NDLI: An improved ant colony algorithm for winner determination in multi-attribute combinatorial reverse auction

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Xiaohu Qian Min Huang Taiguang Gao Xingwei Wang
Copyright Year	2014
Abstract	This paper considers the problem of one buyer procuring multi-items from multiple potential suppliers in the electronic reverse auction, where each supplier can bid on combinations of items. From the perspective of the buyer, by considering multi-attributes of each item, a winner determination problem (WDP) of multi-items single-unit combinatorial reverse auctions was described and a bi-objective programming model was established. According to the characteristics of the model, an equivalent single-objective programming model was obtained. As the problem is NP-hard, an improved ant colony (IAC) algorithm considering the dynamic transition strategy and the Max-Min pheromone strategy is proposed for the problem. Experimental results show the effectiveness of the improved algorithm.
Starting Page	1917
Ending Page	1921
File Size	1367303
Page Count	5
File Format	PDF
e-ISBN	9781479914883
DOI	10.1109/CEC.2014.6900493
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2014-07-06
Publisher Place	China
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Heuristic algorithms Mathematical model Approximation algorithms Educational Activities Board Algorithm design and analysis Equations Procurement Max-Min pheromone strategy reverse auction winner determination problem ant colony algorithm dynamic transition strategy
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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