E0 239 : Electronic commerce Y. Narahari e-Enterprises Laboratory Department of Computer Science and Automation Indian Institute of Science Bangalore - 560 012 INDIA

Mechanism 1: MARI

G. Tewari and P. Maes. Design and implementation of an agent-based intermediary infrastructure for electronic markets, Proceedings of ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce, EC-2000, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA, October 2000. download

Mechanism 2: MUCA

K. Leyton-Brown and Y. Shoham and M. Tennenboltz, An algorithm for multi-unit combinatorial auctions, Proceedings of National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2000 download

Mechanism 3: CABOB

Tuomas Sandholm, Subhash Suri, Andrew Gilpin and David Levine, CABOB: A Fast Optimal Algorithm for Combinatorial Auctions, 17th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2001 download

Mechanism 4: Spectrum Auctions

P. Cramton,Simultaneous ascending auctions, 2005
BOOKTITLE=Combinatorial Auctions,
PUBLISHER=The MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA,
EDITOR=P. Cramton and Y. Shoham and R. Steinberg. download

Mechanism 5: Transportation Auction

C. Caplice and Y. Sheffi, Combinatorial auctions for truckload transportation, 2005
BOOKTITLE=Combinatorial Auctions,
PUBLISHER=The MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA,
EDITOR=P. Cramton and Y. Shoham and R. Steinberg,
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Mechanism 6: MUPA

Anshul Kothari and David Parkes and Subhash Suri, Approximately strategyproof and tractable multi-unit auctions, Proceedings of ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce, 2003 download

Mechanism 7: iBundle

D. C. Parkes, iBundle: An efficient ascending price bundle auction, Proceedings of ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce ,2000 download

D. C. Parkes and L. H. Ungar, Iterative combinatorial auctions: Theory and practice, Proceedings of National Conference on Artificial Intelligence , 2000 download

Mechanism 8: CVDA

Debasis Mishra and David C. Parkes, Multi-Item Vickrey-Dutch Auction for Unit-Demand Preferences , Harvard University Technical Report, 2003. download

Mechanism 9: BBVCX

D. C. Parkes and J. Kalagnanam and Marta Eso, Achieving Budget-Balance with Vickrey-Based Payment Schemes in Combinatorial Exchanges, Harvard University Technical Report, 2001. download

Mechanism 10: iMAVA

David C. Parkes and Jayant Kalagnanam, Iterative Multiattribute Vickrey Auctions , In Management Science, 2004 (Special Issue on Electronic Markets). download

Mechanism 11: LPCA

Edo Zurel and Noam Nisan, An efficient approximate allocation algorithm for combinatorial auctions, Proceedings of ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce , 2001. download

Mechanism 12: AALP

James Schummer, Sushil Bikhchandani, Sven de Vries, and Rakesh Vohra, Ascending Auctions and Linear Programming, 2002.
Kellogg School of Management Northwestern University download

Mechanism 13: AkBA

Peter R. Wurman and Michael P. Wellman, AkBA: A progressive, anonymous-price combinatorial auction, Proceedings of ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce, 2000. download

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