The First Trading Agent Competition (TAC) was held from June 22nd to July 8th, 2000. TAC was designed to create a benchmark problem in the complex domain of e-marketplaces and to motivate researchers to apply unique approaches to a common task. This article describes ATTac-2000, the first-place finisher in TAC. ATTac-2000 uses a principled bidding strategy that includes several elements of adaptivity. In addition to the success at the competition, isolated empirical results are presented indicating the robustness and effectiveness of ATTac-2000's adaptive strategy.
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@article{arxiv.1106.0678,
title = {ATTac-2000: An Adaptive Autonomous Bidding Agent},
author = {M. Kearns and M. L. Littman and S. Singh and P. Stone},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1106.0678},
year = {2011}
}