Implications of the bidders' arrival process on the design of online auctions

Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

Volumn 2000-January, Issue , 2000, Pages

  Vakrat, Yaniv ^a   Seidmann, Abraham ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SYSTEMS SCIENCE;

ARRIVAL PROCESS; BIDDING TRANSACTIONS; BUSINESS TO CONSUMER; INTERNET AUCTIONS; ONLINE AUCTIONS; OPTIMAL AUCTION; OPTIMAL DESIGN; UNIMODAL FUNCTIONS;

ELECTRONIC COMMERCE;

EID: 85094127475     PISSN: 15301605     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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