A combinatorial auction is one in which preferences are expressed for combinations or bundles of items, rather than just for individual items. The importance of combinatorial auctions has grown tremendously in the past 15 years, which have seen an explosion in the use of auction mechanisms in both government allocation problems and businessto-business commerce. Chapter 2 of the dissertation out...

The integration of distributed energy resources (DERs), such as renewable (RE) and storage systems, can have many environmental economic benefits. sharing medium-scale DERs enhance these benefits by ensuring efficient resource utilisation promote economy economies scale opportunities. In this paper, we design a combinatorial double auction (CDA) for DER between multiple providers community cons...

This paper proposes a combinatorial auction-based marketplace mechanism for cloud computing services, which allows users to reserve arbitrary combination of services at requested timeslots, prices and quality of service. The proposed mechanism helps enterprise users build workflow applications in a cloud computing environment, specifically on the platform-as-a-service, where the users need to c...

A reverse auction can be likened to a tendering process where a contract is awarded to the lowest bidder. This is in contrast to a conventional forward auction where the highest bidder wins. In this paper we analyze a minority game version of the reverse auction where an extra condition is imposed that, namely, the bid must be unique. In other words, the bidder with the lowest positive unique i...

ITERATIVE COMBINATORIAL AUCTIONS: ACHIEVING ECONOMIC AND COMPUTATIONAL EFFICIENCY David Christopher Parkes Supervisor: Lyle H. Ungar This thesis presents new auction-based mechanisms to coordinate systems of selfinterested and autonomous agents, and new methods to design such mechanisms and prove their optimality. Computation is increasingly carried out on open networks, with self-interested pr...