text: Week 1 (8/31): Introduction
  For each class (after the first), be sure to submit a question or comment about the reading by 10pm on the day before class as an email in plain ascii text. I prefer that is be sent in the body of the email, rather than as an attachment. Please use the subject line "class readings for [due date]" and send to Peter and David (pstone@cs and dpardoe@cs). Please include your name in the response. And if you refer explicitly to the reading, please include page numbers.
  Week 2 (9/5,7): Auction theory
  Auction Theory: A Guide to the Literature, pages 1-46 and the afterword. (Due Tuesday)
  Important note: This is a survey article. I don't expect you to fully understand the technical details of all the stated results. More important is to understand the parameters that go into the analysis of an auction (e.g. risk attitude of sellers and buyers, private vs. common values, etc.) and how they can impact this analysis. The one exception is that you should thoroughly understand the revenue equivalence theorem (Appendix A).
  Auctions and Bidding: A Primer. (Due Thursday)
  Week 3 (9/12,14): Game theory and mechanism design
  Week 4 (9/19,21): TAC Travel
  Available on UTCS machines from /u/pstone/temp/ch1-3.pdf.
  Chapter 3. (Due Thursday)
  Week 5 (9/26,28): TAC SCM
  Christopher Kiekintveld, Jason Miller, Patrick Jordan, and Michael P. Wellman. Controlling a supply chain agent using value-based decomposition. Seventh ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce, Ann Arbor, MI, 2006.(due Tuesday)
  Minghua He, Alex Rogers, Xudong Luo, and Nicholas R. Jennings. Designing a successful trading agent for supply chain management. Fifth International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, pages 1159-1166. Hakodate, Japan, 2006. (due Thursday)
  David Pardoe and Peter Stone. TacTex-05: A Champion Supply Chain Management Agent. In Proceedings of the Twenty-First National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, July 2006. PDF PS (due Thursday)
  Week 6 (10/3,10/5): Automated Mechanism Design and CAT
  Available on UTCS machines from /u/pstone/temp/MarketDesign.pdf.
  Come to class on Thursday prepared to discuss preferences for the programming project.
  Week 7 (10/10,10/12): The Penn-Lehman Automated Trading Project (PLAT)
  Three papers on agents for PLAT: 1 2 3
  Read the abstracts for all three, and choose one to read entirely. (Due Thursday)
  Week 8 (10/17,10/19): FCC spectrum auctions
  This one doesn't cover the results of the auctions (since it was written in 1994, before they happened). But it has some interesting additional details about the design process.
  Week 9 (10/24,26): General equilibrium theory
  In the textbook Multiagent Systems: A Modern Introduction to Distributed Artificial Intelligence, Weiss, G., ed., MIT Press. p. 201-258.