Market engineering : a research agenda / Henner Gimpel [and others] -- On comparison mechanisms of economic and social exchanges : the TIMES model / Gregory E. Kersten [and others] -- A decision support system for choosing market mechanisms in e-procurement / Carsten Block and Dirk Neumann -- Applying auction theory to procurement auctions : an empirical study among German corporations / Tilman Eichstädt -- On the design of simple multi-unit online auctions / Thomas Kittsteiner and Axel Ockenfels -- A comparison between mechanisms for sequential compute resource auctions / Andrew Byde -- MACE : a multi-attribute combinatorial exchange / Björn Schnizler --Engineering grid markets / Dirk Neumann -- Shaman : software and human agents in multiattribute auctions and negotiations / Gregory E. Kersten [and others] -- An experiment on investor behavior in markets with nonlinear transaction fees / Matthias Burghardt -- Sellers competing for buyers in online markets / Enrico H. Gerding [and others] -- A Bayesian reputation system for virtual organizations / Jochen Haller -- Situated decision support approach for managing multiple negotiations / Rustam Vahidov -- Optimal financially constrained bidding in multiple simultaneous auctions / Rajeep K. Dash, Enrico H. Gerding, and Nicholas R. Jennings -- Building strategies for multi-object auctions / Shaheen S. Fatima -- Cognitive biases in negotiation processes / Henner Gimpel -- On the forecast accuracy of sports prediction markets / Stefan Luckner, Jan Schröder, and Christian Slamka
Summary
Contains papers presented at the International Seminar "Negotiation and Market Engineering", held at Dagstuhl Castle, Germany, in November 2006. This work gives an overview on the major issues to be addressed and the methodologies used to approach them, covering research from computer science, economics, business administration, and mathematics
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Includes bibliographical references and author index