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SIGECOM
2010
ACM
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15 years 4 months ago
Information asymmetries in pay-per-bid auctions
Recently, some mainstream e-commerce web sites have begun using “pay-per-bid” auctions to sell items, from video games to bars of gold. In these auctions, bidders incur a cost...
John W. Byers, Michael Mitzenmacher, Georgios Zerv...
WINE
2009
Springer
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15 years 5 months ago
An Online Multi-unit Auction with Improved Competitive Ratio
We improve the best known competitive ratio (from 1/4 to 1/2), for the online multi-unit allocation problem, where the objective is to maximize the single-price revenue. Moreover, ...
Sourav Chakraborty, Nikhil R. Devanur
CIMCA
2008
IEEE
15 years 5 months ago
Seller's Strategies for Predicting Winning Bid Prices in Online Auctions
Online auctions have become extremely popular in recent years. Ability to predict winning bid prices accurately can help bidders to maximize their profit. This paper proposes a nu...
Yevgeniya Kovalchuk
SIGECOM
2008
ACM
152views ECommerce» more  SIGECOM 2008»
14 years 11 months ago
On characterizations of truthful mechanisms for combinatorial auctions and scheduling
We characterize truthful mechanisms in two multi-parameter domains. The first characterization shows that every mechanism for combinatorial auctions with two subadditive bidders t...
Shahar Dobzinski, Mukund Sundararajan
EPEW
2009
Springer
15 years 5 months ago
Performance of Auctions and Sealed Bids
We develop models of automated E-commerce techniques, which predict the economic outcomes of these decision mechanisms, including the price attained by a good and the resulting inc...
Erol Gelenbe, László Györfi