Archive for the ‘CAT Tournament’ Category

JAAMAS Special Issue on MBC

Wednesday, August 26th, 2009

Thanks to the editors of the journal of Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, we have prepared a special issue on the topic of the [tag]Market-Based Control[/tag] of Computational Systems.   The special issue editors’ Introduction to the issue can be found here.  

There were six papers accepted for the special issue after peer-review by anonymous reviewers:  

  • Borissov N, Neumann D, Weinhardt C: Automated bidding in computational markets: An application in market-based allocation of computing services.
  • Lewis PR, Marrow P, Yao X: Resource allocation in decentralised computational systems: An evolutionary market-based approach.
  • Niu J, Cai K, Parsons S, McBurney P, Gerding E: What the 2007 TAC Market Design Game tells us about effective auction mechanisms.
  • Sarne D, Manisterski E, Kraus S:  Multi-goal economic search using dynamic search structures.  
  • Phelps S, McBurney P, Parsons S: Evolutionary mechanism design: A review.
  • Vetsikas IA, Jennings NR: Bidding strategies for realistic multi-unit sealed-bid auctions.

We are very grateful to all those submitted papers to the special issue and to the preceeding international workshop, and to those who undertook peer reviews of the submissions.  The papers will be available from the journal web-pages in due course.

 

CAT 2009 final games

Wednesday, July 8th, 2009

The final games of the 2009 CAT Tournament start tomorrow, Thursday 9 July 2009, at 1400 GMT.   Final Game 1 is tomorrow, with Games 2 and 3 on Monday 13th and Tuesday 14th respectively. You can watch each game here.

Watching the 2009 CAT Tournament

Thursday, June 11th, 2009

The first trial game T1 of the 2009 CAT Market Design Tournament will start at 1400 British Summer Time (1300 GMT) on Monday 15 June 2009.   You can watch the progress of the game from this webpage.

2009 CAT Tournament

Monday, June 8th, 2009

Preparations are currently underway for the Trial Games of the 2009 TAC Market Design Tournament, aka the [tag]CAT Game[/tag], due to take place next week.   If you have already registered for the 2009 [tag]CAT Tournament[/tag], but you have not yet received connection information from the CAT Gamemester, please contact me as soon as possible.

TADA 2009

Tuesday, May 5th, 2009

The program for the 2009 Trading Agent Design and Analysis Workshop ([tag]TADA 2009[/tag]) is now published, here.   The workshop will include several presentations of research arising from the CAT Market Design Tournament.    Early registration closes on 15 May 2009.

CAT 2009 Tournament update

Tuesday, May 5th, 2009

The documents describing the 2009 [tag]CAT Market Design Tournament[/tag] have been updated.  They are available from the CAT Tournament page, here

The [tag]JCAT[/tag] tournament software platform has also been revised, with the new version (v. 0.13), now available from the CAT sourceforge page, here.

2009 CAT Tournament

Thursday, February 5th, 2009

Information about the 2009 TAC [tag]Market Design Game[/tag], aka the [tag]CAT Tournament[/tag], is now available on our tournament page, here.

As you will see there, we have just uploaded a new edition of the [tag]JCAT[/tag] platform software (version 0.12) to the JCAT sourceforge page, accessible from here.

Please email us if  you wish to be included on the email list for new announcements.  

CAT trial: December 2008

Monday, November 24th, 2008

We plan to run some informal trial games of the 2009 Market Design (CAT) Tournament in the week of 1 December 2008.   Please contact us with a team name (case-sensitive) and an IP address (dotted-quad notation) if you wish to participate.