The CrocodileAgent 2005: an overview of the TAC SCM agent

Authors:
Ana Petric;Vedran Podobnik;Gordan Jezic
Affiliations:
University of Zagreb, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, Department of Telecommunications, Zagreb, Croatia;University of Zagreb, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, Department of Telecommunications, Zagreb, Croatia;University of Zagreb, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, Department of Telecommunications, Zagreb, Croatia
Venue:
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
Year:
2006

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Abstract

The Trading Agent Competition (TAC) is an international forum which promotes high quality research regarding the trading agent problem. One of the TAC competitive scenarios is Supply Chain Management (SCM) where six agents compete by buying components, assembling PCs from these components and selling the assembled PCs to customers. In this paper, we describe the strategies implemented in the Crocodile Agent, our entry in 2005 TAC SCM. We describe the structure and functionalities of the Crocodile Agent, the implementation of the basic agent tasks, and algorithms for ordering components and determining the profit margin. The agent's performances in the 2005 TAC SCM competition, as well as in a series of controlled experiments, are discussed.