Agents Development for a Supply Chain Management Game

With the purpose of studying dynamic markets where different suppliers and customers interact, a platform which allows competition between agents in an environment of supply chains has been developed at Carnegie Mellon University. It is known as The trading agent competition: supply chain management game (TAC SCM). In this game, agents that represent computer sellers use different strategies to gain customer requests and to assure that the required components to satisfy them would be received in time. At the end of the game, the winner agent gets the highest utilities through the non-static conditions of the market. In this article, eight different agents able to compete in this game are presented and the results of their performance in different rounds are discussed