by Chi-Lun Chau. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2003. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 91-93). / Abstracts in English and Chinese. / Abstract --- p.i / Acknowledgement --- p.iv / Table of Contents --- p.v / List of Figures --- p.viii / Definitions --- p.1 / Chapter Chapter 1 - --- Introduction --- p.2 / Chapter 1.1 --- Background --- p.2 / Chapter 1.2 --- Testing Environment --- p.4 / Chapter 1.2.1 --- Game Overview --- p.4 / Chapter 1.2.2 --- Auctions --- p.5 / Chapter 1.2.3 --- Utility and Scores --- p.8 / Chapter 1.3 --- Thesis Contribution and Organization --- p.10 / Chapter Chapter 2 - --- Relatfd Work --- p.12 / Chapter 2.1 --- Traditional auction theory --- p.12 / Chapter 2.2 --- Technologies related to online auctions --- p.13 / Chapter 2.3 --- Recent researches on online auctions --- p.14 / Chapter 2.3.1 --- Priceline (proposed by Amy Greenwald) --- p.16 / Chapter 2.3.2 --- ATTac: Integer Linear Programming (ILP) --- p.17 / Chapter 2.3.3 --- RoxyBot: Beam search --- p.19 / Chapter Chapter 3 - --- Theoretical model for agents in online auctions --- p.20 / Chapter 3.1 --- High-level planning --- p.20 / Chapter 3.2 --- Mathematical model --- p.21 / Chapter Chapter 4 - --- Agent Architecture and Mechanisms --- p.26 / Chapter 4.1 --- Architecture --- p.26 / Chapter 4.2 --- Cost Estimator (CE) --- p.29 / Chapter 4.2.1 --- Closed auction --- p.29 / Chapter 4.2.2 --- "Open ""take-it or leave-it"" market" --- p.30 / Chapter 4.2.3 --- Open continuous double auction (CDA) --- p.31 / Chapter 4.2.4 --- Open multi-unit ascending auction --- p.33 / Chapter 4.4.2.1 --- Historical clearing prices --- p.33 / Chapter 4.4.2.2 --- Increasing marginal costs --- p.35 / Chapter 4.4.2.3 --- Bid winning probability --- p.37 / Chapter 4.3 --- Allocation and Acquisition Solver (AAS) --- p.39 / Chapter 4.3.1 --- Un-coordinated VS coordinated aspiration --- p.39 / Chapter 4.3.2 --- Optimal VS heuristic approach --- p.40 / Chapter 4.3.3 --- An greedy approach with coordinated aspiration --- p.41 / Chapter 4.4 --- The Bidders --- p.44 / Chapter 4.4.1 --- """Take-it or leave-it"" market" --- p.44 / Chapter 4.4.2 --- Multi-unit ascending auction --- p.46 / Chapter 4.4.2.1 --- Budget bidding --- p.47 / Chapter 4.4.2.2 --- Low price bidding --- p.49 / Chapter 4.4.3 --- Continuous double auction (CDA) --- p.51 / Chapter 4.4.3.1 --- Review of fuzzy reasoning mechanism --- p.52 / Chapter 4.4.3.2 --- Fuzzy Reasoning in FL-strategy --- p.54 / Chapter 4.4.3.3 --- Adaptive Risk Attitude --- p.59 / Chapter Chapter 5 - --- Results --- p.61 / Chapter 5.1 --- TAC '02 Competition --- p.62 / Chapter 5.1.1 --- Tournament result of our working agent --- p.63 / Chapter 5.1.2 --- "Comparisons between CUHK, ATTac and Roxybot" --- p.65 / Chapter 5.1.3 --- Low-price Bidding --- p.66 / Chapter 5.2 --- Controlled Environment --- p.67 / Chapter 5.2.1 --- Software platform --- p.67 / Chapter 5.2.2 --- Aggressive agent vs. Adaptive agent --- p.68 / L-agent (aggressive agent) --- p.68 / S-agent (adaptive agent) --- p.69 / Experimental Setting --- p.70 / Experimental Results --- p.71 / The Hawk-Dove Game --- p.72 / Chapter 5.2.3 --- Our agent model --- p.73 / Experimental Setting --- p.73 / Experimental Results --- p.74 / Chapter 5.2.4 --- Historical clearing price --- p.75 / Experimental Setting --- p.76 / Experimental Result --- p.76 / Comparisons among different approaches --- p.77 / Chapter 5.2.5 --- Increasing marginal cost --- p.79 / Experimental Setting --- p.79 / Experimental Result --- p.79 / Chapter 5.2.6 --- Bid winning probability --- p.81 / Experimental Setting --- p.81 / Experimental Result --- p.81 / Chapter 5.2.7 --- FL-strategy --- p.82 / A-strategy --- p.83 / Experimental Setting --- p.84 / Experimental Result --- p.85 / Chapter Chapter 6 - --- Conclusion and Future work --- p.87 / Reference --- p.91

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