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Algorithm for optimal winner determination in combinatorial auctions

Tuomas Sandholm
- 01 Feb 2002 - 
- Vol. 135, Iss: 1, pp 1-54
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The algorithm allows combinatorial auctions to scale up to significantly larger numbers of items and bids than prior approaches to optimal winner determination by capitalizing on the fact that the space of bids is sparsely populated in practice.
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This article is published in Artificial Intelligence.The article was published on 2002-02-01 and is currently open access. It has received 1045 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Combinatorial auction & Common value auction.

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Organizing adaptation using agents in serious games

J. Westra
TL;DR: In this article, the authors propose a framework to adjust the difficulty of computer games according to the skill level of the user on the fly, by dividing the game in small parts and measuring the performance of the player on every part that is finished.
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Changing the Game in Strategic Sourcing at Procter & Gamble: Expressive Competition Enabled by Optimization

TL;DR: Procter & Gamble put into practice CombineNets approach to building sourcing networks, called expressive competition, a vision that looks past lowest-price reverse auctions and combinatorial package bidding toward a highly expressive commerce relationship with suppliers.
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Reasoning with Probabilistic and Deterministic Graphical Models: Exact Algorithms

TL;DR: This book provides comprehensive coverage of the primary exact algorithms for reasoning with graphical models, and believes the principles outlined here would serve well in moving forward to approximation and anytime-based schemes.
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An online mechanism for multi-unit demand and its application to plug-in hybrid electric vehicle charging

TL;DR: Using data from a real-world trial of PHEVs in the UK, higher system performance than a fixed price system, performance comparable with a standard, but non-truthful scheduling heuristic, and the ability to support 50% more vehicles at the same fuel cost than a simple randomized policy are demonstrated.
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Limitations of VCG-based mechanisms

TL;DR: For combinatorial auctions among submodular (and thus also subadditive) bidders, an Ω(m1/6) lower bound is proved, which is close to the known upper bound of O( m1/2), and qualitatively higher than the constant factor approximation possible from a purely computationalpoint of view.
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TL;DR: The updated new edition of the classic Introduction to Algorithms is intended primarily for use in undergraduate or graduate courses in algorithms or data structures and presents a rich variety of algorithms and covers them in considerable depth while making their design and analysis accessible to all levels of readers.
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Reducibility Among Combinatorial Problems

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Incentives in Teams

Theodore Groves
- 01 Jul 1973 - 
TL;DR: This paper analyzes the problem of inducing the members of an organization to behave as if they formed a team and exhibits a particular set of compensation rules, an optimal incentive structure, that leads to team behavior.