MP Wellman, DM Reeves, KM Lochner, and R Suri
in Han La Poutré, Norman Sadeh and Sverker Janson (eds.), Agent-Mediated Electronic Commerce: Designing Trading Agents and Mechanisms, LNAI 3937, pages 157–170, Springer-Verlag, 2006.
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Abstract
We systematically explore a range of variations of our TAC travel-shopping agent, Walverine. The space of strategies is defined by settings to behavioral parameter values. Our empirical game-theoretic analysis is facilitated by approximating games through hierarchical reduction methods. This approach generated a small set of candidates for the version to run in the TAC-05 tournament. We selected among these based on performance in preliminary rounds, ultimately identifying a successful strategy for Walverine 2005.
This is a revised and extended version of a paper originally presented at the IJCAI-05 Workshop on Trading Agent Design and Analysis, Edinburgh, 2005.
