Agent Services-Oriented Architectural Design of a Framework for Artificial Stock Markets

Artificial stock markets (ASMs) are very complex. Agent-based ASMs (ABASMs) have become quite popular in the research of ASMs. However, it is very hard and time consuming to design and implement an ABASM from scratch. This paper proposes a novel design of a framework for ABASMs based on our previous work on agent services-oriented architectural design (ASOAD). This design integrates service-oriented computing (SOC) and agent-based computing (ABC) to achieve a more powerful and flexible framework for ABASMs. The resulting system makes it easy to build actionable ASMs for experiments.