JCAT was initially developed during the summer of 2006 at the Agents Lab of the Graduate School and University Center and Brooklyn College of CUNY, and was generously funded by the EPSRC of the United Kingdom via Professor Peter McBurney at the University of Liverpool (now at King's College London) in the Market-Based Control project. JCAT has been under continuous development and maintenance in recent years by the architect of JCAT, Jinzhong Niu, at the City University of New York.