Overview

• Cultivating the Information Economy (March, 2001)
  By James E. Hanson.
  Proceedings of the Fifth International Symposium on Autonomous Decentralized Systems (ISADS-01), pp. 149-150.
  [Postscript] [gzip'd P ostscript] [pdf]
  
  
• When Bots Collide (July, 2000)
  By Jeffrey O. Kephart and Amy R. Greenwald.
  Harvard Business Review, July-August 2000.
  
  
• Dynamic Pricing by Software Agents (March 20, 2000)
  By Jeffrey O. Kephart , James E. Hanson, and Amy R. Greenwald.
  Computer Networks, 2000.
  This paper provides the most complete overview of our group's research.
  [Postscript] [gzip'd Postscript] [pdf]

Multi-Agent Games

• Analyzing Complex Strategic Interactions in Multi-Agent Games (May, 2002)
  By William E. Walsh, Rajarshi Das, Gerald Tesauro, Jeffrey O. Kephart.
  To appear in Game Theoretic and Decision Theoretic Agents Workshop , at AAAI-02, Edmonton, Canada, 2002.
  [gzip'd Postscript] [pdf]

Bidding Agents

• Strategic Sequential Bidding in Auctions using Dynamic Programming (July, 2002)
  By Gerald Tesauro and Jonathan L. Bredin.
  Proceedings of the First International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS-02), Bologna, Italy, July, 2002.
  [Postscript] [gzip'd Postscript] [pdf]



• High-Performance Bidding Agents for the Continuous Double Auction (October, 2001)
  By Gerald Tesauro and Rajarshi Das.
  Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce (EC-01), Tampa, Florida, October 14-17, 2001.
  [Postscript] [gzip'd Postscript] [pdf]
  A more detailed version of the paper was presented at Economic Agents, Models and Mechanisms Workshop at IJCAI-01, Seattle, 2001.
  [Postscript] [gzip'd Postscript] [pdf]



• Agent-Human Interactions in the Continuous Double Auction (August, 2001)
  By Rajarshi Das, James E. Hanson, Jeffrey O. Kephart, and Gerald Tesauro.
  Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-01), Seattle, 2001.
  [Postscript] [gzip'd Postscript] [pdf] [IJCAI presentation (PowerPoint)]

Shopbots & Pricebots

• How Valuable are Shopbots? (July, 2002)
  By P.M. Markopoulos and Jeffrey O. Kephart.
  Proceedings of the First International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS-02), Bologna, Italy, July, 2002.
  [pdf]



• Probabilistic Pricebots (May, 2001)
  By Amy Greenwald and Jeffrey O. Kephart.
  Fifth International Conference on Autonomous Agents, Montreal, May, 2001.
  [Postscript] [gzip'd Postscript] [pdf]



• Dynamic Pricing with Limited Competitor Information in a Multi-Agent Economy (September, 2000)
  By Prithviraj Dasgupta and Rajarshi Das.
  Cooperative Information Systems, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 1901, Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Cooperative Information Systems(CoopIS), Eilat, Israel, September, 2000.
  [Postscript] [ gzip'd Postscript] [pdf]



• Shopbot Economics (October 6, 1999)
  By Jeffrey O. Kephart and Amy Greenwald
  Extended version of paper published in Proceedings of Fifth European Conference on Symbolic and Quantitative Approaches to Reasoning with Uncertainty. University College London, London, July 6, 1999. Final version to appear in forthcoming issue of Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, Kluwer Academic Publishers.
  [Postscript] [pdf]



• Strategic Pricebot Dynamics (September 23, 1999)
  By Amy Greenwald, Jeffrey O. Kephart and Gerald J. Tesauro
  To appear in Proceedings of ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce (EC '99). Denver, November 3- 5, 1999.
  [Postscript] [pdf]



• Shopbots and Pricebots (April 19, 1999)
  By Amy Greenwald and Jeffrey O. Kephart
  Proceedings of IJCAI'99. Stockholm, July 31 - August 6, 1999.
  [Postscript] [pdf]
  
  Shopbots and Pricebots (extended version) (November 18, 1999), draft of chapter to be published in forthcoming book on Agent-mediated Electronic Commerce in Springer-Verlag LNAI series.
  [Postscript] [pdf]

Multi-Agent Learning

• Pseudo-convergent Q-Learning by Competitive Pricebots (January 31, 2000)
  By Jeffrey O. Kephart and Gerald J. Tesauro
  To appear in Proceedings of Seventeenth International Conference on Machine Learning. Stanford University, CA, June 29-July 2, 2000.
  [Postscript] [gzip'd Postscript] [pdf]

 
• Multi-agent Q-Learning and Regression Trees for Automated Pricing Decisions (January 31, 2000)
  By Manu Sridharan and Gerald J. Tesauro
  To appear in Proceedings of Seventeenth International Conference on Machine Learning. Stanford University, CA, June 29-July 2, 2000.
  [Postscript] [gzip'd Postscript] [pdf]

 
• Pricing in Agent Economies Using Neural Networks and Multi-Agent Q-learning (August 2, 1999)
  By Gerald J. Tesauro
  Proceedings of Workshop ABS-3: Learning About, From and With other Agents. Stockholm, August 2, 1999.
  [Postscript] [pdf]

 
• Pricing in Agent Economies with Multi-Agent Q-learning (July 6, 1999)
  By Gerald J. Tesauro and Jeffrey O. Kephart
  Proceedings of Workshop on Decision Theoretic and Game Theoretic Agents. University College London, London, July 6, 1999.
  [Postscript] [ pdf]

 
• Foresight-based Pricing Algorithms in an Economy of Software Agents
  (August 15, 1998)
  By Gerald J. Tesauro and Jeffrey O. Kephart
  Presented by Tesauro at International Conference on Information and Computation Economies, October, 1998.
  [Postscript] [pdf< /a>]

• Model Selection in an Information Economy: Choosing What to Learn (April, 2002)
  By Christopher H. Brooks, Robert Gazzale, Rajarshi Das, Jeffrey O. Kephart, Jeffrey K. MacKie-Mason, and Edmund H. Durfee.
  To appear in Computational Intelligence, Special issue on Agent Technology for Electronic Commerce, 2002.
  [gzip'd Postscript] [pdf]

 
• Pricing Information Bundles in a Dynamic Environment (October, 2001)
  By Jeffrey O. Kephart, Christopher H. Brooks, Rajarshi Das, Jeffrey K. MacKie-Mason, Robert Gazzale, and Edmund H. Durfee.
  To be presented at ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce (EC-01), Tampa, Florida, October 14-17, 2001.
  [gzip'd Postscript] [pdf]

 
• Competitive Bundling of Categorized Information Goods (October, 2000)
  By Jeffrey O. Kephart and Scott Fay.
  Presented by Kephart at ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce (EC-00), Minneapolis, October, 2000.
  [Postscript] [gzip'd Postscript] [pdf

 
• Price Wars and Niche Discovery in an Information Economy (October, 2000)
  By Christopher H. Brooks, Edmund H. Durfee, and Rajarshi Das .
  At ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce (EC-00), Minneapolis, 2000.
  [Postscript] [gzip'd Postscript] [pdf]

 
• Two-sided Learning in an Agent Economy for Information Bundles (November 11, 1999)
  By Jeffrey O. Kephart, Rajarshi Das, and Jeffrey K. MacKie-Mason
  Extended and revised version of paper presented by Kephart at Agent-mediated Electronic Commerce workshop at IJCAI '99 (AmEC-99), Stockholm, July 31, 1999.
  [Postscript] [pdf]

 
• Automated Strategy Searches in an Electronic Goods Market: Learning and Complex Price Schedules (October 21, 1999)
  By Christopher H. Brooks, Scott Fay, Rajarshi Das , Jeffrey K. MacKie-Mason, Jeffrey O. Kephart, and Edmund H. Durfee
  Presented by Brooks and Das at ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce (EC-99), Denver, November 5, 1999.
  [Postscript] [pdf]

Information Filtering Economy

• Price and Niche Wars in a Free-Market Economy of Software Agents
  (April 22, 1998)
  By Jeffrey O. Kephart, James E. Hanson and Jakka Sairamesh
  Artificial Life 4:1, MIT Press, September, 1998.
  [Postscript] [ pdf]

 
• Spontaneous Specialization in a Free-Market Economy of Agents
  (July 29, 1998)
  By James E. Hanson and Jeffrey O. Kephart.
  Presented at Workshop on Artificial Societies and Computational Markets at Autonomous Agents '98, Minneapolis, May 1998.
  [Postscript] [pdf]

 
• Price-War Dynamics in a Free-Market Economy of Software Agents
  (March 26, 1998)
  By Jeffrey O. Kephart, James E. Hanson, and Jakka Sairamesh.
  Proceedings of ALIFE VI,
  UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, USA, June 26-29, 1998, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, USA.
  [Postscript] [pdf]

 
• Dynamics of an Information-Filtering Economy(April 10, 1998)
  By Jeffrey O. Kephart, James E. Hanson, David W. Levine, Benjamin N. Grosof, Jakka Sairamesh, Richard B. Segal, and Steve R. White.
  Presented at Second International Workshop on Cooperative Information Agents '98, Paris, July 4-7, 1998.
  [Postscript] [pdf]

 
• Emergent Behavior in Information Economies(December 1, 1997)
  By Jeffrey O. Kephart, James E. Hanson, David W. Levine, Benjamin N. Grosof, Jakka Sairamesh, Richard B. Segal, and Steve R. White.
  Presented as poster paper at the International Conference on Multi-Agent Systems (ICMAS '98), Paris, France, July 3-8, 1998.
  Two-page poster abstract appeared in Proceedings of ICMAS '98, published by IEEE Computer Society Press.
  Comment:  Essentially a condensed version of Dynamics of an Information-Filtering Economy

Other Papers

• Price Dynamics of Vertically Differentiated Information Markets
  (August 15, 1998)
  By Jakka Sairamesh and Jeffrey O. Kephart
  Presented by Sairamesh at International Conference on Information and Computation Economies, October, 1998
  [Postscript] [pdf]