Access Control for the Linked Data18 dicembre 2014This work contributes to the emerging trend of building the Future Internet, with particular...
CINEMA, SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY - Series of Lectures13 dicembre 2014Dal 18 Ottobre al 13 Dicembre 4 appuntamenti per il ciclo di conferenze “CINEMA, SCIENZE,...
Il nuovo conflitto tra le generazioni? La sfida per il modello economico e sociale del Paese12 dicembre 2014Laurence J. Kotlikoff con Fabio Pammolli e Mauro Maré. Un importante dibattito su una delle sfide...
Generational Economics 12 dicembre 2014December 12th 9:00-11:00 December 16th 14:00-18:00 1. Is the Developed World Broke? 2. The Zero Sum...
New Regulation on OTC Trades' reporting11 dicembre 2014- Existing Trade Repositories - Types of date available in the market: indicative, consensus and...
On the Solvability of the Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon Game - A Faster Graph Diameter and Radius Computation Method11 dicembre 2014In this seminar, we will propose a new algorithm that computes the radius and the diameter of a...
Extractive States: The Case of the Italian Unification10 dicembre 2014One of the most puzzling issues in economics is the huge divide between the North and South of...
Dual Labour Markets and (lack of) on the Job Training: PIAAC-based Evidence from Spain and other EU Countries9 dicembre 2014Using the Spanish micro data from the Programme for the International Assessment of Adult...
Loss Aversion in Politics5 dicembre 2014We study how loss aversion affects the political equilibrium in a simple majority voting model...
Politically Sustainable Probabilistic Minority Targeting4 dicembre 2014We show that a transfer targeting a minority of the population is sustained by majority voting,...
Formal Methods and Human Cognition4 dicembre 2014Formal methods have been largely applied to the verification of functional correctness as well as...
Post-trauma "Precious Legacies": Jewish Museums in Eastern Europe after the Holocaust and before the Fall of Communism3 dicembre 2014Nearly 70 years since the end of World War II, the impact of the Holocaust still resounds in Europe...
Inaugurazione Anno Accademico 2014-201528 novembre 2014Chiesa di San Francesco - Piazza San Francesco, Lucca ore 16.00 PROGRAMMA DEI LAVORI Indirizzi di...
River Networks as Ecological Corridors for Species, Populations and Pathogens of Water-Borne Disease (and the Capital in the 21st Century)26 novembre 2014River basins are a natural laboratory for the integration of hydrological, ecological and...
Saliency Based Selection of Gradient Vector Flow Paths for Content Aware Image Resizing25 novembre 2014Saliency Based Selection for Content Aware Image Resizing Content-aware image resizing techniques...
Data Driven Journalism School21 novembre 20141+1=Tutto. I Dati a servizio della notizia Il corso “1+1=Tutto: I dati a servizio della notizia"...
Verify me if you can: Timers, Actors and Session Types20 novembre 2014We propose a dynamic verification framework for protocols in distributed systems. The framework is...
Organized Crime, Insider Information and Optimal Leniency19 novembre 2014When low-rankcriminals are o⁄ered the option to cooperate with the justice in exchange of judicial...
Douglas-Rachford Splitting: Complexity Estimates and Accelerated Variants18 novembre 2014Problems arising in many application areas (such as optimal control, statistics, machine learning,...
Computer Vision and the Modeling and Reverse Engineering of Biological Systems 31 ottobre 2014Modeling and reverse engineering of complex biological systems is a major focus of current research...
Presentazione del libro GALILEO. SCIENZIATO E UMANISTA di John L. Heilbron 23 ottobre 2014Tra le molte iniziative per celebrare i 450 anni dalla nascita di Galileo, spicca la nuova edizione...
The PageRank Problem in Google: A Systems and Control Viewpoint29 settembre 2014In this lecture, we study the PageRank problem and illustrate it using the Google search engine as...
IL MONDO IN TASCA: Le nuove frontiere dei Big Data23 settembre 2014Presso la Chiesa di San Francesco di Lucca, Monica Maggioni e Gianni Riotta incontrano alcuni degli...
ECCS?14 - European Conference on Complex Systems22 settembre 2014ECCS'14 will be a major international conference and event in the area of complex systems and...
How China Became Capitalist 19 settembre 2014How China Became Capitalist details the extraordinary, and often unanticipated, journey that China...
Sequential Voting and Agenda Manipulation18 settembre 2014We provide characterizations of the set of outcomes that can be achieved by agenda manipulation for...
Minimax Model Predictive Operation Control of Microgrids15 settembre 2014Worldwide, the amount of decentralized renewable energy production is growing. The power infeed of...
Graphene-based solar cells11 settembre 2014Graphene is a two-dimensional material composed by carbon atoms displaced on a honey-comb lattice...
Workshop on Embedded Optimization 8 settembre 2014This workshop focuses on recent advances, various aspects and new ideas on embedded optimization...
Three papers in Financial Risk Management2 settembre 2014The presentation concerns numerical analysis of stochastic models for a fundamental question in...
Cronyism in Ideological Crusades16 luglio 2014In this paper we seek a better understanding of a particular variety of conflict – the ideological...
Resilient distributed routing in dynamical flow networks 15 luglio 2014Resilience has become a key issue in complex networked systems. Applications are of wide range and...
Rising China in the Globalised World14 luglio 2014The seminar looks at the impact of a rising China in the globalised world. It examines contemporary...
Prediction of Initiation and Growth of Cracks in Composites. A Coupled Stress and Energy Criterion of the Finite Fracture Mechanics14 luglio 2014Computational methods developed to predict crack onset and growth are briefly reviewed first...
An alternative approach to solving problems by multilayer neural network10 luglio 2014In joint work with Kurkova and Vogt, we showed that n-unit perceptron networks, using the Heaviside...
Tractability of representations of Boolean functions by shallow and deep networks10 luglio 2014Limitations of capabilities of shallow (one-hidden-layer) neural networks will be discussed...
Optimality conditions for a nonlinear stochastic "knapsack problem" 9 luglio 2014A nonlinear stochastic "knapsack model" is investigated, which has applications in the optimal...
Morphisms of reaction networks that couple structure to function8 luglio 2014The mechanisms underlying complex biological systems are routinely represented as networks. Network...
On Some connections between Statistical Inference, Statistical Mechanics and Information Theory 27 giugno 2014There has been recent interest on the part of Physicists in Stochastic Control Theory: this...
Rule Formats for Structural Operational Semantics: A Very Short Introduction25 giugno 2014Operational semantics describes the behaviour of programs in a language in terms of their execution...
Machine Learning with Early Stopping Regularization 24 giugno 2014Dealing with big data has emphasized the importance for machine learning algorithms to be...
FORMAZIONE E BENI CULTURALI20 giugno 2014Formazione universitaria, Beni Culturali, Pubblica Amministrazione, modelli di sviluppo in Italia e...
Anni di piombo. Le dinamiche della radicalizzazione terroristica in Germania ed in Italia negli anni Settanta20 giugno 2014Fra le diverse e molteplici eredità dei movimenti di protesta degli anni sessanta, solo in Germania...
Encounters between machine learning and Linear Parameter-Varying systems18 giugno 2014The theory of linear parameter-varying (LPV) systems has become an attractive framework to model...
Equations, contractions, and unique solutions13 giugno 2014This talk is about proof techniques for behavioural equivalences. One of the most studied...
Mobile Phone Diffusion and Political Mobilization: Evidence from Africa12 giugno 2014We investigate the role played by the spread of mobile phone technology in fostering mass political...
Concurrency Meets Probability: Theory and Practice11 giugno 2014I will combine "classical" Markov chains with "modern" concurrency theory and argue that such a...
Do Dictatorships Affect People?s Beliefs and Preferences? An Empirical Assessment Of the Latin American Case11 giugno 2014Understanding the impact of dictatorships on preferences provides important insights regarding...
Sophisticated Electoral Accountability: A Political Psychology Agency Theory10 giugno 2014I propose a political agency model where rent-maximizer rulers are constrained by sophisticated...
Prospect Theory and Tax Evasion: A Reconsideration of the Yitzhaki Puzzle6 giugno 2014The standard expected utility model of tax evasion predicts that evasion is decreasing in the...
High performance maneuvering for race vehicles29 maggio 2014A primary task in the automotive industry is to explore the dynamic capabilities of a vehicle and...
Conservatism and Classic Liberalism in British History: Are These Still Distinct or Have They Combined?29 maggio 2014Today with much discussion of ‘neoliberalism’ (whatever that means) it is often thought that so-...
Dynamically Evolving Esembles - Modeling and Implementation with the Helena Approach28 maggio 2014The continuously increasing potential of new computer technologies paves the way for developing...
Does Condorcet Get Asylum? Evidence from the Swiss Federal Administrative Court 2007-201228 maggio 2014Recent studies of asylum adjudication in several Western countries have found sizeable disparities...
Collective behavior in networked systems: from coordination and consensus to social learning 26 maggio 2014Over the past few years there has been a rapidly growing interest in analysis, design and...
The individual and society in Ortega's works. An approach to Man and people and The Revolt of the Masses.22 maggio 2014This presentation pursues a particular aim: to delve into the individual-society dialectics from...
Return to 'the Island': space, power, and the tourist subject22 maggio 2014This paper reflects on the biopolitical implications for tourists and workers of enclavic tourist...
Difficult heritage of Soviet Era: legacy, interpretation, appropriation20 maggio 2014Current cultural agenda of Putin‘s Russia comprises a diverse range of historical arguments as well...
Human Capital and Industrialization: Theory and Evidence from the Enlightenment20 maggio 2014While human capital is one of the strongest predictors of economic development today, its...
An overview of quantitative methods to process behavioral data16 maggio 2014What motivates people in electing decisions, and politicians? And how can we understand them ? I...
Modeling, forecasting and game control of road traffic systems 5 maggio 2014The Grenoble Traffic Lab (GTL http://necs.inrialpes.fr/pages/reseach/gtl.php) initiative is a real-...
A Calculus for Quality30 aprile 2014A main challenge of programming component-based software is to ensure that the components continue...
Reduced order methods for the simulation and control of viscous flows28 aprile 2014We review the application of reduced basis method as a computational reduction strategy for the...
A Formal Methodology for Engineering Trustworthy Software-intensive Systems16 aprile 2014We present a methodology based on formal languages for designing, modelling, analysing, programming...
Computational modelling of complex systems16 aprile 2014Informatics is the engine of a new scientific revolution. The combination of big-data analysis and...
Creating Images of the past: Archaeology and its Representation in the Turkish Republic 14 aprile 2014This talk explores the role of archaeology and its visual representation in the Turkish Republic...
Approaches to explanation in political science11 aprile 2014How can political and social phenomena be systematically explained? The presentation will focus on...
Two-step and direct approaches in controls, autonomous kites and the gap between control theory and applications 4 aprile 2014When dealing with problems of prediction, estimation, or control of complex systems, two starting...
The Legacy Margaret Thatcher4 aprile 2014The years of Margaret Thatcher’s government acted as a watershed moment, and not only in...
Formal modelling and scalable analysis of massively parallel systems3 aprile 2014Many natural and engineered systems can be described in terms of interactions between large...
Towards the Future of Search and Query Answering on the Web3 aprile 2014In this talk, I will give an overview of my recent research activities towards future search and...
Data Mining with User Generated Content2 aprile 2014Data mining tools are essential in many information search and filtering tasks, e.g., document...
Policy Research, Political Advocacy and the Future of American Think Tanks27 marzo 2014In recent years, the rise of think tanks in the United States and around the globe has generated a...
Synchronisation and matching in camera networks27 marzo 2014Networks of cameras are composed of nodes with the capability of performing local processing that...
Bureaucratic Appointments under Limited Political Competition: Evidence from Russian Regions25 marzo 2014In the period from 2005 to 2012, Russian regional governors were directly appointed by the Russian...
Art History, Museology and Art Criticism within the IMT environment24 marzo 2014In this presentation, I will try to give an outline of my research methodology and illustrate some...
Learning efficient detector filters from the data: exploiting boosting and structure 24 marzo 2014In supervised detection problems, when the dimensionality of the training set or the number of...
Advanced nonlinear three-dimensional finite element shell formulations for composite structures20 marzo 2014In recent years, an increasing interest in the use of advanced composites in a wide variety of...
Genealogia storico-filosofica del Sessantotto: il caso italiano in chiave comparata20 marzo 2014Il Sessantotto non è stato un evento casuale, né totalmente imprevisto. In Italia assai più che...
Configurational forces in elastic structures17 marzo 2014The Eshelbian (or configurational) force is the main concept of a celebrated theoretical framework...
Il socialismo liberale di Carlo Rosselli13 marzo 2014Carlo Rosselli (1899-1937), oltre a essere un martire della lotta antifascista e un leader dell'...
Multiparty session types and their application in large distributed systems7 marzo 2014We give a summary of our recent research developments on multiparty session types, and our...
What is interaction design?7 marzo 2014How are interactive systems conceived, prototyped, tested and deployed? Examples of of a wide...
Interactivity in museums 6 marzo 2014In the past 15 years there has been a great expansion in the use of interactive technologies in...
An Architectural approach to Cyber-Physical Systems5 marzo 2014Critical physical infrastructures—the power grid, transportation systems, building environments—are...
PHD Conference in Political History5 marzo 2014Pursuing the long-term aim of creating a European network of political historians, and bearing in...
Illegal but licit? Informal Practices in Post-Socialism28 febbraio 2014This presentation deals with the multitude of forms citizens may engaged in informal economic...
Infinity on Trial: why do we keep museum collections, and why do we collect?27 febbraio 2014This paper will examine why on the one hand museums feel it necessary to keep material 'in...
An XFEM strategy to analyse the scale-slenderness-reinforcement failure mode transitions in RC beams27 febbraio 2014Reinforced concrete beams in flexure exhibit three different collapse mechanisms by varying the...
Dialogo con Corrado Passera su "Formazione Futuro"26 febbraio 2014Come possono la formazione e la ricerca incidere in modo più decisivo sullo sviluppo dell'Italia?...
Introduction to the Scenario Approach24 febbraio 2014The scenario approach addresses uncertain convex optimization problems. This includes robust linear...
Learning to See Like Babies21 febbraio 2014Three years ago, researchers at Google labs extracted some 10 million images from YouTube and fed...
Networks and Conflicts: Theory and Evidence from Fighting Groups in Africa20 febbraio 2014Civil wars often involve complicated webs of alliances and rivalries with multiple actors. Examples...
EU-Russia: from cooperation to confrontation?13 febbraio 2014Less than 4 years ago the Rostov Summit launched the EU-Russia Partnership for Modernization, a...
Presentazione del volume "Tre figure. Achille, Meleagro, Cristo" di Maria Luisa Catoni, Carlo Ginzburg, Luca Giuliani, Salvatore Settis7 febbraio 2014Alla presentazione del volume “Tre Figure: Achille, Meleagro, Cristo” i quattro autori discuteranno...
The state and the protection of historic buildings: France, England and Italy3 febbraio 2014The talk will look at state policies to preserve ‘historic buildings’. Such buildings are often...
Contextualising the Walter Lippmann Colloquium: On the historical origins of Neoliberalism in the 1930s30 gennaio 2014In most accounts of the history of liberalism, and especially neoliberalism, the Walter Lippmann...
From One Sex to Two Sex Model: Testing Laqeuer's Theory on "Making Sex"29 gennaio 2014Thomas Laqeuer, a well-known historian and sexologist, argued that sex, like gender, is a build...
Applying cultural analytics to social networking sites: The case of deviantArt27 gennaio 2014Humanities and social sciences require new research approaches to deal with and to benefit from the...
Presentazione del volume "Etica, scienza e fede" di William Clifford24 gennaio 2014Sulla scia della neonata teoria dell'evoluzione di Charles Darwin, nel 1877 il matematico inglese...
The geometry of the universe and the "duty of inquiry"23 gennaio 2014In his essay The Ethics of Belief (1877), Willam Clifford famously mantained that "it is wrong...
Towards an integrated European Research Area? Findings from Eigenvector spatially filtered spatial interaction models using European Framework Programme data13 gennaio 2014One of the main goals of the European Research Area (ERA) concept is to improve integration of the...