In China, with the rapid development of urbanisation, contradiction between supply and demand has become increasingly severe, particularly in large medium-sized cities. Improving public transport equity can help to reduce social exclusion lower-income socially vulnerable groups relation urban system, guarantee that systems are given priority terms development. Using concept transport-related eq...

Latent variable modelling has gradually become an integral part of mainstream statistics and is currently used for a multitude of applications in different subject areas. Examples of ‘traditional’ latent variable models include latent class models, item–response models, common factor models, structural equation models, mixed or random effects models and covariate measurement error models. Altho...

In recursive linear models, the multivariate normal joint distribution of all variables exhibits a dependence structure induced by recursive systems of linear structural equations. Such models appear in particular in seemingly unrelated regressions, structural equation modelling, simultaneous equation systems, and in Gaussian graphical modelling. We show that recursive linear models that are ‘b...

The aim of this paper is twofold. First, to extend Hodges’ model of relationships between financial planning for retirement with psychosocial variables to predict both objective and subjective measures of financial planning. Second, to apply that model to a representative sample of immigrants in Europe provided by the first wave of SHARE study. Data from 1272 immigrants in Europe were obtained ...

This study investigates the relationship between market orientation, intellectual capital, and new product success, and integrates the internal and external views to examine the effects of market orientation and intellectual capital on new product success. Travel agencies within the Taiwan tourism industry were targeted. A questionnaire was mailed to 1000 agencies, yielding 182 valid survey ins...

A theoretical framework model that researches the interrelationship of organizational innovation, organizational performance and dynamic core competence of enterprise (DCCE) is proposed on the foundation of the analysis of measure dimensions which include four oriented organizational innovations and the four sub-core capabilities of DCCE and the three levels of variables of performance. By usin...

The concept of livable city was put forward naturally and began to gain more attention when people care more about human needs during the economic development. In this paper, we define a livable city as an urban area takes the residents’ demand as first priority. It has a pleasant ecological environment, a mature community with rich public resources such as culture, transportation and medical s...

The SNE special issues on Object-oriented and Structural-dynamic Modelling and Simulation emphasize on recent developments in languages and tools for object-oriented modelling of complex systems and on approaches, languages and tools for structural-dynamic systems. Computer aided modelling and simulation of complex systems , using components from multiple application domains, have in recent yea...