Bridging Agent-based Simulations and Direct Experiments: An Experimental System for Internet Traffic Pricing
Dahui Li, Zhangxi Li, Dale O. Stahl, Andrew B. Whinston · Journal of the Association for Information Systems · 2001
A network-based experimental system for Internet traffic pricing is introduced.The system can be applied to the simulations using computer agents as well as to the direct experiments that employ human subjects.The feature of replaying the exogenous traffic patterns obtained from direct experiments allows a close comparison of the performance between the two types of experiments, leading to the new findings reported briefly in this paper.