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PaCE (PAderborn Control system for economic Experiments) is a software framework for experimental economics. This software package allows to use, adapt, combine or improve existing economic experimental software develop and to carry out economic experiments. This program uses a plug-in interface system to integrate any existing web- or (.net) windows-based software to deliver all features that are needed in in design and implementation of economic experiments.
Based on the requirements to integrate the existing software "z-tree" (Urs Fischbacher (2007): z-Tree: Zurich Toolbox for Ready-made Economic Experiments, Experimental Economics 10(2), 171-178.) in order to retain its reputation, PaCE is a framework to add missing features to closed source software. PaCE is a client- / server-software built on .Net 4.0-Framework and ClickOnce-Deployment programmed for controling economic experimental laboratories based on a Microsoft Windows architecture. In contrast to other software-frameworks for economic experiments, Pace is not mainly built to replace other frameworks like:
- z-Tree (http://www.sophie.uni-osnabrueck.de/)
- LabSEE (http://labsee.pl/)
- EconPort (http://www.econport.org)
- ExCEN (http://expecon.gsu.edu/Software.html)
- FEELE (http://projects.exeter.ac.uk/feele/)
- Vecon Lab (http://veconlab.econ.virginia.edu/)
- MobLab (http://www.moblab.com/)
- AEE Lab Experiments Archive (http://www.aton.com.au/activeexperiments.html)
- jMarkets (http://jmarkets.ssel.caltech.edu/)
- JessX (http://rb.ec-lille.fr/jessx/index.php)
- XBuildR (http://xbuildr.org)
- Seaweed (http://sourceforge.net/projects/c-weed/)
- WebLab(https://github.com/tomrutter/WebLab)
- jars (https://github.com/s-plum/jars)
The main feature of the program is its ability to create new functionalities based on a permanent communication structure. The base version is able to remote control the client-operating system, z-tree and a customizeable webbrowser. PaCE is open-source software, for developement of client-, server- or plug-ins Visual Studio 2012 is needed.
This file is part of the Software Framework PaCE (Paderborn Control System for Economic Experiments). For more information please visit http://pace.martin-kramer.com
Copyright (c) 2013, Martin Kramer, University of Paderborn All rights reserved.
Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met: * PaCE is citeware: Any publications (e.g. academic reports, papers, other disclosure of results) containing or based on data obtained with the use of this software will acknowledge its use by mentioning the name "PaCE - Paderborn Control System for Economic Experiments" and an appropiate citation of the following publication (or an updated version): Martin Kramer: PaCE - Paderborn Control System for Economic Experiments. University of Paderborn, Master Thesis, 2013. * Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. * Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. * Neither the name of PaCE nor the names of its contributors may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software without specific prior written permission.
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PaCE is able to use z-Tree as part of its software-system. In order to use PaCE with z-Tree Plugin you must agree to its licence (http://www.iew.uzh.ch/ztree/howtoget.php). The program can be licensed free of charge. When you report results of experiments conducted with z-Tree, the licence requires that you mention it's use in the publication and cite the article forthcoming in Experimental Economics.
The correct citation is:
The experiment was programmed and conducted with the software z-Tree (Fischbacher 2007). Reference: Urs Fischbacher (2007): z-Tree: Zurich Toolbox for Ready-made Economic Experiments, Experimental Economics 10(2), 171-178.