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We have demonstrated the effectiveness of our approach by characterizing the market
conditions in games played in the semi-finals and finals from TAC SCM 2004 and 2005.
Our next step is to complete the prediction of future regimes, to design and evaluate
sales strategies that take advantage of regime prediction, and to integrate them into the
decision making process of our agent. We believe that our proposed formulation will
allow the agent to operate effectively on a daily basis as well as to engage in strategic
pricing.
Acknowledgements
Partial funding for this work is acknowledged from NSF under grant IIS-0414466.
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