The eleventh annual Trading Agent Competition was completed earlier this month at the ACM EC-10 conference in Cambridge, Massachusetts.  TAC-10 featured three games: the supply chain management (SCM), market design (reverse TAC, or “CAT”), and Ad Auctions (AA) games. Preliminary rounds began in June, involving 29 teams (7 in SCM, 11 in CAT, and 11 in AA) from 21 countries. A full list of participating teams is available.

Based on the qualifying and seeding rounds, the 6 SCM agents, 9 CAT agents, and 8 of the AA agents proceeded to the final tournament, on 7–8 June. The first day (semifinals) coincided with the Workshop on Trading Agent Design and Analysis (TADA-10), where researchers presented their latest results on trading agent technology.

This year’s tournament was very competitive and exciting, particularly in the AA game where three of the top four agents’ average scores were separated by only 658 units.  Although the table below lists only the top-scoring agents for each game, many entries exhibited strong trading strategies. Complete SCM-10 score tables are also available.

Game	Agent	Association
SCM	1 TacTex	University of Texas at Austin
	2 DeepMaize	University of Michigan
	3 MinneTac	University of Minnesota
CAT	1 Mertacor	CERTH/ITI, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
	2 jackaroo	ISL University of Western Sydney &
		IRIT University of Toulouse
	3 IAMwildCAT	University of Southampton
AA	1 TacTex	University of Texas at Austin
	2 Schlemazl	Brown University
	3 Mertacor	CERTH/ITI, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

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