powertac/powertac-server — Issue #471: Length of boot period is not correctly communicated to brokers
Author: jecollins
Created: 2012-01-08 19:02:30+00:00
State: open
Labels: Broker, Bug, Competition Control

The Competition instance contains the "bootstrap timeslot count" which is the number of timeslots represented in the bootstrap data blocks. But there is typically a non-zero offset between the "base time" of the simulation and the start of the data-collection period. The length of this interval is represented in the bootstrap-offset clause of the bootstrap dataset, but it's not communicated to the brokers. It might be possible to deduce it from the start time of the first timeslot in the first TimeslotUpdate, but this seems a rather roundabout and unnecessarily complex way to do it.