In this study we analyze perception of authenticity by visitors of South Tyrol's museum of archeology, best known as Otzi museum, in the Autonomous Province of Bolzano (Italy). With the help of factor analysis we individuate two factors related to authenticity and study the determinants of the...

We investigate the group processes involved in effort estimation in the context of Project Management. The groups considered are formed by "experts" (people with specific technical competence) and "non-experts"¬ù (people with less specific technical competence, usually experts in related...

The direction of speed-up - delay effect is reversed in elicitation with choice task in MPL format. The model of intertemporal choice with reference point cannot explain this reversal. I claim that this reversal is due to the structure of elicitation task

Experience and socialization are key factors in determining customer commitment and renewal decisions in the service sector. To analyse the combined effect of experience and socialization, in this paper we introduce the concept of co-experience networks. A new methodological approach, originally...

Modelling an attack tree is basically a matter of associating a logical "and" and a logical "or" but in most of real world applications related to fraud management the "and/or"logic is not adequate to effectively represent the relationship between a parent node and its children, most of all when...

We develop a model of scientific creativity and test it in the field of rare diseases. Our model is based on the results of an in-depth case study of the Rett syndrome. Archival analysis, bibliometric techniques and expert surveys are combined with network analysis to identify the most creative...

In a previous paper (see [7] ) we considered the family of multi-argument functions called multidistances, introduced in some recent papers (see [1]-[6]) by J.Martin and G.Mayor , which extend to n-dimensional ordered lists of elements the usual concept of distance between a couple of points in...

We propose to extend the aggregation scheme of Saaty's AHP, from the standard weighted averaging to the more general Choquet integration. In our model, a measure of inconsistency between criteria is derived from the main pairwise comparison matrix and it is used to construct a non-additive...

This paper empirically investigates gross job flows and the growth patterns of continuing limited liability companies in Italy over the period 1996-2004, using original data on work forces and other characteristics of the firm. The descriptive analysis reveals that the magnitude of gross job...

We provide a detailed analysis of a model of innovation and corporate dynamics that encompasses the Gibrat's Law of Proportionate Effect and the Simon growth process as particular instances. The predictions of the model are derived in terms of (i) firm size distribution, (ii) the distribution of...