Auction-based mechanisms are extremely relevant in modern day electronic procurement
systems since they enable a promising way of automating negotiations with suppliers and …

Mechanism design, an important tool in microeconomics, has found widespread
applications in modelling and solving decentralized design problems in many branches of …

This volume was born from the experience of the authors as researchers and educators,
which suggests that many students of data mining are handicapped in their research by the …

Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to address the inefficiency in resource allocation for
disaster relief procurement operations. It presents a holistic and reconfigurable procurement …

Integrated supply chain planning is well understood by theory and widely applied in practice–
however, only with respect to intra-organisational supply chains. In inter-organisational …

Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to address the inefficiency problems in procurement
operations in disaster relief logistics which are mainly due to the lack of coordination among …

This paper presents an analysis of the bid construction phase of procurement auctions in
disaster relief and humanitarian logistics. Substitution and partial fulfillment options are …

Mechanism design, an important tool in microeconomics, has found widespread
applications in modelling and solving decentralized design problems in many branches of …

This chapter focuses on an auction-based procurement framework for single coordinating
platforms in humanitarian logistics. It first covers disaster relief operations, humanitarian …

Efficiency and optimality are the two primary and generally conflicting goals in any auction
design: the former focuses on the social welfare of the whole seller–bidder system, whereas …