ABSTRACT
Readers of this journal are accustomed to cross-disciplinary explorations from economics to a number of other sciences, but until now, to my knowledge, there have not been any attempts to communicate with the field of computer science. In September of 1989 at George Mason University there began something that is being called the “Agorics Project” in which graduate students from the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at GMU’s Department of Computer Science joined several economists at the Market Processes Center to investigate a number of topics of mutual interest. The name “agorics” is borrowed from some research that moves in the opposite direction across that disciplinary boundary, trying to use economics in computer science, but the aim of our group is to explore some ways that economics might benefit from looking into certain developments in computer science.
