The aim of the present paper is to forecast regional employment developments in the 327 West-German districts. Using a Neural Networks (NNs) methodology we try to identify the existence of underlying structural relationships between the input variables - data on regional and sectoral employment...

The present paper aims to analyse the research potential of Evolutionary Algorithms (EAs) in the light of their possible applications in the space-economy. For this purpose the first part of the paper will be devoted to an overview and illustration of EAs, also in comparison with other recent...

?Small-world networks? have a high degree of local clustering or cliqueness, like a regular lattice and a relatively short average minimum path, like a completely random network. The huge appeal of ?small-world networks? lies in the impact they are said to have on dynamical systems. In a...

This paper offers an exploratory investigation of the effects of inbound commuter flows on employment in regional labour markets in Germany. For this purpose, we distinguish three channels that could transmit the effects concerned: a crowding-out mechanism, and two labour demand effects (the...

This paper provides a different interpretation of resilience on the light of a very well known empirical regularities that is Gibrat's Law. Gibrat's Law is a rule stating that the growth of a given entity (city, firm, income and so on) is independent on its size. Resilience, instead, is a...

The aim of this study is to assess the usefulness of analytical tools for policy evaluation. The study focuses on a multi-method integrated toolkit, the so-called SMILE toolkit. This toolkit consist of the integration of three evaluation frameworks developed within an EU-funded consortium called...

In the spirit of the deregulation movement, Japan is also faced with an ÂgAsia Open SkyÂh agreement which favours aviation liberalization in international services. This means an end to Japan's aviation policy of isolation. In association with this policy change, also environmental concerns...

SESSION TITLE: ‘THE NEW URBAN WORLD’ in One-Day High Level Group Panel: ‘The Big Thinkers’ & ‘The Big Five’ in One-Day We invite you for a special High Level Group session annex panel. The main theme of this special high Level Group Panel will be focused on...