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CORR
2002
Springer
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Effectiveness of Preference Elicitation in Combinatorial Auctions
Combinatorial auctions where agents can bid on bundles of items are desirable because they allow the agents to express complementarity and substitutability between the items. Howe...
Benoît Hudson, Tuomas Sandholm
IJCAI
2001
13 years 9 months ago
Bidding Languages for Combinatorial Auctions
Combinatorial auctions provide a valuable mechanism for the allocation of goods in settings where buyer valuations exhibit complex structure with respect to substitutabilityand co...
Craig Boutilier, Holger H. Hoos
AAIM
2009
Springer
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14 years 3 months ago
Efficiently Generating k-Best Solutions to Procurement Auctions
: © Efficiently Generating k-Best Solutions to Procurement Auctions Andrew Byde, Terence Kelly, Yunhong Zhou, Robert Tarjan HP Laboratories HPL-2009-163 procurement, auctions, dec...
Andrew Byde, Terence Kelly, Yunhong Zhou, Robert E...
KESAMSTA
2009
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
An Approximate Model for Bidders in Sequential Automated Auctions
In this paper, we propose a probabilistic model to study the interaction of bidder and seller agents in sequential automated auctions. We consider a designated “special bidder”...
Erol Gelenbe, Kumaara Velan
JCSS
2008
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Reducing mechanism design to algorithm design via machine learning
We use techniques from sample-complexity in machine learning to reduce problems of incentive-compatible mechanism design to standard algorithmic questions, for a broad class of re...
Maria-Florina Balcan, Avrim Blum, Jason D. Hartlin...