JCAT - The Software Platform for TAC Market Design Tournament (CAT)
API Specification for Version 0.20

This document is the API specification for JCAT - the Software Platform for Trading Agent Competition (TAC) Market Design Tournament (CAT).

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Description

Packages

edu.cuny.cat	Main classes for launching jcat in different ways.
edu.cuny.cat.comm	Classes for communication according to cat protocol.
edu.cuny.cat.core	Basic classes for trading.
edu.cuny.cat.event	Classes relating to auction events.
edu.cuny.cat.market	Classes concerning how a market/specialist behaves.
edu.cuny.cat.market.accepting	Policies for specialists to judge whether to allow a shout to place in their markets.
edu.cuny.cat.market.charging	Policies for specialists to determine charges of the services they provide.
edu.cuny.cat.market.clearing	Policies for specialists to determine when to clear their markets
edu.cuny.cat.market.core	Basic classes particularly for specialists.
edu.cuny.cat.market.matching	Policies for specialists to determine how to match shouts made by traders.
edu.cuny.cat.market.pricing	Policies for specialists to determine transaction prices.
edu.cuny.cat.market.quoting	Policies for specialists to generate market quotes.
edu.cuny.cat.market.subscribing	Policies for specialists to choose which markets they subscribe information from.
edu.cuny.cat.registry	Classes implementing event storage for cat game server.
edu.cuny.cat.server	Classes for cat game server.
edu.cuny.cat.stat	Classes that generate reports on different aspects of cat game.
edu.cuny.cat.stat.round	Classes that generate reports on different aspects of cat game on a round-wise manner.
edu.cuny.cat.task	Classes for mechanism of dispatching tasks or messages to receivers.
edu.cuny.cat.trader	Classes for trading agents.
edu.cuny.cat.trader.marketselection	Trading agent's market selection strategies.
edu.cuny.cat.trader.strategy	Trading agent's trading strategies.
edu.cuny.cat.ui	Classes for game console interface.
edu.cuny.cat.valuation	Classes for setting up supply/demand schedules for trading agents.
edu.cuny.jfree.chart.annotations	Annotation classes for JFreeChart.
edu.cuny.jfree.chart.plot	Plot classes for JFreeChart.
edu.cuny.jfree.chart.renderer.category	Renderer classes the process categorizable data for JFreeChart.
edu.cuny.jfree.data.category	Classes that define categorizable data types for JFreeChart.
edu.cuny.jfree.data.general	Classes that define general data types for JFreeChart.

This document is the API specification for JCAT - the Software Platform for Trading Agent Competition (TAC) Market Design Tournament (CAT).

Please note that from Version 0.20, utility classes in JCAT, also used by other Java-based projects, were separated from the package and put into a utility package, called JCOMMONS. The source code of JCOMMONS is no longer released but may be provided upon request. In that case, please contact the developers of JCAT.