A Fair Treatment For All Growers At The Auction

Abstract

This paper deals with the question, whether the current procedure flowers are auctioned at a major dutch auctioning centre can be considered as fair or not from the growers view. Some growers have stated, that this is not the case. We first introduce a notion of "fairness", which is meant to approximate the real feeling of a fair or unfair treatment. Then we compare the current procedure used at the auctioning centre with other procedures which we developed and present their effect on our approximation of fairness in a simulation environment. We conclude that the auctioning centre should revise their auctioning system, since it shows a significant bias in the growers' chances to sell their products. We show how this drawback can be overcome with. 1 Introduction Flowers Auction is an international trading center with auctioning centers in Naaldwijk and Bleiswijk, the Netherlands. In these auctioning centers a wide range of high quality flowers and plants are traded. The hear..