This article focuses on analysis of the human aspect in service systems and investigates the role of creativity in enhancing service innovation. Applying the creative cognition approach, a conceptual framework of creative process for service development is constructed to demonstrate the general...

ASEAN stock markets have experienced episodes of long price run-ups followed by large drops over the past 20 years. These apparent bouts of boom and bust have prompted the popular press to conjecture the presence of speculative asset bubbles in these markets causing stock prices to deviate from...

A simple model is proposed to mimic and study the evolution of interpersonal relationships in a student class. The small social group is simply assumed as an undirected and weighted graph, in which students are represented by vertices, and the depth of favor or disfavor between them are denoted...

System dynamics models are employed for analyzing the impact of different uncertainties on carbon emission trading–both on national and business levels. Economic, institutional and technological uncertainties significantly influence any country's benefits from emission permit trading. If a...

House prices crash has become an important feature of macroeconomic crisis. We argue that house prices crash driven by contractionary monetary policy is not only a reaction to crisis, but also accelerates and amplifies the fluctuations of major macroeconomic variable. In this paper, we conduct a...

This paper is motivated from a neurophysiological study of muscle fatigue, in which biomedical researchers are interested in understanding the time-dependent relationships of handgrip force and electromyography measures. A varying coefficient model is appealing here to investigate the dynamic...