The CrocodileAgent: A Software Agent for SCM Procurement Gaming

نویسندگان

  • Tvrtko Milicic
  • Vedran Podobnik
  • Ana Petric
  • Gordan Jezic
چکیده

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 Procurement Challenge (SCM-PC) where three agents compete by buying components, assembling PCs from these components and selling the manufactured PCs to customers. The idea of SCM-PC is the development of agent-based systems that implement efficient business strategies, with special emphasis on the procurement processes. In this paper, we analyze the SCM-PC environment and describe the main features of the CrocodileAgent, our entry in the SCM-PC Competition.

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تاریخ انتشار 2008