The Trading Agent Competition as a test problem for Constraint Solving under Change and Uncertainty

The annual Trading Agent Competition includes a Supply Chain Management game [1], in which agents must win contracts, obtain supplies, and produce goods, in competition with five other agents. In this position paper, we outline the problem domain, explaining why we believe it is a suitable testbed for reasoning about change and uncertainty in constraint optimisation, and we describe our initial attempts to design and implement a constraint-based agent to participate in the competition.