Optimal and Efficient Auctions for the Gradual Procurement of Strategic Service Provider Agents

Keyphrases

• Payment System 100%
• Self-interest 100%
• Efficient Auctions 100%
• Optimal Auction 100%
• Service Provider Agent 100%
• Outsourcing Strategy 66%
• Social Welfare 66%
• Procurement Auctions 66%
• Weighted Threshold 66%
• Service Users 33%
• Incentive Mechanism 33%
• Success Probability 33%
• Monotone 33%
• Execution Cost 33%
• Heuristic-based 33%
• Software Agents 33%
• Expected Utility 33%
• Multiple Services 33%
• Consumer Decisions 33%
• Computational Tasks 33%
• Game Analysis 33%
• Unified Approach 33%
• Consumer Goals 33%
• Uncertain Reliability 33%
• Strict Deadlines 33%
• Time-dependent Threshold 33%

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• Objective Function 100%
• Payment Scheme 100%
• Service Provider 100%
• Software Agent 33%
• Service Consumer 33%
• Computational Task 33%
• Multiple Service 33%
• Success Probability 33%