Pricing the Internet

Demonstration

Summary

This is an Internet interactive experiment, and we hope you will take part. To get a feel for the model, you can run some experiments using users and resources that we have made available on this web site, either from your web browser or by downloading the simulator.

On-line Experiments

Scenario 0 - an introduction to the simulator
Scenario 1 - who wins at multiplexing?
Scenario 2 - when there is variable load
Scenario 3 - wait until the price is right
Scenario 4 - a queued resource
Scenario 5 - different marking strategies

The Simulator

The stand-alone version of the simulator lets you load and save experiments, and run your own Users against others downloaded from this site.

Download instructions

Download compete.zip, and unzip it.

Running the experiments offline

If you would prefer to try the online experiments offline, download compete.zip as above and load the web page index.html into your browser.

Running the simulator

From the directory you unzipped compete.zip to, run the class ExpApplication

java uk.ac.cam.statslab.pricing.frontends.ExpApplication

Make sure that the current directory is included in your classpath.

Damon Wischik D.J.Wischik@statslab.cam.ac.uk