Reducing price fluctuation in continuous double auctions through pricing policy and shout improvement

Auction mechanism design is a subfield of game theory dedicated to manipulating the rules of an auction so as to achieve specific goals. The complexity of the dynamics of auctions, especially continuous double auctions, makes it difficult to apply the usual analytic game-theoretic methods to do this. This paper takes an experimental approach, searching a parameterized space of possible auction types, and presents a new pricing policy for continuous double auctions. The paper further demonstrates how this policy, together with a shout improvement rule, helps to reduce the fluctuation of transaction prices in auctions involving agents with minimum intelligence while keeping the overall efficiency high. Categories and Subject Descriptors I.2.11 [Artificial Intelligence]: Distributed Artificial Intelligence--Multiagent systems General Terms Algorithms, design, economics, experimentation, measurement, performance Keywords Continuous double auction, pricing policy, shout improvement rule

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2006
• Where: ATAL
• Authors: Jinzhong Niu, Kai Cai, Simon Parsons, Elizabeth Sklar
• Keywords: ATAL 2006, Auctions, Continuous Double Auction, Intelligent Agents, Shout Improvement Rule