Part 1: Lessons -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: IBM ILOG CPLEX Optimization Studio—A primer -- Chapter 3: Setting up a model -- Chapter 4: Data structures and related OPL language elements -- Chapter 5: Introduction to IBM ILOG Script -- Chapter 6: Modeling with tuples -- Chapter 7:...

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This paper highlights connections between the discrete and continuous approaches to optimal auction design with single and multi-dimensional types. We provide an interpretaion of an optimal auction design problem in terms of a linear program that is an instance of a parametric shortest path...