1. MULTI-AGENT AND MARKET BASED DYNAMIC OPTIMIZATION AND ITS EXTENSIONS TO DISTRIBUTED SUPPLY CHAIN PROCUREMENT PLANNING PROBLEMS Open Access Author: Tang, Kaizhi Title: MULTI-AGENT AND MARKET BASED DYNAMIC OPTIMIZATION AND ITS EXTENSIONS TO DISTRIBUTED SUPPLY CHAIN PROCUREMENT PLANNING PROBLEMS Graduate Program: Industrial Engineering Keywords: double auctionmarket mechanismsupply chain procurementtransportation planningmulti-agent systemcontingency planningreinforcement learningmeta-heuristicvariable neighborhood searchdynamic optimizationdistributed heuristicmulti-stage gameevolutionary methodfictitious playingevolutionary stable strategy File: Download PhDThesis.pdf Committee Members: Soundar Rajan Tirupatikumara, Committee Chair/Co-ChairKalyan Chatterjee, Committee MemberNatarajan Gautam, Committee MemberErnest Emory Enscore Jr., Committee Member