IPD Species Competition

Jiawei (Michael) Li and Graham Kendall were announced as the winners of the Iterated Prisoners Dilemma (IPD) Species Competition at the Congress on Evolutionary Computation conference (18-23 July 2010, Barcelona, Spain).

The aim of the competition was to submit an IPD agent that competed for survival in a population of other agents. The entry submitted by Jiawei and Graham was based on the previous winning entry by Jiawei that won the IPD competition that was run a few years ago to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the competitions organised by Robert Axelrod around 1986.

Jiawei and Graham are now planning a journal paper based on the success of their agent. They are also hoping that another competition will be run so that they can further improve their agent.

For more details of the competition please see http://philiphingston.com/ipd/cec2010.html