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Oyun: A New, Free Program for Iterated Prisoner's Dilemma Tournaments in the Classroom

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Pence, Charles H. [UCL] Buchak, Lara

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.

Document type Article de périodique (Journal article) – Article de recherche
Access type Accès libre
Publication date 2012
Language Anglais
Journal information "Evolution: Education and Outreach" - Vol. 5, no.3, p. 467-476 (2012)
Peer reviewed yes
Publisher Springer Nature
issn 1936-6426
e-issn 1936-6434
Publication status Publié
Affiliation UCL - SSH/ISP - Institut supérieur de philosophie
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Bibliographic reference Pence, Charles H. ; Buchak, Lara. Oyun: A New, Free Program for Iterated Prisoner's Dilemma Tournaments in the Classroom. In: Evolution: Education and Outreach, Vol. 5, no.3, p. 467-476 (2012)
Permanent URL http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/202867