A probabilistic approach to automated bidding in alternative auctions

Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on World Wide Web, WWW '02

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages 99-108

  Dumas, Marlon ^a   Aldred, Lachlan ^a   Governatori, Guido ^b   Hofstede, Arthur Ter ^a   Russell, Nick ^a,c  

^a QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^c GBST Holdings Pty Ltd   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCEPTABLE PROBABILITY; BIDDING AGENTS; LOWEST PRICE; PLANNING ALGORITHMS; PREDICTION METHODS; PROBABILISTIC APPROACHES; PROBABILITY FUNCTIONS;

COSTS; WORLD WIDE WEB;

COMMERCE;

EID: 77953057009     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/511446.511460     Document Type: Conference Paper

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