themakshter / agentelman

Agent Elman, Agent Elbreeze and Agent Eldemeanour take on the TAC

AgentElman

Agent Elman, Agent Elbreeze and Agent Eldemeanour take on the TAC

AgentWare

This is the beta 9 version of the SICS TAC Classic AgentWare for Java.

You will need Java 2 SDK 1.4.1 or newer (you can find it at http://java.sun.com) to be able to develop and run TAC agents using this AgentWare.

Features of the AgentWare

• automatic connection, login and retrieval of game data
• automatic refreshing of bids and quote information (will send bidInfo and getQuote to the server and call the agent when the answers been received)
• asynchronous communication with the TAC server
• bookkeeping of transactions so that the agent knows what it own
• window showing the internal state of the agent, bids, ownership, etc.
• logging to disk

Getting the DummyAgent to run

There are brief documentation about a few of the important methods and callbacks in the header of the DummyAgent file.

Compiling

Type "compile.bat" (or "compile.sh" for unix) to compile the AgentWare (and the DummyAgent). Currently, I've got it working on eclipse so class files are automatically generated.

Running

Register your agent at http://tac1.sics.se:8080/ and then enter your agent name and password in the configuration file 'agent.conf'.

Then type "java -jar tacagent.jar" to run an example agent.

Just run the application and it will ask you to choose a Main class to run, this will be TACAgent.

If everything is all right the DummyAgent will connect to the server and a window showing the "internal" state of the agent will be shown.

Game results and a game viewer can be found at http://tac1.sics.se:8080/ For information about other TAC Classic servers please see http://www.sics.se/tac/server/

Configuring the AgentWare

The AgentWare is reading the configuration file 'agent.conf' at startup. This file allows, among other things, the configuration of log levels and agent implementation. See the file 'agent.conf' for more information.

Note: by default most TAC Classic servers automatically create a new game for the agent after a game has ended. You can specify how many games the agent automatically will play by setting the 'exitAfterGames' option in the configuration file 'agent.conf'.

If you have any questions or comments regarding this AgentWare please contact [email protected]

-- The SICS TAC Team