An experimental study of different approaches to solve the market equilibrium problem

Proceedings of the Seventh Workshop on Algorithm Engineering and Experiments and the Second Workshop on Analytic Algorithms and Combinatorics

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 167-179

  Codenotti, Bruno ^a,b   McCune, Benton ^c   Pemmaraju, Sriram ^c   Raman, Rajiv ^c   Varadarajan, Kasturi ^c  

^a TOYOTA TECHNOLOGICAL INSTITUTE AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^b CNR   (Italy)

^c University of Iowa   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

JOINT MAXIMIZATION; MARKET EQUILIBRIA;

ALGORITHMS; COMPETITION; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; COMPUTER SCIENCE; OPTIMIZATION;

PROBLEM SOLVING;

EID: 32144464907     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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