A Dynamic Strategy Agent for Supply Chain Management

Author

Stan, Mihai ; Stan, Bogdan ; Florea, Adina Magda

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Univ. "Politehnica" of Bucharest

fYear

2006

fDate

Sept. 2006

Firstpage

227

Lastpage

232

Abstract

The international trading agent competition (TAC) provides a dynamic trading environment aimed at testing different strategies to be used in the design of autonomous agents for e-commerce and automated marketplaces. The TAC supply chain management (TAC/SCM) scenario defines a complex six-player game with severely incomplete and imperfect information, and high-dimensional strategy spaces. The paper presents PhantAgent, a successful trading agent in the 2006 TAC/SCM competition. The paper discusses PhantAgent architecture, the basic ideas and strategies that were used in its design, and emphasizes that the unpredictable nature of the environment is the main challenge in building autonomous agents in real-world environments

Keywords

electronic commerce; game theory; multi-agent systems; supply chain management; PhantAgent architecture; automated marketplaces; autonomous agents; dynamic strategy agent; e-commerce; international trading agent competition; six-player game; supply chain management; Assembly; Autonomous agents; Computer aided manufacturing; Computer science; Personal communication networks; Procurement; Production; Supply chain management; Supply chains; Uncertainty;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Symbolic and Numeric Algorithms for Scientific Computing, 2006. SYNASC '06. Eighth International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Timisoara

Print_ISBN

0-7695-2740-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SYNASC.2006.1

Filename

4090323