A comprehensive book on combinatorial auctions?auctions in which bidders can bid on packages of items. The book … by Vernon Smith, an introduction to combinatorial auctions, and twenty-three cross-referenced chapters in five parts … testing the performance of combinatorial auctions, including simulation and experiment. Part V considers four important …

individual items. Computer scientists are interested in combinatorial auctions because they are concerned with the expressiveness … mathematical programming, who are fascinated by the idea of applying these tools to auctions. Auctions have been studied … extensively by economists, of course. Thus, the newly emerging field of combinatorial auctions lies at the intersection of …