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Dissertation

Iterative Combinatorial Auctions: Achieving Economic and Computational Efficiency. David C. Parkes. Doctoral Dissertation, Computer and Information Science, University of Pennsylvania, May 2001.

Working Papers

Pricing WiFi at Starbucks- Issues in Online Mechanism Design, Eric Friedman and David Parkes, November 2002. Shorter version accepted as a poster in the Fourth ACM Conf. on Electronic Commerce (EC'03).
Virtual Worlds: Fast and Strategyproof Auctions for Dynamic Resource Allocation, Chaki Ng, David C. Parkes and Margo Seltzer, November 2002. Shorter version accepted as a poster in the Fourth ACM Conf. on Electronic Commerce (EC'03).
Achieving Budget-Balance with VCG-Based Payment Schemes in Combinatorial Exchanges, David C. Parkes, Jayant Kalgnanam and Marta Eso. IBM Research Report RC 22218 10/23/2001, updated March 13, 2002.
Auction Design with Costly Preference Elicitation, David C. Parkes, Janurary 2003. Submitted for publication.
An Ascending-Price Generalized Vickrey Auction, David C. Parkes and Lyle H. Ungar, March 2002. Presented at Stanford Institute for Theoretical Economics (SITE) Summer Workshop: The Economics of the Internet, June 2002.
Iterative Multiattribute Vickrey Auctions, David C. Parkes and Jayant Kalagnanam, June 2002. Submitted for publication.
Preference Elicitation in Proxied Multiattribute Auctions, Aditya Sunderam and David C. Parkes, November 2002. Shorter version accepted as a poster in the Fourth ACM Conf. on Electronic Commerce (EC'03).
Using Redundancy to Improve Robustness of Distributed Mechanism Implementations, Jeff Shneidman and David C. Parkes, January 2003. Shorter version accepted as a poster in the Fourth ACM Conf. on Electronic Commerce (EC'03).
On Indirect and Direct Implementations of Core Outcomes in Combinatorial Auctions, David C. Parkes, September 2002.

Edited Collections

Agent-Mediated Electronic Commerce IV: Designing Mechanisms and Systems. LNAI 2531. Eds: Julian Padget, Onn Shehory, David Parkes, Norman Sadeh, William Walsh. Springer-Verlag, 2002.

Journals and Archival Conferences

Approximately-Strategyproof and Tractable Multi-Unit Auctions. Anshul Kothari, David C. Parkes and Subhash Suri. To appear, Proc. 4th ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce, 2003.
[PS] [PDF] Achieving Budget-Balance with Vickrey-Based Payment Schemes in Exchanges. David C. Parkes, Jayant Kalagnanam and Marta Eso. In, Proc. 17th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-01), 2001.
Multiagent Cooperative Search for Portfolio Selection. David C. Parkes and Bernardo A. Huberman. Games and Economic Behavior, 35:124-165, 2001. Special issue on Artificial Intelligence and Economics.
[PS] [PDF] Iterative Combinatorial Auctions: Theory and Practice. David C. Parkes and Lyle H. Ungar. In Proc. 17th National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-00), 74--81, 2000.
[PS] [PDF]Preventing Strategic Manipulation in Iterative Auctions: Proxy-Agents and Price-Adjustment. David C. Parkes and Lyle H. Ungar. In Proc. 17th National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-00), 82--89, 2000.
[PS] [PDF] iBundle: An Efficient Ascending Price Bundle Auction. David C. Parkes. In Proc. ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce (EC-99), 148--157, 1999.

Book Chapters

Auctions, Bidding and Exchange Design. Jayant Kalagnanam and David C. Parkes. Chapter 10, in Supply Chain Analysis in the eBusiness Era, Edited by David Simchi-Levi, S. David Wu and Z. Max Shen, 2003. (forthcoming)
On Learnable Mechanism Design, David C. Parkes. To appear, Collectives and the Design of Complex Systems, Edited by Kagan Tumer and David Wolpert, 2003.
Iterative Combinatorial Auctions, David C. Parkes. To appear, Combinatorial Auctions, Edited by Peter Cramton, Yoav Shoham and Richard Steinberg, 2003.

Refereed Workshop and Conference Papers

Rationality and Self-Interest in Peer to Peer Networks, Jeff Shneidman and David C. Parkes. To appear, 2nd International Workshop on Peer-to-Peer Systems (IPTPS'03), 2003.
Price-Based Information Certificates for Minimal-Revelation Combinatorial Auctions, David C. Parkes, in Agent-Mediated Electronic Commerce IV, Padget et al. (eds), LNAI 2531 pp. 103-122, Springer-Verlag 2002. Earlier version in AMEC'IV workshop at AAMAS'02, Bologna, July 2002.
Challenge Problem: Agent-Mediated Decentralized Information Mechanisms, David C. Parkes, in Agentcitites: Challenges in Open Agent Environments, Burg et al. (eds), Springer-Verlag, 2003. Earlier version in Agentcities workshop at AAMAS'02, July 2002.
[PS] [PDF] An Auction-Based Method for Decentralized Train Scheduling. David C. Parkes and Lyle H. Ungar. In, Proc. 5th International Conference on Autonomous Agents (Agents'01), 2001.
[PS] Approximate and Compensate: A method for risk-sensitive meta-deliberation and continual computation. David C. Parkes and Lloyd Greenwald. In, AAAI Fall Symposium on Using Uncertainty within Computation October, 2001.
[PS] [PDF]An Iterative Generalized Vickrey Auction: Strategy-Proofness without Complete Revelation. David C. Parkes. In AAAI Spring Symposium on Game Theoretic and Decision Theoretic Agents Stanford University, CA. March, 2001.
Optimal Auction Design for Agents with Hard Valuation Problems, David C. Parkes, In Agent Mediated Electronic Commerce II: Towards Next-Generation Agent-Based Electronic Commerce Systems (LNAI 1788), Moukas et al. (eds), Springer-Verlag, 2000. Earlier version in Proc. IJCAI'99 Workshop on Agent Mediated Electronic Commerce (AmEC-99). Stockholm, Sweden. July 31, 1999.
Accounting for Cognitive Costs in On-line Auction Design, David C. Parkes, Lyle H. Ungar and Dean P. Foster. In Noriega, P. and Sierra, C. eds., Agent Mediated Electronic Commerce (LNAI 1571), 25--40. Springer-Verlag, 1999. Earlier version in Proc. Agents'98 Workshop on Agent Mediated Electronic Trading (AMET'98). Minneapolis/St.Paul, MN. May 10, 1998.
[PS] [PDF] Cooperative Multiagent Search for Portfolio Selection. David C. Parkes and Bernardo A. Huberman. In Proc. Agents'98 Workshop on Artificial Societies and Computational Markets (ASCMA'98). Minneapolis/St. Paul, MN. May 9, 1998.
Adaptive Portfolio Selection by Investment Groups. David C. Parkes and Bernardo A. Huberman. In Proc. IFAC Symposium on Computation in Economics, Finance and Engineering (CEFES'98). Cambridge, England. June 30, 1998.
[PS] [PDF] Learning and Adaption in Multiagent Systems. David C. Parkes and Lyle H. Ungar. In Proc. AAAI-97 Workshop on Multiagent Learning. Providence, RI. July 30, 1997.