Agent strategy considering the period of negotiation for supply chain management

Abstract

We consider an agent strategy to automatically negotiate with the agents on the other side in supply chain management. In supply chain management, AI technology is expected to automate various negotiations that have been traditionally conducted manually. This paper develops a new agent strategy for the OneShot track of Supply Chain Management League (SCML) in Automated Negotiation Agents Competition (ANAC) . The main idea of our proposed agent strategy is to utilize the number of elapsed days to determine a negotiation strategy. Furthermore, we evaluate the effectiveness of our agent strategy through computational experiments.