| Name |
Creator |
Code |
Version |
Paper |
Description |
| Zocalo |
Chris Hibbert |
open source |
latest release 2006/7/14 |
CommerceNet Tech Report: The Zocalo White Paper |
A java toolkit for prediction markets. Includes an general purpose prediction market configuration as well as a configuration intended for use in laboratory economics experiments. |
| Free Market |
Jesse Gillespie |
open source |
link is broken |
|
“a PHP-based freeware virtual market package using MySQL. When completed, FreeMarket will provide an open-source way for researchers and educators to easily incorporate IEM-like electronic virtual prediction markets into their programs.” |
| jMarkets |
CalTech |
open source |
version 1.5 released 2005/11/1 |
|
“a web-based platform for running large-scale market experiments.” CDA with book |
| jAuctions |
CalTech |
|
“Available soon!” since at least mid-2005 |
|
a web-based platform for running auctions. |
| multistage |
CalTech |
open source |
last release 2004/9/16 |
|
“a modular package, designed to deal with a broad class of multi-stage games, where the stages may be determined by players’ play and/or random events.” |
| JASA |
Liverpool University. |
open source |
latest release 2005/2/18 |
Phelps, et. al., Co-Evolutionary Mechanism Design: A Preliminary Report
|
“a high-performance auction simulator that allows researchers in agent-based computational economics to run trading simulations.” |
| Idea Futures |
Ken Kittlitz |
open source (limited license) |
latest release 2005/8/25 |
Experiences with the Foresight Exchange |
The source code for the longest running open play-money prediction market site on the web. |
| usifex |
Peter McCluskey |
open source |
2000/2/9 |
none |
An implementation of prediction markets that makes general conditional betting possible. |
| MUMS |
HP Labs |
closed source |
Not available |
COMPUTER GAMES AND ECONOMICS EXPERIMENTS, Yut Chen and Ren Wu |
focused on games & turn taking; no foundation for switchable auctions/markets |
| Gambit |
Texas A&M |
open source |
latest release 2006/1/20 |
|
focused on general games |
| AuctionBot |
Wellman, UMich |
closed source |
retired |
a mention |
supported auctions between automated agents and people; demand functions |
| Walras |
Wellman, UMich |
closed source |
not available |
Market Oriented Programming |
call market; competitive equilibria; demand functions; market simulation |
| Resource Oriented Multi-commodity Algorithm |
Fredrik Ygge |
open source |
1998/2/27 |
Publications |
An algorithm, not a toolkit |
