2013-2014 Undergraduate and Graduate Catalog (without addenda) 
    
    Mar 28, 2024  
2013-2014 Undergraduate and Graduate Catalog (without addenda) [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

FRE 6431 Electronic Market Design

1.5 Credits
This course covers the design and analysis of electronic marketplaces. This exciting new research area incorporates ideas from economics (in particular game theory and mechanism design), AI and theoretical computer science. Electronic markets have many interesting applications, from the obvious, such as automated negotiation for e-commerce, to non-obvious applications such as resource allocation in grid-computing settings. The course focuses on computational and game theoretic questions related to electronic markets and looks at what it means to design electronic markets with good properties. Topics include Introduction to game theory and mechanism design; winner determination in combinatorial auctions; bidding languages; approximate single-shot auctions; iterative auctions; preference elicitation and communication complexity; mechanisms for selling digital goods; false-name bids; reputation mechanisms; computationally-limited agents; trading agents; and privacy and auctions.

Prerequisite(s): matriculation into a graduate program sponsored by the Department of Finance & Risk Engineering, or permission of the Department
Weekly Lecture Hours: 1.5 | Weekly Lab Hours: 0 | Weekly Recitation Hours: 0