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ATAL
2006
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
A Comparison of Sequential and Simultaneous Auctions
Sequential and simultaneous auctions are two important mechanisms for buying/selling multiple objects. These two mechanisms yield different outcomes (i.e., different revenues and a...
S. Shaheen Fatima
ATAL
2006
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Adaptive Pricing for Customers with Probabilistic Valuations
Abstract. In this paper, we examine the problem of choosing discriminatory prices for customers with probabilistic valuations and a seller with indistinguishable copies of a good. ...
Michael Benisch, James Andrews, Norman M. Sadeh
ATAL
2006
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Evolutionary Stability of Behavioural Types in the Continuous Double Auction
In this paper, we investigate the effectiveness of different types of bidding behaviour for trading agents in the Continuous Double Auction (CDA). Specifically, we consider behavi...
Perukrishnen Vytelingum, Dave Cliff, Nicholas R. J...
ATAL
2006
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Agent Compatibility and Coalition Formation: Investigating Two Interacting Negotiation Strategies
This paper focuses on Coalition Formation paradigm as a market mechanism. Concretely, Coalition Formation occurs as part of a wider open world and may occur many times during the l...
Carlos Mérida-Campos, Steven Willmott
ATAL
2006
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
On Efficient Procedures for Multi-issue Negotiation
This paper studies bilateral, multi-issue negotiation between self-interested agents with deadlines. There are a number of procedures for negotiating the issues and each of these g...
S. Shaheen Fatima, Michael Wooldridge, Nicholas R....
ATAL
2006
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Savings in Combinatorial Auctions Through Transformation Relationships
In a previous work we extended the notion of multi-unit combinatorial reverse auction (MUCRA) by adding a new dimension to the goods at auction. A buyer can express transformabilit...
Andrea Giovannucci, Jesús Cerquides, Juan A...
ATAL
2006
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Evolutionary Optimization of ZIP60: A Controlled Explosion in Hyperspace
The "ZIP" adaptive trading algorithm has been demonstrated to outperform human traders in experimental studies of continuous double auction (CDA) markets. The original Z...
Dave Cliff
ATAL
2006
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
TacTex-05: An Adaptive Agent for TAC SCM
Supply chains are ubiquitous in the manufacturing of many complex products. Traditionally, supply chains have been created through the interactions of human representatives of the ...
David Pardoe, Peter Stone, Mark Van Middlesworth
ATAL
2006
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Robust mechanisms for information elicitation
We study information elicitation mechanisms in which a principal agent attempts to elicit the private information of other agents using a carefully selected payment scheme based o...
Aviv Zohar, Jeffrey S. Rosenschein