With the increasingly fierce market competition and rapid development of information technology, as a new organisation, virtual enterprise (VE) emerges from the business process of single enterprise. Service composition, which can realise the added value of service, is the core to implement a...

Purpose: A bad safety accident at a manufacturing company usually results in casualties and economic losses. The company affected by such an accident must deal with pressure from multiple stakeholder groups. Employees, in particular, play a key role in pushing the affected company to develop...

Grouping behavior is an important element which affects pedestrian group-moving behavior significantly. Current studies only give a few discussions on how grouping behavior affects pedestrian counter flow, while the effect of grouping behavior on evacuation flow is largely ignored. Here we...