Combines economics with computer science to analyse multidimensional auction mechanisms, the emerging pricing model for e-business. For professionals, consultants and dotcomers involved in designing, implementing and upgrading electronic markets, as well as researchers in: economics, information...

Airport time slots are currently awarded by historic use, with only small number reserved for new entrants. This hampers competition, promotes inefficient slot utilisation, and contributes to congestion. This column revisits the idea of carefully auctioning time slots at congested airports in...

Course assignment is a very widespread problem in education and beyond. Typically, students have preferences for bundles of course seats or course schedules over the week, but courses have limited capacity. This is an interesting and frequent application of distributed scheduling, where payments...