Application of Computer Simulation in Analyzing Critical Mass of Expansion of New Technology

Author

Zhang, Ming-hong ; Wang, Bin ; Zou, Shan

Author_Institution

Dept. of Public Econ., Xiamen Univ., Xiamen, China

fYear

2009

fDate

17-20 April 2009

Firstpage

78

Lastpage

82

Abstract

On the basis of computer simulation technology, we construct a group of consumers in this document based on random variables by setting personalized parameters of consumer. Furthermore, we simulate the dynamic economic process of expansion of new technology in JBuilder and verify the existence of critical mass in network effects. We also analyze influencing factors of critical mass, such as consumer characteristic, price, technology stock, transfer cost and interconnection.

Keywords

Java; consumer behaviour; economics; electronic commerce; pricing; stock markets; JBuilder; computer simulation; consumer characteristic; critical mass; dynamic economic process; network effect; network expansion; price; random variables; technology stock; transfer cost; Application software; Computer applications; Computer science education; Computer simulation; Costs; Educational technology; Object oriented modeling; Object oriented programming; Random variables; Time measurement; computer simulation; critical mass; network expansion;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Education Technology and Computer, 2009. ICETC '09. International Conference on

Conference_Location

Singapore

Print_ISBN

978-0-7695-3609-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICETC.2009.33

Filename

5169457