Many auctions involve the sale of a variety of distinct assets. Examples are airport time slots,
delivery routes, network routing, and furniture. Because of complementarities or substitution …

Wireless network virtualization (WNV) is considered as a reliable and effective solution to
enhance the capacity and resource utilization in emerging 5G cellular wireless networks …

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Abstract In Abgrenzung zur Verkehrstechnik beschränkt sich die Fördertechnik im
Wesentlichen auf den innerbetrieblichen Transport sowie den Warenumschlag in Häfen, auf …

Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) uses auction-based spot pricing to sell spare
capacity, allowing users to bid for cloud resources at a highly reduced rate. Amazon sets the …

Decentralized scheduling is the problem of allocating resources to alternative possible uses
over time, where competing uses are represented by autonomous agents. Market …

Because of current globalization trend, production has shifted from the single factory
production to multi-factory production network. To become competitive in today's rapidly …

Simultaneously running multiple projects are quite common in industries. These projects
require local (always available to the concerned project) and global (shared among the …

Most planning and optimization methods in manufacturing logistics assume centralized or
hierarchical decision-making using monolithic models. Motivated by the increasing needs to …

When rational, utility-maximizing agents encounter an opportunity to collaborate on a group
activity they must determine whether to commit to that activity. We refer to this problem as the …