We use a non-linear hedonic model to estimate the implicit marginal prices of 17 local public goods in a Paris suburban area on an original data set of some 8200 housing units. The results reveal a robust effect of local public school quality (mesured both by the fraction of junior high school students that are at least 2 years behind grade level and the student/teacher ratio) on house prices. ...

This research has concentrated on the physical and socio-economic impacts of vegetation-based management scenarios targeting on flooding and soil erosion issues in the Ramian watersheds. The Ramian watershed with an approximate area of 24000 ha is located in Golestan, Iran. For each sub-watershed, four biological actions (activities) and 16 management scenarios have been considered. Physical im...

Purpose – To provide an interesting approach for determining interval measures, through the analytic hierarchy process, for integration with social network analysis for knowledge mapping in organizations. Design/methodology/approach – In order to develop improved organizational and business processes through knowledge management, a knowledge audit should be conducted to better understand the kn...

Social computing is an emerging research discipline. The number of publications on social computing has increased by 120% annually in the past four years. Despite the proliferation of studies in this area there is a lack of comprehensive, unified, and systematic characterization of this phenomenon. The definition and characterization of this phenomenon in the extant literature is diverse and fr...