Librería Samer Atenea
Kálamo Books
Librería Elías (Asturias)
Librería Kolima (Madrid)
Librería Proteo (Málaga)
With the rapid diffusion of the internet, different kinds of market designs fore-commerce have emerged. Among these, combinatorial auctions (CAs) havegained increased interest as they permit bidders to express their valuationsmore easily. For applying a CA in real world scenarios, fast algorithms areneeded to compute the optimal allocation of the offered goods. Althoughmuch research has dealt with this so-called Winner Determination Problem(WDP), only recently has its equivalence to the well-studied multi-dimensionalknapsack problem (MDKP) been noticed. Therefore, there is a lack of researchwhich compares approaches for solving MDKP and WDP problems. With thiswork, the author, Jella Pfeiffer, provides the missing integrative step, aimingat a more intense understanding and a mutual inspiration of both researchareas. She examines structural differences of test instances from bothdomains, compares the performance of different algorithms, and alludes to asuccessful search behavior of non-exact but fast algorithms. The bookaddresses readers interested in electronic market design and algorithmssolving complex combinatorial optimization problems.
