Fast-converging tatonnement algorithms for one-time and ongoing market problems

Proceedings of the Annual ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 315-324

  Cole, Richard ^a   Fleischer, Lisa ^b  

^a POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Dartmouth College   (United States)

Author keywords

Market equilibria; Tatonnement

Indexed keywords

ASYMPTOTIC ANALYSIS; COMPUTATION THEORY; COSTS;

EQUILIBRIUM PRICE; FAST CONVERGENCE; GLOBAL KNOWLEDGE; MARKET EQUILIBRIA; NON EQUILIBRIUM; RATE OF CONVERGENCE; TATONNEMENT; THREE PARAMETERS;

COMMERCE;

EID: 57049087604     PISSN: 07378017     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1374376.1374422     Document Type: Conference Paper

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