The Volunteer's Dilemma

Information

• Second Call for Strategies (German, pdf)
• First Results of the VOD Computer-Tournament (German with English summary, pdf)
• Strategies Definitions

Acknowledgement

Many thanks for each of these interesting strategies to each participant
(see list in "Strategies Definitions").

Special thanks to:

• Marco Vieth teached me the first steps to program in JavaScript and Perl.
  He confronted me with Linux and explained to me the basics of command line work
  under Linux and Unix.
  Furthermore he wrote the whole framework for the simulation in JavaScript and Java
  and several scripts in Perl for analyzing the huge amount of data.
• Andreas Diekmann encouraged me to perform a computer tournament for the VOD.
  He supported my work in all its difficulties and spent time in several discussions.
• Ben Jann gave me some very helpful hints from a statistical perspective
  that have solved some difficulties.
• Stefan Wehrli provided the technical support for the computer simulations
  at the University of Bern.