2006 Tournament
Posted by Patrick R. Jordan over 3 years ago
The 2006 Trading Agent Competition has now been completed. TAC-06 featured two games: the “classic” travel-shopping game, and a supply chain management (SCM) game. Preliminary rounds began on 3 April 2006, involving 31 teams (23 in SCM and 8 in Travel) from 19 countries. A full list of participating teams is available.
Based on the qualifying and seeding rounds, the 8 Travel agents and 21 SCM agents proceeded to the final tournament, held in conjunction with AAMAS-06 in Hakodate, Japan on 9–11 May. The first day of SCM quarter-finals and Travel semi-finals coincided with the Workshop on Trading Agent Design and Analysis (TADA/AMEC-06), where researchers presented their latest results on trading agent technology.
The competition in both games turned out to be quite sharp. Although the table below lists only the top-scoring three agents for each game, it appeared that many more entries exhibited strong trading strategy. Complete final-round score tables are also available.
| Game | Agent | Association |
|---|---|---|
| Travel | 1 RoxyBot | Brown University |
| 2 Walverine | University of Michigan | |
| 3 WhiteDolphin | University of Southampton | |
| SCM | 1 TacTex | University of Texas |
| 2 PhantAgent | University of Bucharest | |
| 3 Deep Maize | University of Michigan |
A few articles and other descriptions of TAC-06 agents are currently available. We will post additional reports as the participants provide post-tournament agent descriptions and analyses.
TAC-06 was sponsored by
 | SICS | |
 | National Science Foundation |