Adaptive bidding strategies in agent-based combinatorial auctions.

Sui, Xin.Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2009.Includes bibliographical references (p. 91-97).Abstracts in English and Chinese.Chapter 1 --- Introduction --- p.1Chapter 1.1 --- MAS-Based Resource Allocation Problems --- p.1Chapter 1.2 --- Combinatorial Auction As a Solution --- p.4Chapter 1.3 --- Strategy Issues --- p.5Chapter 1.4 --- Structure of This Work --- p.7Chapter 2 --- Combinatorial Auctions and Bidding Strategies --- p.9Chapter 2.1 --- Combinatorial Auctions for Resource Allocation --- p.9Chapter 2.2 --- Bidding Strategies in Combinatorial Auctions --- p.11Chapter 2.2.1 --- Berhault's Strategies --- p.11Chapter 2.2.2 --- An's Strategies --- p.13Chapter 2.2.3 --- Schwind´ةs Strategies --- p.15Chapter 2.2.4 --- Wilenius´ةs Strategy --- p.17Chapter 2.2.5 --- Overview of Previous Strategies --- p.18Chapter 3 --- An Adaptive Bidding Strategy in Static Markets --- p.21Chapter 3.1 --- Basic Concepts --- p.22Chapter 3.2 --- The Core Algorithm --- p.24Chapter 3.3 --- Experimental Evaluation --- p.31Chapter 3.3.1 --- Experiment Setup --- p.32Chapter 3.3.2 --- Experiment Results and Analysis --- p.33Chapter 4 --- An Adaptive Bidding Strategy in Dynamic Markets --- p.38Chapter 4.1 --- Basic Concepts --- p.39Chapter 4.2 --- The Core Algorithm --- p.42Chapter 4.3 --- Experimental Evaluation --- p.48Chapter 4.3.1 --- Experiment Setup --- p.49Chapter 4.3.2 --- Experiment Results and Analysis --- p.51Chapter 5 --- A Q-Learning Based Adaptive Bidding Strategy in Static Mar-kets --- p.59Chapter 5.1 --- An Overview of Q-Learning --- p.60Chapter 5.2 --- Basic Concepts --- p.63Chapter 5.3 --- The Core Algorithm --- p.65Chapter 5.4 --- Experimental Evaluation --- p.70Chapter 5.4.1 --- Experiment Setup --- p.70Chapter 5.4.2 --- Experiment Results and Analysis --- p.72Chapter 6 --- Discussion --- p.82Chapter 6.1 --- Applicability of the Adaptive Strategies --- p.82Chapter 6.2 --- Generalization of the Adaptive Strategies --- p.83Chapter 7 --- Conclusion and Future Work --- p.86Chapter 7.1 --- Conclusion --- p.86Chapter 7.2 --- Future Work --- p.88Bibliography --- p.9