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Optimal auctions for multi-unit procurement with volume discount bids

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Title Optimal auctions for multi-unit procurement with volume discount bids
 
Creator GAUTAM, RAGHAV KUMAR
HEMACHANDRA, N
NARAHARI, Y
PRAKASH, HASTAGIRI
 
Subject technology
electronic commerce
mechanisms
mobile telecommunication systems
commerce
 
Description Our attention is focused on designing an optimal procurement mechanism which a buyer can use for procuring multiple units of a homogeneous item based on bids submitted by autonomous, rational, and intelligent suppliers. We design elegant optimal procurement mechanisms for two different situations. In the first situation, each supplier specifies the maximum quantity that can be supplied together with a per unit price. For this situation, we design an optimal mechanism S-OPT (Optimal with Simple bids). In the more generalized case, each supplier specifies discounts based on the volume of supply. In this case, we design an optimal mechanism VD-OPT (Optimal with Volume Discount bids). The VD-OPT mechanism uses the S-OPT mechanism as a building block. The proposed mechanisms minimize the cost to the buyer, satisfying at the same time, (a) Bayesian incentive compatibility and (b) interim individual rationality.
 
Publisher IEEE
 
Date 2009-06-17T04:48:11Z
2011-11-28T08:38:45Z
2011-12-15T09:57:44Z
2009-06-17T04:48:11Z
2011-11-28T08:38:45Z
2011-12-15T09:57:44Z
2007
 
Identifier Proceedings of the 9th IEEE International Conference on E-Commerce Technology and The 4th IEEE International Conference on Enterprise Computing, E-Commerce and E-Services (CEC-EEE 2007), Tokyo, Japan, 23-26 July 2007, 21-28
0769529135
10.1109/CEC-EEE.2007.76
http://hdl.handle.net/10054/1520
http://dspace.library.iitb.ac.in/xmlui/handle/10054/1520
 
Language en