Title :
An efficient auction based ticket booking scheme for NBA all-star event championship
Author :
Mukhopadhyay, Sajal ; Mane, Pramod ; Ghosh, D.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Inf. Technol., NIT, Durgapur, India
Abstract :
The Basketball is uniquely American game and most popular in this country and now getting popularity in worldwide. National Basketball Association(NBA)is the major basket ball league conducting basketball matches event of every year in the month of february. In a basketball 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 basketball 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; NBA all-star event championship; Vickery-Clarke-Groves mechanism; auction based ticket booking scheme; basket ball league; basketball match; national basketball association; Automatic control; Automation; Communication system control; Computer science; Cost accounting; Game theory; Government; Information technology; Mechanical factors; Watches; Multiunit Auction; VCG Mechanisms;
Conference_Titel :
Computer Communication Control and Automation (3CA), 2010 International Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Tainan
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-5565-2
DOI :
10.1109/3CA.2010.5533827
