About the Authors

Xue Pan

Affiliation Informatics Research Centre, Henley Business School, University of Reading, Reading RG6 6UD, United Kingdom

Lei Hou

l.hou@pgr.reading.ac.uk (LH); k.liu@henley.ac.uk (KL)

Affiliation Informatics Research Centre, Henley Business School, University of Reading, Reading RG6 6UD, United Kingdom

Kecheng Liu

l.hou@pgr.reading.ac.uk (LH); k.liu@henley.ac.uk (KL)

Affiliations Informatics Research Centre, Henley Business School, University of Reading, Reading RG6 6UD, United Kingdom, Data Science and Cloud Service Research Centre, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, Shanghai 200433, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: XP LH KL. Formal analysis: XP LH. Investigation: XP LH. Methodology: XP LH. Supervision: LH KL. Writing – original draft: XP LH. Writing – review & editing: LH KL.