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Socrates: A Production-Driven SCM Agent

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Agent-Mediated Electronic Commerce. Designing Trading Agents and Mechanisms (AMEC 2005, TADA 2005)

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The Trading Agent Competition (TAC) is an open-invitation forum designed to encourage research into electronic markets and trading agents. In this paper we present the Socrates trading agent and the strategies that were developed for and used in the TAC Supply Chain Management game as part of the 2004 competition. The resulting behaviour and performance in the TAC competition as well as in a series of controlled experiments are discussed.

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  1. Department of Computer Science, University of Essex, Wivenhoe Park, Colchester, CO4 3SQ, UK

    Carlos R. Jaimez González & Maria Fasli

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  1. CWI, Centre for Mathematics and Computer Science, Kruislaan 413, 1098 SJ, Amsterdam, Netherlands

    Han La Poutré

  2. School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University, USA

    Norman M. Sadeh

  3. Swedish Institute of Computer Science, Box 1263, 164 29, Kista, Sweden

    Sverker Janson

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González, C.R.J., Fasli, M. (2006). Socrates: A Production-Driven SCM Agent. In: La Poutré, H., Sadeh, N.M., Janson, S. (eds) Agent-Mediated Electronic Commerce. Designing Trading Agents and Mechanisms. AMEC TADA 2005 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 3937. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11888727_10

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