Michael Wellman
Michael Wellman studies automated agents that make decisions and coordinate through markets. Wellman, Amy Greenwald, and Peter Stone introduced the Trading Agent Competition, held annually from 2000. The shared benchmark tasks agents with buying and selling goods in simultaneous auctions. Wellman, Greenwald, and Stone co-authored Autonomous Bidding Agents: Strategies and Lessons from the Trading Agent Competition. MIT Press published the book on July 13, 2007.
- Now at
- University of Michigan
- Works
- 388
- Citations
- 15,282
- h-index
- 59
Publication numbers from OpenAlex, as of 14 October 2026.
Timeline
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2000 onward
Trading Agent Competition
Wellman, Amy Greenwald, and Peter Stone introduced the Trading Agent Competition, held annually from 2000. The shared benchmark tasks agents with buying and selling goods in simultaneous auctions.
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2001
Research recognition
AAAI elected Michael Wellman as a Fellow in 2001.
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2007
Autonomous Bidding Agents
Wellman, Greenwald, and Stone co-authored Autonomous Bidding Agents: Strategies and Lessons from the Trading Agent Competition. MIT Press published the book on July 13, 2007.
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As of October 2026
Interdependent auction decisions
The book studies bidding when the value of a good depends on outcomes in other auctions. It presents algorithms and strategies within an integrated agent architecture.
Sources and credits
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