DESIGN ISSUES FOR ELECTRONIC AUCTIONS

Jarrod Trevathan, Wayne Read, Hossein Ghodosi

2005

Abstract

Extensive research has been conducted in order to improve the security and efficiency of electronic auctions. However, little attention has been paid to the design issues. This paper discusses design issues and contrasts the differing security requirements between various auction types. We demonstrate that poor design for an electronic auction breaches the security of the system and degrades its practicality, irrespective of how secure/efficient the building blocks of an electronic auction are. This is accomplished by illustrating design flaws in several existing electronic auction schemes. Furthermore, we provide a solution to these flaws using a group signature scheme and give recommendations for sound auction design.

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in Harvard Style

Trevathan J., Read W. and Ghodosi H. (2005). DESIGN ISSUES FOR ELECTRONIC AUCTIONS . In Proceedings of the Second International Conference on e-Business and Telecommunication Networks - Volume 1: ICETE, ISBN 972-8865-32-5, pages 340-347. DOI: 10.5220/0001419103400347


in Bibtex Style

@conference{icete05,
author={Jarrod Trevathan and Wayne Read and Hossein Ghodosi},
title={DESIGN ISSUES FOR ELECTRONIC AUCTIONS},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Second International Conference on e-Business and Telecommunication Networks - Volume 1: ICETE,},
year={2005},
pages={340-347},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0001419103400347},
isbn={972-8865-32-5},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Second International Conference on e-Business and Telecommunication Networks - Volume 1: ICETE,
TI - DESIGN ISSUES FOR ELECTRONIC AUCTIONS
SN - 972-8865-32-5
AU - Trevathan J.
AU - Read W.
AU - Ghodosi H.
PY - 2005
SP - 340
EP - 347
DO - 10.5220/0001419103400347