Article ID: | iaor20105631 |
Volume: | 22 |
Issue: | 3 |
Start Page Number: | 339 |
End Page Number: | 352 |
Publication Date: | Jun 2010 |
Journal: | INFORMS Journal on Computing |
Authors: | Mller Rudolf, Spieksma Frits C R, Goossens Dries R |
Keywords: | auctions, combinatorial auction |
A combinatorial auction is an auction where multiple items are for sale simultaneously to a set of buyers. Furthermore, buyers are allowed to place bids on subsets of the available items. This paper focuses on a combinatorial auction where a bidder can express his preferences by means of a so-called