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Model<br />

Feasible alloc<strong>at</strong>ions<br />

<strong>Combin<strong>at</strong>orial</strong> constraints restrict <strong>the</strong> set of possible winners, e.g.,<br />

Single item auction - <strong>at</strong> most one buyer can win.<br />

Auction of S identical items - subsets of buyers of size <strong>at</strong> most S.<br />

Each buyer wants a specific bundle of items - subsets of buyers<br />

with disjoint bundles.<br />

A collection of all possible sets of winners.<br />

Assume th<strong>at</strong> A is downward closed:<br />

If A ∈ A and B ⊆ A, <strong>the</strong>n B ∈ A.

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