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WINE
2005
Springer
100views Economy» more  WINE 2005»
14 years 26 days ago
A Primal-Dual Algorithm for Computing Fisher Equilibrium in the Absence of Gross Substitutability Property
Abstract. We provide the first strongly polynomial time exact combinatorial algorithm to compute Fisher equilibrium for the case when utility functions do not satisfy the Gross su...
Dinesh Garg, Kamal Jain, Kunal Talwar, Vijay V. Va...
CIA
2000
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Auction-Based Agent Negotiation via Programmable Tuple Spaces
Auctions are proposed as a distributed negotiation mean, particularly useful in multiagent systems where both cooperative and self-interested agents compete for resources and serv...
Giacomo Cabri, Letizia Leonardi, Franco Zambonelli
SODA
2004
ACM
128views Algorithms» more  SODA 2004»
13 years 8 months ago
Frugality in path auctions
We consider the problem of picking (buying) an inexpensive s-t path in a graph where edges are owned by independent (selfish) agents, and the cost of an edge is known to its owner...
Edith Elkind, Amit Sahai, Kenneth Steiglitz
FTDCS
1999
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Protecting Competitive Negotiation of Mobile Agents
The paradigm of mobile agents reached its popularity and attraction from typical application scenarios, which are located in the area of electronic commerce. In these common appli...
Hartmut Vogler, Axel Spriestersbach, Marie-Luise M...
INFSOF
2002
72views more  INFSOF 2002»
13 years 7 months ago
Multi-item auctions for automatic negotiation
Available resources can often be limited with regard to the number of demands. In this paper we propose an approach for solving this problem which consists of using the mechanisms...
Houssein Benameur, Brahim Chaib-draa, Peter G. Kro...