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U-Mart is an interdisciplinary research program of agent-based artificial market. The U-Mart project develops open-type simulation toolkits to study trading strategies of the agents, the behavior of the market, and their relationships. The very original features of U-Mart are (1) that the simulators are designed as both a client-server system to run over the Internet and a stand-alone one within a small PC, and (2) that both human- and software-agents are able to participate in the same artificial market. The aim of U-Mart is to provide a common testbed for researchers and students who have interests in economics, financial engineering, artificial intelligence, multiagent systems, and computer sciences. In this paper, we describe the outline of the U-Mart project, the current status, experiments, and future plans.
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Terano, T. et al. (2003). U-Mart: An Artificial Market Testbed for Economics and Multiagent Systems. In: Terano, T., Deguchi, H., Takadama, K. (eds) Meeting the Challenge of Social Problems via Agent-Based Simulation. Springer, Tokyo. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-67863-2_4
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