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Monte Carlo Approximation In Incomplete Information, Sequential Auction Games, Gangshu (George) Cai, Peter R. Wurman
Monte Carlo Approximation In Incomplete Information, Sequential Auction Games, Gangshu (George) Cai, Peter R. Wurman
Information Systems and Analytics
We model sequential, possibly multiunit, sealed bid auctions as a sequential game with imperfect and incomplete information. We develop an agent that constructs a bidding policy by sampling the valuation space of its opponents, solving the resulting complete information game, and aggregating the samples into a policy. The constructed policy takes advantage of information learned in the early stages of the game and is flexible with respect to assumptions about the other bidders' valuations. Because the straightforward expansion of the complete information game is intractable, we develop a more concise representation that takes advantage of the sequential auctions' natural structure. …