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Welcome to Power TAC
This space is for participants in the Power TAC competitive simulation. Here we can develop and discuss the overall simulation scenario design, game and tournament structures, building broker agents, and analyzing simulation data.
Please feel free to add material to existing pages, create new pages, and add your comments in the discussion pages. If you are interested in joining the development team, please see the developer's forum, and the primary development site at github.
Power TAC papers:
Note that there are many more papers at powertac.org.
- A high-level overview of the scenario, emphasizing motivation and background.
- An earlier concept for the Power TAC scenario.
Getting Started
- Instructions for installing the Power TAC server, and for building a broker agent.
Repository of broker agents
- Share your broker with other researchers (either source or binary), download competing brokers for your research.
Game Design
- See the formal Power TAC game specification for full details on the 2018 and 2019 competitions.
- The linked page is for discussion and development of the details of the game design, as well as the research issues that need to be addressed by the game and its community.
Release History
- Download links for the code, along with the release history of the simulation server and other components of the Power TAC technical environment.
Power TAC Architecture
- Top-level architecture, documentation and Project Glossary.
Resources
- Access to data, tools, etc.
- Javadocs for the Power TAC simulation server and for the Sample Broker are posted and automatically updated on github. Both include the common domain model. Note that this javadoc is for the current development master, not for any particular release. It is easy to generate javadocs for an older release -- download the release version (powertac-core, sample-broker, or powertac-server) and run mvn javadoc:aggregate.
- There is considerable detail on the design of the simulation server and other elements of the Power TAC architecture on the Power TAC github wiki.
- Ongoing discussion on the Power TAC system and its use, including announcements of new releases, is on the Power TAC developer's forum at nabble.
- Once you have watched games on the visualizer a few times, the best way to gain a detailed understanding of how the simulation works is to analyze the logfiles.
AnalysisTools
- Tools for accessing and analyzing game data
Analyses
- Discussion of analysis needs, and results of analyses.
Background Reading
- Links to papers and other resources to get up to speed in the energy trading domain. Papers relating specifically to Power TAC are available on the Publications page at powertac.org.
Past Tournaments
- A discussion of past tournaments.
- As part of the Powertac specifications, participants are strongly encouraged to share their broker implementation after tournaments.:
- The used brokers can be found there as well.
