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EAAI
2008
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13 years 8 months ago
Enacting agent-based services for automated procurement
Negotiation events in industrial procurement involving multiple, highly customisable goods pose serious challenges to buying agents when trying to determine the best set of provid...
Andrea Giovannucci, Juan A. Rodríguez-Aguil...
COCOON
2005
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Interval Subset Sum and Uniform-Price Auction Clearing
Abstract. We study the interval subset sum problem (ISSP), a generalization of the classic subset-sum problem, where given a set of intervals, the goal is to choose a set of intege...
Anshul Kothari, Subhash Suri, Yunhong Zhou
AAAI
2010
13 years 10 months ago
Stability and Incentive Compatibility in a Kernel-Based Combinatorial Auction
We present the design and analysis of an approximately incentive-compatible combinatorial auction. In just a single run, the auction is able to extract enough value information fr...
Sébastien Lahaie
MANSCI
2006
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13 years 8 months ago
Procuring Fast Delivery: Sole Sourcing with Information Asymmetry
This paper studies a queuing model in which a buyer sources a good or service from an single supplier chosen from a pool of suppliers. The buyer seeks to minimize the sum of her p...
Gérard P. Cachon, Fuqiang Zhang
EOR
2007
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13 years 8 months ago
Exact algorithms for procurement problems under a total quantity discount structure
In this paper, we study the procurement problem faced by a buyer who needs to purchase a variety of goods from suppliers applying a so-called total quantity discount policy. This ...
Dries R. Goossens, A. J. T. Maas, Frits C. R. Spie...