Patrick Jordan is a doctoral candidate in Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Michigan. He holds a M.S.E ['07] in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of Michigan, a M.S.E ['06] in Financial Engineering from the University of Michigan, a B.S. ['04] in Mathematics from Iowa State University, and a B.S. ['03] in Computer Engineering from Iowa State University.

Patrick's research focuses on the design and analysis of agent strategies for complex market games under his advisor, Prof. Michael Wellman. These markets typically form games with incomplete and imperfect information and have large or algorithmically defined strategy sets. From an agent designer's perspective, making strategically sound choices within these games is computationally very difficult. Much of his research has concentrated on developing the machinery that enables agent and mechanism designers to empirically analyze such games. This work has been applied to agent analysis in the Trading Agent Competition.

As part of this research he was able to contribute to the Deep Maize team which participates in TAC SCM and as a designer of the Blue Reason agent which participated in the Bidding Agent Competition. Patrick's interests include trading agent strategies, sponsored search, automated supply chain management, prediction markets, and empirical game theory.

2007 Publications

Patrick R. Jordan and Michael P. Wellman. Best-First Search for Approximate Equilibria in Empirical Games. AAAI-07 Workshop on Trading Agent Design and Analysis (TADA), Vancouver, Canada, 2007.

Patrick R. Jordan, Christopher Kiekintveld, and Michael P. Wellman. Empirical Game-Theoretic Analysis of the TAC Supply Chain Game. Sixth International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, Honolulu, Hawaii, July 2007.

Christopher Kiekintveld, Jason Miller, Patrick R. Jordan, and Michael P. Wellman. Forecasting Market Prices in a Supply Chain Game. Sixth International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, Honolulu, Hawaii, July 2007.

2006 Publications

Patrick R. Jordan, Christopher Kiekintveld, Jason Miller, and Michael P. Wellman. Market efficiency, sales competition, and the bullwhip effect in the TAC SCM tournaments. AAMAS-06 Workshop on Trading Agent Design and Analysis (TADA/AMEC), Hakodate, Japan, 2006.

Christopher Kiekintveld, Jason Miller, Patrick Jordan, and Michael P. Wellman. Controlling a supply chain agent using value-based decomposition. Seventh ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce, Ann Arbor, MI, 2006.

Michael P. Wellman, Patrick R. Jordan, Christopher Kiekintveld, Jason Miller, and Daniel M. Reeves. Empirical game-theoretic analysis of the TAC market games [covers both SCM and Travel]. AAMAS-06 Workshop on Game-Theoretic and Decision-Theoretic Agents, Hakodate, Japan, 2006.