WebRule was published in the WWW conference, and involved 1 MSc thesis. The GEM project explores proper architectures for scalable electronic markets over the Internet, along two directions. First, GEM provides a componentized architecture that delineates the abstract components of a generic market with minimal control and data-flow constraints between them, allowing to mix and match components, both statically and at runtime, using a dynamic reconfiguration facility. Second, GEM provides a distributed architecture for the operation of semi-independent local markets, with various levels of autonomy and information sharing. To leverage the distributed architecture, both in terms of economic and system efficiency, GEM presents new multi-market trading methods.
GEM involves one MSc student, and has been published.
An experimental market site can be accessed here . The project involves a scalable architecture and dynamic placement algorithms that are sensitive to the demand. This is a joint project with Prof. Israel Cidon , and has involved 1 MSc student. A publication has been submitted.