Many auctions involve the sale of a variety of distinct assets. Examples are airport time slots,
delivery routes, network routing, and furniture. Because of complementarities or substitution …

This article reviews the growing body of research on electronic commerce from the
perspective of economic analysis. It begins by constructing a new framework for …

Multiagent systems combine multiple autonomous entities, each having diverging interests
or different information. This overview of the field offers a computer science perspective, but …

This paper addresses task allocation to coordinate a fleet of autonomous vehicles by
presenting two decentralized algorithms: the consensus-based auction algorithm (CBAA) …

This paper proposes a new mechanism for combinatorial assignment—for example,
assigning schedules of courses to students—based on an approximation to competitive …

Providing a comprehensive introduction to modern auction theory and its important new
applications, this book is written by a leading economic theorist whose suggestions guided …

Marketplaces are often small parts of large markets, and both markets and marketplaces
come in many varieties. Market design seeks to understand what marketplaces must …

We consider the problem of multi-robot task allocation using auctions, and study how lossy
communication between the auctioneer and bidders affects solution quality. We demonstrate …

A family of ascending package auction models is introduced in which bidders may
determine their own packages on which to bid. In the proxy auction (revelation game) …

Automated negotiation is a key form of interaction in systems that are composed of multiple
autonomous agents. The aim of such interactions is to reach agreements through an …