2008 Tournament
Posted by Patrick R. Jordan about 1 year ago
The 2008 Trading Agent Competition was completed in July 2008. TAC-08 featured two games: the supply chain management (SCM), and market design (reverse TAC, or “CAT”) games. Preliminary rounds began in June 2008, involving 32 teams (14 in SCM, 11 in CAT, and 7 total for the two SCM challenges) from 10 countries. A full list of participating teams is available.
Based on the qualifying and seeding rounds, the 11 CAT agents and 14 SCM agents proceeded to the final tournament, held in conjunction with AAAI-08 in Chicago, USA on 14–16 July. The first day of SCM quarter-finals and CAT finals coincided with the Workshop on Trading Agent Design and Analysis (TADA-08), where researchers presented their latest results on trading agent technology.
The competition in both games was once again fierce. Although the table below lists only the top-scoring few agents for each game, many entries exhibited strong trading strategy. Complete SCM-08 score tables are also available.
| Game | Agent | Association |
|---|---|---|
| CAT | 1 PersianCAT | Shiraz University |
| 2 Manx | University of Michigan | |
| 3 Jackaroo | University of Western Sidney | |
| SCM | 1 Deep Maize | University of Michigan |
| 2 TacTex | University of Texas | |
| 3 CMieux | Carnegie Mellon University | |
| Prediction | 1 TacTex | University of Texas |
| 2 Deep Maize | University of Michigan | |
| Procurement | 1 CMieux | Carnegie Mellon University |
| 2 CrocodileAgent | University of Zagreb |
A few articles and other descriptions of TAC-08 agents are currently available on the research reports page. We will post additional reports as the participants provide post-tournament agent descriptions and analyses.
View photos from the TAC-08 event.
TAC-08 was sponsored by
 | Market Based Control | |
 | e-Supply Chain Management Lab | |
 | Susquehanna International Group |