Trading Agent Competition - Participants, TAC 2009

These are the currently registered participants for TAC 2009. The competition consist of three different game types: TAC Ad Auctions (AA), TAC Market Design (CAT), and TAC SCM.

Participants also have the option of entering two TAC SCM Challenge events: a Procurement Challenge and a Prediction Challenge. For more information see the TAC SCM challenges.

Participants in TAC Ad Auctions, TAC Market Design, TAC SCM, Prediction Challenge, Procurement Challenge.

TAC Ad Auctions (AA)

	Agent	Leader	Team	Affiliation
1	Mertacor	Prof. Pericles A. Mitkas	Mertacor	CERTH/ITI, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
2	QuakTAC	Yevgeniy Vorobeychik	QuakTAC	University of Pennsylvania
3	McCon	Maziar Gomrokchi	McCon	Concordia and McGill Universities
4	CrocodileAgent	Vedran Podobnik	CrocodileAgent	University of Zagreb
5	Merlion	Shih-Fen Cheng	Merlion	Singapore Management University
6	Schlemazl	Amy Greenwald	Schlemazl	Brown University
7	UMTac09	Dr. Si Yain Whar	UMTac09	Department of Computer and Information Science, Faculty of Science and Technology, University of Macau
8	Bishop	Konstantinos Theofilis	Bishop	Aston University
9	AstonTAC	Dr. Minghua He	AstonTAC	Computer Science, School of Engineering & Applied Science, Aston University
10	EPFLAgent	Ludek Cigler	EPFLAgent	Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
11	TacTex	Peter Stone	TacTex	The University of Texas at Austin
12	UWTAgent	Nicholas Spence	UWTAgent	University of Washington, Tacoma
13	MetroClick	Jinzhong Niu & Haizheng Zhang	MetroClick	Graduate Center, City University of New York, and Microsoft
14	WayneAd	Daniel Grosu	WayneAd	Wayne State University
15	DNAgents	Michael Munsey	DNAgents	University of Washington, Tacoma and Ghent University

TAC Market Design (CAT)

	Agent	Leader	Team	Affiliation
1	Mertacor	Prof. Pericles A. Mitkas	Mertacor	CERTH/ITI, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
2	TWBB	Prof. Deng-Neng Chen	TWBB	National Pingtung University of Science & Technology
3	Tianuani	Miriam Salcedo Haro	Tianuani	Benemerita Universidad Autonoma de Puebla
4	CrocodileAgent	Vedran Podobnik	CrocodileAgent	University of Zagreb
5	UMTac09	Dr. Si Yain Whar	UMTac09	Department of Computer and Information Science, Faculty of Science and Technology, University of Macau
6	PersianCat	Maziar Gomrokchi	PersianCat	Premier Ideas Support Center of Shiraz University
7	PSUCAT	Dr. Tracy Mullen	PSUCAT	Penn State University
8	WaterCAT2009	Dr. Kate Larson, Derek Wang	WaterCAT2009	University of Waterloo
9	IAMwildCAT	Prof N. R. Jennings	IAMwildCAT	University of Southampton
10	jackaroo	Dr Dongmo Zhang & Dr Laurent Perrussel	jackaroo	ISL University of Western Sydney & IRIT University of Toulouse (link,link)
11	BazarganZebel	Dr.Mohammad Mehdi Ebad Zadeh	bazarganzebel	Amirkabir University of Technology
12	CUNY.CS	Joel Kammet	CUNY.CS	The Graduate Center, City University of New York, Doctoral Program in Computer Science
13	cestlavie	Michael Luck	cestlavie	King's College London
14	rucat	Caihong Sun	rucat	Renmin University of China

TAC SCM

	Agent	Leader	Team	Affiliation
1	UECETAC	Gilzamir	UECETAC
2	Mertacor	Prof. Pericles A. Mitkas	Mertacor	CERTH/ITI, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
3	faceandbrain	Siwon Choi	faceandbrain
4	MinneTAC	John Collins	MinneTAC	University of Minnesota
5	Emo_Sagacious	Professor Caro Lucas	Emo_Sagacious
6	CrocodileAgent	Vedran Podobnik	CrocodileAgent	University of Zagreb
7	Merlion	Shih-Fen Cheng	Merlion	Singapore Management University
8	DeepMaize	Michael Wellman	DeepMaize	University of Michigan
9	AstonSCM	Michael Winsper	AstonSCM	Aston University
10	TacTex	Peter Stone	TacTex	The University of Texas at Austin
11	Maverick	Prithviraj Dasgupta	Maverick	University of Nebraska at Omaha
12	CMieux	Norman Sadeh	CMieux	Carnegie Mellon University
13	Botticelli	Amy Greenwald	Botticelli	Brown University, Department of Computer Science
14	OurAgent	Paulo Ribas	OurAgent	Universidade Federal de Campina Grande, Universidade Federal Fluminense, Universidade Tecnol�gica Federal do Paran�
15	NittanyLISQ	Soundar Kumara	NittanyLisq	Penn State University
16	Flux	Jerrol Etheredge	Flux	Utrecht University

TAC SCM Prediction Challenge

	Agent	Leader	Team	Affiliation
1	Emo_Sagacious	Professor Caro Lucas	Emo_Sagacious
2	TacTex	Peter Stone	TacTex	The University of Texas at Austin
3	CMieux	Norman Sadeh	CMieux	Carnegie Mellon University

TAC SCM Procurement Challenge

	Agent	Leader	Team	Affiliation
1	Emo_Sagacious	Professor Caro Lucas	Emo_Sagacious
2	CMieux	Norman Sadeh	CMieux	Carnegie Mellon University

If you have any questions regarding the participation in TAC 2009 please send an email to tac-support [at] sics.se.