Exports in Manufacturing, Exchange Rates, And External Exposure: Firm Level Evidence From Turkey15 December 2015Turkish manufacturing firms are highly exposed to foreign currency in the forms of liability...
Inaugurazione Anno Accademico 2015-201612 December 2015Chiesa di San Francesco - Piazza San Francesco, Lucca ore 10.00 PROGRAMMA DEI LAVORI Indirizzi di...
Formal methods and continuous change: towards a happy marriage2 December 2015Formal methods have now matured to a stage where models of real systems and complex programs can be...
Tavola Rotonda su Veicoli Autonomi e Mobilita' Sostenibile30 November 2015INDIRIZZI DI SALUTO Pietro Pietrini - Direttore, IMT Alti Studi Lucca Luca Menesini - Presidente,...
Minorities and Long-run Development: Persistence of Armenian and Greek Influence in Turkey30 November 2015Mass deportations and killings of Ottoman Armenians during WWI and the Greek-Turkish population...
Multiscale asymptotic homogenization analysis of thermo-diffusive composite materials26 November 2015An asymptotic homogenization method [1] for the analysis of composite materials with periodic...
Molecular Programming25 November 2015Nucleic acids (DNA/RNA) encode information digitally, and are currently the only truly ‘user-...
The 'virtuous circle' of innovation in italian firms 24 November 2015The virtuous circle between innovative inputs, outputs and economic performance is investigated in...
Art theory and the Museum. Heinrich Wolfflins Guide to Munichs Alte Pinakothek23 November 2015An unpublished document has recently reemerged from the Special Collections of the Getty Research...
From segregation to integration: The complexity of human brain functions - XXIII Workshop and National Congress of the Italian Society of Psychophysiology (Societa' Italiana di Psicofisiologia SIPF)19 November 2015The Italian Society of Psychophysiology (SIPF) will be holding the XXIII edition of their National...
Food aid: for food security or for making politics? The evidence on U.S. food aid during the Cold War18 November 2015Food aid has traditionally served as an important element of policies aimed at promoting...
Don't Stop Me Now: The Impact of Credit Market Segmentation on Firms' Financing Constraints16 November 2015This paper investigates how the withdrawal of banks from their cross-border business has impacted...
When Lives Are Put on Hold:Lengthy Asylum Processes Increase Unemployment Among Refugees12 November 2015European governments are struggling with the biggest refugee crisis since the Second World War, but...
Workshop: ERC Grants for the Excellence of European Research11 November 2015The European Research Council (ERC) - the first pan-European funding body for frontier research -...
Twitlang(er): Interactions Modeling Language (and Interpreter) for Twitter11 November 2015Online social networks are widespread means to enact interactive collaboration among people by, e.g...
Donatello in the Berlin Museums2 November 2015This seminar will describe one of the most banal occupations of a museum employee: cataloguing a...
Una Conversazione su Caravaggio con Milo Manara - IMT e Lucca Comics & Games31 October 2015IMT Alti Studi Lucca & Lucca Comics & Games Presentano UNA CONVERSAZIONE SU CARAVAGGIO MILO...
Finance Islamique29 October 2015Birama Boubacar SIDIBE is an expert in socio economic development. He enjoyed a 35 years long rich...
A New Method for the Correction of Test Scores Manipulation29 October 2015I propose a method to correct for test scores manipulation and apply it to a natural experiment in...
Etruscans and Etruscan Studies between Italy and Europe29 October 2015Since the late Humanistic age and by a very crescendo in the 18th and 20th centuries, the Etruscans...
Long-Run Consequences of Labor Coercion: Evidence from Russian Serfdom28 October 2015This paper examines the long-run consequences of Russian serfdom. We use novel data measuring the...
Crack growth as a standard dissipative system26 October 2015The crack propagation problem for LEFM has been studied by several authors exploiting its analogy...
Art and architecture of the Shoah: open problems20 October 2015Somehow ironically, the art and architecture related to the Holocaust - in Europe generally...
Constructing invariants sets of pre-specified complexity, for systems subject to non-convex constraints15 October 2015Many practical problems in control and safety analysis can be recast as invariant set computation...
Limitation of capabilities of shallow networks14 October 2015Limitations of shallow (one-hidden-layer) feedforward networks to represent efficiently finite...
A Network-Based Spectral Decomposition Approach to Systemic Risk 7 October 2015Macro-prudential policy is concerned with mitigating system wide risks arising from negative...
New Insights on the Methods, Materials and Ethics of Technical Art History: the case of Leonardo da Vinci30 September 2015A colloquy dedicated to the interaction between diagnostic investigations, their art historical...
Modeling architectures and their properties28 September 2015Architectures are common means for organizing coordination between components in order to build...
Rough spheres in elastic contact - problem solving in the lazy way25 September 2015When arbitrary rough or structured surfaces enter into contact, the first spots that touch are the...
Notte dei Ricercatori "BRIGHT 2015"25 September 2015La Notte dei Ricercatori e' un'iniziativa promossa dalla Commissione Europea fin dal 2005 che...
Dynamic Tax Evasion with Habit Formation24 September 2015Although tax evasion and auditing are dynamic processes, they have been approached in a dynamic...
How Piketty Misses the Point22 September 2015Measured, Unmeasured, Mismeasured, and Unjustified Pessimism: A Review Essay of Thomas Piketty's...
An interface damage model accounting for the confinement effect18 September 2015The strain concentration in narrow zones can be satisfactorily simulated adopting interface models...
Online forward-backward algorithm using random maximal monotone operators27 July 2015Maximal monotone operators are set-valued mappings which extend (but are not limited to) the notion...
Big Data or Right Data?27 July 2015Big data nowadays is a fashionable topic, independently of what people mean when they use this term...
Optimal Contracts with Random Auditing22 July 2015In this paper we study an optimal contract problem under moral hazard in a principal-agent...
Perception, Action and the Information Knot that Ties Them22 July 2015I will describe a notion of Information for the purpose of decision and control tasks, as opposed...
Architectures: Design Patterns for Component-Based Systems21 July 2015Architectures depict design principles, paradigms that can be understood by all, allow thinking on...
Threat Modelling Service Security and Privacy as a Security Ceremony15 July 2015Security Ceremonies are extensions for security protocols where we include all out-of-bounds pieces...
Direct data-driven control of linear parameter-varying systems8 July 2015In many control applications, nonlinear plants can be modeled as linear parameter-varying (LPV)...
Full Abstraction for Signal Flow Graphs8 July 2015Signal flow graphs are classical structures in control theory, signal processing and a cornerstone...
Deep Learning Image Understanding with Subspace Indexing on Grassmann Manifolds2 July 2015In large scale visual pattern recognition applications, when the subject set is large the...
Service Clustering for Autonomic Clouds Using Random Forest1 July 2015The abstraction layer provided by cloud computing obfuscates several details of the provided...
PhD Graduation Ceremony 201529 June 2015Cappella Guinigi - Complesso San Francesco ore 14.30 PROGRAM INTRODUCTORY REMARKS Alberto Bemporad...
Edge-attractor Random Walks on Dynamic Networks24 June 2015We study the behaviour of continuous time random walks moving over dynamic networks in the presence...
Financial Integration and the Co-Movement of Economic Activity: Evidence from U.S. States23 June 2015We analyze the effect of the geographic expansion of banks across U.S. states on the co-movement of...
The Political Economy of Enforcing Conditional Welfare Programs: Evidence from Brazil22 June 2015We analyze whether politicians manipulate the enforcement of the rules of social welfare programs...
Process Calculi Approaches to Adaptation: From Process Passing to Session Communication 18 June 2015This talk overviews several works on the general theme of specifying adaptation requirements within...
Convergence of forward-backward splitting algorithms with errors17 June 2015Forward-backward splitting algorithms are among the most popular optimization methods to solve a...
Folding and faulting of an elastic continuum16 June 2015Stress channeling and localization of strain are effects displayed by material with extreme...
The HighTissue Project15 June 2015HighTissue is an R&D project, co-financed by Regione Toscana, aiming to build a high-efficiency...
Innovative Startups and Open Innovation: which opportunities with the new Italian regulation12 June 2015The Italian government has now activated a new fully operational set of rules, which aims to create...
Audiovisual Archives8 June 2015As a researcher in the field of audiovisual restoration, my research focuses on European policies...
DISC Summer School on "Control for Cyber-Physical Systems"1 June 2015The design of next generation smart electricity grids, intelligent transportation, electron...
Information Filtering Networks 28 May 2015We are witnessing interesting times rich of information, readily available for us all. Using,...
Graph Animation22 May 2015In several applications there is the need of visualizing a graph whose structure evolves over time...
External Influences on the Transitions to Democracy in the Iberian Peninsula. The role of West Germany (1970-1980)22 May 2015Contrary to the traditional interpretation, historiography has in the last years demonstrated that...
Independence, Autonomy, Self-Determination: can Classical Liberalism be the Ideology of Independence?21 May 2015My presentation, based on my new book "Le altrui scale. Scritti di liberalismo classico e...
Attack and Defence as a Contest20 May 2015In this talk we propose to model attack-defence computer related initiatives as a Tullock (1980)...
Nations and Premodern Ethnicity: Recent Historical Debates19 May 2015Out of the classic debates of the 1980 and 1990s about the origins of nations, three main positions...
Copy Content, Copy Friends: Studies of Content Curation and Social Bootstrapping on Pinterest19 May 2015Copying, sharing and linking have always been important for the functioning and the growth of the...
Freedom and the Pursuit of Happiness. An Economic and Political Perspective18 May 2015This book is about the relationship between different concepts of freedom and happiness. The book's...
Freedom and the Pursuit of Happiness. An Economic and Political Perspective18 May 2015This book is about the relationship between different concepts of freedom and happiness. The book's...
Competition and the Welfare Gains from Transportation Infrastructure: Evidence from the Golden Quadrilateral of India11 May 2015What are the economic channels through which transportation infrastructure affect income? We study...
Quantitative Brain Image Analysis: From Macro to Nano7 May 2015Continuous progress achieved in medical imaging technology in the past decades has lead to...
Verso il Piano Strutturale: Economia, demografia e territorio: Lucca tra crisi e ripresa. Gli esiti e i temi della ricerca30 April 2015Lo studio di IMT contribuisce a tracciare le dinamiche di sviluppo evolutivo del sistema...
Turkish Islamism: definitions and problematics30 April 2015Since 2002, when a political party with Islamist background obtained a large majority in the...
British Liberalism and Empire Revisited28 April 2015The Lecture will reconsider the relationship between Liberalism on the one hand and empire and...
Climate change, agriculture and food security24 April 2015Climate change directly impacts agricultural production. It triggers accelerated growth and early...
Complexity, Climate Change and Catastrophe: What Are the Consequences?23 April 2015The full extent of losses resulting from the future impacts of climate change are still widely...
Analysis of interfacial crack problems using the weight functions technique 22 April 2015A general procedure for the analysis of interfacial crack problems based on weight functions theory...
Multiscale modelling of fracture17 April 2015Defects like cracks and dislocations evolve at nano scales and influence the macroscopic properties...
Intellectual Property Management9 April 2015In this session we discuss intellectual property management. We give an overview of the different...
Collaborative and Open Innovation7 April 2015In this session we discuss collaborative and open innovation strategies. We explain the benefits...
Discretionary Information Flow Control for Interaction-Oriented Specifications2 April 2015In this talk we present an approach to specify and check discretionary information flow properties...
SoBigData.EU: Social Mining and Big data Ecosystem1 April 2015SoBigData proposes to create the Social Mining & Big Data Ecosystem: a research infrastructure...
Analyzing and mining the retail market as a complex system1 April 2015Supermarket transaction records, an early form of "big data" emerged in the 1980's with the wide...
EUROMECH Colloquium 575 - Contact Mechanics and Coupled Problems in Surface Phenomena30 March 2015Contact mechanics is a fundamental discipline of the engineering sciences and plays a major role in...
Spring School on Engineering Collective Autonomic Systems (ECAS)23 March 2015The ECAS Spring School is aimed to give PhD students and other young researchers a comprehensive...
Type-based deadlock analysis of linear communications19 March 2015In this seminar we will study a typing discipline that ensures the absence of deadlocks in systems...
Microeconomic data in social networks and information systems18 March 2015In the talk I will discuss about the new sources of formal and informal microeconomic data in...
Bonirob - an autonomous mobile platform for agricultural robotics17 March 2015Agriculture and related tasks consist of successively executed and well-defined sub-processes. Thus...
Cognitive Innovation and Social Innovation. Creativity Models in Art History, Psychology and Neurosciences16 March 2015In the humanities, innovation, with the definition of new “trees of knowledge,” entails drastic...
Is the Gaussian distribution "Normal"? Signal Processing with Alpha-Stable Distributions13 March 2015There are solid reasons for the popularity of Gaussian models. They are easy to deal with, lead to...
Location graphs: yet another global computing model (but with reason)12 March 2015What is common between binding in a distributed system, shared components in a complex software...
Multinational Conglomerates and the Financing Choices of U.S. Firms11 March 2015U.S. corporations are holding record-high amounts of cash while at the same time their investment...
Design+Technology+Museums: (un)expected interferences10 March 2015The speech addresses the relation between museums and digital technology from a design perspective...
Design for Cultural Heritage10 March 2015The lecture is focused on the definition of Design for cultural heritage as a “new” important field...
Matières à penser : an international and collaborative program on the display of science and the issues it raises6 March 2015Since 2012 a series of events are organized within an international, collaborative project...
Statistical modelling of spatio-temporal signals: from the Afghan conflict to BOLD-MRI in rats' kidneys5 March 2015Spatio-temporal data is ubiquitous in most application domains, from social sciences to medicine...
Model-based Performance Analysis under Uncertainty3 March 2015Performance analysis is often conducted before achieving full knowledge of a software system, in...
Some comparisons of radial-basis-function and kernel networks2 March 2015Capabilities and limitations of two popular computational models, radial-basis-function (RBF) and...
Theoretical and numerical modeling of nonlinear electromechanics with applications to biological active media20 February 2015A general theoretical framework for the formulation of the nonlinear electromechanics of biological...
Reflecting the Past, Re-envisioning the Future: Local, Ethnic and Transnational Contexts of Heritage Projects in Eastern Europe11 February 2015In my talk I look at the city of Lviv in western part of Ukraine, known for many people as Lwów/...
The prediction of future from the past: an old problem from a modern perspective29 January 2015The idea of predicting the future from the knowledge of the past is quite natural when dealing with...
Industrial Mathematics: a real opportunity or a chimera?29 January 2015This is a talk on the real experiences of a professor of Mathematics which, incidentally, in the...
LYNX Graduate Conference: HERITAGE. IMAGES. IDEOLOGY 23 January 2015This conference brings internationally recognized experts in the field of heritage protection and...
Turning Central European Religious Spaces into Heritage Sites: Management Strategies for (former) Monastic Localities and Abbeys in Hungary and around22 January 2015
Formalising and Optimising Parallel Snapshot Isolation13 January 2015Modern Internet services often achieve dependability by relying on geo-replicated databases that...