About the Authors

Isamu Okada

okada@soka.ac.jp

Affiliations Department of Business Administration, Soka University, Tokyo, Japan, Department of Information Systems and Operations, Vienna University of Economics and Business, Vienna, Austria

Hitoshi Yamamoto

Affiliation Department of Business Administration, Rissho University, Tokyo, Japan

Fujio Toriumi

Affiliation Department of Systems Innovations, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Tatsuya Sasaki

Affiliation Faculty of Mathematics, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: IO HY FT TS . Performed the experiments: IO . Analyzed the data: IO. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: IO TS. Wrote the paper: IO HY FT TS.