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John Collins, Wolfgang Ketter, Maria Gini, and Amrudin Agovic. Software architecture of the MinneTAC supply-chain trading agent. Technical Report 07-006, University of Minnesota, Dept of Computer Science and Engineering, 2007.
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The MinneTAC trading agent is designed to compete in the Supply-Chain Trading Agent Competition. It is also designed to support the needs of a group of researchers, each of whom is interested in different decision problems related to the competition scenario. The design of MinneTAC breaks out each basic behavior into a separate, configurable component, and allows dynamic construction of analysis and modeling tools from small, single-purpose evaluators. The agent is defined as a set of roles, and a working agent is one for which a component is supplied for each role. This allows each researcher to focus on a single problem and work independently, and it allows multiple researchers to tackle the same problem in different ways. A working MinneTAC agent is completely defined by a set of configuration files that map the desired roles to the code that implements them, and that set parameters for the components. We describe the design of MinneTAC, and we evaluate its effectiveness in support of our research agenda and its competitiveness in the TAC-SCM game environment.
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author = "John Collins and Wolfgang Ketter and Maria Gini
and Amrudin Agovic",
title = "Software architecture of the MinneTAC supply-chain trading agent",
year = "2007",
abstract = "The MinneTAC trading agent is designed to compete in the
Supply-Chain Trading Agent Competition. It is also
designed to support the needs of a group of researchers, each of
whom is interested in different decision problems related to the
competition scenario. The design of MinneTAC breaks out each basic
behavior into a separate, configurable component, and allows dynamic
construction of analysis and modeling tools from small,
single-purpose evaluators. The agent is defined as a set of
roles, and a working agent is one for which a component is
supplied for each role. This allows each researcher to focus on a
single problem and work independently, and it allows multiple
researchers to tackle the same problem in different ways. A working
MinneTAC agent is completely defined by a set of configuration files
that map the desired roles to the code that implements them, and
that set parameters for the components. We describe the design of
MinneTAC, and we evaluate its effectiveness in support of our
research agenda and its competitiveness in the TAC-SCM game
environment.",
institution = "University of Minnesota, Dept of Computer Science
and Engineering",
number = "07-006",
address = "Minneapolis, MN",
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