Designing the market game for a trading agent competition

Author

Wellman, Michael P. ; Wurman, Peter R. ; O´Malley, Kevin ; Bangera, Roshan ; Lin, S.-D. ; Reeves, Daniel ; Walsh, William E.

Author_Institution

Artificial Intelligence Lab., Michigan Univ., Ann Arbor, MI, USA

Volume

5

Issue

2

fYear

2001

Firstpage

43

Lastpage

51

Abstract

The authors discuss the design and operation of a trading agent competition, focusing on the game structure and some of the key technical issues in running and playing the game. They also describe the competition´s genesis, its technical infrastructure, and its organization. The article by A. Greenwald and P. Stone (2001), describes the competition from a participant´s perspective and describes the strategies of some of the top-placing agents. A visualization of the competition and a description of the preliminary and final rounds of the TAC are available in IC Online (http://computer.org/internet/tac.htm)

Keywords

Internet; electronic commerce; information resources; software agents; IC Online; TAC; game structure; market game design; technical infrastructure; technical issues; top-placing agents; trading agent competition; Artificial intelligence; Computerized monitoring; Consumer electronics; Electronic commerce; Games; Internet; Multiagent systems; Radio access networks; TCPIP; Web page design;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Internet Computing, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1089-7801

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/4236.914647

Filename

914647