IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering, 2020
We describe a project, fully formalized, to create a “Service Center” for ancient books and manus... more We describe a project, fully formalized, to create a “Service Center” for ancient books and manuscripts, in the “Biblioteca dei Girolamini” Library of Girolamini in Naples, Italy. This unique library hosts about 180.000 pieces, 500 of which are medieval manuscripts, 120 incunabulum, 5.000 editions of the 16th century – among others, as well as an ancient Musical Archive. The library is located in the heart of Naples, in a magnificent place where a series of initiative are already taking place, as a collaboration between the University of Naples Federico II and the Ministry of Cultural Heritage. All these features make Library of Girolamini a rare case study in the field of ancient books. The project aims at a complete digitization of the books; however, the important part of the project is the creation of full sets of metadata with a complete history of the documents and of the studies about the document itself. The first books to be considered will be a set of 512 manuscripts of th...
Cuadernos del CIMBAGE Universidad de Buenos Aires cimbage@econ.uba.ar ISSN (Versión impresa): 166... more Cuadernos del CIMBAGE Universidad de Buenos Aires cimbage@econ.uba.ar ISSN (Versión impresa): 1666-5112 ARGENTINA ... 2006 Luca Iandoli / Pierluigi Rippa / Giusseppe Zollo UN ENFOQUE COGNITIVO DEL FHA PARA CORREGIR SESGOS EN EL JUICIO DE ...
WIT Transactions on Information and Communication Technologies, 1970
The paper presents a method to elicit individual knowledge from verbal judgments. Usually verbal ... more The paper presents a method to elicit individual knowledge from verbal judgments. Usually verbal representation, such as discourses , explanations, dialogues, are ambiguous. The method was developed for the evaluation of competences of professional workers in a large R&D company. The model was developed in two phases. The aim of the first phase was t o define the set of competences and their explicative force in the evaluation process. According to the model, the evaluation is carrie d on by a network of evaluators, who evaluate the competences expressed by individuals in situations they manage during their activity. The evaluator are forced to explain the motivation of their judgment. The resulting evaluation discourse is represent as a tree, where the root is the final judgment and the leafs are the final categories justifying the judgment. The second phase is aimed to use the trees in order to design an evaluation procedure. At this end the trees are interpreted by using th e fuz...
Elegance is often invoked as a characteristic of good design, but it cannot be pursued as a desig... more Elegance is often invoked as a characteristic of good design, but it cannot be pursued as a design objective because of the absence of actionable definitions that can be translated into design strategies and metrics. In this work, we analyze elegance in the context of systems engineering using a perspective that integrates visual art, Gestalt psychology, neuroscience, and complexity theory. In particular, we measure elegance as effective complexity and theorize that it can be achieved by a process of complexity resolution based on the adoption of eight visual heuristics. We present an empirical study in which a sample of systems engineers were asked to assess alternative representations of a same system and show that effective complexity is strongly correlated to perceived elegance and systems effectiveness. Our results are consistent with independent findings obtained in other fields including design and psychology of perception showing that good design must embed an effective leve...
This paper introduces a new and novel deterministic technique for mining association rules from q... more This paper introduces a new and novel deterministic technique for mining association rules from quantitative data tables and databases and show how to use these techniques to devise a fuzzy-inference based apriori algorithm for discovering associations. The algorithm is sound and efficient. It introduces a complexity level that is equivalent to the complexity of the algorithm proposed by Agrawal. It
International Journal of Production Research, 2012
In this paper we present a model based on activity based costing and analytic hierarchy process t... more In this paper we present a model based on activity based costing and analytic hierarchy process to assess the impact of individual competencies on value creation and its application to a case study of a small manufacturing firm. Namely, our model is designed to support managers to deal with the following concrete situation: suppose that a company has decided to
In this paper, the authors propose a methodology aimed at eliciting small firms' competencie... more In this paper, the authors propose a methodology aimed at eliciting small firms' competencies in order to support the small enterprises to manage organizational development through the identification of their training priorities. With small firms' competencies here we essentially ...
This paper addresses the subject of organizational paradoxes through the lens of complexity theor... more This paper addresses the subject of organizational paradoxes through the lens of complexity theory. The first part of the study focuses on the formalization of the key elements in order to better understand the concept of organizational tension through the presentation of related constructs, i.e., dilemmas, dialectics and paradoxes. The second part of the paper introduces the key to interpreting complexity theory, highlighting how the characteristic of emergence in complex systems makes it possible to identify two different levels: that of organizational elements and that of organizational forms, both of which are impacted by tension. That reflection leads the authors to postulate that metamorphosis is the process by which organizations, constantly crossed by tension, regenerate the organizational forms’ level on the basis of evolving tensions between organizational elements.
This article proposes an agent-based model to support the development of self-sustaining regional... more This article proposes an agent-based model to support the development of self-sustaining regional innovation systems (RIS). The model is the base of a computational laboratory, CARIS (Complex Adaptive Regional Innovation System), which aims at evaluating the self-sustainability of RIS and at investigating what are the resources, competencies and mechanisms able to trigger powerful innovation and economic growth processes. Such a topic is particularly interesting for the so-called lagging regions, which, notwithstanding noticeable policy interventions, have been unable to significantly improve their innovation performances. Results of this study show that the exploration capacity, the propensity to cooperation, and the endowed competencies of actors belonging to a region could be considered as key aspects in affecting the regional innovation performance. This means that policy-makers should (i) incentivize investments in research and development activities both at the public and priv...
IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering, 2020
We describe a project, fully formalized, to create a “Service Center” for ancient books and manus... more We describe a project, fully formalized, to create a “Service Center” for ancient books and manuscripts, in the “Biblioteca dei Girolamini” Library of Girolamini in Naples, Italy. This unique library hosts about 180.000 pieces, 500 of which are medieval manuscripts, 120 incunabulum, 5.000 editions of the 16th century – among others, as well as an ancient Musical Archive. The library is located in the heart of Naples, in a magnificent place where a series of initiative are already taking place, as a collaboration between the University of Naples Federico II and the Ministry of Cultural Heritage. All these features make Library of Girolamini a rare case study in the field of ancient books. The project aims at a complete digitization of the books; however, the important part of the project is the creation of full sets of metadata with a complete history of the documents and of the studies about the document itself. The first books to be considered will be a set of 512 manuscripts of th...
Cuadernos del CIMBAGE Universidad de Buenos Aires cimbage@econ.uba.ar ISSN (Versión impresa): 166... more Cuadernos del CIMBAGE Universidad de Buenos Aires cimbage@econ.uba.ar ISSN (Versión impresa): 1666-5112 ARGENTINA ... 2006 Luca Iandoli / Pierluigi Rippa / Giusseppe Zollo UN ENFOQUE COGNITIVO DEL FHA PARA CORREGIR SESGOS EN EL JUICIO DE ...
WIT Transactions on Information and Communication Technologies, 1970
The paper presents a method to elicit individual knowledge from verbal judgments. Usually verbal ... more The paper presents a method to elicit individual knowledge from verbal judgments. Usually verbal representation, such as discourses , explanations, dialogues, are ambiguous. The method was developed for the evaluation of competences of professional workers in a large R&D company. The model was developed in two phases. The aim of the first phase was t o define the set of competences and their explicative force in the evaluation process. According to the model, the evaluation is carrie d on by a network of evaluators, who evaluate the competences expressed by individuals in situations they manage during their activity. The evaluator are forced to explain the motivation of their judgment. The resulting evaluation discourse is represent as a tree, where the root is the final judgment and the leafs are the final categories justifying the judgment. The second phase is aimed to use the trees in order to design an evaluation procedure. At this end the trees are interpreted by using th e fuz...
Elegance is often invoked as a characteristic of good design, but it cannot be pursued as a desig... more Elegance is often invoked as a characteristic of good design, but it cannot be pursued as a design objective because of the absence of actionable definitions that can be translated into design strategies and metrics. In this work, we analyze elegance in the context of systems engineering using a perspective that integrates visual art, Gestalt psychology, neuroscience, and complexity theory. In particular, we measure elegance as effective complexity and theorize that it can be achieved by a process of complexity resolution based on the adoption of eight visual heuristics. We present an empirical study in which a sample of systems engineers were asked to assess alternative representations of a same system and show that effective complexity is strongly correlated to perceived elegance and systems effectiveness. Our results are consistent with independent findings obtained in other fields including design and psychology of perception showing that good design must embed an effective leve...
This paper introduces a new and novel deterministic technique for mining association rules from q... more This paper introduces a new and novel deterministic technique for mining association rules from quantitative data tables and databases and show how to use these techniques to devise a fuzzy-inference based apriori algorithm for discovering associations. The algorithm is sound and efficient. It introduces a complexity level that is equivalent to the complexity of the algorithm proposed by Agrawal. It
International Journal of Production Research, 2012
In this paper we present a model based on activity based costing and analytic hierarchy process t... more In this paper we present a model based on activity based costing and analytic hierarchy process to assess the impact of individual competencies on value creation and its application to a case study of a small manufacturing firm. Namely, our model is designed to support managers to deal with the following concrete situation: suppose that a company has decided to
In this paper, the authors propose a methodology aimed at eliciting small firms' competencie... more In this paper, the authors propose a methodology aimed at eliciting small firms' competencies in order to support the small enterprises to manage organizational development through the identification of their training priorities. With small firms' competencies here we essentially ...
This paper addresses the subject of organizational paradoxes through the lens of complexity theor... more This paper addresses the subject of organizational paradoxes through the lens of complexity theory. The first part of the study focuses on the formalization of the key elements in order to better understand the concept of organizational tension through the presentation of related constructs, i.e., dilemmas, dialectics and paradoxes. The second part of the paper introduces the key to interpreting complexity theory, highlighting how the characteristic of emergence in complex systems makes it possible to identify two different levels: that of organizational elements and that of organizational forms, both of which are impacted by tension. That reflection leads the authors to postulate that metamorphosis is the process by which organizations, constantly crossed by tension, regenerate the organizational forms’ level on the basis of evolving tensions between organizational elements.
This article proposes an agent-based model to support the development of self-sustaining regional... more This article proposes an agent-based model to support the development of self-sustaining regional innovation systems (RIS). The model is the base of a computational laboratory, CARIS (Complex Adaptive Regional Innovation System), which aims at evaluating the self-sustainability of RIS and at investigating what are the resources, competencies and mechanisms able to trigger powerful innovation and economic growth processes. Such a topic is particularly interesting for the so-called lagging regions, which, notwithstanding noticeable policy interventions, have been unable to significantly improve their innovation performances. Results of this study show that the exploration capacity, the propensity to cooperation, and the endowed competencies of actors belonging to a region could be considered as key aspects in affecting the regional innovation performance. This means that policy-makers should (i) incentivize investments in research and development activities both at the public and priv...
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