Software
We are currently using, and collaborating on the development of, three
pieces of software for auction simulation.
JCAT
JCAT is a simulator, written in Java, designed and built to support
the Trading Agent Competition
Market Design Game. In essence, JCAT provides the means to set up
multiple competing continuous double auction markets, and traders that
move between them.
An initial version of JCAT will be released under an open-source
licence at the end of November.
JASA is a high-performance auction simulator, written in Java, that
implements a variety of auction mechanisms and agent bidding
strategies. It is intended to be easily extensible, and one aim behind
its development is to provide reference implmentations of all commonly
used bidding strategies.
JASA is available under an open-source licence.
CMAS
CMAS is flexible auction simulator written in Lisp. It is less
powerful than JASA, but was developed to provide a high degree of
parameterisation, allowing many different simulations to be run. It
also (at the cost of performance) allows a detailed view of the
internal machanics of the auction.
CMAS is not currently available, but we plan to release it under an
open-source licence in the future.