Genetic Algorithms and The Iterated Prisoner's Dilemma

The focus of this project was to demonstrate how using a tailored genetic algorithm we can generate optimal strategies for the iterated prisoner's dilemma.

For more information regarding the project and it's results you can refer to the project paper where I go indepth on how both genetic algorithms and the iterated prisoner's dilemma works, as well as how they are tied together to form the final results.

💻 You can find a project demo hosted at ipd.mrammo.ca

Note: you can open up the developer's console before initiating a job to check it's progress

Contents

• Demo
• Dependencies
• Project Setup
• Project Results

Dependencies

We take advantange of high level web frameworks to make the app easy to use:

• React - Javascript library for building user interfaces
• reactstrap - CSS bootstrap library built for react
• Many more dependencies can be found in the project's package.json file

Setup

Begin by cloning the project into a local directory on your machine

$ mkdir IPD_G && cd ./IPD_G
$ git clone https://github.com/rammom/IPD_GeneticAlgorithm.git .

Start up the React server

$ npm install && npm start

Starting up the react server should directly open up a tab to the application, if not you can get to it at http://localhost:3000

Results

See the project paper for detailed results found during development.