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Designing a Successful Trading Agent for Supply Chain Management

Designing a Successful Trading Agent for Supply Chain Management
Designing a Successful Trading Agent for Supply Chain Management
This paper describes the design and evaluation of SouthamptonSCM, the runner-up in the 2005 International Trading Agent Supply Chain Management Competition (TAC SCM). In particular, we focus on the way in which our agent purchases components using a mixed procurement strategy (combining long and short term planning) and how it sets its prices according to the prevailing market situation and its own inventory level (because this adaptivity and flexibility are key to its success). We analyse our buying and selling strategies in the actual competition and in controlled experiments. Through this evaluation, we show that SouthamptonSCM performs well across a broad range of environments.
agent mediated e-commerce, supply chain management
1159-1166
He, Minghua
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Rogers, Alex
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Luo, Xudong
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Jennings, N. R.
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He, Minghua
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Luo, Xudong
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He, Minghua, Rogers, Alex, Luo, Xudong and Jennings, N. R. (2006) Designing a Successful Trading Agent for Supply Chain Management. Fifth International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS-06), Halodate, Japan. 08 - 12 May 2006. pp. 1159-1166 .

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This paper describes the design and evaluation of SouthamptonSCM, the runner-up in the 2005 International Trading Agent Supply Chain Management Competition (TAC SCM). In particular, we focus on the way in which our agent purchases components using a mixed procurement strategy (combining long and short term planning) and how it sets its prices according to the prevailing market situation and its own inventory level (because this adaptivity and flexibility are key to its success). We analyse our buying and selling strategies in the actual competition and in controlled experiments. Through this evaluation, we show that SouthamptonSCM performs well across a broad range of environments.

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Published date: 2006
Additional Information: Event Dates: 8-12 may 2006
Venue - Dates: Fifth International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS-06), Halodate, Japan, 2006-05-08 - 2006-05-12
Keywords: agent mediated e-commerce, supply chain management
Organisations: Agents, Interactions & Complexity

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Local EPrints ID: 261967
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/261967
PURE UUID: a9328c46-2dcd-4ab8-a825-ac4ffe94f6a0

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Date deposited: 14 Feb 2006
Last modified: 14 Mar 2024 07:02

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Author: Minghua He
Author: Alex Rogers
Author: Xudong Luo
Author: N. R. Jennings

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