Prototype for an Information Market in Israel

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Prototype for an Information Market in Israel

• Preliminary Stage

• Interdisciplinary Center Hertzeliya

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Whos Involved

• Dean Prof. Shimon Schocken (IDC Hertzeliya CS
  department).
• Dean Prof. Noam Nissan (Hebrew university
  Jerusalem CS department)
• 3 Graduate students from the Hebrew university
  Tal Babaioff, Aaron Matskin , Maayan Shiloach
• 3 Undergraduate students from the IDC Tomer
  Levinboim, Ido Ramati, Udi Vaks

• Interdisciplinary Center Hertzeliya

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Architecture

• Software
• Apache server
• PostgreSQL (DB)
• PHP

• Logical
• N array outcomes markets
• Arbitrage canceling mechanism
• Boolean stocks (War and X as prime minister)

• Interdisciplinary Center Hertzeliya

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Goals (ideas)

• Israeli politics- especially primaries and party
  conventions which are extremely difficult to poll
  and are of great significance in Israeli politics
  

• Israeli business forecasts

• Political stability issues in the middle east
  (with extreme caution)-
  IDCs ICT a prominent counter terrorism
  institute

• Interdisciplinary Center Hertzeliya

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Time Table

• Alpha- March
• Beta- May

• Interdisciplinary Center Hertzeliya