An improved ant colony algorithm for winner determination in multi-attribute combinatorial reverse auction.
Xiaohu QianMin HuangTaiguang GaoXingwei WangPublished in: IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (2014)
Keyphrases
- ant colony algorithm
- reverse auction
- multi attribute
- winner determination
- auction mechanisms
- global optimization
- combinatorial auctions
- mathematical model
- ant colony optimization
- multi criteria
- utility function
- single item
- multiple criteria
- attribute values
- multi dimensional
- sealed bid
- resource allocation
- approximation algorithms