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Acknowledgments

The authors would like to acknowledge the financial support provided by the Australian Research Council (DP160102882). In addition, the authors would like to thank the Editors of Frontiers of Engineering Management (FEM) and reviewers for their constructive and insightful comments, which have helped improve the quality of this manuscript. We would also like to thank Professor Hanbin Luo and his colleagues at Huazhong University of Science and Technology and the Editorial staff, in particular, Mrs Yong Li, of FEM for their wonderful support.

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