Welcome to the home page of Mertacor, our agent participating since 2003 in the games organized by the Trading Agent Competition (TAC) community. More information about the competitions and the community can be found at the Trading Agent Competition site and the TAC association for Trading Agent Research.

Mertacor was the first place winner of the market design game and the third place finalist in the ad auctions game of the 11th Trading Agent Competition (TAC-2010), which was held in Harvard University, Massachusetts (7-11 Jun., 2010), within the context of the 11th ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce (EC'10).

Mertacor was the first place winner of the classic game and the third place finalist in the SCM game of the 6th Trading Agent Competition (TAC-2005), which was held in Edinburgh, Scotland (1-3 Aug., 2005), within the context of the 19th International Joint Conference in Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-05).

The name of Mertacor comes from the latin word Mercator, which means trader. Since the scope of TAC is trading, such a name would suit our agent just right…

Team members associated with Mertacor design can be reached at the email address:
mertacor [at] olympus (dot) ee (dot) auth (dot) gr

Binary files of our agent can be found at the TAC agent repository.

Below one can find the history of agent Mertacor in the TAC, along with publications resulted from this effort.

Mertacor team leader is Professor Pericles A. Mitkas.

• 2010: 3rd place, Number of participants: 11

Team Members: Kyriakos C. Chatzidimitriou, Lampros Stavrogiannis

• 2009: 9th place, Number of participants: 15

Team Members: Kyriakos C. Chatzidimitriou, Lampros Stavrogiannis

• 2010: 6th place, Number of participants: 7

Team Members: Kyriakos C. Chatzidimitriou, Andreas L. Symeonidis

• 2009: 7th place, Number of participants: 16, (13 participants actually competed)

Team Members: Kyriakos C. Chatzidimitriou, Andreas L. Symeonidis

• 2008: 7th place, Number of participants: 17, (14 participants actually competed)

Team Members: Kyriakos C. Chatzidimitriou, Andreas L. Symeonidis

• 2007: 12th place , Number of participants: 19, (Mertacor team did not participate in the Second Finals)

Team Members: Kyriakos C. Chatzidimitriou, Andreas L. Symeonidis

• 2006: 7th place, Number of participants: 23

Team Members: Ioannis Kontogounis, Kyriakos C. Chatzidimitriou, Andreas L. Symeonidis

• 2005: 3rd place, Number of participants: 32

Team Members: Ioannis Kontogounis, Kyriakos C. Chatzidimitriou, Andreas L. Symeonidis

• 2004: Seeding Rounds, Number of participants: 20

Team Members: Kyriakos C. Chatzidimitriou

• 2003: Final Rounds - First Round, Number of participants: 31

Team Members: Kyriakos C. Chatzidimitriou

• 2010: 1st place, Number of participants: 11, (9 participants actually competed)

Team Members: Lampros Stavrogiannis

• 2009: 5th place, Number of participants: 14

Team Members: Lampros Stavrogiannis

• 2008: 5th place, Number of participants: 14, (11 participants actually competed)

Team Members: Lampros Stavrogiannis, Vivia Nikolaidou

• 2007: 8th place, Number of participants: 10

Team Members: Lampros Stavrogiannis, Vivia Nikolaidou

• 2006: 5th place, Number of participants: 8

Team Members: Panagiotis Toulis, Dionisis Kehagias

• 2005: 1st place, Number of participants: 11

Team Members: Panagiotis Toulis, Dionisis Kehagias

[2008, article | symeonidis2008.pdf]

Symeonidis, A. L., Nikolaidou, V., & Mitkas, P. A. (2008). Sketching a methodology for efficient Supply Chain Management agents enhanced through Data Mining. International Journal of Intelligent Information and Database Systems.

[2008, article | www]

Chatzidimitriou, K. C., Symeonidis, A. L., Kontogounis, I., & Mitkas, P. A. (2008). Agent Mertacor: A robust design for dealing with uncertainty and variation in SCM environments. Expert Systems with Applications, 35(3), 591-603.

Mertacor Classic Poster

Mertacor SCM Poster

These posters appeared in the TAC-05 exhibition, held in IJCAI-05, 1-3 Aug. 2005.