"Progress in Market-Oriented Programming"

8/18/1998: [time not recorded]
[location not recorded]

Abstract: Market-oriented programming is the construction of computational economies, where agents interact through a price system. Markets can provide effective allocation of resources for a variety of distributed environments, and economic analysis a powerful design tool for interaction mechanisms. The spread of electronic commerce puts a premium on market-aware agents, and presents a case for market awareness on the part of agent developers and AI/CS researchers as well. In this talk, I present an overview of our approach to market-oriented programming, and highlight recent results in: 1. Market-based decentralized scheduling. 2. Market-based task allocation: bottom-up formation of supply chains in task dependency networks. Along the way, I will mention our configurable Internet auction server (the AuctionBot), and its role in the Michigan Adaptive Resource eXchange (MARX project).

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