@inproceedings{9a2a6ef1b79b4a7790b900be4e8bd7c3,
title = "Combinatorial auction based mechanism design for course offering determination",
abstract = "Course Offering Determination (COD) is a strategy of an educational institution to maximize the satisfaction of the students and the enrollment of the courses within budget and other resource constraint. COD is a resource allocation problem which is difficult to solve due to the complexity in students{\textquoteright} preferences and resource constraints. In this paper, a mechanism for interactive and dynamic decision making is proposed to solve the problem. In this mechanism, the agents negotiate using a protocol which is based on a multi-unit Combinatorial Auctions (CA). To solve the Winner Determination Problem (WDP) in CA, we modified the Branch On Bids (BOB) algorithm to account for multi-unit nature of courses as well as the other constraints from students and administrators. A case study demonstrates the ability and effectiveness of the proposed mechanism in COD for the graduate and undergraduate level studies.",
keywords = "Branch on bids, Combinatorial auctions, Course offering determination, Multi-agent systems, Winner determination problem",
author = "Anton Vassiliev and Fuhua Lin and {Ali Akber Dewan}, M.",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} Springer International Publishing AG 2017.; 8th International Conference on Digital Human Modeling and Applications in Health, Safety, Ergonomics, and Risk Management, DHM 2017, held as part of 19th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCI 2017 ; Conference date: 09-07-2017 Through 14-07-2017",
year = "2017",
doi = "10.1007/978-3-319-58463-8_32",
language = "English",
isbn = "9783319584621",
series = "Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)",
pages = "376--392",
editor = "Duffy, {Vincent G.}",
booktitle = "Digital Human Modeling",
}