IJCAI-05

TADA-05
IJCAI-05 Workshop on Trading Agent Design and Analysis
Edinburgh, Scotland
Monday, August 1, 2005


Preliminary Schedule

IJCAI-05 Workshop on Trading Agent Design and Analysis (TADA-05)

Monday, August 1, 2005 -- University of Edinburgh, David Hume Tower Faculty Room North

In conjunction with the Trading Agent Competition 2005 finals.

For information on the workshop scope and organization, see the Call for Papers.

All papers are available for download individually (marked "pdf"), and as the full TADA-05 proceedings.

09:00 - 10:30 - Morning session 1

Searching for Walverine 2005 (pdf)

Michael P. Wellman, Daniel M. Reeves, Kevin M. Lochner, and Rahul Suri

A Framework for Designing Strategies for Trading Agents (pdf)

Perukrishnen Vytelingum, Rajdeep K. Dash, Minghua He, and Nicholas R. Jennings

Scaling Up the Sample Average Approximation Method for Stochastic Optimization with Applications to
Trading Agents (pdf)

Amy Greenwald, Bryan Guillemette, Victor Naroditskiy, and Michael Tschantz

10:30 - 11:00 - Coffee break

11:00 - 12:30 - Morning session 2

Invited talk: Compute Power Markets and Trading (title to be determined)

Lars Rasmusson, HP Research Labs & SICS

Using Population-based Search and Evolutionary Game Theory to Acquire Better-response Strategies for the
Double Auction Market (pdf)

S. Phelps, M. Marcinkiewicz, S. Parsons, and P. McBurney

Who to listen to: Exploiting information quality in a ZIP-agent Market (pdf)

Dan Ladley and Seth Bullock

12:30 - 14:00 - Lunch

14:00 - 15:00 - Afternoon session 1

TAC Classic Finals brief commentary

TAC Classic game master: Ioannis Vetsikas

Designing and Evaluating an Adaptive Trading Agent for Supply Chain Management Applications (pdf)

Minghua He, Alex Rogers, Esther David, and Nicholas R. Jennings

Socrates: a production-driven SCM agent (pdf)

Carlos R. Jaimez-Gonzalez and Maria Fasli

15:00 - 15:30 - Coffee break

15:30 - 17:30 - Afternoon session 2

TAC SCM Finals brief commentary

TAC SCM game master: John Collins

Identifying and Forecasting Economic Regimes in TAC SCM (pdf)

Wolfgang Ketter, John Collins, Maria Gini, Alok Gupta, and Paul Schrater

An Analysis of the 2004 Supply Chain Management Trading Agent Competition (pdf)

Christopher Kiekintveld, Yevgeniy Vorobeychik, and Michael P. Wellman

Panel Discussion: Directions for Trading Agents Research

Moderator: Michael Wellman

17:30 - End of Workshop


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