A brief overview of agent-based computational economics (ACE) is given, followed by synopses of the articles included in this special ACE issue.

"Active Intermediation in a Monetary Overlapping Generations Economy" ( ps,297K) ( pdf,600K ), (with M. Pingle), Economic Report No. 42, Iowa State University, April 1997. Final version appears in Macroeconomic Dynamics 2 (1998), pp. 183--212. Abstract: This study demonstrates that the reason...

Part II: Special Issue Dedicated to Robert E. Kalaba

This essay discusses the potential relevance of artificial life research for the study of economic processes.

Open Source Software (OSS) expresses the idea that developers should be able to license the publication of their software in a manner permitting anyone to freely use, modify, and distribute the software. Today OSS is widely used in the software industry, such as for language development tools...

Power systems have distinctive features that greatly complicate the development of auction designs. This study reviews the theory and practice of auction design as it relates specifically to U.S. restructured wholesale power markets, i.e., centrally-administered wholesale power markets with...

This study uses a dynamic 5-bus test case implemented via the AMES Wholesale Power Market Test Bed to investigate strategic capacity withholding by generation companies (GenCos) in restructured wholesale power markets under systematically varied demand conditions. The strategic behaviors of the...

Wholesale power markets around the world are currently undergoing a controversial restructuring of their architecture and rules of operation. Some commentators have argued that restructuring has not produced the intended improvements in market efficiency while at the same time it has complicated...

This study outlines the main objectives and defining characteristics of agent-based computational economics (ACE), the computational study of economies modeled as evolving systems of autonomous interacting agents. Similarities and distinctions between ACE and artificial life research are...

This study investigates the performance of Gale-Shapley matching in an evolutionary market context. Computational experimental findings are reported for an evolutionary match-and-play trade network game in which resource constrained traders repeatedly choose and refuse trade partners in...