Acknowledgments
Since 1983, when we started exploring
computational markets, many people have contributed their insights on
these concepts. We thank the following for helpful suggestions on agoric
systems and these papers: Agustin Araya, Yeshayahu Artsy, Jim Bennett,
Peter Bishop, Daniel Bobrow, John Seely Brown, Andrew Cameron, Peter
Deutsch, Mike Dixon, Tom Finholt, Mike Fischer, Bob Flegal, Felix Frayman,
David Friedman, Milton Friedman, Stuart Greene, Roger Gregory, Robert
Gruber, Eric Gullicson, Ken Haase, Robin Hanson, Jed Harris, Rich Hasha,
Keith Henson, Karl Hess, Carl Hewitt, Chris Hibbert, Tad Hogg, Bernardo
Huberman, Gene Hughes, Ted Kaehler, Ken Kahn, Kirk Kelley, Scott Kim, Bill
Kornfeld, David Lindbergh, Pattie Maes, Thomas Malone, John McCarthy,
Diana Merry, Marvin Minsky, Ted Nelson, Gayle Pergamit, Alan Perlis, Chris
Peterson, Harry Pyle, Jim Rauen, Jonathan Rees, Ramana Rao, Phil Salin,
Allan Schiffman, Ehud Shapiro, Jeff Shrager, Randy Smith, Terry Stanley,
Mark Stefik, Richard Steiger, Debbie Tatar, Eric Tribble, Dave Ungar,
Steve Witham, Chee Yu, and Frank Zdybel.
For providing the ideas which inspired this work, we thank Carl Hewitt,
Marvin Minsky, Ted Nelson, Doug Lenat, Robert Axelrod, Richard Dawkins,
and most especially Friedrich Hayek.
For having arranged to make this research possible, we thank Jonathan
Schmidt, Vic Poor, Charlie Smith, Mark Stefik, the Datapoint Technology
Center, the Foresight Institute, the MIT Artificial Intelligence
Laboratory, the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, and the Xerox
Palo Alto Research Center.
Mark S. Miller dedicates his contribution to these papers to his
uncle,
Henry I. Boreen,
who started him on the road to intelligence.