JCAT documents include:
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Overview of CAT: A Market Design Competition
presents an overview of the TAC CAT Competition, including the game rules and the possible configuration of a CAT game.
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JCAT Manual
introduces the design and usage of JCAT. This document is included in JCAT package under the doc subdirectory.
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CAT Protocol (CATP) Specification
describes the communication protocol in a CAT game, i.e. how clients talk to the game server. If you would like to build a CAT client of your own, for example in a different programming language, you would need to refer to this document. This document is included in JCAT package under the doc subdirectory.
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JCAT API Doc
Please note that this is put here for reference only. The whole collection of these API documents can be generated automatically by JCAT using the command ant doc.