Title :
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
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;
Journal_Title :
Internet Computing, IEEE
DOI :
10.1109/4236.914647
