ATTac-2000: an adaptive autonomous bidding agent

  • Authors:
  • Peter Stone;Michael L. Littman;Satinder Singh;Michael Kearns

  • Affiliations:
  • AT&T Labs -- Research, 180 Park Ave., Florham Park, NJ;AT&T Labs -- Research, 180 Park Ave., Florham Park, NJ;AT&T Labs -- Research, 180 Park Ave., Florham Park, NJ;AT&T Labs -- Research, 180 Park Ave., Florham Park, NJ

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the fifth international conference on Autonomous agents
  • Year:
  • 2001

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Abstract

The First Trading Agent Competition (TAC) was held from June 22 to July 8, 2000. TAC was designed to create a benchmark problem in the complex domain of e-marketplaces and to motivate researchers to apply unique approaches to a common task. This paper describes \attac, the first-place finisher in TAC. \attac\ uses a principled bidding strategy that includes several elements of {adaptivity\/}. In addition to the success at the competition, isolated empirical results are presented indicating the robustness and effectiveness of \attac's adaptive strategy.