Competitive benchmarking: Lessons learned from the Trading Agent Competition

AI Magazine

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 103-107

  Ketter, Wolfgang ^a,b   Symeonidis, Andreas L ^c  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b Association for Trading Agent Research   (United States)

^c ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECONOMICS; INTERNATIONAL TRADE;

GLOBAL MARKET; TRADING AGENT COMPETITION;

COMMERCE;

EID: 84870863228     PISSN: 07384602     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1609/aimag.v33i2.2396     Document Type: Conference Paper

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