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

ACM Journal of Experimental Algorithmics

Volumn 12, Issue , 2008, Pages

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

^a IIT CNR

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^c CNR   (Italy)

^d University of Iowa   (United States)

Author keywords

Market equilibrium

Indexed keywords

EID: 51149101010     PISSN: 10846654     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1227161.1402295     Document Type: Article

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