Collusive Approaches to TAC SCM Customer Auctions
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This paper considers the possibility of playing collusive strategies in customer order auctions in the Trading Agent Competition’s Supply Chain Management game. In the first half, it describes the structure of the auctions and how agents should consider their valuations of the outcomes. In the second half, it describes ways of colluding based on strategies used in the FCC spectrum auction.
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