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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 17, 2012
Filed:
Jul. 30, 2007
Applicant:
Yunhong Zhou, Cupertino, CA (US);
Inventor:
Yunhong Zhou, Cupertino, CA (US);
Assignee:
Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P., Houston, TX (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06Q 40/00 (2012.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
Embodiments are directed to systems, methods, and apparatus for allocating goods to bidders in combinatorial auctions. In one embodiment, bids are received in a combinatorial auction and the winner determination problem is modeled as an interval knapsack problem (I-KP) or an interval multiple-choice knapsack problem (I-MCKP), efficient algorithms (both pseudo-polynomial-time exact algorithms and FPTAS) for I-KP (and I-MCKP) are used to compute an allocation of goods to winning bidders.