Very‐Large‐Scale Generalized Combinatorial Multi‐Attribute Auctions [chapter]

Tuomas Sandholm
2013 The Handbook of Market Design  
Sourcing, the process by which companies acquire goods and services for their operations, entails a complex interaction of prices, preferences, and constraints. The buyer's problem is to Early versions of parts of this article appeared in my article in AI Magazine, 2007, and the section on automated supply network configuration is largely based on our paper in Interfaces, 2006. 1 In fact, with full expressiveness, in principle, truthful bidding can be made a dominant strategy by using
more » ... arke-Groves pricing. However, as I will discuss later, that is not practical here.
doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199570515.003.0017 fatcat:wuxjhcnpjrbobpt3gti2wh4fji