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TAC SCM Controlled Server |
| Starting with the 2008 TAC SCM competition, The
University of Minnesota's MinneTAC Research Group has
assumed responsibility for maintenance of the TAC SCM server,
originally developed at the
Swedish Institute for
Computer Science (SICS).
The server that was used in the 2008 competition is an
updated version of the "controlled server" described in the
Sodomka et al. paper,
which allows market conditions to be repeated across
multiple games. As a result,
the seeds for the competition games are available in the
game logs, and competition games from the 2008 series can
therefore be re-run.
Here's the current server package
(Java source) and
(binary).
It includes
- A simple GUI to create seedsets for the server, and
- A detailed README file with instructions for building and
using the controlled server and its corresponding
GUI.
- Instructions for configuring the server to support
scheduled competitions
In order to extract the seeds from an existing game, you
need to use the latest version of the logtool, which also
adds several "monitors" and the ability to write Scheme
scripts to extract data from parsed games. Here's the
Java source for
the 2008 logtool.
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Controlled Server Papers |
- Eric Sodomka,
John Collins, and Maria Gini. "Efficient
Statistical Methods for Evaluating Trading Agent
Performance." In Proc. of AAAI-07, Vancouver,
Canada, July
2007. [pdf]
- Eric Sodomka, John Collins, and Maria Gini. "Modifying the TAC-SCM server to support repeated pseudo-random sequences: A Proposal." Proposal to SICS, Minnesota, June 2007. [pdf]
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