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...

Many behavioral and nonbehavioral models have been proposed to model pedestrian behavior. Among these, pedestrians’ decision processes have not been explicitly modeled. Utility-maximizing models have been prominently used, but these models may be misspecified owing to their unrealistic...

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...

Take Suburban Hanjiang District of Yangzhou as an example, based on the comprehensive analysis of total grain yield, yield per unit, planting areas and patterns over the recent years, present problems and constraints in this district under the background of continuous yield increase are pointed...

The existence of pure-strategy Nash equilibrium is shown for a non-cooperative game with a continuum of small players and a compact action space. The players’ payoffs depend on their own actions and the mean of the transformed strategy profiles. This covers the case when the payoffs depend on...