Cooperation among bidders in traditional auctions is generally forbidden because it is harmful to the interests of sellers. However, in a new type of online auction, the group-buy...
Jian Chen, Xilong Chen, Robert J. Kauffman, Xiping...
We study the problem of hiring a team of selfish agents to perform a task. Each agent is assumed to own one or more elements of a set system, and the auctioneer is trying to purch...
Atsushi Iwasaki, David Kempe, Yasumasa Saito, Mahy...
We consider the following combinatorial auction: Given a range space (U, R), and m bidders interested in buying only ranges in R, each bidder j declares her bid bj : R R+. We give...
George Christodoulou, Khaled M. Elbassioni, Mahmou...
This note describes a sample implementation of automated negotiations in an e-commerce modeling multi-agent system. A specific set of rules is used for enforcing negotiation mech...
This paper analyzes the entrants to the 2007 TAC Market Design competition. It presents a classification of the entries to the competition, and uses this classification to compare...
Jinzhong Niu, Kai Cai, Simon Parsons, Enrico Gerdi...