8/8/89 P A R T I C I P A N T ' S M A N U A L F O R A D O U B L E A U C T I O N T O U R N A M E N T Richard G. Palmer John Rust John Miller Santa Fe Institute 1120 Canyon Road Santa Fe, NM 87501 Abstract -------- This manual describes the Double Auction Tournament being run by the Santa Fe Institute in March 1990. It explains the Double Auction, the tournament, and all the associated software and protocols. Instructions are given for preparing a strategy-playing program to participate in the tournament. Chapter Contents filename ------- -------- -------- 1. Introduction intro 2. The Software software 3. The Skeleton Programs skeleton 4. The Monitor monitor 5. The Player Programs players 6. DANI dani 7. Tournament Rules and Entry Form rules 8. The Message Passing Protocol messages 9. References refs The documentation is all available electronically, either by anonymous ftp from sfi.santafe.edu (directory pub/dat/doc) or on PC floppy disks; the appropriate file names are listed above. Acknowledgements ---------------- We thank all participants in the Economics Program of the Santa Fe Institute for discussions and, in many cases, for being guinea pigs as the Double Auction game developed. We are also very grateful to Robert Axelrod, Robert Dorsey, Stephanie Forrest, Charles Plott, Vernon Smith, and Shyam Sunder for helpful comments and suggestions. We thank Citicorp, the Russell-Sage Foundation, IBM, and the Alfred P. Sloan foundation for financial support. We are also grateful for the superb administrative assistance provided by the Santa Fe Institute, in particular help from Michael Angerman, Rhonda Butler-Villa, Shona Holmes, Steven Pope, Ginger Richardson, Mike Simmons, Andi Sutherland, and Della Ulibarri.