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</style></head><body><p>You are invited to submit to the second Supply Chain Management League
(a part of ANAC 2021 competition @ IJCAI 2021)</p>
<h2 id="challenge">Challenge</h2>
<p>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.</p>
<h2 id="newin2021">New in 2021</h2>
<p>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:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.yasserm.com/scml/diffs2021.pdf">http://www.yasserm.com/scml/diffs2021.pdf</a></p>
<p>Moreover, there will be multiple data releases of simulation logs to help
participants using machine learning with training their agents.</p>
<h2 id="platform">Platform</h2>
<p>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.</p>
<h2 id="submissionandlivecompetition">Submission and Live Competition</h2>
<p>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:</p>
<p><a href="https://scml.cs.brown.edu">https://scml.cs.brown.edu</a></p>
<h2 id="evaluation">Evaluation</h2>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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).</p>
<h2 id="resources">Resources</h2>
<p>For more information about SCML, please refer to the competition website:</p>
<p><a href="https://scml.cs.brown.edu">https://scml.cs.brown.edu</a></p>
<h2 id="organizingcommittee">Organizing Committee</h2>
<p>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</p>
<h2 id="importantdates">Important Dates</h2>
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<th style="text-align:left">Date</th>
<th style="text-align:left">Event</th>
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<td style="text-align:left">March 15, 2021</td>
<td style="text-align:left">Official release of the league platform (python only)</td>
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<td style="text-align:left">March 15, 2021</td>
<td style="text-align:left">Website opens for submission</td>
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<td style="text-align:left">July 5th, 2021</td>
<td style="text-align:left">Preliminary submission deadline (REQUIRED)</td>
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<td style="text-align:left">July 10th, 2021</td>
<td style="text-align:left">Final submission deadline</td>
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<td style="text-align:left">July 31st, 2021</td>
<td style="text-align:left">Notification to finalists</td>
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<td style="text-align:left">mid August, 2021</td>
<td style="text-align:left">Announcement of winners @ IJCAI 2021, Canada</td>
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</table>
<p><strong>Sponsors</strong> NEC-AIST AI Collaboration Research Laboratory</p></body></html>