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Improving Sequential Single-Item Auctions

2006 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2006
We study how to improve sequential single-item auctions that assign targets to robots for exploration tasks such as environmental clean-up, space-exploration, and search and rescue missions. We exploit the insight that the resulting travel distances are small if the bidding and winner-determination rules are designed to result in hillclimbing, namely ...
Xiaoming Zheng, Sven Koenig, Craig A. Tovey   +2 more
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Sequential and Simultaneous Auctions

2014
In Chap. 4, we studied the main multi-unit auction models in which identical items are offered in a single auction. However, the seller also has the option of offering multiple items, both homogeneous and heterogeneous, in different auctions. These auctions may be performed at the same time (simultaneous auctions) or one after another (sequential ...
Asunción Mochón, Yago Sáez
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Sequential Single-Cluster Auctions

2013
My thesis is concerned with task allocation in multi-robot teams operating in dynamic environments. The key contribution of this work is the development of a distributed multi-robot task allocation auction that allocates clusters of tasks to robots over multiple bidding rounds.
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Learning in Sequential Auctions

SSRN Electronic Journal, 1997
The importance of information transmission and learning is studied in a model of a sequential auction in which bidders have independent private values. In the course of the auction, information about the bidders' values becomes available as winning bids are revealed. From this, bidders learn about their opponents' types.
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Stationary Sequential Auctions

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2000
The paper derives an optimal bidding strategy for a person that wishes to buy a product, e.g., a TV set, by bidding repeatedly in a sequence of second price auctions for such product until winning. This optimal bidding strategy depends on the distribution of the highest bid of the other bidders, and the cost to the bidder from not owning the product ...
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A model of sequential auctions

Economics Letters, 1988
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A Comparison of Sequential and Simultaneous Auctions

2007
Sequential and simultaneous auctions are two important mechanisms for buying/selling multiple objects. These two mechanisms yield different outcomes (i.e., different revenues and also different profits to the winning bidders). Hence, both the auctioneer and the bidding agents want to know which mechanism is better for them.
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Auction Size and Price Dynamics in Sequential Auctions

SSRN Electronic Journal, 1999
This paper uses a unique data-set collected in a consistent way over a number of different auctions to investigate how empirical regularities in sequential auctions depend on the number of lots sold in those auctions. It is shown that prices tend to decline faster in auctions in which a small number of lots were sold.
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Sequential versus simultaneous auctions

Proceedings of the 8th international conference on Electronic commerce The new e-commerce: innovations for conquering current barriers, obstacles and limitations to conducting successful business on the internet - ICEC '06, 2006
Sequential and simultaneous auctions are two important mechanisms for buying and selling multiple objects. These two mechanisms yield different outcomes (i.e., different surpluses, different revenues, and also different profits to the winning bidders). Given this, we compare the outcomes for the sequential and simultaneous mechanisms for the following ...
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The Price of Anarchy of Two-Buyer Sequential Multiunit Auctions

ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation, 2023
Mete Şeref Ahunbay
exaly