There is interest in designing simultaneous auctions for situations such as the recent FCC
radio spectrum auctions, in which the value of assets to a bidder depends on which other …

Objective To determine if early enteral feeding, in an intensive care unit (ICU) patient
population, using a formula supplemented with arginine, dietary nucleotides, and fish oil …

In 1961, Vickrey showed that, in an independent private-values context with symmetric risk-
neutral bidders, sealed second-price auctions have dominant truth-revealing equilibrium …

This paper addresses the existence of market clearing prices and the economic
interpretation of strong duality for integer programs in the economic analysis of markets with …

In analyzing bidding, modeling matters. This paper is a critical analysis of the models
available to aid competitive bidding decision making—bidding strategy and auction design …

Over the years, the electric power industry has been using optimization methods to help
them solve the unit commitment problem. The result has been savings of tens and perhaps …

Combinatorial auctions have two features that greatly affect their design: computational
complexity of winner determination and opportunities for cooperation among competitors …

In theory, the mathematically elegant Vickrey-Clarke-Groves process offers perfect efficiency
with dominant truth-revealing strategies. However, it has many serious practical problems …

This paper presents a mathematical model of the bidding process that deals explicitly with
the uncertainty of the bidders about the value of the subject of the auction. By dealing with …

Tissue sterol composition was determined in an 18-year-old male with sitosterolemia with
xanthomatosis who died suddenly and whose coronary and aortic vessels showed …