An efficient multiunit VCG mechanism for the ticket booking scheme of the J-league football tournament

Author

Mukhopadhyay, Sajal ; Jose, Melvin ; Debnath, Narayan C. ; Ghosh, D.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Inf. Technol., NIT, Durgapur, India

fYear

2010

Firstpage

704

Lastpage

707

Abstract

The J League (Japan Professional Football League), is the top professional association football league in Japan. Contested by 18 clubs, with teams playing 34 games each totalling 306 games in the season. It is one of the most successful and lucrative football league in the Asian club football. It is also the only league which has been given top class ranking by the Asian Football Confederation[11]. In a football match, k tickets are available and more than k people give demand for a ticket to watch the match. To earn more profit in that environment, in this paper an auction based truthful mechanism is proposed for selling all the tickets of the football match and it is shown that our auction based scheme is significantly better than the existing scheme in terms of the total income earned per match.

Keywords

commerce; game theory; sport; J-league football tournament; Japan professional football league; Vickery-Clarke-Groves mechanism; auction based truthful mechanism; multiunit VCG mechanism; ticket booking scheme; Communication networks; Computer science; Cost accounting; Government; Ice; Information technology; Mechanical factors; Rail transportation; Watches; Multiunit Acution; TATKAL scheme; VCG Mechanisms;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Industrial Informatics (INDIN), 2010 8th IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Osaka

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-7298-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/INDIN.2010.5549653

Filename

5549653