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(Links to coauthors and student thesis directed are provided at the bottom of the page)

Working Papers
(comments welcome!)

Best Response Dynamics in Combinatorial Auctions with Proxy Bidding. Peter R. Wurman, Ashish Sureka, and Priti P. Phadke, 2003. available on request
Envy-Free Pricing in Combinatorial Auctions, Peter R. Wurman and Michael P. Wellman, 2003. available on request

2006

Alphabet Soup: A Testbed for Studying Resource Allocation in Multi-vehicle Systems, Christopher J Hazard, Peter R. Wurman, and Raffaello D'Andrea. In Proceedings of the 2006 AAAI Workshop on Auction Mechanisms for Robot Coordination. pp 23-30, Boston, Massachusetts, July 17, 2006. pdf
The Constraints of the Valuation Distribution for Solving a Class of Games by Using a Best Response Algorithm, Gangshu Cai, Jie Zhong, and Peter R. Wurman. International Journal of Manufacturing Technology and Management, to appear. pdf

2005

Monte Carlo Approximation in Incomplete-Information, Sequential-Auction Games. Gangshu Cai and Peter R. Wurman. Decision Support Systems, 39 (2): 153-168 April 2005. pdf
An Auction for Scheduling Delivery of Highly Demanded Products, Sameer Korrapati and Peter R. Wurman, IEEE Conference on Electronic Commerce, 2005, to appear. pdf
A Framework for Computing the Outcome of Proxied Combinatorial Auctions, Jie Zhong and Peter R. Wurman, IEEE Conference on Electronic Commerce, 2005, to appear. pdf
Using Tabu Best-Response Search to Find Pure Strategy Nash Equilibria in Normal Form Games, Ashish Sureka and Peter R. Wurman, Fourth International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-agent Systems (AAMAS-05), 2005, to appear. pdf
Applying Metaheuristic Techniques to Search the Space of Bidding Strategies in Combinatorial Auctions, Ashish Sureka and Peter R. Wurman, Genetic and Evolutionary Computing Conference (GECCO-05), 2005, to appear. pdf

2004

Computing Price Trajectories in Combinatorial Auctions with Proxy Bidding, Peter R. Wurman, Jie Zhong, Gangshu Cai, Electronic Commerce Research and Applications, 3(4), 329-340, 2004. pdf
Online Auction Site Management. Peter R. Wurman. Chapter in The Internet Encyclopedia, Vol. 2, pages 709-719 (2004), Wiley. pdf
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Experiments with Planning and Markets in Multiagent Systems. Naveenkumar Muguda, Peter R. Wurman, and R. Michael Young. SIGecom Exchanges (2004), 5(1), 34-47. pdf
PackaTAC: A Conservative Trading Agent. Erik Dahlgren and Peter R. Wurman. SIGecom Exchanges (2004), 4(3), 38-45. pdf

2003

The 2001 Trading Agent Competition, Michael P. Wellman, Amy Greenwald, Peter Stone, and Peter R. Wurman. (2003) Electronic Markets, 13(1). pdf
Mining for Bidding Strategies on eBay. Harshit S. Shah, Neeraj R. Joshi, Ashish Sureka, and Peter R. Wurman, Lecture Notes on Artificial Intelligence (2003).
(This is an extended version of workshop paper with the same name)
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An Algorithm for Computing the Outcome of Combinatorial Auctions with Proxy Bidding. Peter R. Wurman, Gangshu Cai, Jie Zhong, and Ashish Sureka. Fifth International Conference on Electronic Commerce (ICEC-03), Pittsburgh, October, 2003, 1–8. Best Paper Award. pdf
A Comparison of Two Algorithms for Multi-unit k-Double Auctions, Shengli Bao and Peter R. Wurman. Fifth International Conference on Electronic Commerce (ICEC-03), Pittsburgh, October, 2003, 47–52. pdf

2002

Applying the Generalized Vickrey Auction to Pricing Reliable Multicasts, Ashish Sureka, Lecture Notes in Computer Science #2511 (2002), Springer-Verlag, 283-292. pdf
Specifying Rules for Electronic Auctions. Peter R. Wurman, Michael P. Wellman, and William E. Walsh, AI Magazine (2002), 23(3), pages 15-23. pdf
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Structural Leverage and Fictitious Play in Sequential Auctions. Weili Zhu and Peter R. Wurman, Eighteenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2002), Edmonton, July-August, 2002, 385–390. pdf
The 2001 Trading Agent Competition. Michael P. Wellman, Amy Greenwald, Peter Stone, and Peter R. Wurman, Fourteenth Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence Conference (IAAI-2002), Edmonton, July-August, 2002, 935–941.

various

Mining for Bidding Strategies on eBay. Harshit S. Shah, Neeraj R. Joshi, and Peter R. Wurman, SIGKDD'2002 Workshop on Web Mining for Usage Patterns and User Profiles (WEBKDD 2002). pdf

Non-cooperative Planning in Multi-Agent, Resource-Constrained Environments with Markets for Reservations. Jorge E. Prado and Peter R. Wurman, AAAI 2002 Workshop on Planning with and for Multiagent Systems, Edmonton, July-August, 2002, 60-66. pdf

Information and Product Quality Dynamics in Tiered Supply Networks. Leif M. Johnson and Peter R. Wurman, AAAI 2002 Workshop on Multi-Agent Modeling and Simulation of Economic Systems, Edmonton, July-August, 2002, 22-27.

2001

Specifying Rules for Electronic Auctions. Peter R. Wurman, Michael P. Wellman, and William E. Walsh, AI Magazine (2002), 23(3), pages 15-23. pdf
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Designing the Market Game for a Trading Agent Competition, Michael P. Wellman, Peter R. Wurman, K O'Malley, R Bangera, S Lin, D Reeves, and William E. Walsh. IEEE Internet Computing, March/April (2001), 43-51. available from IEEE-IC
A Parametrization of the Auction Design Space, Peter R. Wurman, Michael P. Wellman, William E. Walsh. Games and Economic Behavior (2001), 35(1-2), 304-338. pdf | ps
Auction Protocols for Decentralized Scheduling, Michael P. Wellman, William E. Walsh, Peter R. Wurman, and JK MacKie-Mason). Games and Economic Behavior (2001), 35(1-2), 271-303. pdf | ps
Dynamic Pricing in the Virtual Marketplace, Peter R. Wurman, IEEE Internet Computing, March/April 20001, 36-42. available from IEEE-IC
Toward Flexible Trading Agents. Peter R. Wurman, AAAI Spring Symposium on Game Theoretic and Decision Theoretic Agents, pages 134-140. Stanford, March, 2001. pdf
Visualizing Market Data (CG Healey and Peter R. Wurman), IEEE Internet Computing, page 88, March/April 2001. Online Extended Version

2000

AkBA: A Progressive, Anonymous-Price Combinatorial Auction. Peter R. Wurman and Michael P. Wellman, Second ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce, Minneapolis, October, 2000, 21-29. pdf | ps

1999

Market Structure and Multidimensional Auction Design for Computational Economies (Peter R. Wurman), Ph.D. dissertation, University of Michigan, August, 1999. pdf | ps

(120 pages)

A Trading Agent Competition for the Research Community. Michael P. Wellman and Peter R. Wurman. IJCAI-99 Workshop on Agent-Mediated Electronic Commerce. Stockholm, August 1999. pdf
Equilibrium Prices in Bundle Auctions. Peter R. Wurman and Michael P. Wellman, AAAI-99 Workshop on Artificial Intelligence for Electronic Commerce. Orlando, July 1999. pdf | ps
A Control Architecture for a Flexible Internet Auction Server (Peter R. Wurman, Michael P. Wellman, William E. Walsh, and Kevin A. O'Malley). First IAC Workshop on Internet Based Negotiation Technologies, Yorktown Heights, NY, March, 1999. pdf | ps
Equilibrium Prices in Bundle Auctions. Peter R. Wurman and Michael P. Wellman, Santa Fe Institute Working Paper 99-09-064. various

1998

Flexible double auctions for electronic commerce: Theory and implementation. Peter R. Wurman, William E. Walsh, and Michael P. Wellman. Decision Support Systems (1998), 24(1), 17-27. pdf | ps
Market-aware agents for a multiagent world (Michael P. Wellman and Peter R. Wurman). Robotics and Autonomous Systems (1998), 24(3-4), 115-125.  ps
Some economics of market-based distributed scheduling. William E. Walsh, Michael P. Wellman, Peter R. Wurman, and Jeffrey K. MacKie-Mason. Eighteenth International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems, May 1998. ps.Z
The Michigan Internet AuctionBot: A Configurable Auction Server for Human and Software Agents. Peter R. Wurman, Michael P. Wellman, and William E. Walsh. Second International Conference on Autonomous Agents, May 1998. pdf | ps
Real time issues for Internet auctions. Michael P. Wellman and Peter R. Wurman. First IEEE Workshop on Dependable and Real-Time E-Commerce Systems, June 1998. ps

1996

Optimal factory scheduling using stochastic dominance A*. Peter R. Wurman and Michael P. Wellman. Twelfth Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence, August, 1996, 554-563. ps.Z
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Ph.D. Thesis Directed

Flexible decision-making in sequential auctions, Gangshu Cai, 2005.

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Techniques for finding Nash equilibria in combinatorial auctions, Ashish Sureka, 2005. NCSU
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Masters Thesis Directed

A Web Services Based System for Parsing and Managing Calls for Papers, Neha Jain, Masters Thesis, 2006.

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Design and Implementation of fauxBay: Test Bed for Bidding Agents in Online Auction Markets, Ratna Singh, Masters Thesis, 2006. NCSU Library
A Simple Auction for Early Delivery of High-Demand Products, Sameer Korrapati, Master Thesis, 2004. NCSU Library
Non-cooperative Planning in Multi-agent Environments with Markets for Reservations, Naveenkumar Muguda, Masters Thesis, 2004. NCSU Library
PackaTAC: A conservative trading agent, Erik Dahlgren, Masters Thesis, University of Lund, Sweden, 2003.
A comparison of two algorithms for clearing multi-unit bid double auctions, Shengli Bao, Masters Thesis, 2002. NCSU
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An evolutionary approach to finding bidding strategies in a combinatorial auction, Priti P. Phadke, Masters Thesis, 2002. NCSU
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Identifying bidding strategies on eBay: A feasibility study, Harshit S. Shah, Master Thesis, 2002. NCSU
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Tradable reservations in multi-agent, resource-constrained environments, Jorge E. Prado Lozko, Masters Thesis, 2002. NCSU
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Effects of approximation on an iterative combinatorial auction, Harish G. Kammanahalli, Masters Thesis, 2001. NCSU
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The Application of Monte Carlo sampling to sequential auction games with incomplete information, Weili Zhu, Masters Thesis, 2001. NCSU
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Links to Coauthors


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