Trading Agent Competition: Travel
A TAC Travel agent is a simulated travel agent whose task is to organize itineraries for clients who wish to travel from TACTown to Boston and back again. Travel goods, such as airline tickets and hotel reservations, are complementary, while tickets to entertainment events, such as the Boston Red Sox and the Boston Symphony Orchestra, are substitutable. The agent's objective is to procure those goods that best satisfy its clients' preferences as inexpensively as possible, by trading in ascending call markets, continuous double auctions, and dynamic posted-pricing environments, simultaneously.
Project status: Active
Project Home Page: http://www.cs.brown.edu/people/amy/travel.html
Research Areas
| Intelligent Agents |
| Artificial Intelligence |
Research Themes
| Electronic Commerce |
| Trading Agent Design and Analysis |
People
| Amy Greenwald |
| Seong Jae Lee |
Funding
Computational Social Choice Theory, National Science Foundation, $375,000, 3/1/2002 - 2/28/2007
The Trading Agent Competition, National Science Foundation, $27,500, 4/1/2006 - 3/31/2007
Publications
Greenwald, A., and Boyan, J. Bidding Algorithms for Simultaneous Auctions: A Case Study. Journal of Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems 10, 1 (2005), 67-89. [ postscript | pdf ]
Greenwald, A. Bid Determination in Simultaneous Auctions. Tech. Rep. CS-05-16, Brown University, 2005. [ pdf ]
Stone, P., and Greenwald, A. The International Trading Agent Competition: Autonomous bidding agents. Electronic Commerce Research: Special Issue on Dynamic Pricing 5 (2005), 229-265. [ postscript | pdf ]
Greenwald, A., and Boyan, J. Bidding Under Uncertainty: Theory and Experiments. In Proceedings of the 20th Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (Jul 2004), pp. 209-216. [ postscript | pdf ]
Wellman, M., Greenwald, A., Stone, P., and Wurman, P. The 2001 Trading Agent Competition. Electronic Markets 13, 1 (2003), 4-12. [ pdf ]
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