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ACMICEC
2003
ACM
97views ECommerce» more  ACMICEC 2003»
13 years 10 months ago
Risk and user preferences in winner determination
We discuss a solution to the winner determination problem which takes into account not only costs but also risk aversion of the agent that accepts the bids. We are interested in b...
Güleser K. Demir, Maria L. Gini
AMAI
2010
Springer
13 years 2 months ago
Comparing multiagent systems research in combinatorial auctions and voting
In a combinatorial auction, a set of resources is for sale, and agents can bid on subsets of these resources. In a voting setting, the agents decide among a set of alternatives by...
Vincent Conitzer
ACMICEC
2003
ACM
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13 years 10 months ago
A heuristic bidding strategy for multiple heterogeneous auctions
Online auctions are increasingly being used as a medium to procure goods and services. As the number of auction sites increases, however, consumers will inevitably want to track a...
Patricia Anthony, Nicholas R. Jennings
AAAI
2000
13 years 6 months ago
Preventing Strategic Manipulation in Iterative Auctions: Proxy Agents and Price-Adjustment
Iterative auctions have many computational advantages over sealed-bid auctions, but can present new possibilities for strategic manipulation. We propose a two-stage technique to m...
David C. Parkes, Lyle H. Ungar
GECCO
2010
Springer
244views Optimization» more  GECCO 2010»
13 years 5 months ago
Implicit fitness and heterogeneous preferences in the genetic algorithm
This paper takes an economic approach to derive an evolutionary learning model based entirely on the endogenous employment of genetic operators in the service of self-interested a...
Justin T. H. Smith