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February 18, 2008
From manufacturers to agents and suppliers, there are many challenges in supply chain management. To address the obstacles involved in supporting supply chain management, researchers from around the world engage in a Trading Agent Competition, designed by researchers at Carnegie Mellon University and the Swedish Institute of Computer Science.
CSE professors John Collins and Maria Gini are working with undergraduate and graduate students on this competition, along with CSE alumnus Wolfgang Ketter (Ph.D. ‘07) at Erasmus in Rotterdam and a team of his graduate students. The CSE agent and team name is MinneTAC. “We're treating it as a real-world software engineering exercise for the students,” Collins said.
In an article in AI Magazine this month, Collins and a co-author addressed the accounts of this game from a 2007 workshop held in conjunction with the competition. In the story, they analyzed the ways in which artificial intelligence could help manage supply chains better.
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