1. www.cs.umbc.edu UMBC TAGA Youyong Zou, Li Ding, Rong Pan Feb 6,2003 Department of CSEE, UMBC

2. www.cs.umbc.edu Outline TAGA Overview –Motivation –Architecture –Game Rules Highlights About us Reference

3. www.cs.umbc.edu Motivation Build a framework and infrastructure for a Travel Agent Game in Agentcities that extends and enhances the original TAC [Wellman 99] system to work in an Agentcities environment of FIPA compliant agents.

4. www.cs.umbc.edu Architecture

5. TAGA-G1 Rules ( http://pooka.cs.umbc.edu:8080/taga/ )http://pooka.cs.umbc.edu:8080/taga/ All customers will travel from City A to resort R and spend several days (less than 5 days) there. A successful trip requires round trip airline service and hotel accommodation service in resort R. Moreover, customers will pay extra bonus for good service and entertainments. Game players will design the bidder agent and try to make maximum profit by making contract and buying travel packages for the customer.

6. www.cs.umbc.edu Highlights Open Architecture Web Auction Service RDF Content language Flexible Market Infrastructure Enhanced TAC

7. www.cs.umbc.edu Open Architecture Multiple agent developing platforms WSDL interface for.NET agent FIPA compliant Agentcities facility allow add new agent –Allow to add Web services –Allow add new rules?

8. www.cs.umbc.edu Web Auction services Web English Auction –Seller initiate, post the ask price –Wait for the highest price –Source: hotline.com Web Dutch Auction –Buyer initiate, post their willing –Wait for an seller who accept current offer –Source: priceline.com

9. www.cs.umbc.edu RDF Content language Support knowledge representation for hotel information, customer preference, for further interests match and reputation. RDF could be future business language.

10. www.cs.umbc.edu Flexible Market Infrastructure Enhanced TAC –More real, e.g. Two step purchase –Agent over APIs An infrastructure to create various TAC-like game instances –A Role playing game –Multiple purchase options

11. www.cs.umbc.edu About us Member –Youyong Zou –Li Ding –Rong Pan Faculty Advisor –Dr. Finin

12. www.cs.umbc.edu Reference [Wellman 99] Michael P. Wellman and Peter R. Wurman. A trading agent competition for the research community. IJCAI-99 Workshop on Agent-Mediated Electronic Commerce, Stockholm, 1999A trading agent competition for the research community

13. www.cs.umbc.edu TAGA Logo

14. www.cs.umbc.edu Demo Simple demo DEMO PROCEDURE –Sample customer request –Add bidder agents, and see their change of score? Parameter correspond to some simple explanations –A control panel to overview the game –Local Message flow window