TY - BOOK AU - Cramton, Peter C. AU - Shoham, Yoav AU - Steinberg, Richard TI - Combinatorial auctions / edited by Peter C. Cramton, Yoav Shoham, Richard Steinberg SN - 9780262514132 U1 - 381.17 PY - 2010/// CY - USA PB - MIT Press, Cambridge KW - Auctions KW - Auctions Mathematics N1 - Contents: Introduction to combinatorial auctions / Peter Cramton, Yoav Shoham, and Richard Steinberg - I. Mechanics. 1. The lovely but lonely Vickrey auction / Lawrence M. Ausubel and Paul Milgrom 2. Iterative combinatorial auctions / David C. Parkes 3. Ascending proxy auctions / Lawrence M. Ausubel and Paul Milgrom 4. Simultaneous ascending auctions / Peter Cramton 5. The clock-proxy auction : a practical combinatorial auction design / Lawrence M. Ausubel, Peter Cramton, and Paul Milgrom 6. PAUSE : a computationally tractable combinatorial auction / Ailsa Land, Susan Powell, and Richard Steinberg - II. Bidding and efficiency. 7. Pseudonymous bidding in combinatorial auctions / Makato Yokoo 8. From the assignment model to combinatorial auctions / Sushil Bikhchandani and Joseph M. Ostroy 9. Bidding languages for combinatorial auctions / Noam Nisan 10. Preference elicitation in combinatorial auctions / Tuomas Sandholm and Craig Boutilier 11. The communication requirements of combinatorial allocation problems / Ilya Segal - III. Complexity and algorithmic considerations. 12. The winner determination problem / Daniel Lehmann, Rudolf Müller, and Tuomas Sandholm 13. Tractable cases of the winner determination problem / Rudolf Müller 14. Optimal winner determination algorithms / Tuomas Sandholm 15. Incentive compatibility in computationally feasible combinatorial auctions / Amir Ronen 16. Noncomputational approaches to mitigating computational problems in combinatorial auctions / Aleksandar Pekeč and Michael H. Rothkopf - IV. Testing and implementing. 17. Observations and near-direct implementations of the ascending proxy auction / Karla Hoffman [and others] 18. A test suite for combinatorial auctions / Kevin Leyton-Brown and Yoav Shoham 19. Empirical hardness models for combinatorial auctions / Kevin Leyton-Brown, Eugene Nudelman, and Yoav Shoham - V. Applications. 20. Auctions for the safe, efficient, and equitable allocation of airspace system resources / Michael O. Ball, George L. Donahue, and Karla Hoffman 21. Combinatorial auctions for truckload transportation / Chris Caplice and Yossi Sheffi 22. Auctioning bus routes : the London experience / Estelle Cantillon and Martin Pesendorfer 23. Industrial procurement auctions / Martin Bichler [and others] ER -