PRIMA 2020: Automated Negotiation in Supply Chain Management

• Venue: 23rd International Conference on Principles and Practice of Multi-Agent Systems (PRIMA 2020), Nagoya, Japan.
• Presenter: Yasser Mohammad, NEC Corporation.
• Materials: prima2020-scml-tutorial on GitHub · built on NegMAS and SCML.

Overview

Since 2019, a league of the International Automated Negotiating Agents Competition (ANAC) focuses on automated negotiation in a realistic, business-like Supply Chain Management scenario (SCML). This tutorial introduces the audience to SCML and walks them through the development of an agent for the competition, highlighting the research challenges involved in combining automated negotiation with long-term supply-chain planning.

The target audience is postgraduate students and researchers in multi-agent systems.