Pence, Charles H. and Buchak, Lara (2012) Oyun: A New, Free Program for Iterated Prisoner’s Dilemma Tournaments in the Classroom. [Preprint]
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Abstract
Evolutionary applications of game theory present one of the most pedagogically accessible varieties of genuine, contemporary theoretical biology. We present here Oyun (OY-oon, http://charlespence.net/oyun), a program designed to run iterated prisoner’s dilemma tournaments, competitions between prisoner’s dilemma strategies developed by the students themselves. Using this software, students are able to readily design and tweak their own strategies, and to see how they fare both in round-robin tournaments and in “evolutionary” tournaments, where the scores in a given “generation” directly determine contribution to the population in the next generation. Oyun is freely available, runs on Windows, Mac, and Linux computers, and the process of creating new prisoner’s dilemma strategies is both easy to teach and easy for students to grasp. We illustrate with two interesting examples taken from actual use of Oyun in the classroom.
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| Keywords: | game theory, prisoner’s dilemma, altruism, natural selection | |||||||||
| Subjects: | Specific Sciences > Biology > Evolutionary Theory General Issues > Decision Theory General Issues > Science Education |
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| Depositing User: | Charles H. Pence | |||||||||
| Date Deposited: | 20 Jul 2012 23:31 | |||||||||
| Last Modified: | 14 Jan 2013 14:39 | |||||||||
| Item ID: | 9248 | |||||||||
| Subjects: | Specific Sciences > Biology > Evolutionary Theory General Issues > Decision Theory General Issues > Science Education |
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| Date: | 23 June 2012 | |||||||||
| URI: | https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/9248 |
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