| Lec. No. |
Date |
Topic |
Readings |
Auxiliary Materials |
Assignments |
| 1 |
Thur 2/5 |
Introduction |
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2 |
Tue 2/10 |
Lecture: Game Theory |
Drew Fudenberg and Jean
Tirole, Game Theory, MIT Press, 1991, pp.3--44, 209--216,
241--242. |
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due 2/17
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| 3 |
Thur 2/12 |
Lecture: Auction Theory |
Vijay Krishna Auction Theory, Academic Press (2002); selected pages.
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| sec |
Fri 2/13 |
section: linear programming |
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| 4 |
Tue 2/17 |
Lecture: Mechanism Design |
Mechanism Theory
M.Jackson, Forthcoming in Encyclopedia of Life Support Stystems. 2000
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due 2/24
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| 5 |
Thur 2/19 |
Discussion on current exchange design |
design document
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| sec |
Fri 2/20 |
section:
integer
programming |
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| 6 |
Tue 2/24 |
Lecture: Combinatorial auctions and bidding languages |
Handouts from Wolsey, "Integer Programming", Wiley 1998 |
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| 7 |
Thur 2/26 |
Exchange day: Proxy Agents |
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due 3/4
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| 8 |
Tue 3/2 |
Exchange Day: Agent Strategies |
Handout: Ausubel and Milgrom, "Asecnding Proxy Auctions."
Forthcoming, Chapter 4 in Combinatorial Auctions, Cramton, Shoham
and Steinberg (eds). |
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| 9 |
Thur 3/4 |
Exchange day: Winner Determination and Pricing |
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| sec |
Fri 3/5 |
section: CPLEX |
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| 10 |
Tue 3/9 |
Exchange day: Domain Modeling |
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| 11 |
Thur 3/11 |
Invited Speaker -- Evan Kwerel, FCC |
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| 12 |
Tue 3/16 |
Systems Issues |
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| 13 |
Thur 3/18 |
Invited speaker -- George Donohue, GMU |
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| 14 |
Tue 3/23 |
Discussion: What we think we're going to do. |
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HW3 Solns
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| 15 |
Thur 3/25 |
Discussion: Remaining Design Issues. |
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Tue 3/30 |
Spring break. |
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Thur 4/1 |
Spring break. |
| 16 |
Tue 4/6 |
General Discussion on Design |
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| 17 |
Thur 4/8 |
Student Presentations: Initial DESIGN. |
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Deliverable: Interface SPECs |
| 18 |
Tues 4/13 |
Exchange day: Proxy Agents |
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Deliverable: Refined MOCK-UP. CPLEX. |
| 19 |
Thur 4/15 |
Discussion: Testing. Break-out Discussion Groups. |
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FAA Bidding Language
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| 20 |
Tue 4/20 |
Exchange day: Winner Determination and Pricing. |
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MIP formulation
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Deliverable: Working Exchange. |
| 21 |
Thur 4/22 |
Bidding Languages: Understanding IC Tree |
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Bidding Language notes
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Deliverable: Working Mock-Up |
| 22 |
Tue 4/27 |
Exchange Day: Agent Strategies. |
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Deliverable: Functional Exchange |
| 23 |
Thur 4/29 |
Integration I. Discussion. Break-out. |
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Linear Pricing notes
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Deliverable: Correct and Functional Exchange. |
| 24 |
Tue 5/4 |
Exchange day: Domain Modeling.
| | | Deliverable: Any New Interfaces |
| 25 |
Thurs 5/6 |
Integration Day II. Discussion. |
| | Deliverable: A Better Exchange and Richer Agent Strategies. |
| 26 |
Monday 5/10. 2.30-4pm, MD 221 |
Integration III. Discussion. |
| | Deliverable: Working Exchange |
| 27 |
Wednesday 5/12. 1-3pm, MD G125 |
Final Presentations. Experimental Results.
| | | Deliverable: Experimental Results. |
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Wed 5/19 |
Final Papers Due from Each Group. |