Reasoning about knowledge
Market-based control: a paradigm for distributed resource allocation
Market-based control: a paradigm for distributed resource allocation
Flexible double auctions for electionic commerce: theory and implementation
Decision Support Systems - Special issue on economics of electronic commerce
AkBA: a progressive, anonymous-price combinatorial auction
Proceedings of the 2nd ACM conference on Electronic commerce
Towards a universal test suite for combinatorial auction algorithms
Proceedings of the 2nd ACM conference on Electronic commerce
An exception-handling architecture for open electronic marketplaces of contract net software agents
Proceedings of the 2nd ACM conference on Electronic commerce
Combinatorial auctions for supply chain formation
Proceedings of the 2nd ACM conference on Electronic commerce
Concurrent auctions across the supply chain
Proceedings of the 3rd ACM conference on Electronic Commerce
The Future of Emarkets: Multi-Dimensional Market Mechanisms
The Future of Emarkets: Multi-Dimensional Market Mechanisms
Designing the Market Game for a Trading Agent Competition
IEEE Internet Computing
Efficiency and Equilibrium in Task Allocation Economies with Hierarchical Dependencies
IJCAI '99 Proceedings of the Sixteenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence
Improved Algorithms for Optimal Winner Determination in Combinatorial Auctions and Generalizations
Proceedings of the Seventeenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Twelfth Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence
Iterative Combinatorial Auctions: Theory and Practice
Proceedings of the Seventeenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Twelfth Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence
On market-inspired approaches to propositional satisfiability
Artificial Intelligence
Incentive-compatible, budget-balanced, yet highly efficient auctions for supply chain formation
Proceedings of the 4th ACM conference on Electronic commerce
Leveled Commitment Contracting among Myopic Individually Rational Agents
ICMAS '98 Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Multi Agent Systems
A Combinatorial Auction for Collaborative Planning
ICMAS '00 Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on MultiAgent Systems (ICMAS-2000)
Distributed Quiescence Detection in Multiagent Negotiation
ICMAS '00 Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on MultiAgent Systems (ICMAS-2000)
Integer Programming for Combinatorial Auction Winner Determination
ICMAS '00 Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on MultiAgent Systems (ICMAS-2000)
Market protocols for decentralized supply chain formation
Market protocols for decentralized supply chain formation
The First International Trading Agent Competition: Autonomous Bidding Agents
Electronic Commerce Research
Achieving budget-balance with Vickrey-based payment schemes in exchanges
IJCAI'01 Proceedings of the 17th international joint conference on Artificial intelligence - Volume 2
Aggressive Pricing to Exploit Market Niches in Supply Chains
IEEE Intelligent Systems
The 2003 Supply Chain Management Trading Agent Competition
ICEC '04 Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Electronic commerce
Incentive-compatible, budget-balanced, yet highly efficient auctions for supply chain formation
Decision Support Systems - Special issue: The fourth ACM conference on electronic commerce
Trust-based contracting in supply chains
Proceedings of the fourth international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems
Monopolizing markets by exploiting trust
AAMAS '06 Proceedings of the fifth international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems
Computationally-efficient winner determination for mixed multi-unit combinatorial auctions
Proceedings of the 7th international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems - Volume 2
Mechanism design for capacity allocation with price competition
Proceedings of the 10th international conference on Electronic commerce
A mixed multi-unit combinatorial auctions test suite
Proceedings of The 8th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems - Volume 2
Concurrent auctions across the supply chain
Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research
Cooperative information sharing to improve distributed learning in multi-agent systems
Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research
Bidding languages and winner determination for mixed multi-unit combinatorial auctions
IJCAI'07 Proceedings of the 20th international joint conference on Artifical intelligence
A hayekian self-organization approach to service allocation in computing systems
Advanced Engineering Informatics
Charting the tractability frontier of mixed multi-unit combinatorial auctions
IJCAI'09 Proceedings of the 21st international jont conference on Artifical intelligence
Incentive-compatible, budget-balanced, yet highly efficient auctions for supply chain formation
Decision Support Systems - Special issue: The fourth ACM conference on electronic commerce
The supply chain trading agent competition
Electronic Commerce Research and Applications
A graphical formalism for mixed multi-unit combinatorial auctions
Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
Concurrent double auctions based on multi-agent across the supply Chain
ICIC'07 Proceedings of the intelligent computing 3rd international conference on Advanced intelligent computing theories and applications
Decentralised Supply Chain Formation: A Belief Propagation-based Approach
Proceedings of the 2010 conference on ECAI 2010: 19th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence
Learning approaches for developing successful seller strategies in dynamic supply chain management
Information Sciences: an International Journal
Solving sequential mixed auctions with integer programming
CAEPIA'11 Proceedings of the 14th international conference on Advances in artificial intelligence: spanish association for artificial intelligence
A hybrid solution to collaborative decision-making in a decentralized supply-chain
Journal of Engineering and Technology Management
Running contracts with defeasible commitment
IEA/AIE'06 Proceedings of the 19th international conference on Advances in Applied Artificial Intelligence: industrial, Engineering and Other Applications of Applied Intelligent Systems
Scalable decentralized supply chain formation through binarized belief propagation
Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems - Volume 3
Using the max-sum algorithm for supply chain formation in dynamic multi-unit environments
Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems - Volume 3
Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Electronic Commerce
CHAINME: fast decentralized finding of better supply chains
Proceedings of the 2013 international conference on Autonomous agents and multi-agent systems
From supply chain formation to multi-agent coordination
Proceedings of the 2013 international conference on Autonomous agents and multi-agent systems
Agent-assisted supply chain management: Analysis and lessons learned
Decision Support Systems
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Supply chain formation is the process of determining the structure and terms of exchange relationships to enable a multilevel, multiagent production activity. We present a simple model of supply chains, highlighting two characteristic features: hierarchical subtask decomposition, and resource contention. To decentralize the formation process, we introduce a market price system over the resources produced along the chain. In a competitive equilibrium for this system, agents choose locally optimal allocations with respect to prices, and outcomes are optimal overall. To determine prices, we define a market protocol based on distributed, progressive auctions, and myopic, non-strategic agent bidding policies. In the presence of resource contention, this protocol produces better solutions than the greedy protocols common in the artificial intelligence and multiagent systems literature. The protocol often converges to high-value supply chains, and when competitive equilibria exist, typically to approximate competitive equilibria. However, complementarities in agent production technologies can cause the protocol to wastefully allocate inputs to agents that do not produce their outputs. A subsequent decommitment phase recovers a significant fraction of the lost surplus.