Mathematical Challenges of Combinatorial Auction Design

James Case

The auction mechanism is older than recorded history---Herodotus mentions it in his History of the Babylonians, said to be the first history book ever written---but there seems to have been no attempt to analyze it quantitatively until the 1950s.

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