General combinatorial auctions—auctions in which bidders place unrestricted bids for bundles of goods—are the subject of increasing study. Much of this work has focused on alg...
We introduce a class of mechanisms, called bidding clubs, for agents to coordinate their bidding in auctions. In a bidding club agents first conduct a “pre-auction” within th...
Kevin Leyton-Brown, Yoav Shoham, Moshe Tennenholtz
This paper describes MARI (Multi-Attribute Resource Intermediary), a project which proposes to improve online marketplaces, specifically those that involve the buying and selling ...
Using data collected between August 1999 and January 2000, we examine firm-level pricing strategies for 32 online bookstores. The data cover more than 300 books, including New Yor...
A prime business concern is knowing your customer. One legacy carried into the present from the earliest NCSA web servers is web server logs. While there are more powerful user tr...