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Advanced Sourcing

CombineNet (2007, October).

Achieving the Next Level of Savings and Efficiency in your Supply Chain

Expressive Commerce and Its Application to Sourcing.

Sandholm, T. (2006, June).

Published in Proceedings of the Eighteenth Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence (IAAI06). Menlo Park, CA: AAAI Press. Copyright 2006, American Association for Artificial Intelligence (http://www.aaai.org).

Changing the Game in Strategic Sourcing at Procter & Gamble: Expressive Competition Enabled by Optimization.

Sandholm, T., Levine, D., Concordia, M., Martyn, P., Hughes, R., Jacobs, J., and Begg, D. (2006, February).

(For the Franz Edelman Award submission by P&G and CombineNet.) Interfaces 36(1), 55-68. Special issue on the 2005 Edelman award competition.

Achieving Closed-Loop Transportation Spend Management

Aberdeen Group (2008, May).

Aberdeen Report

Direct Materials Sourcing

Aberdeen Group (2007, May).

Winning Strategies for Transportation Procurement & Payment

Aberdeen Group (2007, February).

The Advanced Sourcing & Negotiation Benchmark Report

Aberdeen Group (2007, January).

The CPOs Strategic Agenda

Aberdeen Group (2006, November).

Side Constraints and Non-Price Attributes in Markets.

Sandholm, T. and Suri, S. (2006, July).

Games and Economic Behavior 55: 321-330. Longer earlier version in IJCAI-01 Workshop on Distributed Constraint Reasoning.

Optimal Winner Determination Algorithms.

Sandholm, T. (2006, February).

Chapter 14 of the book Combinatorial Auctions, Cramton, Shoham, and Steinberg, eds., MIT Press.

The Winner Determination Problem.

Lehmann, D., Mueller, R., and Sandholm, T. (2006, February).

Chapter 12 of the book Combinatorial Auctions, Cramton, Shoham, and Steinberg, eds., MIT Press.

Preference Elicitation in Combinatorial Auctions.

Sandholm, T. and Boutilier, C. (2006, February).

Chapter 10 of the book Combinatorial Auctions, Cramton, Shoham, and Steinberg, eds., MIT Press.

CABOB: A Fast Optimal Algorithm for Combinatorial Auctions.

Sandholm, T., Suri, S., Gilpin, A., and Levine, D. (2005, March).

Management Science 51(3), 374-390, special issue on Electronic Markets. (Earlier version in IJCAI-01.)

Combinatorial Auctions with Structured Item Graphs.

Conitzer, V., Derryberry, J., and Sandholm, T. (2004, Summer).

In Proceedings of the National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI).

BOB: Improved Winner Determination in Combinatorial Auctions and Generalizations.

Sandholm, T. and Suri, S. (2003, November).

Artificial Intelligence, 145, 33-58. Early version: Improved Algorithms for Optimal Winner Determination in Combinatorial Auctions and Generalizations. In Proceedings of the National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2000.

eMediator: A Next Generation Electronic Commerce Server.

Sandholm, T. (2002).

Computational Intelligence 18(4): 656-676, Special issue on Agent Technology for Electronic Commerce. Early versions: In Proceedings of the International Conference on Autonomous Agents (AGENTS), Barcelona, Spain, June 3-8, 2000; In Proceedings of the AAAI-99 Workshop on AI in Electronic Commerce, p. 46-55; Washington University CS tech report January 1999.

Algorithm for Optimal Winner Determination in Combinatorial Auctions.

Sandholm, T. (2002, September).

Artificial Intelligence, 135, 1-54. (Early version appeared as an invited talk at ICE-98, as a tech report 1/99, and as a paper in the Proceedings of IJCAI-99.

Winner Determination in Combinatorial Auction Generalizations.

Sandholm, T., Suri, S., Gilpin, A., and Levine, D. (2002, May).

In Proceedings of the First International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS). Early version: In Proceedings of the AGENTS-01 Workshop on Agent-based Approaches to B2B.

Solving Combinatorial Exchanges: Optimality via a Few Partial Bids.

Kothari, A., Sandholm, T., and Suri, S. (2002, May).

In Proceedings of the AAAI-02 workshop on AI for Intelligent Business. Also: Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce 2003.

Market Clearability.

Sandholm, T. and Suri, S. (2001, August).

Paper presented to the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), Seattle, WA.

Minimal Preference Elicitation in Combinatorial Auctions.

Conen, W. and Sandholm, T. (2001, August).

Paper presented to the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), Workshop on Economic Agents, Models and Mechanisms, Seattle, WA.