http://jhfowler.ucdavis.edu/tournament.htm
A TOURNAMENT OF PARTY STRATEGIES
James H. Fowler
University of California, Davis
Michael Laver
New York University
In the spirit of Robert Axelrod's tournament for strategies in the
repeat-play prisoner's dilemma game, we announce a tournament for
party strategies in a dynamic agent-based spatial model of party
competition.
The winner will receive $1000.
We herewith call for submissions of party strategies by 30 April
2006. Each strategy submitted will be pitted against each other
strategy in a series of long-running simulations of a two-dimensional
multiparty spatial model in which the number of parties is
endogenously determined. All parties falling below a certain size
threshold for two consecutive elections wil l. One new party will b e
each election at a random spatial location, using a strategy randomly
selected (with replacement) from the portfolio of submitted
strategies. The strategy most successful at winning votes over the
very long run will be declared the "winner".
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