David Porter

Publication List Details

Period

1938 - 2009

Number

33

Co-Authors

Market-Based Conflict Resolution for the LightSAR Mission (2009)

Jeffrey Hilland, Hdii Wessen, David Porter, Richard Austin

I ' I' A Market-based system has been developed to assist in mission planning for a earth orbiting synthetic aperture radar (SAR) mission. The system enables participants to signal demands...

New Poems of Emily Dickinson (review) (2009)

David Porter

The Emily Dickinson Journal - Volume 4, Number 1, Spring 1995

Wave scattering by an axisymmetric ice floe of varying thickness (2009)

Bennetts, Luke G., Biggs, Nicholas R. T., Porter, David

The problem of water wave scattering by a circular ice floe, floating in fluid of finite depth, is formulated and solved numerically. Unlike previous investigations of such situations, here we allow...

Assessment of thyroid function during pregnancy: first-trimester (weeks 9–13) reference intervals derived from Western Australian women (2009)

Kennedy, Richard L., Malabu, Usman H., Porter, David

Gilbert and colleagues1 report thyroid function test results in a large number of pregnant women in Western Australia during the first trimester. While assessment of thyroid status is increasingly...

Implementing Best Practices within International Distance Education Initiatives: Lessons Learned from the Mexico-Canada Distance Education Project (2007)

Solvig Norman Open, Solvig Norman, David Porter

: The Open School, a division of the Open Learning Agency of British Columbia, was involved in a three-year project (1996-1998) in Mexico with the goal of providing wider access to basic education...

To Appear In Experimental Economics March 2000 Issue A Market-Based Mechanism for Allocating Space Shuttle Secondary Payload Priority (2007)

John Ledyard, David Porter, Randii Wessen

This is an investigation into the design of a market-based process to replace NASA’s current committee process for allocating Shuttle secondary payload resources (lockers, Watts and crew). The...

Abstract (2007)

Ryan Oprea, Robin Hanson, David Porter, Dorina Tila, Chris Hibbert

We study experimental markets where privately informed traders exchange simple assets, and where uninformed third parties are asked to forecast the values of these assets, guided only by market...

Information aggregation and manipulation in an experimental market (2006)

Robin Hanson, Ryan Oprea, David Porter

Prediction markets are increasingly being considered as methods for gathering, summarizing and aggregating diffuse information by governments and businesses alike. Critics worry that these markets...

The (2006)

David Porter, David Porter

Using the social fabric of the web as a strategic lens to monitor trends and innovations

2003),“Theory, Experiment and the Federal Communications Commission Spectrum Auctions,” Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization (2003)

Jeffrey Banks, Mark Olson, David Porter, Stephen Rassenti, Vernon Smith, Dr. David Porter

The Federal Communications Commission uses an ascending bid auction called the Simultaneous Multi-round Auction (SMA) to assign spectrum for personal communication service licenses. Congress recently...

Goerlach, Aspects of the History of English (Porter) (2001)

David Porter

David Porter, Southern University, Porter2524@aol.com

Overreactions, Momentum, Liquidity, and Price Bubbles in Laboratory and Field Asset Markets (2000)

Gunduz Caginalp, David Porter, Vernon L. Smith

Laboratory asset markets provide an experimental setting in which to observe investor behavior. Over more than a decade, numerous studies have found that participants in laboratory experiments...

The First Use of a Combined Value Auction for Transportation Services (2000)

John Ledyard Mark, Mark Olson, David Porter, Joseph A. Swanson, David P. Torma

Combined value auctions (CVAs) allow participants to make an offer of a single amount for a collection of items. These auctions provide value to both buyers and sellers of goods or services in a...

A new and improved design for multi-object iterative auctions (1998)

Christine Demartini, Anthony M. Kwasnica, John O. Ledyard, David Porter, Paul Milgrom

In this paper we present a new improved design for multi-object auctions and report on the results of tests of that design. We merge the better features of two extant but very di erent auction...

A new and improved design for multi-object iterative auctions (1998)

Anthony M. Kwasnica, John O. Ledyard, David Porter, Christine Demartini, Christine Demartini

In this paper we present a new improved design for multi-object auctions and report on the results of tests of that design. We merge the better features of two extant but very different auction...

Thar She Blows: Can Bubbles Be Rekindled with Experienced Subjects?

Reshmaan N. Hussam, David Porter, Vernon L. Smith

We report 28 new experiment sessions consisting of up to three experience levels to examine the robustness of learning and "error" elimination among participants in a laboratory asset market and its...

Patterns of postural deformity in non-ambulant people with cerebral palsy: what is the relationship between the direction of scoliosis, direction of pelvic obliquity, direction of windswept hip deformity and side of hip dislocation?

Porter, David, Michael, Shona, Kirkwood, Craig

Objective: To investigate: (a) associations between the direction of scoliosis, direction of pelvic obliquity, direction of windswept deformity and side of hip subluxation/dislocation in non-ambulant...

The design, testing and implementation of Virginia's NOx allowance auction

Porter, David, Rassenti, Stephen, Shobe, William, Smith, Vernon, Winn, Abel

We report on the design and testing of three auction mechanisms to maximize revenue and efficiency in the sale of two vintages of nitrous oxide emission allowances by the Commonwealth of Virginia in...