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Coordinating Team Players within a Noisy Iterated Prisoner’s Dilemma Tournament

Coordinating Team Players within a Noisy Iterated Prisoner’s Dilemma Tournament
Coordinating Team Players within a Noisy Iterated Prisoner’s Dilemma Tournament
In this paper, we present our investigation into the use of a team of players within a noisy Iterated Prisoner’s Dilemma (IPD) tournament. We show that the members of such a team are able to use a pre-arranged sequence of moves that they make at the start of each interaction in order to recognise one another, and that by coordinating their actions they can increase the chances that one of the team members wins the round-robin style tournament. We consider, in detail, the factors that influence the performance of this team and we show that the problem that the team members face, when they attempt to recognise one another within the noisy IPD tournament, is exactly analogous to the problem, studied in information theory, of communicating reliably over a noisy channel. Thus we demonstrate that we can use error correcting codes to implement this recognition, and by doing so, further optimise the performance of the team.
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243-259
Rogers, Alex
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Ramchurn, Sarvapali D.
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Rogers, Alex, Dash, Rajdeep K., Ramchurn, Sarvapali D., Vytelingum, Perukrishnen and Jennings, N. R. (2007) Coordinating Team Players within a Noisy Iterated Prisoner’s Dilemma Tournament. Theoretical Computer Science, 377 (1-3), 243-259.

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In this paper, we present our investigation into the use of a team of players within a noisy Iterated Prisoner’s Dilemma (IPD) tournament. We show that the members of such a team are able to use a pre-arranged sequence of moves that they make at the start of each interaction in order to recognise one another, and that by coordinating their actions they can increase the chances that one of the team members wins the round-robin style tournament. We consider, in detail, the factors that influence the performance of this team and we show that the problem that the team members face, when they attempt to recognise one another within the noisy IPD tournament, is exactly analogous to the problem, studied in information theory, of communicating reliably over a noisy channel. Thus we demonstrate that we can use error correcting codes to implement this recognition, and by doing so, further optimise the performance of the team.

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Published date: May 2007
Organisations: Agents, Interactions & Complexity

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Local EPrints ID: 263238
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/263238
ISSN: 0304-3975
PURE UUID: 77deb476-b007-4f3f-b664-be94067908a9
ORCID for Sarvapali D. Ramchurn: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0001-9686-4302

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Date deposited: 19 Dec 2006
Last modified: 15 Mar 2024 03:22

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Author: Alex Rogers
Author: Rajdeep K. Dash
Author: Sarvapali D. Ramchurn ORCID iD
Author: Perukrishnen Vytelingum
Author: N. R. Jennings

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