Basic Bidding Formats: Characteristics and Differences

Classification of Ebay Bidding Characteristics

eBay is often regarded as one single homogeneous marketplace. Fee structure and trading rules are identical for all items traded and for all users. This paper presents evidence gathered from 251,996 eBay auctions suggesting that the market is in fact split into segments with individual bidding characteristics. Using only bidding-related data as input for Support Vector Classification algorithms...

Combinatorial Auctions with Externalities: Basic Properties and Bidding Languages

Although combinatorial auctions have received a great deal of attention from the computer science community over the past decade, research in this domain has focused on settings in which a bidder only has preferences over the bundles of goods they themselves receive, and is indifferent about how other goods are allocated to other bidders. In general, however, bidders in combinatorial auctions w...

How to assess work characteristics? A comparison of response formats

Biodiesel – Basic Characteristics, Technology and Perspectives

The author provides a thorough image of different aspects of biodiesel, including history, economical and political issues, technological and production retrospectives and future trends in this industrial sector. Tough the history of biodiesel looks short and well-known there are certain facts that show that it is a much older phenomenon in the history of technology which so far is not entire b...

Basic and Tumour Suppressor Characteristics of Wwox

In 1996 at M. Aldaz laboratory, during the study on ductal carcinoma in situ, almost 70% LOH was detected at the 16q23.3-16q24.1 region (between the D16S515 and D16S504 markers) (1). Such a high occurrence of LOH among patients with noninvasive stages of breast cancer (BC) suggested that chromosomal abnormalities in this region could be the primary changes a driving force of tumourigenesis. The...