Tool Auctions

Open Access
Authors
Publication date 2018
Book title Proceedings of the Thirty-Second AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Thirtieth Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence Conference, Eighth Symposium on Educational Advances in Artificial Intelligence
Book subtitle 2-7 February 2018, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
ISBN (electronic)
  • 9781577358008
Event 32nd AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence
Pages (from-to) 1015-1022
Publisher Palo Alto, CA: AAAI Press
Organisations
  • Interfacultary Research - Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC)
Abstract
We introduce tool auctions, a novel market mechanism for constructing a cost-efficient assembly line for producing a desired set of products from a given set of goods and tools. Such tools can be used to transform one type of good into a different one. We then study the computational complexity of tool auctions in detail, using methods from both classical and parameterized complexity theory. While solving such auctions is intractable in general, just as for the related frameworks of combinatorial and mixed auctions, we are able to identify several special cases of practical interest where designing efficient algorithms is possible.
Document type Conference contribution
Language English
Published at https://aaai.org/ocs/index.php/AAAI/AAAI18/paper/view/17186 https://ojs.aaai.org/index.php/AAAI/article/view/11473
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