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

Volume

1

fYear

2010

fDate

5-7 May 2010

Firstpage

287

Lastpage

290

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;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computer Communication Control and Automation (3CA), 2010 International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Tainan

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-5565-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/3CA.2010.5533827

Filename

5533827