Combinatorial auctions

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

The lovely but lonely Vickrey auction / Lawrence M. Ausubel and Paul Milgrom -- Iterative combinatorial auctions / David C. Parkes -- Ascending proxy auctions / Lawrence M. Ausubel and Paul Milgrom -- Simultaneous ascending auctions / Peter Cramton -- The clock-proxy auction : a practical combinatorial auction design / Lawrence M. Ausubel, Peter Cramton, and Paul Milgrom -- PAUSE : a computationally tractable combinatorial auction / Ailsa Land, Susan Powell, and Richard Steinberg -- Pseudonymous bidding in combinatorial auctions / Makato Yokoo -- From the assignment model to combinatorial auctions / Sushil Bikhchandani and Joseph M. Ostroy -- Bidding languages for combinatorial auctions / Noam Nisan -- Preference elicitation in combinatorial auctions / Tuomas Sandholm and Craig Boutilier -- The communication requirements of combinatorial allocation problems / Ilya Segal -- The winner determination problem / Daniel Lehmann, Rudolf Müller, and Tuomas Sandholm -- Tractable cases of the winner determination problem / Rudolf Müller -- Optimal winner determination algorithms / Tuomas Sandholm -- Incentive compatibility in computationally feasible combinatorial auctions / Amir Ronen -- Noncomputational approaches to mitigating computational problems in combinatorial auctions / Aleksandar Pekeč and Michael H. Rothkopf -- Observations and near-direct implementations of the ascending proxy auction / Karla Hoffman ... [ et al.] -- A test suite for combinatorial auctions / Kevin Leyton-Brown and Yoav Shoham -- Empirical hardness models for combinatorial auctions / Kevin Leyton-Brown, Eugene Nudelman, and Yoav Shoham -- Auctions for the safe, efficient, and equitable allocation of airspace system resources / Michael O. Ball, George L. Donahue, and Karla Hoffman -- Combinatorial auctions for truckload transportation / Chris Caplice and Yossi Sheffi -- Auctioning bus routes : the London experience / Estelle Cantillon and Martin Pesendorfer -- Industrial procurement auctions / Martin Bichler ... [et al.].