About the Authors

Ming Yi

Affiliations Network Dynamics and Simulation Science Laboratory, VBI, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America, Department of Economics, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America

Achla Marathe

amarathe@vbi.vt.edu

Affiliations Network Dynamics and Simulation Science Laboratory, VBI, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America, Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AM MY. Wrote the paper: MY AM.