This study explores the still under-investigated phenomenon of the development of behavioral competencies in higher education settings. We carried out a study on a sample of graduate students enrolled in different disciplinary academic programs in a public university located in northern Italy....

This paper proposes a simple procedure, in order to aggregate a nite number of real nonnegative values into a unique indicator. Possible applications of this tool can be found in social sciences, including demography, sociology, etc. In particular, the indicator may represent a generalized mean,...

In this work we use a MultiCriteria Decision Analysis (MCDA) model to evaluate the creditworthiness of a sample of Italian Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs), on the basis of their balance sheet data provided by the AIDA database. Our methodology is able to consider simultaneously...

In this paper the use of Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) in on-line booking for hotel industry is investigated. The paper details the description, the modeling and the resolution technique of on-line booking. The latter problem is modeled using the paradigms of machine learning, in place of...

In this paper we use an evolutionary approach in order to infer the values of the parameters (weights of criteria, preference, indifference and veto thresholds) for developing the multicriteria method MURAME. According to the logic of preference disaggregation, the problem consists in finding...

In this paper we propose an efficient initialization of a deterministic Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) scheme. PSO has showed to be promising for solving several unconstrained global optimization problems from real applications, where derivatives are unavailable and the evaluation of the...