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From the Blogosphere into Real Politics: The Use of ICT by the Five Star Movement
No full textResearch on ICT and the public discourse often focuses on how ICT can be used to increase citizen
participation in political decision-making processes. The Italian Five Star Movement (5SM) represents a
novel approach to using ICT to include citizens, and a big challenge for the traditional political actors. The
5SM was initiated outside the established political systems, with the use of Internet tools as cornerstones to
promote political actions based on the directly expressed will of citizens. In this paper, based on an
exploratory case study approach and informed by the introduction of E-Democracy models, we investigate
the role of ICT in various phases of the 5SM, from its birth through the current stage. The focus here is on the
transformation from a protest organisation outside the established political processes to being the second most
voted party within the Italian parliament
Multi-commodity warehouse location and distribution planning with inventory consideration
No full textWe consider the problem of designing a distribution network for a logistics provider that acquires products from multiple facilities and then delivers those products to many retail outlets. Potential locations for consolidation facilities that combine shipments for cost reduction and service improvements are considered. The problem is formulated with direct shipment and consolidation opportunities. A novel mathematical model is derived to solve a complex facility location problem determining: (i) the location and capacity level of warehouses to open; (ii) the distribution route from each production facility to each retailer outlet; and (iii) the quantity of products stocked at each warehouse and retailer. A genetic algorithm and a specific problem heuristic are designed, tested and compared on several realistic scenarios. © 2013 Taylor & Francis
A Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis Framework for Prioritizing Investments Evaluation in Banking Sector: An Application on Asean Market
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Ideas Sharing Through ICT in Innovation Processes: a Design Theory for Open Innovation Platforms
No full textSince Henry Chesbrough’s remark on the importance of opening innovation processes to the cooperation
of external entities, like partners, competitors or customers, open innovation gained momentum. Open
innovation approach was started and run by different companies around the world. Meanwhile specific platforms
were developed to support these processes, either by intermediaries aimed at helping companies to shift
to an open innovation approach, or by firms which decided to adopt this approach trough their own created
and managed platforms. Through a descriptive design theory perspective the paper analyzes the features
(components) that these web-based platforms offer in respect to the requirements they have to fulfill in order
to effectively support the open innovation approach
Classifying silvicultural systems (coppices vs. high forests) in Mediterranean oak forests by Airborne Laser Scanning data
No full textForest classification by silvicultural systems (coppices vs. high forests) is important for forest resource assessment as such systems relate to a wide variety of ecosystem services. In this paper the potential of Airborne Laser Scanning (ALS) data for Mediterranean oak forests classification of coppices with standards vs. high forests was investigated in three study areas in Italy. We addressed the following issues: can coppices and high forests be distinguished using a raster Canopy Height Model (CHM)? Which are the most efficient CHM-derived metrics? Does the scale of analysis influence the classification potential of CHM metrics? Our results show that CHM in grid format (1-m2 pixel) provides support information to classify silvicultural systems
Impiego di tecniche di selvicoltura preventiva e fuoco prescritto a fini antincendio boschivo nelle aree naturali protette
No full textL’approccio più adeguato nella lotta gli incendi
boschivi è promuovere e incentivare le attività di
previsione e di prevenzione, anziché privilegiare
la fase emergenziale legata allo spegnimento
degli incendi. le operazioni di gestione del
combustibile mirano a ridurre la continuità
verticale rappresentata soprattutto
dall’abbondanza di arbusti e da necromassa
nelle parti basse delle chiome arboree. Queste
operazioni consentono di attenuare il
comportamento del fuoco, limitandone
l’intensità e la lunghezza di fiamma, rendendo
più agevoli le operazioni di controllo; ma
soprattutto diminuiscono la possibilità che un
incendio radente possa trasformarsi in incendio
di chioma, situazione particolarmente
complessa, pericolosa e di difficile controllo. Si
tratta di interventi compresi nelle pratiche della
selvicoltura di prevenzione e del fuoco
prescritto: essi sono complessivamente
inquadrabili, sotto il profilo concettuale, con il
termine inglese firesmart management of forest
landscapes, dal momento che si tratta di un
approccio basato sulla gestione dei combustibili nelle aree più a rischio e sulla loro riduzione complessiva a livello di paesaggio e che nelle aree protette va modulato anche in relazione alla zonizzazione pianificata.The most effective approach against fire is to
support prevention activities rather than
focusing only on fire suppression. Fuel
management concerns a set of operations and
interventions aimed at modifying the spatial
distribution of fuels, in order to reduce fuel load
and interrupt both the vertical and the horizontal
continuities. Distinctively, one of the main
targets of forest fuel management is to reduce
the so-called fuel ladder represented by the
vertical continuity between surface and crown
fuels. These practices allow to potentially
reduce fire intensity and flame length, thus
reducing the probability that surface fires
degenerate into the more dangerous, and
difficult to control, crown fires. Fire smart
management of the forest landscapes concerns
exactly these types of interventions, and it
includes silvicultural measures to prevent forest
fires and prescribed burning, whose application
within areas designated for nature conservation has to be conceived according to the conservation planning