A General Framework for the Logical Representation of Combinatorial Exchange Protocols

@inproceedings{Mittelmann2021AGF,
  title={A General Framework for the Logical Representation of Combinatorial Exchange Protocols},
  author={Munyque Mittelmann and Sylvain Bouveret and Laurent Perrussel},
  booktitle={Adaptive Agents and Multi-Agent Systems},
  year={2021}
}
The goal of this paper is to propose a framework for representing and reasoning about the rules governing a combinatorial exchange. Such a framework is at first interest as long as we want to build up digital marketplaces based on auction, a widely used mechanism for automated transactions. Combinatorial exchange is the most general case of auctions, mixing the double and combinatorial variants: agents bid to trade bundles of goods. Hence the framework should fulfill two requirements: (i) it… 
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