Priority rules for job shops with weighted tardiness costs
Management Science
Botticelli: A Supply Chain Management Agent
AAMAS '04 Proceedings of the Third International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems - Volume 3
RedAgent-2003: An Autonomous Market-Based Supply-Chain Management Agent
AAMAS '04 Proceedings of the Third International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems - Volume 3
Pricing for customers with probabilistic valuations as a continuous knapsack problem
ICEC '06 Proceedings of the 8th international conference on Electronic commerce: The new e-commerce: innovations for conquering current barriers, obstacles and limitations to conducting successful business on the internet
Designing a successful trading agent for supply chain management
AAMAS '06 Proceedings of the fifth international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems
The supply chain trading agent competition
Electronic Commerce Research and Applications
Bidding for customer orders in TAC SCM
AAMAS'04 Proceedings of the 6th AAMAS international conference on Agent-Mediated Electronic Commerce: theories for and Engineering of Distributed Mechanisms and Systems
The 2007 procurement challenge: A competition to evaluate mixed procurement strategies
Electronic Commerce Research and Applications
Learning approaches for developing successful seller strategies in dynamic supply chain management
Information Sciences: an International Journal
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Supply chains are a central element of today's global economy. Existing management practices consist primarily of static interactions between established partners. Global competition, shorter product life cycles and the emergence of Internet-mediated business solutions create an incentive for exploring more dynamic supply chain practices. The supply chain trading agent competition (TAC SCM) was designed to explore approaches to dynamic supply chain trading between automated software agents. TAC SCM pits trading agents developed by teams from around the world against one another. Each agent is responsible for running the procurement, planning and bidding operations of a PC assembly company, while competing with others for both customer orders and supplies under varying market conditions. This paper presents Carnegie Mellon University's 2005 TAC SCM entry, the CMieux supply chain trading agent. CMieux implements a novel approach for coordinating supply chain bidding, procurement and planning, with an emphasis on the ability to rapidly adapt to changing market conditions. We present empirical results based on 200 games involving agents entered by 25 different teams during what can be seen as the most competitive phase of the 2005 tournament. Not only did CMieux perform among the top five agents, it significantly outperformed these agents in procurement while matching their bidding performance. We also simulated 40 games against the best publicly available agent binaries. Our results show CMieux has significantly better average overall performance than any of these agents.