About the Authors

Lucia Cavallaro

Contributed equally to this work with: Lucia Cavallaro, Annamaria Ficara

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Project administration, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

l.cavallaro@derby.ac.uk

Affiliation University of Derby, Derby, United Kingdom

Annamaria Ficara

Contributed equally to this work with: Lucia Cavallaro, Annamaria Ficara

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Resources, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliation University of Palermo, Palermo, Italy

Pasquale De Meo

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Software, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

‡These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation University of Messina, Polo Universitario Annunziata, Messina, Italy

Giacomo Fiumara

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Software, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

‡These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation MIFT Department, University of Messina, Messina, Italy

Salvatore Catanese

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization

‡These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation MIFT Department, University of Messina, Messina, Italy

Ovidiu Bagdasar

Roles Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

‡These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation University of Derby, Derby, United Kingdom

Wei Song

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

‡These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Shanghai Ocean University, Shanghai, China

Antonio Liotta

Roles Funding acquisition, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

‡These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Edinburgh Napier University, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.