Publications

2005 Competition

Patrick R. Jordan, Christopher Kiekintveld, Jason Miller, and Michael P. Wellman. Market efficiency, sales competition, and the bullwhip effect in the TAC SCM tournaments. AAMAS-06 Workshop on Trading Agent Design and Analysis (TADA/AMEC), Hakodate, Japan, 2006.

Christopher Kiekintveld, Jason Miller, Patrick Jordan, and Michael P. Wellman. Controlling a supply chain agent using value-based decomposition. Seventh ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce, Ann Arbor, MI, 2006.

Michael P. Wellman, Patrick R. Jordan, Christopher Kiekintveld, Jason Miller, and Daniel M. Reeves. Empirical game-theoretic analysis of the TAC market games [covers both SCM and Travel]. AAMAS-06 Workshop on Game-Theoretic and Decision-Theoretic Agents, Hakodate, Japan, 2006.

2004 Competition

Christopher Kiekintveld, Yevgeniy Vorobeychik, and Michael P. Wellman. An analysis of the 2004 TAC supply chain management tournament. IJCAI-05 Workshop on Trading Agent Design and Analysis, Edinburgh, 2005.

Yevgeniy Vorobeychik, Christopher Kiekintveld, and Michael P. Wellman. Empirical mechanism design: Methods, with application to a supply-chain scenario. Seventh ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce, Ann Arbor, MI, 2006.

2003 Competition

Michael P. Wellman, Joshua Estelle, Satinder Singh, Yevgeniy Vorobeychik, Christopher Kiekintveld, and Vishal Soni. Strategic interactions in a supply chain game. Computational Intelligence 21:1-26, 2005.

Christopher Kiekintveld, Michael P. Wellman, Satinder Singh, Joshua Estelle, Yevgeniy Vorobeychik, Vishal Soni, and Matthew Rudary. Distributed feedback control for decision making on supply chains.Fourteenth International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling, Whistler, BC, 2004.

Christopher Kiekintveld, Michael P. Wellman, Satinder Singh, and Vishal Soni. Value-Driven Procurement in the TAC Supply Chain Game. SIGecom Exchanges 4(3):9-18, 2004.