2007 Tournament
Posted by Patrick R. Jordan over 2 years ago
The 2007 Trading Agent Competition was completed in July 2007. TAC-07 featured two games: the supply chain management (SCM), and a new market design game (reverse TAC, or “CAT”). Preliminary rounds began in June 2007, involving 36 teams (18 in SCM, 10 in CAT, and 4 each for the two SCM challenges) from 12 countries. A full list of participating teams is available.
Based on the qualifying and seeding rounds, the 10 CAT agents and 18 SCM agents proceeded to the final tournament, held in conjunction with AAAI-07 in Vancouver, Canada on 23–25 July. The first day of SCM quarter-finals and CAT finals coincided with the Workshop on Trading Agent Design and Analysis (TADA-07), 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 few agents for each game, it appeared that many more entries exhibited strong trading strategy. Complete final-round SCM score tables are also available.
| Game | Agent | Association |
|---|---|---|
| CAT | 1 IAMwildCAT | University of Southampton |
| 2 PSUCAT | Pennsylvania State University | |
| 3 CrocodileAgent | University of Zagreb | |
| SCM | 1 PhantAgent | University of Bucharest |
| 2 TacTex | University of Texas | |
| 3 Deep Maize | University of Michigan | |
| Prediction | 1 Deep Maize | University of Michigan |
| 2 TacTex | University of Texas | |
| Procurement | 1 PhantAgent | "Politehnica" University of Bucharest |
| 2 CMieux | Carnegie Mellon University |
A few articles and other >descriptions of TAC-07agents are currently available. We will post additional reports as the participants provide post-tournament agent descriptions and analyses.
TAC-07 was sponsored by
 | SAP | |
 | SICS | |
 | National Science Foundation |