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These are papers about TAC, and about the MAGNET system.
Eric Sodomka, John Collins, and Maria Gini. Efficient Statistical Methods for Evaluating Trading Agent Performance.Proceedings of AAAI-07, Vancouver, Canada, July 2007.
Wolfgang Ketter, Eric Sodomka, Amrudin Agovic, John Collins, and Maria Gini. Strategic Sales Management in an Autonomous Trading Agent for TAC SCM (demo). Proceedings of AAAI-06, Boston, Massachusetts, USA, July 2006.
Brett Borghetti and Eric Sodomka. Performance Evaluation Methods for the Trading Agent Competition (student abstract). Proceedings of AAAI-06, pp 1857-1858, Boston, Massachusetts, USA, July 2006.
Brett Borghetti, Eric Sodomka, John Collins, and Maria Gini. A Market-Pressure-Based Performance Evaluator for TAC-SCM (poster). Proceedings of AAMAS/TADA-AMEC-06, Hakodate, Japan, May 2006.
A. Babanov, J. Collins, and M. Gini. "Harnessing the search for rational bid schedules with stochastic search and domain-specific heuristics." In Proc. of the Third Int'l Conf. on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, pages 269-276, New York, July 2004. ACM. [pdf] [ps.gz]
W. Ketter, E. Kryzhnyaya, S. Damer, C. McMillen, A. Agovic, J. Collins, and M. Gini. "MinneTAC sales strategies for supply chain TAC." In Proc. of the Third Int'l Conf. on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, page submitted, New York, July 2004. [pdf] [ps.gz]
A. Babanov. "Design and testing of methods for scheduling tasks with precedence constraints to solicit desirable bid combinations." Master's thesis, University of Minnesota, July 2003. [pdf] [ps]
A. Babanov, J. Collins, and M. Gini. "Asking the right question: Risk and expectation in multi-agent contracting."Artificial Intelligence for Engineering Design, Analysis and Manufacturing, 17(4):173--186, September 2003. [pdf] [ps] [ps.gz]
A. Babanov, W. Ketter, and M. Gini. "An evolutionary approach for studying heterogenous strategies in electronic markets." In Engineering Self-Organising Applications (ESOA 2003). Kluwer, 2003. [pdf] [ps] [ps.gz]
A. Babanov, J. Collins, and M. Gini. "Scheduling tasks with precedence constraints to solicit desirable bid combinations." In Proc. of the Second Int'l Conf. on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, pages 345--352, Melbourne, Australia, July 2003. [pdf] [ps] [ps.gz]
A. Jaiswal, Y. Kim, and M. Gini. "Security model for a multi-agent marketplace." In Proc. of 5th Int'l Conf. on Electronic Commerce, pages 119--124, Pittsburgh, PA, October 2003. [pdf]
W. Ketter, A. Babanov, and M. Gini. "An evolutionary framework for studying behaviors of economic agents." In Proc. of the Second Int'l Conf. on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, pages 1030--1031, Melbourne, Australia, July 2003. [pdf] [ps] [ps.gz]
E. V. Kryzhnyaya. "Strategies for a sales component of an intelligent agent for the supply management game of the 2003 trading agent competition." Master's thesis, University of Minnesota, 2003. [pdf]
A. Babanov, W. Ketter, and M. Gini. "An evolutionary framework for large-scale experimentation in multi-agent systems." In T. Wagner, editor, MAS Problem Spaces and Their Implications to Achieving Globally Coherent Behavior. Kluwer, 2003.
A. Babanov, W. Ketter, and M. Gini. "An evolutionary framework for large-scale experimentation in multi-agent systems." In Toward an Application Science: MAS Problem Spaces and Their Implications to Achieving Globally Coherent Behavior, Bologna, Italy, July 2002. [pdf] [ps] [ps.gz]
A. Babanov, J. Collins, and M. Gini. "Risk and expectations in a-priori time allocation in multi-agent contracting." In Proc. of the First Int'l Conf. on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, volume 1, pages 53--60, Bologna, Italy, July 2002. [pdf] [ps] [ps.gz]
S. Botman, M. Hoogendoorn, V. Bud, A. Jaiswal, S. Hawkins, Y. Kryzhnyaya, J. Pearce, A. Schoolcraft, E. Sigvartsen, J. Collins, and M. Gini. "Design of supplier agents for an auction-based market." In AAMAS-02 Workshop on Agent-Oriented Information Systems, July 2002. [pdf] [ps]
J. Collins. "Solving Combinatorial Auctions with Temporal Constraints in Economic Agents." PhD thesis, University of Minnesota, June 2002. [pdf]
J. Collins, G. Demir, and M. Gini. "Bidtree ordering in IDA* combinatorial auction winner-determination with side constraints." In J. Padget, O. Shehory, D. Parkes, N. Sadeh, and W. Walsh, editors, Agent Mediated Electronic Commerce IV, volume LNAI2531, pages 17--33. Springer-Verlag, 2002. [pdf] [ps]
J. Collins and M. Gini. "Performance of winner determination search in combinatorial auctions with time constraints."Submitted to the First International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, July 2002.
J. Collins, W. Ketter, and M. Gini. "A multi-agent negotiation testbed for contracting tasks with temporal and precedence constraints."Int'l Journal of Electronic Commerce, 7(1):35--57, 2002. [pdf] [ps]
J. Collins, G. Demir, and M. Gini. "Bidtree ordering in IDA* combinatorial auction winner-determination with side constraints." In J. Padget, O. Shehory, D. Parkes, N. Sadeh, and W. Walsh, editors, Agent Mediated Electronic Commerce IV, volume LNAI2531, pages 17--33. Springer-Verlag, 2002. [pdf] [ps]
J. Collins, M. Gini, and B. Mobasher. "Multi-agent negotiation using combinatorial auctions with precedence constraints." Technical Report 02-009, University of Minnesota, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Minneapolis, Minnesota, February 2002. [pdf] [pdf] [ps]
J. Collins, C. Bilot, M. Gini, and B. Mobasher. "Decision processes in agent-based automated contracting."IEEE Internet Computing, 5(2):61--72, March 2001.
J. Collins and M. Gini. "Bid evaluation for coordinated tasks: an integer programming formulation." In IJCAI-2001 Workshop on Economic Agents, Models, and Mechanisms, August 2001. [pdf]
J. Collins and M. Gini. "Exploring decision processes in multi-agent automated contracting." In Proc. of the Fifth Int'l Conf. on Autonomous Agents, pages 81--82, May 2001. [pdf] [ps.gz]
J. Collins and M. Gini. "An integer programming formulation of the bid evaluation problem for coordinated tasks." In B. Dietrich and R. V. Vohra, editors, Mathematics of the Internet: E-Auction and Markets, volume 127 of IMA Volumes in Mathematics and its Applications, pages 59--74. Springer-Verlag, New York, 2001. [pdf]
J. Collins, C. Bilot, M. Gini, and B. Mobasher. "Mixed-initiative decision support in agent-based automated contracting." In Proc. of the Fourth Int'l Conf. on Autonomous Agents, pages 247--254, June 2000. [pdf]
J. Collins, R. Sundareswara, M. Gini, and B. Mobasher. "Bid selection strategies for multi-agent contracting in the presence of scheduling constraints." In A. Moukas, C. Sierra, and F. Ygge, editors, Agent Mediated Electronic Commerce II, volume LNAI1788. Springer-Verlag, 2000. [pdf]
J. Collins, R. Sundareswara, M. Tsvetovat, M. Gini, and B. Mobasher. "Multi-agent contracting for supply-chain management." Technical Report 00-010, University of Minnesota, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 2000.
J. Collins, M. Tsvetovat, R. Sundareswara, J. V. Tonder, M. Gini, and B. Mobasher. "Evaluating risk: Flexibility and feasibility in multi-agent contracting." In Proc. of the Third Int'l Conf. on Autonomous Agents, pages 350--351, May 1999. [pdf]
J. Collins, M. Tsvetovat, R. Sundareswara, J. V. Tonder, M. Gini, and B. Mobasher. "Evaluating risk: Flexibility and feasibility in multi-agent contracting." Technical Report 99-001, University of Minnesota, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Minneapolis, Minnesota, February 1999.
J. Collins, R. Sundareswara, M. Tsvetovat, M. Gini, and B. Mobasher. "Search strategies for bid selection in multi-agent contracting." In IJCAI Workshop on Agent-Mediated Electronic Commerce, Stockholm, Sweden, July 1999.
J. Collins, M. Tsvetovat, C. Bilot, R. Sundareswara, T. Lee, M. Gini, and B. Mobasher. "A framework for mixed initiative agent-based contracting." In First IAC Workshop on Internet Based Negotiation Technologies, March 1999. [pdf]
M. Tsvetovat, J. Collins, R. Sundareswara, J. V. Tonder, M. Gini, and B. Mobasher. "Bid selection in multi-agent contracting." In First International Workshop of Central and Eastern Europe on Multi-Agent Systems, page in publication, St. Petersburg, Russia, June 1999 1999.
J. Collins, B. Youngdahl, S. Jamison, B. Mobasher, and M. Gini. "A market architecture for multi-agent contracting." In Proc. of the Second Int'l Conf. on Autonomous Agents, pages 285--292, May 1998. [pdf]
J. Collins, M. Tsvetovat, B. Mobasher, and M. Gini. "MAGNET: A multi-agent contracting system for plan execution." In Proc. of SIGMAN, pages 63--68. AAAI Press, August 1998. [pdf]
J. Collins, S. Jamison, M. Gini, and B. Mobasher. "Temporal strategies in a multi-agent contracting protocol." In AAAI-97 Workshop on AI in Electronic Commerce, July 1997.
M. Tsvetovatyy, M. Gini, B. Mobasher, and Z. Wieckowski. "MAGMA: An agent-based virtual market for electronic commerce."Journal of Applied Artificial Intelligence, 11(6):501--524, 1997.
J. E. Collins and E. M. Sisley. "Automated assignment and scheduling of service personnel."IEEE Expert, 9(2):33--39, April 1994.
 
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