Auction, an operational and effective resource allocation method, generally results in economical efficiencyallocation between buyers and sellers. As a negotiation method, auction can be used in Multi-Agent Systems. W...Auction, an operational and effective resource allocation method, generally results in economical efficiencyallocation between buyers and sellers. As a negotiation method, auction can be used in Multi-Agent Systems. Withthe consideration of computation ability and communication ability of agents, superadditive and subadditive propertyof goods, requirements of agents' revenue and real-time ability, proper auction methods can be selected to achieveone-many or many-many task assignments or resource allocation. In this paper, we systematically summarize bidingrules, buyers and sellers' strategies and the performances of current auction methods. A formal auction model, whichfits most of the current auction methods, is also presented.展开更多
文摘Auction, an operational and effective resource allocation method, generally results in economical efficiencyallocation between buyers and sellers. As a negotiation method, auction can be used in Multi-Agent Systems. Withthe consideration of computation ability and communication ability of agents, superadditive and subadditive propertyof goods, requirements of agents' revenue and real-time ability, proper auction methods can be selected to achieveone-many or many-many task assignments or resource allocation. In this paper, we systematically summarize bidingrules, buyers and sellers' strategies and the performances of current auction methods. A formal auction model, whichfits most of the current auction methods, is also presented.
