Empirical game-theoretic analysis of the TAC Supply Chain game

Proceedings of the International Conference on Autonomous Agents

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 1196-1203

  Jordan, Patrick R ^a   Kiekintveld, Christopher ^a   Wellman, Michael P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Electronic markets; Empirical game theory; Multiagent systems; Supply chain management; Trading agent competition

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION DOMAINS; AUTONOMOUS DECISIONS; CONTROLLED EXPERIMENTS; DYNAMIC ENVIRONMENTS; ELECTRONIC MARKETS; EMPIRICAL GAME THEORY; EXTENSIVE SIMULATIONS; MULTIAGENT SYSTEMS; NOVEL TECHNIQUES; RELATIVE PERFORMANCE; STRATEGIC INTERACTIONS; THEORETIC ANALYSIS; TRADING AGENT COMPETITION;

AGENTS; AUTONOMOUS AGENTS; COMPETITION; DECISION MAKING; ELECTRONIC COMMERCE; FUZZY CLUSTERING; INTELLIGENT AGENTS; LOGISTICS; SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT; SUPPLY CHAINS;

GAME THEORY;

EID: 60349097629     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1329125.1329359     Document Type: Conference Paper

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