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AAAI
2004
13 years 6 months ago
Combinatorial Auctions with Structured Item Graphs
Combinatorial auctions (CAs) are important mechanisms for allocating interrelated items. Unfortunately, winner determination is NP-complete unless there is special structure. We s...
Vincent Conitzer, Jonathan Derryberry, Tuomas Sand...
IJCAI
2001
13 years 6 months ago
The Exponentiated Subgradient Algorithm for Heuristic Boolean Programming
Boolean linear programs (BLPs) are ubiquitous in AI. Satisfiability testing, planning with resource constraints, and winner determination in combinatorial auctions are all example...
Dale Schuurmans, Finnegan Southey, Robert C. Holte
IAT
2003
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
Agent-based decision support for actual-world procurement scenarios
Multi-item, multi-unit negotiations in industrial procurement pose serious challenges to buying agents when trying to determine the best set of providering agents’ offers. Typic...
Juan A. Rodríguez-Aguilar, Andrea Giovannuc...
EAAI
2008
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13 years 5 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...
FOCS
2006
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
On the Quantum Query Complexity of Local Search in Two and Three Dimensions
The quantum query complexity of searching for local optima has been a subject of much interest in the recent literature. For the d-dimensional grid graphs, the complexity has been...
Xiaoming Sun, Andrew Chi-Chih Yao