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Abstract | ||
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Traditional auction mechanisms support price negotiations on a single item. The Internet allows for the exchange of much more
complex offers in real-time. This is one of the reasons for much research on multidimensional auction mechanisms allowing
negotiations on multiple items, multiple units, or multiple attributes of an item, as they can be regularly found in procurement.
Combinatorial auctions, for example, enable suppliers to submit bids on bundles of items. A number of laboratory experiments
has shown high allocative efficiency in markets with economies of scope. For suppliers it is easier to express cost savings
due to bundling (e. g., decreased transportation or production costs). This can lead to significant savings in total cost
of the procurement manager. Procurement negotiations exhibit a number of particularities:
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It is often necessary to consider qualitative attributes or volume discounts in bundle bids. These complex bid types have
not been sufficiently analyzed.
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The winner determination problem requires the consideration of a number of additional business constraints, such as limits
on the spend on a particular supplier or the number of suppliers.
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Iterative combinatorial auctions have a number of advantages in practical applications, but they also lead to new problems
in the determination of ask prices.
In this paper, we will discuss fundamental problems in the design of combinatorial auctions and the particularities of procurement
applications.
Reprint of an article from WIRTSCHAFTSINFORMATIK 47(2)2005:126–134. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
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2009 | 10.1007/s12599-008-0014-3 | Business & Information Systems Engineering |
Keywords | Field | DocType |
allocative efficiency,real time,combinatorial optimization,combinatorial auction | Unique bid auction,Eauction,Combinatorial auction,Computer science,Microeconomics,Auction theory,Vickrey–Clarke–Groves auction,Industrial organization,Procurement,Reverse auction,Forward auction | Journal |
Volume | Issue | ISSN |
1 | 1 | 1867-0202 |
Citations | PageRank | References |
7 | 0.53 | 15 |
Authors | ||
3 | ||
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Martin Bichler | 1 | 1262 | 145.16 |
| Alexander Pikovsky | 2 | 61 | 4.90 |
| Thomas Setzer | 3 | 62 | 6.91 |