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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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Milicic, T., Podobnik, V., Petric, A., Jezic, G. (2008). The CrocodileAgent: A Software Agent for SCM Procurement Gaming. In: Nguyen, N.T., Borzemski, L., Grzech, A., Ali, M. (eds) New Frontiers in Applied Artificial Intelligence. IEA/AIE 2008. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 5027. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-69052-8_90
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