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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.