[agents] CFP for the SCM league @ ANAC 2021 @ IJCAI 2021

[Yasser Mohammad]

You are invited to submit to the second Supply Chain Management League (a
part of ANAC 2021 competition @ IJCAI 2021)
Challenge

Design and build an autonomous agent that negotiates on behalf of a factory
manager situated in a supply chain. The goal of a factory manager in SCML
is to maximize its profit given its private production capabilities by
negotiating trades with other agents. A factory manager can engage in
several negotiations simultaneously, for which its utility functions are in
general interdependent.
New in 2021

In 2021, we introduce a simpler form of the game running in the same
environment as a third track called SCML-OneShot. Moreover, more market
information is available to the agent in the standard and collusion tracks.
The documentation and tutorials were also improved to help participants get
started. You can see the main changes from SCML 2020 here:

http://www.yasserm.com/scml/diffs2021.pdf

Moreover, there will be multiple data releases of simulation logs to help
participants using machine learning with training their agents.
Platform

Participants will need to install the SCML library that runs on top of
NegMAS and includes everything they need for development. Using this
library, you can run the SCM world with the same settings as the ones
employed in ANAC 2021, or with personalized settings. SCML also includes an
implementation of few sample strategies.
Submission and Live Competition

A live competition will be run again this year, started March 15th. All
participants are encouraged to upload early versions of their agents to the
online submission site. A leader-board will be maintained, displaying the
relative performance of all submitted agents, but no identifying
information about the participating teams will be available. The
competition website is:

https://scml.cs.brown.edu
Evaluation

There will be three separate tracks in the 2021 SCM league. The three
tracks will be conducted in two rounds, a qualifying round and a final
round. All entrants that are not judged to break any of the SCML and ANAC
submission rules will be entered into the qualifying rounds.

Top-scoring agents in the qualifying round will then be entered in the
final round. The organizing committee keeps the right to add a minimum
threshold on the score to advance to the finals or to win one of the
prizes. Ties will be broken using the mean score.

It is expected that finalists will send a representative to the ANAC
workshop at IJCAI 2021 (or register and attend it online if IJCAI was
online this year), where they will be given the opportunity to give a brief
presentation describing their agent. Three awards will be announced at
IJCAI 2021 (with associated monetary rewards) corresponding to the two
tracks (standard and collusion).
Resources

For more information about SCML, please refer to the competition website:

https://scml.cs.brown.edu
Organizing Committee

Yasser Mohammad, NEC & AIST & Assiut University (main contact) Enrique
Areyan Viqueira, Brown University Katsuhide Fujita, Tokyo University of
Agriculture and Technology & NEC-AIST Amy Greenwald, Brown University Mark
Klein, MIT & NEC-AIST Satoshi Morinaga, NEC-AIST Shinji Nakadai, NEC-AIST
Important Dates
Date Event
March 15, 2021 Official release of the league platform (python only)
March 15, 2021 Website opens for submission
July 5th, 2021 Preliminary submission deadline (REQUIRED)
July 10th, 2021 Final submission deadline
July 31st, 2021 Notification to finalists
mid August, 2021 Announcement of winners @ IJCAI 2021, Canada

*Sponsors* NEC-AIST AI Collaboration Research Laboratory
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