Optimal Auction Design for Agents with Hard Valuation Problems
Author(s) -
David C. Parkes
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
lecture notes in computer science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Book series
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.249
H-Index - 400
eISSN - 1611-3349
pISSN - 0302-9743
DOI - 10.1007/10720026_11
Subject(s) - computer science , valuation (finance) , revenue , auction theory , mechanism design , incentive , deliberation , rational agent , microeconomics , operations research , business , common value auction , economics , artificial intelligence , engineering , accounting , finance , politics , political science , law
As traditional commerce moves on-line more business transactions will be mediated by software agents, and the ability of agentmediated electronic marketplaces to efficiently allocate resources will be highly dependent on the complexity of the decision problems that agents face; determined in part by the structure of the marketplace, resource characteristics, and the nature of agents" local problems. We compare auction performance for agents that have hard local problems, and uncertain values...
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