297
Publisher:	Birkhäuser Basel
Publication date:	08/06/2008
Series:	Whitestein Series in Software Agent Technologies and Autonomic Computing
Edition description:	2008
Pages:	140
Product dimensions:	6.60(w) x 9.40(h) x 0.40(d)

Table of Contents

Agent-Based CDAs and Bidding Strategies.- The Adaptive Attitude Bidding Strategy.- Soft Asks and Soft Bids.- Adaptive Judgement of Price Acceptability.- Adaptive Time Strategies.- Discussion of the Results.- Conclusions and Future Work.