“…They have developed their first model in 1989 (Brewer & Nash, 1989). The model became very attractive and therefore many other models based on the same idea have been proposed in subsequent years (Lin, 1989(Lin, , 2000(Lin, , 2002(Lin, , 2003(Lin, , 2007(Lin, , 2015Sharifi & Tripunitara, 2013). The model and its variant have been successfully used in many applications (Atluri, Chun, & Mazzoleni, 2004;Minsky, 2004;Hsiao & Hwang, 2010;Wu, Ahn, Hu, & Singhal, 2010;Tsai, Chen, Huang, Huang, & Chou, 2011;Kesarwani et al, 2011;Xie, Ray, Adaikkalavan, & Gamble, 2013) in order to control the information flow between the competing subjects residing in the same system.…”