TAC 2007

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.

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-07 agents are currently available. We will post additional reports as the participants provide post-tournament agent descriptions and analyses.

TAC-07 was sponsored by

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