christianromney/prisoners

A prisoner's dilemma game simulation in Clojure

prisoners

This is a Prisoner's Dilemma simulation written in Clojure.

I've selected the payoffs and names based on Richard Dawkins' description in The Selfish Gene.

The plan will be to develop a few different tournament types starting with a simple, random number of rounds and ending with an evolutionary tournament where strategies are paid with offspring.

The goal of this project is to learn both Clojure and some basic evolutionary/genetic programming techniques while having fun.

Getting Started

• Run lein deps to download the dependencies
• Run lein repl to experiment
• Run lein marg to generate the documentation

TODO

• Organize the namespace, break functions out into files by logical function
• Drive the implementation with tests
• Build the language up to the problem
• Create the game and tournament abstractions
• Create more strategies (ten would be nice)!
• Use (clojure.contrib.combinatorics/selections [s1 s2 ... sn] 2) for the pairings

Contributors

Special thanks to these fine folks who contributed to this project:

• Daniel De Aguiar
• Alan Malloy

License

Copyright (C) 2011 Christian Romney

Distributed under the Eclipse Public License, the same as Clojure.