Optimal student/school/class/teacher/classroom matching to support efficient public school system resource allocation

SF Mayerle, HF Rodrigues, JN de Figueiredo… - Socio-Economic …, 2022 - Elsevier
This paper presents a decision support methodology to help increase public school
education efficiency at the municipal/district/metropolitan level in Brazil. An important …

Territorial reorganization of regional blood management systems: evidences from an Italian case study

G Bruno, A Diglio, C Piccolo, L Cannavacciuolo - Omega, 2019 - Elsevier
Blood is a vital resource in the health care context and then its efficient and effective
collection, management and distribution is a fundamental task. As blood is drawn on …

Approximation schemes for districting problems with probabilistic constraints

A Diglio, J Peiró, C Piccolo… - European Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
In this work a districting problem with stochastic demand is investigated. Chance-constraints
are used to model the balancing requirements. Explicit contiguity constraints are also …

Do amalgamations make a difference? What we can learn from evaluating the policy success of a large scale forced amalgamation of local government

D McQuestin, J Drew… - Public Administration …, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
Deteriorating financial sustainability of local governments internationally has resulted in
increased implementation of structural reform programs as a potential solution. However, the …

Reorganizing postal collection operations in urban areas as a result of declining mail volumes–A case study in Bologna

G Bruno, M Cavola, A Diglio, G Laporte… - Journal of the …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
The impact of technological developments on consumer habits and behavior is endangering
the classical model of postal services. The resulting fall in postal volumes generated by the …

[HTML][HTML] Socio-economic situation in Latvia's municipalities in the context of administrative-territorial division and unexpected impact of Covid-19

I Arhipova, G Berzins, A Erglis, E Ansonska… - Journal of Global …, 2022 - igi-global.com
In this research, the authors analysed how the behaviour of people changed in various
phases of the COVID-19 pandemic and how these changes affected the economic activity in …

Towards a stochastic programming modeling framework for districting

A Diglio, S Nickel, F Saldanha-da-Gama - Annals of Operations Research, 2020 - Springer
In this paper a stochastic districting problem is investigated. Demand is assumed to be
represented by a random vector with a given joint probability distribution function. A two …

[PDF][PDF] Tools of formation of the system of socio-economic security of territorial communities of the region

V Shebanin, I Kormyshkin, A Kliuchnyk… - Regional Science …, 2022 - rsijournal.eu
The urgency of the stated subject of this scientific research is conditioned by the need to
develop and integrate effective tools for the formation of a system of socio-economic security …

Municipal amalgamations in international perspective: motives addressed in scholarly research

N Karkin, V Gocoglu, PS Yavuzcehre - Asia Pacific Journal of …, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
Mainly underpinned by economic and financial motives, amalgamations of local
governments in and beyond municipal areas have often been on the agenda of many …

Socio-institutional determinants of educational resource efficiency according to the capability approach: An endogenous stochastic frontier analysis

G Guarini, T Laureti, G Garofalo - Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, 2020 - Elsevier
We investigate the role of private and public resources in educational attainments and the
socio-institutional determinants of educational resource efficiency in Italy. Following the …