This dissertation investigates the underwater cultural heritage from a multidisciplinary approach, sustained by argumentative reflections, comparative analysis and problem solving techniques in a combination of theoretical, legal and managerial perspectives. The main purpose is to provide a complete, dynamic and innovative framework of analysis that may also serve as a guide for implementation. Specifically, the research aims to accomplish three tasks: first, to elucidate for the complexity o...
Due to the availability of big datasets, the digital revolution is profoundly changing our capability of understanding society and forecasting the outcome of many social and economic systems. Increasingly sophisticated semantic techniques are adopted to automatically interpret information published in articles, blogs, newspapers etc. Unfortunately, irrelevant or already commonly known information can increase the noise of these signals and make their predictive power severely affected or vani...
This thesis presents a structural framework which accounts for two well-established empirical relationships. The first is a short term interest rate equation that relates the same variables of a Taylor rule and that is derived as a dynamic equilibrium condition from an intertemporal Euler equation within a cash-in-advance economy. The second is a stock market equilibrium equation that resembles the so-called "Fed model" and that is derived as a no-arbitrage condition. The aim of this thesis i...
This thesis presents a structural framework which accounts for two well-established empirical relationships. The first is a short term interest rate equation that relates the same variables of a Taylor rule and that is derived as a dynamic equilibrium condition from an intertemporal Euler equation within a cash-in-advance economy. The second is a stock market equilibrium equation that resembles the so-called "Fed model" and that is derived as a no-arbitrage condition. The aim of this thesis i...
This thesis investigates the combination of Peer-to-Peer (P2P)and Cloud Computing to support Massively Multiplayer Online Games (MMOGs). MMOGs are large-scale distributed applications where a large number of users concurrently share a real-time virtual environment. Commercial MMOG infrastructures are sized to support peak loads, incurring in high economical cost. Cloud Computing represents an attractive solution, as it lifts MMOG operators from the burden of buying and maintaining hardware, w...
In the last decade many studies have exploited the BGP data
provided by route collector projects to infer an Internet ASlevel topology to perform several analyses, from discovering its graph properties to assessing its impact on the effectiveness of worm-containment strategies. Nevertheless, the topology that can be extracted from this data is far from being complete, i.e. from this data it is not possible to infer all the AS connections which actually exist among ASes. This thesis analyses t...
Over the last decades, the Internet has grown from a smallscale
academic network linking few universities, to a largescale
complex system, reaching out to billions of people and
enabling communications and computing worldwide. While
the number of persons connected to the Internet 24/7 is growing
exponentially, particularly through smartphones, most
of them are unaware of the real Internet infrastructure. Recently,
researchers have attempted to discover details about
the characteristics of the...
This thesis treats the relationship between the European Economic Community (EEC) and the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia between 1968 and 1980. It highlights the political importance of EEC/Yugoslav relations within Community’s broader strategies towards the Socialist bloc and the Mediterranean arena, and contextualises this relationship within the Cold War and European integration scenarios. Based on a Community-centred approach, it focuses on the interaction between EEC member sta...
In dealing with computable general equilibrium modelling,
this thesis builds and runs a computable equilibrium (CGE)
tax model for Italy, with the aim of policy analysis.
It demonstrates in considerable detail the methodology to incorporate a fiscal extension to the national comparative-static computable general equilibrium model of Italy. The output is a model featuring a detailed modelling of a full range of direct and indirect taxes, enabling the evaluation of alternative proposal for tax ...
The present work introduces the main regulatory issues faced
nowadays in EU by policy-makers in the design of the electricity and natural gas markets. The dissertation consists of the following parts: Chapter 2 introduces the new challenges that are currently engaging the European markets, under the perspective of the stronger integration expected in the next years. The coordination of the investments in new facilities and the rules governing
their access, the increasing need of flexible reso...