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This work has been partially supported by the Spanish CICYT project SMASH, TIC96-1038-C04001, J. A. Rodríguez-Aguilar and F. J. Martín enjoy the CIRIT doctoral scholarships FI-PG/96-8.490 and FI-DT/96-8.472 respectively. It is also available as an IIIIA research report (IIIA-RR98-32) that must be cited when referring to any results obtained with the aid of FM. 
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...running
Section gif discusses the current restrictions of this capability. 
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...collisions
A collision occurs when the auctioneer receives more than one bid at the same price. 
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...Gnuplot
Caution: You must have previoulsy installed GnuPlot. 
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...closed
This is done manually by the tournament designer by pressing the Close Market button in the upper right corner of the Tournament Pannel window. 
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...file
This file is situated in the data directory within the FM installation directory. This is the default file showed when choosing the One Auction (data set) tournament mode. 
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...Exe
Exe stands for executable. In practice C and Exe agents are handled in the same way by FM. 
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This documentation can be accessed through a browser by opening the packages.html file. 
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...Clisp
The FM Lisp template is Clisp-compliant, and furthermore FM explicitly calls Clisp when automatically starting Lisp agents. 
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...users
We consider that other users -apart from the tournament designer- are to run their agents in their accounts, in their machines, with their resources. 
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...sessions
Actually the subsequent versions of FM will incorporate a more sophisticated trace mode- currently being tested- that sorts out the inherent drawbacks of logical time-based tracing methods. 
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...place
Jump up to the previous section for a complete account of these events. 
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xxx stands for a given auction number. 
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...Gnuplot
Gnuplot is a command-driven interactive function plotting program that can be downloaded from the GNU web page (see gif for more details) 
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...institution
The interested reader should refer to [3] for a thorough account of the architecture of FM. 
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Juan Antonio Rodriguez
Fri Oct 16 15:39:57 MET DST 1998