Trading Agent Competition

The Trading Agent Competition (TAC) is an international forum designed to promote and encourage high quality research into the trading agent problem. TAC tournaments have been held annually since 2000.

TAC provides a forum for researchers to evaluate programmed trading techniques in a market scenario by competing with agents from other design groups. Since 2000 when the first TAC was conducted, it has attracted participants from many institutions from dozens of countries around the world.

This site is maintained by the Association for Trading Agent Research as a repository for news, research reports, and other TAC-related materials. We hope you enjoy this site and are encouraged to take part in TAC.

The Thirteenth Annual Trading Agent Competition (TAC 2012) is to be held in May and June of 2012. The finals, preceded by qualifying and seeding rounds,  will take place  on 4 and 5 June 2012 in Valencia, Spain, in conjunction with AAMAS 2012. TAC 2012 will feature the following games: