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AAAI
2004
13 years 8 months ago
Methods for Boosting Revenue in Combinatorial Auctions
We study the recognized open problem of designing revenuemaximizing combinatorial auctions. It is unsolved even for two bidders and two items for sale. Rather than pursuing the pu...
Anton Likhodedov, Tuomas Sandholm
ATAL
2008
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Engineering large-scale distributed auctions
The functional characteristics of market-based solutions are typically best observed through the medium of simulation, data-gathering and subsequent visualization. We previously d...
Peter Gradwell, Michel A. Oey, Reinier J. Timmer, ...
ECRA
2007
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13 years 7 months ago
Two-level workload characterization of online auctions
Online auctions are rapidly becoming one of the significant forms of electronic commerce for buying and selling goods and services. A good understanding of the workload of auctio...
Vasudeva Akula, Daniel A. Menascé
SODA
2010
ACM
201views Algorithms» more  SODA 2010»
14 years 4 months ago
Incentive Compatible Budget Elicitation in Multi-unit Auctions
In this paper, we consider the problem of designing incentive compatible auctions for multiple (homogeneous) units of a good, when bidders have private valuations and private budg...
Sayan Bhattacharya, Vincent Conitzer, Kamesh Munag...
CORR
2010
Springer
90views Education» more  CORR 2010»
13 years 7 months ago
Multi-Unit Auctions: Beyond Roberts
We exhibit incentive compatible multi-unit auctions that are not affine maximizers (i.e. are not of the VCG family) and yet approximate the social welfare to within a factor of 1 ...
Shahar Dobzinski, Noam Nisan