Who to listen to: Exploiting information quality in a ZIP-agent Market
Who to listen to: Exploiting information quality in a ZIP-agent Market
Market theory is often concerned only with centralised markets. In this paper, we consider a market that is distributed over a network, allowing us to characterise spatially (or temporally) segregated markets. The effect of this modification on the behaviour of a market populated by simple trading agents was examined. It was demonstrated that an agent’s ability to identify the optimum market price is positively correlated with its network connectivity. A better connected agent receives more information and, as a result, is better able to judge the market state. The ZIP trading agent algorithm is modified in light of this result. Simulations reveal that trading agents which take account of the quality of the information that they receive are better able to identify the optimum price within a market.
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Ladley, Dan
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Bullock, Seth
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Ladley, Dan
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Bullock, Seth
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Ladley, Dan and Bullock, Seth
(2005)
Who to listen to: Exploiting information quality in a ZIP-agent Market.
La Poutré, Han, Sadeh, Noorman M. and Janson, Sverker
(eds.)
In Agent-Mediated Electronic Commerce: Designing Trading Agents and Mechanisms.
Springer Berlin.
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Market theory is often concerned only with centralised markets. In this paper, we consider a market that is distributed over a network, allowing us to characterise spatially (or temporally) segregated markets. The effect of this modification on the behaviour of a market populated by simple trading agents was examined. It was demonstrated that an agent’s ability to identify the optimum market price is positively correlated with its network connectivity. A better connected agent receives more information and, as a result, is better able to judge the market state. The ZIP trading agent algorithm is modified in light of this result. Simulations reveal that trading agents which take account of the quality of the information that they receive are better able to identify the optimum price within a market.
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Published date: 2005
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Event Dates: July 30 - August 5, 2005
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Agent-Mediated Electronic Commerce: Designing Trading Agents and Mechnisms, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, 2005-07-30 - 2005-08-05
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Agents, Interactions & Complexity
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Local EPrints ID: 263456
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/263456
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Author:
Dan Ladley
Editor:
Han La Poutré
Editor:
Noorman M. Sadeh
Editor:
Sverker Janson
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