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# 2 Aknowledgements

CoopSim is based on the description of a computer tournament in Robert Axelrod's book ``The Evolution of Cooperation''. The nomenclature (``computer tournament'', ``ecological simulation'') has been taken from this book. Some of the strategies built into CoopSim are (sometimes only loosely) based on strategies with the same name described in Axelrods book.

I would also like to thank the following people for contributing strategies of their own: Alex Mainzer, Björn van den Bruck, Christian Erlen, Stefan Pennartz, Sven Sommer, Paul Boehm.

Finally, I would like to thank the initiators, makers and contributers to the Python programming language (www.python.org www.python.org) and the wxWidgets GUI-Toolkit (www.wxwidgets.org www.wxwidgets.org; www.wxpython.org www.wxpython.org). Python and wxWidgets are open source software packages without which the making of CoopSim would not have been possible in this form.