Sequential Auctions for the Allocation of Resources with Complementarities
IJCAI '99 Proceedings of the Sixteenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence
Equilibratory Approach to Distributed Resource Allocation: Toward Coordinated Balancing
MAAMAW '92 Selected papers from the 4th European Workshop on on Modelling Autonomous Agents in a Multi-Agent World, Artificial Social Systems
TAC-03: a supply-chain trading competition
AI Magazine
Some Economics of Market-Based Distributed Scheduling
ICDCS '98 Proceedings of the The 18th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems
Analyzing Market-Based Resource Allocation Strategies for the Computational Grid
International Journal of High Performance Computing Applications
Redagent: winner of TAC SCM 2003
ACM SIGecom Exchanges
The 2003 Supply Chain Management Trading Agent Competition
ICEC '04 Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Electronic commerce
Negotiation mechanism for TAC SCM component market
Proceedings of the fourth international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems
Controlling a supply chain agent using value-based decomposition
EC '06 Proceedings of the 7th ACM conference on Electronic commerce
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
An electronic marketplace based on reputation and learning
Journal of Theoretical and Applied Electronic Commerce Research
Forecasting market prices in a supply chain game
Electronic Commerce Research and Applications
CMieux: Adaptive strategies for competitive supply chain trading
Electronic Commerce Research and Applications
Flexible decision control in an autonomous trading agent
Electronic Commerce Research and Applications
The 2007 procurement challenge: A competition to evaluate mixed procurement strategies
Electronic Commerce Research and Applications
The supply chain trading agent competition
Electronic Commerce Research and Applications
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The Supply Chain Management track of the international Trading Agents Competition (TAC SCM) was introduced in 2003 as a test-bed for researchers interested in building autonomous agents that act in dynamic supply chains. TAC SCM provides a challenging scenario for existing AI decision-making algorithms, due to the high dimensionality and the non-determinism of the environment, as well as the combinatorial nature of the problem. In this paper we present RedAgent, the winner of the first TAC SCM competition. RedAgent is based on a multi-agent design, in which many simple, heuristic agents manage tasks such as fulfilling customer orders or procuring particular resources. The key idea is to use internal markets as the main decision mechanism, in order to determine what products to focus on and how to allocate the existing resources. The internal markets ensure the coordination of the individual agents, but at the same time provide price estimates for the goods that RedAgent has to sell and purchase, a key feature in this domain. We describe RedAgentýs architecture and analyze its behavior based on data from the competition.