The Port Service Ecosystem Research Based on the Lotka-Volterra Model

• Main Authors: Li Wenjuan, Liu Wei, Xu Xu, Gao Zhijun
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Sciendo 2017-11-01
• Series: Polish Maritime Research
• Subjects: the port service ecosystem; the niche breadth; competitive co-evolution; mutually beneficial co-evolution
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1515/pomr-2017-0109

Under the new normal of China’s economy, the competition among the port enterprises is not only the competition of the core competence of the port, the port industry chain or the port supply chain, but also the competition of the port service ecosystem. In this paper, the concept and characteristics of the port service ecosystem is discussed, a hierarchical model of the port service ecosystem is constructed. As an extended logistic model, Lotka-Volterra model is applied to study the competitive co-evolution and mutually beneficial co-evolution of enterprises in the port service ecosystem. This paper simulates the co-evolution of enterprises in the port service ecosystem by using MATLAB programming. The simulation results show that the breadth of the niche of the enterprises is changing with the change of the competition coefficient and the coefficient of mutual benefit in the port service ecosystem. Based on that, some proposals are put forward to ensure the healthy and orderly development of the port service ecosystem.