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AMEC
2004
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Revenue Failures and Collusion in Combinatorial Auctions and Exchanges with VCG Payments
Abstract. In a combinatorial auction, there are multiple items for sale, and bidders are allowed to place a bid on a bundle of these items rather than just on the individual items....
Vincent Conitzer, Tuomas Sandholm
ATAL
2004
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Strategy/False-name Proof Protocols for Combinatorial Multi-Attribute Procurement Auction
In this paper, we investigate a model of a combinatorial, procurement multi-attribute auction, in which each sales item is defined by several attributes called quality, the buyer...
Takayuki Suyama, Makoto Yokoo
JAIR
2006
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13 years 7 months ago
Resource Allocation Among Agents with MDP-Induced Preferences
Allocating scarce resources among agents to maximize global utility is, in general, computationally challenging. We focus on problems where resources enable agents to execute acti...
Dmitri A. Dolgov, Edmund H. Durfee
ICMAS
1998
13 years 9 months ago
A Market Protocol for Decentralized Task Allocation
We present a decentralized, asynchronous market protocol for allocating and scheduling tasks among agents that contend for scarce resources, constrained by a hierarchical task dep...
William E. Walsh, Michael P. Wellman
SIGECOM
2005
ACM
169views ECommerce» more  SIGECOM 2005»
14 years 1 months ago
Online auctions with re-usable goods
This paper concerns the design of mechanisms for online scheduling in which agents bid for access to a re-usable resource such as processor time or wireless network access. Each a...
Mohammad Taghi Hajiaghayi, Robert D. Kleinberg, Mo...