[agents] TAC 2013 - Call for Participation

[Ioannis Vetsikas]

Reminder.
Registration deadline for the intend to participate in TAC 2013 is May 10.

> Call for Participation
>
> Fourteenth Annual Trading Agent Competition
> on 15 and 16 July 2013 in Bellevue, Washington, USA
>
> We invite you to participate in the Fourteenth Annual Trading Agent
> Competition (TAC 2013), to be held in June and July of 2013, with the
> finals taking place during the AAAI-13 conference in Bellevue,
> Washington, USA, preceded by qualifying and seeding rounds in June and
> early July. You may register for the competition starting 26 March
> 2013 through 10 May 2013 at http://tradingagents.org/registration/.
>
> The TAC 2013 will include three games:
> 1.      Power TAC. Sustainable energy systems of the future will need more
> than efficient, clean, low-cost, renewable energy sources; they will
> also need efficient price signals that motivate sustainable energy
> consumption as well as a better real-time alignment of energy demand
> and supply. In Power TAC, agents act as retail brokers in a local
> power distribution region, purchasing power from a wholesale market as
> well as from local sources, such as homes and businesses with solar
> panels, and selling power to local customers and into the wholesale
> market. Retail brokers must solve a supply-chain problem in which the
> product is infinitely perishable, and supply and demand must be
> exactly balanced at all times.- Power TAC Game Master is Wolf Ketter,
> Erasmus University, Rotterdam. Full documentation and software are
> available at http://www.powertac.org.
> 2.      TAC Ad Auctions (AA). In the TAC/AA game, agents representing
> Internet advertisers bid for search-engine ad placement over a range
> of interrelated keyword combinations. A back-end search-user model
> translates placement over each simulated day to impressions, clicks,
> and sale conversions, yielding revenue for the advertiser. Advertiser
> strategies combining online data analysis and bidding tac tics compete
> to maximize profit over the simulated campaign horizon.- TAC AA Game
> Master is Mariano Schain, University of Tel Aviv. Documentation and
> software for participating in the AA Tournament are accessible at
> http://aa.tradingagents.org/
> 3.      TAC Supply Chain Management (SCM). TAC/SCM simulates a dynamic
> supply chain environment where agents compete to secure customer
> orders and components required for production of these orders. The
> game captures many of the complexities of actual supply chains, where
> both demand and supply fluctuate and each manufacturer has limited
> production capacity. There are also two SCM Challenge events that can
> be run if there is a clear expressed interest: a Procurement Challenge
> and a Prediction Challenge; these will take place if enough teams
> (minimum 6) register for them.- TAC SCM Game Master: Vedran Podobnik,
> University of Zagreb. Documentation an open source agent framework for
> TAC SCM, and sample agents, are available for download at
> http://www.sics.se/tac/. An updated SCM server and log-analysis tool,
> with examples, are available at
> http://tac.cs.umn.edu/controlled-server.shtml.
>
> The qualifying and seeding rounds will be held in May and early June,
> and the first day of the final rounds is scheduled to coincide with
> TADA, the Workshop on Trading Agent Design and Analysis to be held at
> AAAI’13.
>
> To register for TAC-13, please fill out the registration form before
> 10 May 2013 at:
> http://tradingagents.org/registration/
> (Mirrored also at: http://tradingagents.eecs.umich.edu/registration/ )
>
> The entry fee will be US$250 per team to enter one game, or $400 for
> all TAC games.
> The entry fee (for one game) is waived for teams who send a
> representative to the TAC finals at AAAI 2013, if that representative
> registers for the TADA workshop (in case a team participates in more
> than 1 game, registration cost is reduced to US$150).
> Note: Please send any questions regarding the fees to tac [at]
> tradingagents.org. Groups unable to afford the entry fee may also
> contact tac [at] tradingagents.org for special consideration.
>
> General information about TAC and information and links about all the
> TAC games can be found at the Trading Agents Research website:
> http://tradingagents.org
> (An older webpage for the competition is: http://www.sics.se/tac/ )
> Exact dates for the qualifying and seeding rounds will soon be posted
> on the trading agents site (http://tradingagents.org), and sent to the
> tac-discuss mailing list. You may subscribe by sending an email to
> tac-discuss-request (at) umich.edu, subject “subscribe”.
>
> For more information about the Trading Agent Analysis and Design
> (TADA) workshop:
> http://agents.tel.fer.hr/tada-13
> Information about the Association for Trading Agent Research, the
> organization responsible for TAC, can be found at:
> http://tradingagents.org
>
> Please circulate this announcement to anyone who may be interested in
> participating. Inquiries regarding the competition itself may be
> directed to:
> tac-support [at] iit [dot] demokritos [dot] gr
>
> Inquiries about the specific games should be directed to the
> corresponding game master:
> •       PowerTAC : Prof. Wolf Ketter – wketter [at] rsm [dot] nl
> •       TAC AA: Mariano Schain – mariano [at] geshem [dot] com
> •       TAC SCM: Prof. Vedran Podobnik – vedran [dot] podobnik [at] fer
> [dot] hr
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