Class Notes - September 5th 2013

Group 1: 

Strategy: Heuristic: look for food and go to it. Do no move until there is food around. If 2 or more squared of food, reproduce.

Jinesh: Did demo

Vishwa: discussed strategy 

Hao: similar to chess game, use a game tree

Demo: Staying still until food. Does not go find food, reproduce according to food around. 

Group 2:

Initial observation find best heuristic, always moving west, always reproduce south. Over population is a problem. Tried to reproduce in terms of neighbors

Di: only reproduce if reached a cell with a certain amount of food

Lauren: Discussed strategy 

Sam: each organism has a “domain” for food. Having problems if no food appears around, will go extinct. Did demo

Demo: organism moves randomly, until finds food. eats all squares and moves to random square. If food on next square is more then 30% reproduce. Does not reproduce until very late in game, then takes over board

Group 3: 

Strategy: threshold for reproduce; stay still is better, don’t move unless food; Eat until there is only 2 food

Markus: discus strategy, did Demo

Yigit: next step, incorporate communication with neighbors

Patric: new to group

Demo: Stays still, then moves randomly or towards food. 

Group 4: 

Initial observations: always move west, always reproduce North, reproduce at energy level. This allows the food to reproduce in the different area of the board. This is current strategy 

Tanay: 

Franklin: discus Strategy

Tiernan: did Demo

Demo: Reproduce first then wait. Move to the west. a lot of food accumulates, then population boom. Might have a problem if food has lower probability    

Group 5: 

Strategy: limit for reproduce in one direction otherwise stay still until you have energy for 6 moves (based on trial and error) Using M and v. Reproduce so that there is an organism on every row of the board. Always move west and reproduce down

Tim: population based terms of food, “farming”, best to move in one direction. Did Demo

Yang

Harjot

Demo: reproduce first, then hang out(both below threshold) and then only move when need energy. Takes a long time to take over board

Group 6: 

Strategy: Stay still until food is around, if food is around, reproduce

Tanveer: Farming, using four organisms around the food

Hari: discussed strategy. Did demo

Nirmal: new to group

Demo: Stays still, will just sit there and die if no food around it. Reproduced onto food. Biggest drawback is that organism does not move until it dies so there is no food appearing on that square. Stable at 200 is organisms