An Open Framework for the Reproducible Study of the Iterated Prisoner’s Dilemma

Journal of Open Research Software

Georgios Koutsovoulos¹  Jochen Müller²  Owen Campbell²  Kristian Glass²  Karl Molden²  Martin Chorley³  Karol Langner⁴  Timothy Standen⁴  Piotr Petunov⁴  Thomas Campbell⁴  Tomáš Ehrlich⁵  Geraint Palmer⁶  Marc Harper⁶  Nikoleta Glynatsi⁶  Holly Tibble⁶  Martin Jones⁶  Cameron Davidson-Pilon⁶  Alex Carney⁶  James Campbell⁶  Paul Slavin⁶  Luis Visintini⁶  Vincent Knight⁶ 

[1] Cardiff Universit;Cardiff University;Google Inc., Mountain View, CA;Not affiliated;St. Nicholas Catholic High School, Hartford;Development;

关键词: Game Theory;    Prisoners Dilemma;    Python;   

DOI  :  10.5334/jors.125

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

The Axelrod library is an open source Python package that allows for reproducible game theoretic research into the Iterated Prisoner’s Dilemma. This area of research began in the 1980s but suffers from a lack of documentation and test code. The goal of the library is to provide such a resource, with facilities for the design of new strategies and interactions between them, as well as conducting tournaments and ecological simulations for populations of strategies. With a growing collection of 139 strategies, the library is a also a platform for an original tournament that, in itself, is of interest to the game theoretic community. This paper describes the Iterated Prisoner’s Dilemma, the Axelrod library and its development, and insights gained from some novel research.

【 授权许可】

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