Purpose - New hepatitis C medicines such as sofosbuvir underline the need to balance considerations of innovation, clinical evidence, budget impact and equity in health priority-setting. The purpose of this paper is to examine the role of public participation in addressing these considerations. Design/methodology/approach - The paper employs a comparative case study approach. It explores the ex...

Voluntary participation in public goods games (PGGs) has turned out to be a simple but effective mechanism for promoting cooperation under full anonymity. Voluntary participation allows individuals to adopt a risk-aversion strategy, termed loner. A loner refuses to participate in unpromising public enterprises and instead relies on a small but fixed pay-off. This system leads to a cyclic domina...

We consider a notion of voluntary participation for mechanism design in public goods economies in which mechanisms select public goods allocations and individuals then choose whether or not to submit their requested transfer to the central planner. The set of allocations that are robust to non-participation is shown to be sub-optimal in a wide variety of environments and may shrink to the endow...

The structure of a social network is time-dependent, as relationships between entities change in time. In large networks, static or animated visualizations are often insufficient to capture all the information about the interactions between people over time, which could be captured better by interactive interfaces. We propose a novel system for exploring the interactions of entities over time, ...

Generally, evolution of instruments on environmental policy went through three phases, they are; (1) 1970’s,Command and Control Policy, (2) 1980’s,Market-based Policy, and (3) 1990’s, Information Disclosure, Dialogue and Cooperation Mechanism. According to the World Bank, the classification of environmental policies is expressed by four types, direct regulation, market-based measures, market cr...

Citizens are increasingly looking for more direct involvement in the decisions that affect their collective well-being. Political representatives, official entities and experts are no longer considered to be the only ones responsible to make decisions regarding local policy issues. The challenge is to allow thousands of potential participants (citizens) to engage in the discussion of those issu...

Urban planning, in particular on protected landscape areas, demands an increasing role of public participation within the frame of the efficiency of sustainable planning process. The development of urban planning actions in Protected Landscape areas, as Sintra-Cascais Natural Park, should perform a methodological process that is structured over distinct sequential stages, providing the developm...

Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) are increasingly becoming more pervasive of peoples' lives, both for individual and collective usage. Factors like globalisation and individualisation cause more distance of citizens to the state and its institutions. Hence, it becomes tempting to develop electronic tools that can constitute alternatives to enhance citizenship, in particular tool...

The Anh Han School of Computing, Teesside University, Borough Road, Middlesbrough, TS1 3BA, UK [email protected] Luís Moniz Pereira NOVA LINCS, Departamento de Informática, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, 2829-516 Caparica, Portugal [email protected] Tom Lenaerts MLG, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Boulevard du Triomphe CP212, 1050 Brussels, Belgium AI lab, Vrije Un...