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Reverse auction: History, History of internet-based reverse auctions & Context

A reverse auction (also known as buyer-determined auction or procurement auction) is a type of auction in which the traditional roles of buyer and seller are reversed. Thus, there is one buyer and many potential sellers. In an ordinary auction also known as a forward auction, buyers compete to obtain goods or services by offering increasingly higher…

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Reverse auction topic overview

The analysis highlights History, History of internet-based reverse auctions and Context as prominent areas in the source structure around Reverse auction.

Related topics
55
Source areas
8
Connected nodes
63
Extracted relationships
39
Related term clusters
22
Bridge connections
63

What this topic covers Research coverage

Source areas are shown by the number of related topics found in each part of the analysis. Use smaller areas too: they can reveal specialized angles and content gaps.

History of internet-based reverse auctions · 24 topics
Context · 12 topics
Spectrum auction · 7 topics
Demsetz auction · 5 topics
Overview · 4 topics
Comparison of Japanese and Dutch reverse auctions · 1 topics
Dutch reverse auctions · 1 topics
Strategy in reverse auctions · 1 topics

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Overview

Context

History of internet-based reverse auctions

Demsetz auction

Spectrum auction

Dutch reverse auctions

Comparison of Japanese and Dutch reverse auctions

Strategy in reverse auctions

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How Reverse auction connects Entity context

The extracted context around Reverse auction shows recurring relationship patterns in the source. For example, Reverse auction → BP, Company, Dozens, ExxonMobil, FreeMarkets, General Electric, General Motors, Glen Meakem, Headquartered, Heinz, McKinsey, Meakem, Phelps Dodge, Pittsburgh, Royal Dutch Shell, Sam Kinney, SAP, United States, United Technologies, Visteon Another extracted example is Reverse auction → FCC, Federal Communications Commission, June, TV, UHF, United States, VHF TV. Use these groups to spot repeated connection types before inspecting the individual relationships.

Reverse auction

Top relations

related to history · 20
Reverse auction → BP, Company, Dozens, ExxonMobil, FreeMarkets, General Electric, General Motors, Glen Meakem, Headquartered, Heinz, McKinsey, Meakem, Phelps Dodge, Pittsburgh, Royal Dutch Shell, Sam Kinney, SAP, United States, United Technologies, Visteon
related to Spectrum auction · 7
Reverse auction → FCC, Federal Communications Commission, June, TV, UHF, United States, VHF TV
related to Context · 6
Reverse auction → Another, E-procurement, Governments, One, Public, Reverse
related to Japanese reverse auctions · 3
Reverse auction → Acceptance, Although, Japanese
related to Comparison of Japanese and Dutch reverse auctions · 2
Reverse auction → Dutch, Japanese

Important terminology

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Important terminology

auction reverse auctions price procurement buyer bid used contract one traditional also bidding prices business e-procurement suppliers online software supplier

Reverse auction relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

TTTA extracted 39 structured relationships around Reverse auction. Examples in this analysis include General Motors → instance of → Dozens of competing start-up reverse auction service providers and established companies and Reverse auction → related to Comparison of Japanese and Dutch reverse auctions → Japanese. The table shows each extracted connection, where it came from and its confidence.

SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
General Motorsinstance ofDozens of competing start-up reverse auction service providers and established companies0.80text
Reverse auctionrelated to Comparison of Japanese and Dutch reverse auctionsJapanese0.60section
Reverse auctionrelated to Comparison of Japanese and Dutch reverse auctionsDutch0.60section
Reverse auctionrelated to ContextOne0.60section
Reverse auctionrelated to ContextGovernments0.60section
Reverse auctionrelated to ContextPublic0.60section
Reverse auctionrelated to ContextReverse0.60section
Reverse auctionrelated to ContextAnother0.60section
Reverse auctionrelated to ContextE-procurement0.60section
Reverse auctionrelated to historyUnited States0.60section
Reverse auctionrelated to historyFreeMarkets0.60section
Reverse auctionrelated to historyMcKinsey0.60section

Related concept clusters Related term clusters

The concept neighborhoods around Reverse auction bring nearby vocabulary together. In this analysis, examples include Auctions, Reverse and Used. Use the clusters to find adjacent concepts and terminology that may deserve separate research.

  • Reverse auction
    • Auctions
    • Reverse
    • Used
    • Procurement
    • Online
    • Business
    • Japanese
    • Software
    • Also
    • Bid
    • Buyer
    • Dutch
  • reverse auction
    • Auctions
    • Reverse
    • Used
    • Price
    • Procurement
    • Online
    • Buyer
    • Japanese
    • Business
    • Software
    • Form
    • Also
  • auction
    • Reverse
    • Price
    • Procurement
    • Buyer
    • Auctions
    • Japanese
    • Used
    • Form
    • Also
    • Offer
    • Traditional
    • One
  • forward auction
    • Reverse
    • Price
    • Procurement
    • Buyer
    • Auctions
    • Japanese
    • Used
    • Form
    • Also
    • Offer
    • Traditional
    • One
  • unique bid auction
    • Reverse
    • Price
    • Lowest
    • Procurement
    • Winner
    • Buyer
    • Supplier
    • Auctions
    • Japanese
    • Used
    • Form
    • Also
  • procurement
    • Public
    • Reverse
    • Auctions
    • Form
    • Many
    • Used
    • Often
    • Buyer
    • Japanese
    • Process
    • One
    • Online
  • procurement process
    • Public
    • Reverse
    • Auctions
    • Form
    • Many
    • Used
    • Often
    • Buyer
    • Japanese
    • Process
    • Procurement
    • One
  • mobile reverse auction
    • Auctions
    • Reverse
    • Used
    • Price
    • Procurement
    • Online
    • Buyer
    • Japanese
    • Business
    • Software
    • Form
    • Also

Connections between topic areas Semantic bridges

For Reverse auction, one of the stronger structural bridges in this analysis connects Reverse auction with History of internet-based reverse auctions. Bridges highlight paths between different parts of the map and can reveal research angles that are easy to miss in a flat list.

Min side: 3
Reverse auction — History of internet-based reverse auctions · splits 39 ⟂ 25
Reverse auction — Context · splits 51 ⟂ 13
Reverse auction — Spectrum auction · splits 56 ⟂ 8
Reverse auction — Demsetz auction · splits 58 ⟂ 6
Reverse auction — Overview · splits 59 ⟂ 5

Map overview Semantic statistics

Reverse auction

Nodes64
Edges63
Triples39
Avg. degree1.97
Density0.03125
Components1

Source & methodology

TTTA analyzes the structure around Reverse auction to surface related topics, entities, relationships, concept neighborhoods and bridge connections. Use the map to explore areas such as History, History of internet-based reverse auctions & Context, including less central topics that may reveal useful research gaps. Automatically extracted connections are research leads rather than rewritten encyclopedia content.

Source: Wikipedia — Reverse auction · EN edition · Analysis: TopicsToTalkAbout

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