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ATAL
2003
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Risk-averse auction agents
Auctions are an important means for purchasing material in the era of e-commerce. Research on auctions often studies them in isolation. In practice, however, auction agents are pa...
Yaxin Liu, Richard Goodwin, Sven Koenig
ATAL
1995
Springer
14 years 4 days ago
The Architecture of an Agent Building Shell
The agent view provides maybe the right level of abstraction for dealing with complex, distribblem-solving systems. It abstracts from aspects like the hardware or software platfor...
Mihai Barbuceanu, Mark S. Fox
MANSCI
2008
116views more  MANSCI 2008»
13 years 8 months ago
Call Center Outsourcing: Coordinating Staffing Level and Service Quality
In this paper, we study the contracting issues in an outsourcing supply chain consisting of a user company and a call center that does outsourcing work for the user company. We mo...
Z. Justin Ren, Yong-Pin Zhou
ATAL
2007
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Marginal Bidding: An Application of the Equimarginal Principle to Bidding in TAC SCM
Abstract. We present a fast and effective bidding strategy for the Trading Agent Competition in Supply Chain Management (TAC SCM). In TAC SCM, manufacturers compete to procure com...
Amy R. Greenwald, Victor Naroditskiy, Tyler Odean,...
WSC
2000
13 years 10 months ago
Use of discrete event simulation to validate an agent based scheduling engine
This paper discusses the use of simulation in a new context. Most often QUEST is viewed as a stand-alone simulation tool to analyze and understand shop floor behavior. It has rare...
Shubhabrata Biswas, Sara Merchawi