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AAAI
2000
13 years 8 months ago
Solving Combinatorial Auctions Using Stochastic Local Search
Combinatorial auctions (CAs) have emerged as an important model in economics and show promise as a useful tool for tackling resource allocation in AI. Unfortunately, winner determ...
Holger H. Hoos, Craig Boutilier
WINE
2005
Springer
182views Economy» more  WINE 2005»
14 years 27 days ago
Inapproximability Results for Combinatorial Auctions with Submodular Utility Functions
We consider the following allocation problem arising in the setting of combinatorial auctions: a set of goods is to be allocated to a set of players so as to maximize the sum of t...
Subhash Khot, Richard J. Lipton, Evangelos Markaki...
MCFNS
2010
104views more  MCFNS 2010»
13 years 2 months ago
ECOSEL: An Auction Mechanism for Forest Ecosystem Services
This paper describes the foundations of a market mechanism that was designed to stimulate more efficient provisions of forest ecosystem services to society. The proposed tool is a ...
Sándor F. Tóth, Gregory J. Ettl, Ser...
SIGECOM
2010
ACM
226views ECommerce» more  SIGECOM 2010»
14 years 7 days ago
Auctions with online supply
We study the problem of selling identical goods to n unit-demand bidders in a setting in which the total supply of goods is unknown to the mechanism. Items arrive dynamically, and...
Moshe Babaioff, Liad Blumrosen, Aaron Roth
SODA
2008
ACM
109views Algorithms» more  SODA 2008»
13 years 8 months ago
Auctions for structured procurement
This paper considers a general setting for structured procurement and the problem a buyer faces in designing a procurement mechanism to maximize profit. This brings together two a...
Matthew Cary, Abraham D. Flaxman, Jason D. Hartlin...