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                    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
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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
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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.

