Abstract
The ability to express preferences for specific tasks in multi-agent auctions is an important element for potential users who are considering to use such auctioning systems. This paper presents an approach to make such preferences explicit and to use these preferences in bids for reverse combinatorial auctions. Three different types of preference are considered: (1) preferences for particular durations of tasks, (2) preferences for certain time points, and (3) preferences for specific types of tasks. We study empirically the tradeoffs between the quality of the solutions obtained and the use of preferences in the bidding process, focusing on effects such as increased execution time. We use both synthetic data as well as real data from a logistics company.
Original language | English (US) |
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Title of host publication | Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications |
Publisher | IOS Press |
Pages | 398-402 |
Number of pages | 5 |
ISBN (Print) | 978158603891 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Jun 2008 |
Event | 18th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence, ECAI 2008 - Patras, Greece Duration: Jul 21 2008 → Jul 25 2008 |
Publication series
Name | Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications |
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Volume | 178 |
ISSN (Print) | 0922-6389 |
Conference
Conference | 18th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence, ECAI 2008 |
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Country/Territory | Greece |
City | Patras |
Period | 7/21/08 → 7/25/08 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:Acknowledgments: Partial support is gratefully acknowledged from NSF under grant IIS-0414466.