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Market Mechanisms with Non-Price-Taking Agents

Optimization and Control 2012-02-10 v3 Systems and Control

Abstract

The paper develops a decentralized resource allocation mechanism for allocating divisible goods with capacity constraints to non-price-taking agents with general concave utilities. The proposed mechanism is always budget balanced, individually rational, and it converges to an optimal solution of the corresponding centralized problem. Such a mechanism is very useful in a network with general topology and no auctioneer where the competitive agents/users want different type of services.

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@article{arxiv.1108.2728,
  title  = {Market Mechanisms with Non-Price-Taking Agents},
  author = {Ali Kakhbod},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1108.2728},
  year   = {2012}
}

Comments

"IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control (TAC)", 27 pages (one column)