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The First International Trading Agent Competition: Autonomous Bidding Agents

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This article summarizes the bidding algorithms developed for the on-line Trading Agent Competition held in July, 2000 in Boston. At its heart, the article describes 12 of the 22 agent strategies in terms of (i) bidding strategy, (ii) allocation strategy, (iii) special approaches, and (iv) team motivations. The common and distinctive features of these agent strategies are highlighted. In addition, experimental results are presented that give some insights as to why the top-scoring agents’ strategies were most effective.

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  1. Department of Computer Sciences, The University of Texas at Austin, 1 University Station C0500, Austin, TX, 78712-0233

    Peter Stone

  2. Department of Computer Science, Brown University, Box 1910, Providence, RI, 02912

    Amy Greenwald

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This article is the result of the efforts of many people. The agent descriptions were originally written by team members as listed in Table 1 and the Appendix.

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Stone, P., Greenwald, A. The First International Trading Agent Competition: Autonomous Bidding Agents. Electron Commerce Res 5, 229–265 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10660-005-6158-z

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