Title
Anonymous, Yet Trustworthy Auctions
Abstract
An auction is an inevitable market mechanism to setup prices of goods or services in a competitive and dynamic environment. Anonymity of bidders is required to conceal their business strategies from competitors. However, it is also essential to provide the seller guarantees that a bidder is trustworthy and competent enough to perform certain tasks (e.g transports). This paper proposes an auction protocol where bidders will participate anonymously, yet prove to be trustworthy and competent and can be held accountable towards auctioneers and sellers. Moreover, the protocol introduces promises, bonuses and compensations to ensure the best price for the sellers, extra profit for bidders and opportunities for newcomers in the business. It also handles ties, and copes with last minute bidding. Finally, the auction's fair proceedings and outcome can be verified by everyone.
Year
DOI
Venue
2009
10.1007/978-3-642-04280-5_19
IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology
Keywords
Field
DocType
Auction,Credential,Anonymity,Trust,Distributed Systems
English auction,Computer security,Eauction,Generalized second-price auction,Vickrey–Clarke–Groves auction,Auction theory,Common value auction,Reverse auction,Forward auction,Business
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
305
1868-4238
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
13
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Prasit Bikash Chanda100.34
Vincent Naessens28619.70
Bart De Decker326539.11