Modeling competitive bidding: a critical essay
Management Science
Efficient mechanisms for the supply of services in multi-agent environments
Decision Support Systems - Special issue on information and computational economics
Bidding and allocation in combinatorial auctions
Proceedings of the 2nd ACM conference on Electronic commerce
An experimental analysis of multi-attribute auctions
Decision Support Systems
Concurrent auctions across the supply chain
Proceedings of the 3rd ACM conference on Electronic Commerce
Protocols and strategies for automated multi-attribute auctions
Proceedings of the first international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems: part 1
Improved Algorithms for Optimal Winner Determination in Combinatorial Auctions and Generalizations
Proceedings of the Seventeenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Twelfth Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence
Self-Enforcing Strategic Demand Reduction
AAMAS '02 Revised Papers from the Workshop on Agent Mediated Electronic Commerce on Agent-Mediated Electronic Commerce IV, Designing Mechanisms and Systems
A Comparison among Bidding Algorithms for Multiple Auctions
AAMAS '02 Revised Papers from the Workshop on Agent Mediated Electronic Commerce on Agent-Mediated Electronic Commerce IV, Designing Mechanisms and Systems
Effectiveness of Preference Elicitation in Combinatorial Auctions
AAMAS '02 Revised Papers from the Workshop on Agent Mediated Electronic Commerce on Agent-Mediated Electronic Commerce IV, Designing Mechanisms and Systems
An English Auction Protocol for Multi-attribute Items
AAMAS '02 Revised Papers from the Workshop on Agent Mediated Electronic Commerce on Agent-Mediated Electronic Commerce IV, Designing Mechanisms and Systems
ATTac-2001: A Learning, Autonomous Bidding Agent
AAMAS '02 Revised Papers from the Workshop on Agent Mediated Electronic Commerce on Agent-Mediated Electronic Commerce IV, Designing Mechanisms and Systems
Bidtree Ordering in IDA* Combinatorial Auction Winner-Determination with Side Constraints
AAMAS '02 Revised Papers from the Workshop on Agent Mediated Electronic Commerce on Agent-Mediated Electronic Commerce IV, Designing Mechanisms and Systems
The Influence of Information on Negotiation Equilibrium
AAMAS '02 Revised Papers from the Workshop on Agent Mediated Electronic Commerce on Agent-Mediated Electronic Commerce IV, Designing Mechanisms and Systems
Preference elicitation in proxied multiattribute auctions
Proceedings of the 4th ACM conference on Electronic commerce
Electronic Sourcing with Multi-Attribute Auctions
HICSS '04 Proceedings of the Proceedings of the 37th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS'04) - Track 7 - Volume 7
A Combinatorial Auction with Multiple Winners for Universal Service
Management Science
Analysis and Design of Business-to-Consumer Online Auctions
Management Science
A unified framework for multiple criteria auction mechanisms
Web Intelligence and Agent Systems
Detection of anomalous bids in procurement auctions
Decision Support Systems
Information revelation in multiattribute English auctions: A laboratory study
Decision Support Systems
Preference-based English reverse auctions
Artificial Intelligence
An efficient reverse auction mechanism for limited supplier base
Electronic Commerce Research and Applications
Journal of Theoretical and Applied Electronic Commerce Research
Preference-oriented QoS-based service discovery with dynamic trust and reputation management
Proceedings of the 27th Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing
Procurement decision making mechanism of divisible goods based on multi-attribute auction
Electronic Commerce Research and Applications
Relationship preserving multi-attribute reverse auction: A web-based experimental analysis
Computers and Industrial Engineering
Bid evaluation behavior in online procurement auctions involving technical and business experts
Electronic Commerce Research and Applications
NegotiAuction: An experimental study
Decision Support Systems
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In this paper we consider an extension of the traditional auction mechanism, the multi-attribute auction, which enables negotiation on several attributes in addition to the price of the item. In particular, we consider a procurement auction in which the buyer is the auctioneer and the sellers are the bidders. Such domains include auctions on task allocation, services, etc. We focus on three auction protocols for the case of multi-attribute items; a variation of the first-price sealed-bid protocol termed first-score sealed-bid, a variation of the second-price sealed-bid protocol termed second-score sealed-bid, and a variation of the English auction protocol termed sequential full information revelation. We analyze a specific model for these protocols and we provide optimal and stable strategies for the auctioneer agent and for the bidder agents participating in multi-attribute auctions. In addition, we analyze the auctioneer's/buyer's expected payoff and suggest an optimal scoring rule to be announced according to the protocol. Finally, we reveal that the buyer's expected payoff in all three protocols, the first-score-sealed-bid auction, the second-score sealed-bid auction and the English auction, differ only by a predefined constant. We prove that the optimal scoring rule is equal in all three protocols. This result can be interpreted as the extension of the equivalence theory of the single attribute for the case of multi-attribute items.