Westudy independent private-value all-pay auctionswith risk-averse players. We show that: (1) Players with low values bid lower and players with high values bid higher than they would bid in the risk neutral case. (2) Players with low values bid lower and players with high values bid higher than they would bid in a first-price auction. (3) Players’ expected utilities in an all-pay auction are l...

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I n the classic revenue management (RM) problem of selling a fixed quantity of perishable inventories to price-sensitive non-strategic consumers over a finite horizon, the optimal pricing decision at any time depends on two important factors: consumer valuation and bid price. The former is determined exogenously by the demand side, while the latter is determined jointly by the inventory level o...

Sealed-Bid auction is an efficient and rational method to establish the price in open market. However sealed-bid auctions are subject to bid-rigging attack. Receipt-free mechanisms were proposed to prevent bid-rigging. The prior receipt-free mechanisms are based on two assumptions; firstly, existence of untappable channel between bidders and auction authorities. Secondly, mechanisms assume the ...

Overexpression of the BH3-interacting domain death agonist (BID) protein sensitizes certain cancer cell lines to apoptosis induced by anticancer agents, particularly by those acting through death receptors (e.g. TRAIL). Previously, we showed that recombinant BID fused with TAT cell penetrating peptide (TAT-BID) allowed for controlled delivery of BID to different cancer cell lines and moderately...

Consider a retailer using sponsored search marketing together with dynamic pricing. The retailer’s bid on a search keyword affects the retailer’s rank among the search results. The higher the rank, the higher the customer traffic and the customers’ willingness-to-pay will be. Thus, the question arises: When a retailer bids higher to attract more customers, should the accompanying price also dec...

Construction clients are increasingly calling for bids that require contractors to submit both bid price and highlight sustainability attributes. Contractors are faced with the problem of deciding which combination of bid price and sustainability attributes to submit. An important consideration is the cost of sustainability attributes to the client. This varies between contracts and types of pr...

In this paper we provide a review of the recent literature on Bayesian Blind Image Deconvolution (BID) methods. We believe that two events have marked the recent history of BID: the predominance of Variational Bayes (VB) inference as a tool to solve BID problems and the increasing interest of the computer vision community in solving BID problems. VB inference in combination with recent image mo...

A combinatorial auction is an auction where multiple items are for sale simultaneously to a set of buyers. Furthermore, buyers are allowed to place bids on subsets of the available items. This paper focusses on a combinatorial auction where a bidder can express his preferences by means of a so-called ordered matrix bid. This matrix bid auction was developed by Day (2004) and allows bids on all ...

In the present study, we quantitatively analysed the interface between apoptosis initiation and execution by determining caspase-8 activation, Bid cleavage and mitochondrial engagement (onset of mitochondrial depolarisation) in individual HeLa cervical cancer cells following exposure to tumour-necrosis-factor-related apoptosis-inducing ligand (TRAIL). Employing resonance-energy-transfer probes ...