This paper proposes an approach to economic assessment of the impact on tourist flows of the earthquake that hit the Umbria region in Central Italy on September 26, 1997. Local arrivals in Assisi fell drastically the month following the main shock, compared to the same month of the previous year. The event study methodology, frequently applied in finance, is employed to evaluate the statistical...

This paper describes how the detection of key audio events in a sports game (tennis) can be enhanced by the use of high-level information. High-level features are able to provide useful constraints on the detection procedure, and thus to improve detection performance. We define two types of event based information: event dependency and inter-event timing. These respectively characterize the ide...

In order for researchers to understand and predict behavior, they must consider both person and situation factors and how these factors interact. Even though organization researchers have developed interactional models, many have overemphasized either person or situation components, and most have failed to consider the effects that persons have on situations. This paper presents criteria for im...

STROBE is a system that provides object-oriented programming support tools for INTERLISP. It offers a primitive foundation with which more complex structured object representation schemes can be constructed. STROBE implements multiple resident knowledge bases, tangled generalization hierarchies, flexible inheritance of properties, procedural attachment, and event-sensitive procedure invocation.

The paper presents an evolved metamodel that has its origins in GERAM 1.6.3 but takes into considerations the needs of evolution of EA standards, including ISO 15704:2000 and ISO 42010:2000 – both currently under review.

M i s h e l & R o t h s t e i n , e d i t o r s In The Class Size Debate, two eminent economists debate the merits of smaller class sizes and the research methods used to measure the efficacy of this education reform measure. Alan Krueger (Princeton University) maintains that smaller class sizes can improve students’ performance and future earnings prospects. He challenges Prof. Hanushek’s wi...

This project was developed from the research network track at the 2012 Academic Emergency Medicine consensus conference on education research in emergency medicine (EM). Using a combination of consensus techniques, the modified Delphi method, and qualitative research methods, the authors describe multiple aspects of developing, implementing, managing, and growing an EM education research networ...

This paper analyses different types of Reference Models (RMs) applicable to support the set up and (re)configuration of virtual enterprises (VEs). RMs are models capturing concepts common to VEs aiming to convert the task of setting up of VE towards a configuration task, and hence reduce the time needed for VE creation. The RMs are analysed through a mapping onto the Virtual Enterprise Referenc...

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