Social health insurance systems can be designed with different levels of state involvement and varying degrees of redistribution. In this article we focus on citizens’ preferences regarding the design of their health insurance coverage including the extent of redistribution. Using a...

This paper presents an empirical examination of individuals’ motivations for multiple-job holding or moonlighting. Theoretical models of moonlighting suggest that individuals to hold a second job for either financial reasons (they face hours-constraints in their first job) or non-pecuniary...

Objective: Recent years have seen increasing interest in the use of ordinal methods to elicit health state utility values as an alternative to conventional methods such as standard gamble and time trade-off. However, in order to use these health state values in cost effectiveness analysis using...

This paper examines the use of Fuzzy Cognitive Maps (FCMs) as a technique for modeling political and crisis situations and supporting the decision-making process. FCMs use notions borrowed from artificial intelligence and neural networks to combine concepts and causal relationships, in the form...

This paper treats with examples the practical use of Semantic Web technologies for describing business data. The main problems that the present paper addresses are related to identifying the main activities/ functions of an organization that can be represented with Semantic Web technologies. We...

This paper tries to discuss some findings in mathematical decision-making modeling models with applications in business processes. We start by presenting some technological implications and implementations of decision-making models. After this we discuss some implementations realized by us and...

This paper presents actual limits of DSS and KBS in supporting business decisions processes. After a brief review of DSS and KBS limits we propose a solution that consist in information semantically integration with the use of ontology and inference engine in a contextualized web browser. We...

This paper concerns a non-rigorous introduction to the theory of the "conditioning cognitive-behavioural" (or C-C-C). Rather it will be introduced a consumer approach which well explains the non-rational buy-actions with respect to several goods. In few words it will be considered a new...

This paper tries to present an empirical analysis on the quality of accounting information, the factors that influences this quality, the importance of accounting knowledge in decision making, general knowledge and specific features of the accounting knowledge and some implications in terms of...

Business Intelligence (BI) represents the ability to look into the core of a business, in order to fundament the most effective and profitable decisions. An operational BI system sustains daily activities through the following functionalities: real-time informing, secured access to information...