TAC-SCM Industrial Advisory Board
CMieux Supply Chain Trading Agent
ECRA Special Issue on Supply Chain Trading
Summary of 2006 TAC-SCM Survey Results
Summary of 2007 TAC-SCM Survey Results
Overview
To promote research in supply chain trading and provide a realistic and competitive environment in which to evaluate emerging supply chain trading technologies, our group launched the annual Supply Chain Trading Agent Competition (TAC-SCM). The tournament revolves around a supply chain trading scenario designed and refined in collaboration with the Swedish Institute of Computer Science (SICS) and the University of Minnesota. The TAC-SCM community now numbers around 150 researchers located in 21 countries. Over the first 5 years of the competition, a total of over 120 different supply chain trading agents have been entered in the tournament. TAC-SCM is also used in classroom education at a number of top universities.
Since 2007, two new challenges have been added to complement the baseline TAC-SCM tournament: a procurement challenge and a prediction challenge. See TAC-SCM Challenges website for additional detail..
Our group's entry in the Supply Chain Trading Competition is the CMieux agent. The agent reached the TAC-SCM semi-finals in both 2005 and 2006 and also won the CS50 Exhibition tournament organized in April 2006.
Watch a short silent video of the competition (approx. 4 min)
Watch a complete TAC-SCM game (approx. 57 min)
ECRA Special Issue on Supply Chain Trading
The ECRA Journal is organizing a special issue on Supply Chain Trading: see the Call for Contributions for additional details.
- Agent-mediated Electronic Commerce: Designing Trading Agents and Mechanisms, H. La Poutre, N.M. Sadeh and S. Janson (Eds.), LNAI 3937, Springer Verlag, Nov. 2006.
- A. Sardinha, M. Benisch, N. Sadeh, R. Ravichandran, V. Podobnik, M. Stan, "The 2007 Procurement Challenge: A Competition to Evaluate Mixed Procurement Strategies ", Tech. Report CMU-ISRI-07-123, Sch. of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, Nov. 2007. Submitted to ECRA Journal.
- M. Benisch, J. Andrews and N. Sadeh, "Adaptive Pricing for Customers with Probabilistic Valuations", in "Agent-Mediated Electronic Commerce: Designing Trading Agents and Mechanisms", Ed. by Maria Fasli, LNAI 4452, Springer Verlag, May 2007.
- G.B. Davis, M. Benisch, K.M. Carley and N.M. Sadeh, “Factoring Games to Isolate Strategic Interactions”, Proceedings of the Sixth International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, May 2007 (AAMAS-07)
- J. Collins, R. Arunachalam, N. Sadeh, J. Eriksson, N. Finne, and S. Janson. "The Supply Chain Management Game for the 2006 Trading Agent Competition", Carnegie Mellon Tech. Report CMU-ISRI-05-132, Nov. 2005.
- N. Sadeh, "Competing Agents", SAP INFO, October 2005.
- Arunachalam, R. and Sadeh, N., “The Supply Chain Trading Agent Competition”, Electronic Commerce Research and Applications, Vol. 4, No. 1, 2005.
- M. Benisch, J. Andrews, D. Bangerter, T. Kirchner, B. Tsai and N. Sadeh, "CMieux Supply Chain Trading Analysis and Instrumentation Toolkit ", School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University, Technical Report CMU-ISRI-05-127, Sept. 2005
- N. M. Sadeh, R. Arunachalam, J. Eriksson, N. Finne and S. Janson, “TAC’03: A Supply Chain Trading Competition”, AI Magazine, 24 (1), Spring 2003.
