While existing research has examined the role of social influence on various user behavior, such as product adoption, reviews and purchases, there is a lack of studies on how social influence interacts with inherent non-social cues, such as inherent attributes. In this study, we attempt to fill...

his paper studies a trading mechanism allowing autonomous cars to change lanes on a freeway in congested traffic. When no room is available on the adjacent lane, the mechanism enable a car to change lanes if it pays a small fee to the car occupying the space it is moving into, compensating it...

We study how individual smartphone users dynamically use mobile data every day facing limited monthly data plans. Employing a unique data set on users' daily data usage from a leading mobile carrier in China, we develop a dynamic structural model in which an individual user maximizes her data...

Despite of key functions as valuable global resources and essential ecological zones interconnecting terrestrial/freshwater and marine habitats, little is known on profiles of antibiotic resistance in coastal mudflats, which is of significance to understand the overall dissemination of...

This article examines the relationship between initial conditions and new venture performance. The study uses a longitudinal study of 92 new ventures in Beijing Overseas Students Pioneer Park at Haidian. This study finds that new venture performance is significantly impacted by the venture's...

The present research presents an extended evacuation field model for simulating crowd emergency evacuation processes under the control of evacuation assistants. Furthermore, a communication field for describing the escape information transmission process and its effect on evacuees is introduced....

In the dynamic floor field model, the bosons are homogeneous. This causes a problem that the pedestrians are confused by their own traces. The model has been modified by the heterogeneous bosons. Compared with the dynamic floor field model based on the homogeneous bosons, the modified model...

The game-theoretic approach is an essential tool in the research of conflicts of human behaviors. The aim of this study is to research crowd dynamic conflicts during evacuation processes. By combining a conflict game with a Cellular Automata model, the following factors such as rationality,...

China's current segmented pension system features regional imbalance, fiscal inefficiency, social inequality and economic unsustainability. It is a result of three-decade evolution guided by vague long-term objectives, constrained by economic and political circumstances and swayed by...