TAC SCM -- MinneTAC

The Trading Agent Competition (TAC) is an international forum designed to promote and encourage high quality research into the trading agent problem.

Since 2003 the competition also has a supply chain scenario, TAC SCM, created by Carnegie Mellon University and Swedish Institute of Computer Science. TAC SCM was designed to capture many of the challenges involved in supporting dynamic supply chain practices, while keeping the rules of the game simple enough to entice a large number of competitors to submit entries.

MinneTAC (joint project with University of Minnesota) is an autonomous agent that competes in TAC SCM. Besides winning the competition, we are interested in

• economic modeling,
• decision-making under uncertainty in environments where the actions of other agents are significant and only partially observable, and
• software engineering that effectively serves the needs of a dynamic research agenda.