Design patterns: elements of reusable object-oriented software
Design patterns: elements of reusable object-oriented software
Bringing design to software
A comparison of sixteen quality metrics for object-oriented design
Information Processing Letters
Component software: beyond object-oriented programming
Component software: beyond object-oriented programming
An Evaluation of the MOOD Set of Object-Oriented Software Metrics
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Introduction to Multiagent Systems
Introduction to Multiagent Systems
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
Controlling a supply chain agent using value-based decomposition
EC '06 Proceedings of the 7th ACM conference on Electronic commerce
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
CMieux: adaptive strategies for competitive supply chain trading
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
Tiancalli06: An Agent for the Supply Chain Management Game 2006
CIMCA '06 Proceedings of the International Conference on Computational Inteligence for Modelling Control and Automation and International Conference on Intelligent Agents Web Technologies and International Commerce
Multiagent based Supply Chain Management (Studies in Computational Intelligence)
Multiagent based Supply Chain Management (Studies in Computational Intelligence)
A predictive empirical model for pricing and resource allocation decisions
Proceedings of the ninth international conference on Electronic commerce
Empirical game-theoretic analysis of the TAC Supply Chain game
Proceedings of the 6th international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems
Agent Mertacor: A robust design for dealing with uncertainty and variation in SCM environments
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
TacTex-05: a champion supply chain management agent
AAAI'06 proceedings of the 21st national conference on Artificial intelligence - Volume 2
Efficient statistical methods for evaluating trading agent performance
AAAI'07 Proceedings of the 22nd national conference on Artificial intelligence - Volume 1
Detecting and forecasting economic regimes in multi-agent automated exchanges
Decision Support Systems
A robust agent design for dynamic SCM environments
SETN'06 Proceedings of the 4th Helenic conference on Advances in Artificial Intelligence
A mixed initiative semantic web framework for process composition
ISWC'06 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on The Semantic Web
The crocodileagent: research for efficient agent-based cross-enterprise processes
OTM'06 Proceedings of the 2006 international conference on On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems: AWeSOMe, CAMS, COMINF, IS, KSinBIT, MIOS-CIAO, MONET - Volume Part I
Identifying and forecasting economic regimes in TAC SCM
AMEC'05 Proceedings of the 2005 international conference on Agent-Mediated Electronic Commerce: designing Trading Agents and Mechanisms
Identifying and predicting economic regimes in supply chains using sales and procurement information
Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Electronic Commerce
Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Electronic Commerce
Research Commentary---Designing Smart Markets
Information Systems Research
When the requirements for adaptation and high integrity meet
Proceedings of the 8th workshop on Assurances for self-adaptive systems
Real-Time Tactical and Strategic Sales Management for Intelligent Agents Guided by Economic Regimes
Information Systems Research
Agent-assisted supply chain management: Analysis and lessons learned
Decision Support Systems
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Modern electronic commerce creates significant challenges for decision-makers. The trading agent competition for supply-chain management (TAC SCM) is an annual competition among fully-autonomous trading agents designed by teams around the world. Agents attempt to maximize profits in a supply-chain scenario that requires them to coordinate Procurement, Production, and Sales activities in competitive markets. An agent for TAC SCM is a complex piece of software that must operate in a competitive economic environment. We report on results of an informal survey of agent design approaches among the competitors in TAC SCM, and then we describe and evaluate the design of our MinneTAC trading agent. We focus on the use of evaluators - configurable, composable modules for data analysis, modeling, and prediction that are chained together at runtime to support agent decision-making. Through a set of examples, we show how this structure supports Sales and Procurement decisions, and how those decision process can be modified in useful ways by changing evaluator configurations.