Lilian Wang

Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences

Given the growing importance of system dynamics (SD) in solving increasingly complex and dynamic problems in any country, we believe SD education will become an imperative leverage point in helping us deal with our uncertain future. This study tries to understand the causal relationships in proliferating SD education by a system dynamics group mode...

Critics decry cryptocurrency mining as a huge waste of energy, while proponents insist on claiming that it is a green industry. Is Bitcoin mining really worth the energy it consumes? The high power consumption of cryptocurrency mining has become the latest global flashpoint. In this paper, we define the Mining Domestic Production (MDP) as a method...

Ecological poverty alleviation (EPA) is a syngenetic approach to tackling challenges in alleviating extreme poverty and ecological protection. Such an approach is crucial to help countries facing these two challenges to accelerate their progression towards meeting the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals in 2030. Prior research on EPA was f...

The coordinated development of the environment and economy is the core of sustainable development. This research investigated sustainable water-quality management by exploring the impact of socioeconomic activities on water quality associated with a major global city. To achieve this goal, a system dynamics (SD) model was developed to capture the f...

In an environment marked with phenomena such as globalization and creation, open innovation is critical for universities to cooperate with external resources and meet the requirements of the era. To investigate open innovation ecosystem of higher education, we use secondary data and interviews to analysis interactive model of Zizhu International Ed...

The “Paired Assistance Policy” (PAP) launched by the Chinese government after the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake provides a new collaborative governance model for post-disaster reconstruction. Through the System Dynamics modeling and simulation, this paper analyzed the influence of multi-agent participation in the process of post-disaster reconstruction....

Previousstudiesinpublicemergencymanagementconfirmthatcollabo- ration assumes a relevant role in strengthening society’s capacity to cope with com- plex phenomena, such as disasters. However, empirical researches on emergency management show problems in performance measurement, mainly in employing narrow measures focusing on the results of single or...

This research is intended to theoretically investigate and analyse the characteristics of WeChat and its effect on knowledge sharing through a systems thinking approach. As one of the most popular mobile social application in China, WeChat has social attributes and the functions of the multimedia interaction platform and has been gradually used in...

Micro-blogging has become an important communication channel for public opinion topics with its own characteristics such as openness, timeliness and interactive and so on. Studying the propagation rules for public opinion topics in micro-blogging is important to monitor and understand Micro-blogging public opinion. In this paper, we study the sprea...