Electronic procurement (e-procurement) has been widely adopted across the private sector, and as such various aspects of its adoption has been researched. The adoption of e-procurement in the public sector is not as widespread, especially in relation the UK Central and Local Government sectors,...

In this thesis, we consider several problems related to online resource management. In online optimization, an algorithm has to make decisions based on a sequence of incoming bits of information without knowledge of future inputs. We apply the well-established concept of competitive analysis in...