TAC-03: a supply-chain trading competition
AI Magazine
Pattern Classification (2nd Edition)
Pattern Classification (2nd Edition)
Redagent: winner of TAC SCM 2003
ACM SIGecom Exchanges
Value-driven procurement in the TAC supply chain game
ACM SIGecom Exchanges
TacTex-03: a supply chain management agent
ACM SIGecom Exchanges
Strategic trading agents via market modelling
ACM SIGecom Exchanges
Trading Agents Competing: Performance, Progress, and Market Effectiveness
IEEE Intelligent Systems
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The TAC 2003 supply-chain game presented automated trading agents with a challenging strategic problem. Embedded within a complex stochastic environment was a pivotal strategic decision about initial procurement of components. Early evidence suggested that the entrant field was headed toward a self-destructive, mutually unprofitable equilibrium. Our agent, Deep Maize, introduced a preemptive strategy designed to neutralize aggressive procurement, perturbing the field to a more profitable equilibrium. It worked. Not only did preemption improve Deep Maize's profitability, it improved profitability for the whole field. Whereas it is perhaps counterintuitive that action designed to prevent others from achieving their goals actually helps them, strategic analysis employing an empirical game-theoretic methodology verifies and provides insight into the reasons of this outcome.