Models for design and control of stochastic, multi-item batch production systems
Operations Research
Minimizing total tardiness on one machine is NP-hard
Mathematics of Operations Research
Concurrent auctions across the supply chain
Proceedings of the 3rd ACM conference on Electronic Commerce
Designing the Market Game for a Trading Agent Competition
IEEE Internet Computing
TAC-03: a supply-chain trading competition
AI Magazine
Incentive-compatible, budget-balanced, yet highly efficient auctions for supply chain formation
Proceedings of the 4th ACM conference on Electronic commerce
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
Designing And Managing The Supply Chain
Designing And Managing The Supply Chain
A Multi-Agent Negotiation Testbed for Contracting Tasks with Temporal and Precedence Constraints
International Journal of Electronic Commerce
Decentralized supply chain formation: a market protocol and competitive equilibrium analysis
Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research
Controlling a supply chain agent using value-based decomposition
EC '06 Proceedings of the 7th ACM conference on Electronic commerce
Empirical mechanism design: methods, with application to a supply-chain scenario
EC '06 Proceedings of the 7th ACM conference on Electronic commerce
CMieux: adaptive strategies for competitive supply chain trading
ACM SIGecom Exchanges
Capacity allocation with competitive retailers
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
Empirical game-theoretic analysis of the TAC Supply Chain game
Proceedings of the 6th international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems
Electronic Commerce Research and Applications
Agent Mertacor: A robust design for dealing with uncertainty and variation in SCM environments
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
Searching for approximate equilibria in empirical games
Proceedings of the 7th international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems - Volume 2
The CrocodileAgent: A Software Agent for SCM Procurement Gaming
IEA/AIE '08 Proceedings of the 21st international conference on Industrial, Engineering and Other Applications of Applied Intelligent Systems: New Frontiers in Applied Artificial Intelligence
Constructing Optimal Fuzzy Metric Trees for Agent Performance Evaluation
WI-IAT '08 Proceedings of the 2008 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology - Volume 02
Data Mining-Driven Analysis and Decomposition in Agent Supply Chain Management Networks
WI-IAT '08 Proceedings of the 2008 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology - Volume 03
Guest Editors' introduction to special section: Supply chain trading agent research
Electronic Commerce Research and Applications
CMieux: Adaptive strategies for competitive supply chain trading
Electronic Commerce Research and Applications
The 2007 procurement challenge: A competition to evaluate mixed procurement strategies
Electronic Commerce Research and Applications
Generalization risk minimization in empirical game models
Proceedings of The 8th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems - Volume 1
Methods for empirical game-theoretic analysis
AAAI'06 proceedings of the 21st national conference on Artificial intelligence - Volume 2
Thesis summary: empirical game-theoretic methods for strategy design and analysis in complex games
AAAI'07 Proceedings of the 22nd national conference on Artificial intelligence - Volume 2
Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research
Reputation Tracking Procurement Auctions
ICCCI '09 Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Computational Collective Intelligence. Semantic Web, Social Networks and Multiagent Systems
Electronic Commerce Research and Applications
RoxyBot-06: stochastic prediction and optimization in TAC travel
Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research
CIMMACS'09 Proceedings of the 8th WSEAS International Conference on Computational intelligence, man-machine systems and cybernetics
Market efficiency, sales competition, and the bullwhip effect in the TAC SCM tournaments
TADA/AMEC'06 Proceedings of the 2006 AAMAS workshop and TADA/AMEC 2006 conference on Agent-mediated electronic commerce: automated negotiation and strategy design for electronic markets
Sketching a methodology for efficient Supply Chain Management agents enhanced through Data Mining
International Journal of Intelligent Information and Database Systems
Agent decision-making in open mixed networks
Artificial Intelligence
A generic coordination mechanism for lot-sizing in supply chains
Electronic Commerce Research
Strategic analysis with simulation-based games
Winter Simulation Conference
A robust agent design for dynamic SCM environments
SETN'06 Proceedings of the 4th Helenic conference on Advances in Artificial Intelligence
An analysis of the 2004 supply chain management trading agent competition
AMEC'05 Proceedings of the 2005 international conference on Agent-Mediated Electronic Commerce: designing Trading Agents and Mechanisms
Automated traders in commodities markets: Case of producer-consumer institution
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
TAC-RMTO: trading agent competition in remanufacture-to-order
ICSI'12 Proceedings of the Third international conference on Advances in Swarm Intelligence - Volume Part II
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Supply chain management deals with the planning and coordination of bidding, production, sourcing and procurement activities associated with one or more products. It is central to today's global economy, leading to trillions of dollars in annual transactions worldwide. With the emergence of electronic marketplaces, it is only natural to seek automated solutions that are capable of rapidly evaluating a large number of bidding, sourcing and procurement options. In this paper, we detail a game we have designed to promote the research and evaluation of such solutions under realistic conditions. The game requires agents to manage the assembly of PCs, while competing with one another both for customer orders and for key components. We discuss how the game captures the complexity, stochasticity and competitive nature inherent to supply chain environments. A Web-based multi-agent simulation platform developed for the game was implemented in 2003 and validated in the context of the first Supply Chain Management Trading Agent Competition (TAC-SCM). A total of 20 teams from around the world competed with one another. We review agent strategies developed by different teams and discuss the merits of competition-based research over more traditional research methodologies in this area.