Reducing complexity in winner determination for combinatorial ascending auctions

Electronic Commerce Research and Applications

Volumn 2, Issue 2 SPEC., 2003, Pages 176-186

  Ono, Chihiro ^a   Nishiyama, Satoshi ^a   Horiuchi, Hiroki ^a  

^a KDDI R AND D LABORATORIES INC   (Japan)

Author keywords

Combinatorial auctions; Computational complexity; E marketplace

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; INTERNET; MARKETING; SOFTWARE AGENTS;

COMBINATORIAL AUCTIONS;

COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY;

EID: 0038373222     PISSN: 15674223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1567-4223(03)00013-9     Document Type: Article

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