The European Commission has suggested that the use of scarce railway track capacity should be charged for on a marginal cost basis and that a welfare enhancing procedure to allocate capacity between competing operators is to be implemented. We present a practicable way to deal with these challenges. Continue reading →

The ASTA project concerns research on systems of trading software agents in electronic commerce. Continue reading →

The finals of the third annual Trading Agent Competition (TAC) were held July 28th, 2002, co-located with AAAI-02 in Edmonton, Canada Continue reading →

Trade Extensions, Accenture, and Volvo performed a combinatorial auction for the procurement of wooden packaging material. Volvo auctioned the contracts for 600 commodities aggregated into 14 segments. Continue reading →