The technique allows agents to integrate local deliberation with negotiation between many other agents. The focus is on a decentralized system, while our work considers techniques for auction systems with a centralized auctioneer. Parunak et al. A systematic market approach to distributed constraint problems . Poster session, Proc.
Agents have hard local problems, and compute approximate solutions to marginal cost calculations.
Safe and opportunistic strategies are proposed for contracting strategies with approximate valuations. Parunak et al. A systematic market approach to distributed constraint problems . Some characteristics of this domain are desirable for the application of MarCon, and if they are lacking, one might prefer alternative distributed constraint mechanisms. Other characteristics reflect features of MarCon over other approaches.