Designing bidding strategies in sequential auctions for risk averse agents: A theoretical and experimental investigation

Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing

Volumn 13 LNBIP, Issue , 2008, Pages 76-89

  Robu, Valentin ^a   La Poutré, Han ^a  

^a CWI   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; EFFICIENCY; ELECTRONIC COMMERCE; INTELLIGENT AGENTS; RISK ANALYSIS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

AGENT-MEDIATED ELECTRONIC MARKETS; ALLOCATION EFFICIENCIES; BIDDING STRATEGY; DECISION MAKING UNDER UNCERTAINTY; DECISION PROCESS; DECISION-THEORETIC; EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATIONS; SEQUENTIAL AUCTIONS;

RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 84876233782     PISSN: 18651348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-88713-3_6     Document Type: Conference Paper

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