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15 years 7 months ago
Optimal Auctions for Multi-Unit Procurement with Volume Discount Bids
Our attention is focused on designing an optimal procurement mechanism which a buyer can use for procuring multiple units of a homogeneous item based on bids submitted by autonomou...
N. Hemachandra, Raghav Kumar Gautam, V. Hastagiri ...
WINE
2010
Springer
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13 years 6 months ago
Collusion in VCG Path Procurement Auctions
We consider collusion in path procurement auctions, where payments are determined using the VCG mechanism. We show that collusion can increase the utility of the agents, and in som...
Yoram Bachrach, Peter Key, Morteza Zadimoghaddam
TASE
2008
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
Mechanism Design for Single Leader Stackelberg Problems and Application to Procurement Auction Design
In this paper, we focus on mechanism design for single leader Stackelberg problems, which are a special case of hierarchical decision making problems in which a distinguished agent...
Dinesh Garg, Y. Narahari

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15 years 8 months ago
Procurement of Global Logistics Services Using Combinatorial Auction
Global logistics flows have increased dramatically in recent years due to the globalization in the world economy. It is more complex than the domestic logistics, consisting of mult...
Nikesh Kumar Srivastava, N. Viswanadham, and S. Ka...