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WWW
2007
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Improving the Performance of Online Auctions Through Server-side Activity-based Caching
Online auction sites have very specific workloads and user behavior characteristics. Previous studies on workload characterization conducted by the authors showed that i) bidding a...
Daniel A. Menascé, Vasudeva Akula
ATAL
2006
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Mertacor: a successful autonomous trading agent
In this paper we present the internal architecture and bidding mechanisms designed for Mertacor, a successful trading agent, which ended up first in the Classic Trading Agent Comp...
Panos Toulis, Dionisis Kehagias, Pericles A. Mitka...
WINE
2010
Springer
174views Economy» more  WINE 2010»
13 years 5 months ago
Value of Learning in Sponsored Search Auctions
Abstract. The standard business model in the sponsored search marketplace is to sell click-throughs to the advertisers. This involves running an auction that allocates advertisemen...
Sai-Ming Li, Mohammad Mahdian, Randolph Preston Mc...
WINE
2010
Springer
153views Economy» more  WINE 2010»
13 years 5 months ago
Approximation Schemes for Sequential Posted Pricing in Multi-unit Auctions
We design algorithms for computing approximately revenue-maximizing sequential postedpricing mechanisms (SPM) in K-unit auctions, in a standard Bayesian model. A seller has K copi...
Tanmoy Chakraborty, Eyal Even-Dar, Sudipto Guha, Y...
ECR
2002
88views more  ECR 2002»
13 years 7 months ago
Web Based Capacity Allocation Strategies for Customers with Heterogeneous Preferences
We study different mechanisms for the pricing and allocation of capacity to customers with heterogeneous and unknown preferences. The mechanisms we study include posting of prices...
Vipul Agrawal, Giuseppe Lopomo, Sridhar Seshadri