Notes and Reading - Lecture #7

Lecture #7 was an introduction to multiagent interaction.

Notes

Notes are available in two formats:

Reading

This lecture covered Chapter 11 of the textbook. You should read through Chapter 11 in detail.

Much has been written on the Prisoner's Dilemma. The clasic reference is still Axelrod's book:

R. Axelrod, The Evolution of Cooperation, Basic Books.

and anyone interested in the PD is well advised to beg, borrow, or steal a copy (and then read it, of course).

For those who can't lay their hands on a copy, this article:

R. Axelrod and W. D. Hamilton The Evolution of Cooperation, Science, 211, March 27th, 1390-1396, 1981.

is a good second. It is one of the early articles that Axelrod wrote following the tournament.

Another good description of Axelrod's tournament can be found in:

D. Hofstadter, "The Prisoner's Dilemma Computer Tournaments and the Evolution of Cooperation", in Metamagical Themas: Questing for the Essence of Mind and Pattern, (D. Hofstadter, Penguin, 1986), 715-734.

while:

W. Poundstone, Prisoner's Dilemma, Oxford University Press, 1992.

not only discusses the PD, but also talks about the early history of game theory.