Mechanism design for eliciting probabilistic estimates from multiple suppliers with unknown costs and limited precision

Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing

Volumn 59 LNBIP, Issue , 2010, Pages 102-116

  Papakonstantinou, Athanasios ^a   Rogers, Alex ^a   Gerding, Enrico H ^a   Jennings, Nicholas R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Mechanism design; Multi agent systems; Scoring rules

Indexed keywords

COMMERCE; COST ESTIMATING; ESTIMATION; MACHINE DESIGN; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

INCENTIVE COMPATIBLE; MECHANISM DESIGN; MULTI AGENT SYSTEM (MAS); PRE-SELECTED; PRE-SELECTION; PROBABILISTIC ESTIMATES; PROPER SCORING RULES; SCORING RULES;

COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS;

EID: 84863590632     PISSN: 18651348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-15117-0_8     Document Type: Conference Paper

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