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A key challenge in combinatorial auctions is designing bid formats that accurately capture agents' preferences while remaining computationally feasible. This is especially true for electricity auctions, where complex preferences complicate…

General Economics · Economics 2025-08-26 Thomas Hübner , Gabriela Hug

The stable allocation problem is one of the broadest extensions of the well-known stable marriage problem. In an allocation problem, edges of a bipartite graph have capacities and vertices have quotas to fill. Here we investigate the case…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2014-07-14 Agnes Cseh , Martin Skutella

This paper examines knapsack auctions as a method to solve the knapsack problem with incomplete information, where object values are private and sizes are public. We analyze three auction types-uniform price (UP), discriminatory price (DP),…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-02 Peyman Khezr , Vijay Mohan , Lionel Page

We study algorithms for combinatorial market design problems, where a set of heterogeneous and indivisible objects are priced and sold to potential buyers subject to equilibrium constraints. Extending the CWE notion introduced by Feldman et…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2014-01-20 Michal Feldman , Brendan Lucier

The market economy deals with many interacting agents such as buyers and sellers who are autonomous intelligent agents pursuing their own interests. One such multi-agent system (MAS) that plays an important role in auctions is the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2010-05-30 Sumanth Sudeendra , Megha Saini , Shrisha Rao

Many spectrum auction mechanisms have been proposed for spectrum allocation problem, and unfortunately, few of them protect the bid privacy of bidders and achieve good social efficiency. In this paper, we propose PPS, a Privacy Preserving…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2013-08-30 He Huang , Xiang-Yang Li , Yu-e Sun , Hongli Xu , Liusheng Huang

We study a mechanism design problem where a seller aims to allocate a good to multiple bidders, each with a private value. The seller supports or favors a specific group, referred to as the minority group. Specifically, the seller requires…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2025-02-13 Ruiqin Wang , Cagil Kocyigit , Napat Rujeerapaiboon

We provide the first analysis of (deferred acceptance) clock auctions in the learning-augmented framework. These auctions satisfy a unique list of appealing properties, including obvious strategyproofness, transparency, and unconditional…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-11-06 Vasilis Gkatzelis , Daniel Schoepflin , Xizhi Tan

The Generalized Second Price auction is the primary method by which sponsered search advertisements are sold. We study the performance of this auction under various equilibrium concepts. In particular, we demonstrate that the Bayesian Price…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2010-11-16 Brendan Lucier , Renato Paes Leme

Auto-bidding has recently become a popular feature in ad auctions. This feature enables advertisers to simply provide high-level constraints and goals to an automated agent, which optimizes their auction bids on their behalf. In this paper,…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2024-05-15 Yeganeh Alimohammadi , Aranyak Mehta , Andres Perlroth

We consider the problem of an auctioneer who faces the task of selling a good (drawn from a known distribution) to a set of buyers, when the auctioneer does not have the capacity to describe to the buyers the exact identity of the good that…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2014-01-08 Shaddin Dughmi , Nicole Immorlica , Aaron Roth

We study the aggregate welfare and individual regret guarantees of dynamic \emph{pacing algorithms} in the context of repeated auctions with budgets. Such algorithms are commonly used as bidding agents in Internet advertising platforms,…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Jason Gaitonde , Yingkai Li , Bar Light , Brendan Lucier , Aleksandrs Slivkins

Budget feasible mechanism design studies procurement combinatorial auctions where the sellers have private costs to produce items, and the buyer(auctioneer) aims to maximize a social valuation function on subsets of items, under the budget…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2012-11-09 Xiaohui Bei , Ning Chen , Nick Gravin , Pinyan Lu

This paper describes a study of agent bidding strategies, assuming combinatorial valuations for complementary and substitutable goods, in three auction environments: sequential auctions, simultaneous auctions, and the Trading Agent…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2012-07-19 Amy Greenwald , Justin Boyan

Traditional combinatorial spectrum auctions mainly rely on fixed bidding and matching processes, which limit participants' ability to adapt their strategies and often result in suboptimal social welfare in dynamic spectrum sharing…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Xiang Shao , Wei Wang , Guan Gui

In online ad markets, a rising number of advertisers are employing bidding agencies to participate in ad auctions. These agencies are specialized in designing online algorithms and bidding on behalf of their clients. Typically, an agency…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-06-14 Yurong Chen , Qian Wang , Zhijian Duan , Haoran Sun , Zhaohua Chen , Xiang Yan , Xiaotie Deng

The focus of classic mechanism design has been on truthful direct-revelation mechanisms. In the context of combinatorial auctions the truthful direct-revelation mechanism that maximizes social welfare is the VCG mechanism. For many…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2013-10-14 Paul Duetting , Monika Henzinger , Martin Starnberger

Designing an incentive-compatible auction mechanism that maximizes the auctioneer's revenue while minimizes the bidders' ex-post regret is an important yet intricate problem in economics. Remarkable progress has been achieved through…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-10-12 Tian Qin , Fengxiang He , Dingfeng Shi , Wenbing Huang , Dacheng Tao

In the standard single-dimensional model of position auctions, bidders agree on the relative values of the positions and each of them submits a single bid that is interpreted in terms of these values. Motivated by current practice in…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2018-06-22 Paul Dütting , Felix Fischer , David C. Parkes

We study equilibria in two-buyer sequential second-price (or first-price) auctions for identical goods. Buyers have weakly decreasing incremental values, and we make a behavioural no-overbidding assumption: the buyers do not bid above their…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2020-06-08 Mete Şeref Ahunbay , Brendan Lucier , Adrian Vetta