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Andrew Nelson, Dickens Nyabuti, John Collins, Wolfgang Ketter, and Maria Gini. Toward Human-Agent Competition in TAC SCM. In Workshop: Trading Agent Design and Analysis (TADA) at Twenty-First International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2009), pp. 63–72, AAAI Press, Pasadena, USA, July 2009.
We propose a variation of the TAC SCM supply-chain trading competition, in which human decision-makers compete with fully-autonomous agents. Because of the complexity and time pressures of the competition environment, humans may be assisted by semi-autonomous agents, which could be modifications of existing agents. The research goal is to discover what kinds of decision support will make a human decision-maker most effective in this environment. We show how an existing agent might be modified to operate in this new competition by updating our MinneTAC agent into a highly configurable, semi-autonomous agent that can support human users playing a variety of roles in the modified competition environment. The agent's decision processes are composed of networks of simple services that are described using an OWL ontology. The ontology describes the structure of the service network, along with the structure and semantics of the data elements that are produced and consumed by individual services.
@InProceedings{Nelson09TADA,
title={{Toward Human-Agent Competition in TAC SCM}},
author={Andrew Nelson and Dickens Nyabuti and John Collins and Wolfgang Ketter and Maria Gini},
booktitle = {{Workshop: Trading Agent Design and Analysis (TADA) at Twenty-First International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2009)}},
pages = "63--72",
year = "2009",
address = {Pasadena, USA},
month = {July},
abstract={We propose a variation of the TAC SCM supply-chain trading
competition, in which human decision-makers compete with fully-autonomous agents.
Because of the complexity and time pressures of the competition
environment, humans may be assisted by semi-autonomous agents, which
could be modifications of existing agents. The research goal
is to discover what kinds of decision support will make a human
decision-maker most effective in this environment.
We show how an existing agent might be modified to
operate in this new competition by updating our MinneTAC agent
into a highly configurable, semi-autonomous agent that can support
human users playing a variety of roles in the modified competition environment.
The agent's decision processes are composed of networks of simple services that are
described using an OWL ontology. The ontology describes the structure
of the service network, along with the structure and semantics of the
data elements that are produced and consumed by individual
services.},
publisher={AAAI Press},
bib2html_pubtype = {Refereed Workshop/Symposium},
bib2html_rescat = {Trading Agents: Supply-Chain Management},
}
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