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Department of Computer Sciences
The University of Texas at Austin
Austin, TX USA

The SCMPredictionAgent

Copyright 2007 David Pardoe and Peter Stone.  All rights reserved.  You are
free to use, modify, and redistribute this software for noncommercial
purposes so long as you acknowledge its use in any publications or releases
of code or binaries.  This software is provided "as is" and without warranty
of any kind.

This release includes the TAC SCM Java AgentWare 0.9.6 Beta (scmaw.jar),
developed by the Swedish Institute of Computer Science.  The latest 
version, including source code, may be downloaded from the TAC homepage
(www.sics.se/tac).

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The SCMPredictionAgent is the agent for which predictions will be made 
in the TAC SCM Prediction Challenge.  A summary of the agent's behavior 
is provided in the Prediction Challenge specification document.  The 
agent is based on the TacTex Starter Agent (only the SimpleSupplyManager and
SimpleDemandManager classes have been significantly modified), which is
available here: 
http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~TacTex/starterAgent

To run the agent: 
java -cp SCMPredictionAgent.jar:scmaw.jar se.sics.tasim.aw.client.Main 
config <config file>.conf 
(Note: Windows users should replace the ":" with ";".)

A Sample.conf file has been provided - this file will need to be modified 
with the desired agent name, password, and server; just replace the 
current values of NAME, PASSWORD, and SERVER.  

The easiest way to run the agent multiple times is with a simple script
such as run.sh (autojoin will not work).

The agent is released "as-is" with no support promised.  However, we will 
do our best to respond to any problems that may arise when trying to run 
it.

To contact us, email:
	dpardoe@cs.utexas.edu.


