Thesis Committee Member(s)

Seibert, James

Reader

Caulk, Suzanne

College

Regis College

Degree Name

BA

School

Regis College Senior Honors Program

Document Type

Thesis - Open Access

Number of Pages

66 pages

Abstract

Many traditional studies of the Iterated Prisoner's Dilemma Game (IPDG) focus on the optimal strategy for accumulating points against another player. Instead, this thesis expands upon the possible complexity in interactions by using a cellular automaton (CA) model to simulate large numbers of players competing within a limited space. A few studies have already examined complexity in the IPDG. This study differs in its method, and it provides a proof for the computational universality of an IPDG CA. This thesis examines a method for creating a wide variety of deterministic rules by mapping each possible interaction to a binary number. Also, an analysis of the number of interactions leads to the discovery of interesting properties when allowing only enough iterations for a strategy to use its "transient" instructions.

Date of Award

Spring 2013

Location (Creation)

Colorado (state); Denver (county); Denver (inhabited place)

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