Mathematics of the Internet

This volume, a collection of papers from an IMA "Hot Topics" workshop in internet auctions, includes descriptions of real and proposed auctions, complete with mathematical model formulations, theoretical results, solution approaches, and computational studies. This volume also provides a mathematical programming perspective on open questions in auction theory, and provides a glimpse of the growing area of dynamic pricing.

Inhalt
Modeling opportunities in auctions.- A column generation approach for combinatorial auctions.- Price negotiations for procurement of direct inputs.- An iterative online auction for airline seats.- An integer programming formulation of the bid evaluation problem for coordinated tasks.- Linear programming and Vickrey auctions.- Auctioning telecommunications bandwidth with guaranteed quality of service.- Pricebot dynamics.- Threshold pricing for selling network capacity through forward contracts.- List of workshop participants.