TacTex-03: A Supply Chain Management Agent

This paper introduces TacTex-03, an agent designed to participate in the Trading Agent Competition Supply Chain Management Scenario (TAC SCM). As speci ed by this scenario, TacTex-03 acts as a simulated computer manufacturer in charge of buying components such as chips and motherboards, manufacturing dierent types of computers, and selling them to customers. TacTex-03 was the top scorer in two of the preliminary rounds of the 2003 TAC SCM competition, and nished in 3rd place in the nal