Computational Science and Its Applications – ICCSA 2014: 14th International Conference, Guimarães, Portugal, June 30 – July 3, 2014, Proceedings, Part III

Front Matter....Pages -
The Sustainable Limit of the Real Estate Tax: An Urban-Scale Estimation Model....Pages 1-14
Evaluating Environmental Risk to Technological Hazards, Using GIS Spatial Decision Making....Pages 15-25
An Evaluation Model for the Actions in Supporting of the Environmental and Landscaping Rehabilitation of the Pasquasia’s Site Mining (EN)....Pages 26-41
The Senior as the Protagonist of the Future Economy: A Firm Case Study....Pages 42-50
Constructing Multi-attribute Value Functions for Sustainability Assessment of Urban Projects....Pages 51-64
An Econometric Analysis of Homeownership Determinants in Belgium....Pages 65-79
A Model to Support the Decision to Invest in Bare Dominium....Pages 80-89
A Choquet Integral Based Assessment Model of Projects of Urban Neglected Areas: A Case of Study....Pages 90-105
Clustering Analysis in a Complex Real Estate Market: The Case of Ortigia (Italy)....Pages 106-121
The Lifestyles of Families through Fuzzy C-Means Clustering....Pages 122-134
Evaluation of the Economic Sustainability of the projects in Social Housing....Pages 135-147
Urban Renewal and Real Option Analysis: A Case Study....Pages 148-160
Urban Redevelopment: A Multi-criteria Valuation Model Optimized through the Fuzzy Logic....Pages 161-175
Architectural Heritage Restoration Management: The Case of the Borgo of Cassibile (Italy)....Pages 176-191
Family Lifestyles through the Construction of a Structural Equation Modeling....Pages 192-207
Benchmarking Multi-criteria Evaluation: A Proposed Method for the Definition of Benchmarks in Negotiation Public-Private Partnerships....Pages 208-223
A DSS to Assess and Manage the Urban Performances in the Regeneration Plan: The Case Study of Pachino....Pages 224-239
The Impact of Intelligent Building Technologies on the Urban Environment....Pages 240-252
Time Scheduling Post Earthquake Reconstruction Ethics and Aesthetics into a WebGIS Interface....Pages 253-268
A Spatial Econometrics Analysis for Road Accidents in Lisbon....Pages 269-283
Sketching Smart and Fair Cities WebGIS and Spread Sheets in a Code....Pages 284-299
An Application of Analytic Network Process in the Planning Process: The Case of an Urban Transformation in Palermo (Italy)....Pages 300-314
VGI to Enhance Minor Historic Centres and Their Territorial Cultural Heritage....Pages 315-329
Marginality and/or Centrality of the Open Spaces in the Strategies for Upgrading the Energy Efficiency of the City....Pages 330-344
Sensitivity Analysis of Spatial Autocorrelation Using Distinct Geometrical Settings: Guidelines for the Urban Econometrician....Pages 345-356
Fighting in the Shadows: Health Policies and Data Availability about HIV/AIDS A Case Study in Apulia (Italy)....Pages 357-365
How to Build Territorial Networks: Criteria for the Evaluation of the Networking Potential for Local Self-sustainable Development....Pages 366-381
Complex Values-Based Approach for Multidimensional Evaluation of Landscape....Pages 382-397
Valuing Cultural Landscape Services: A Multidimensional and Multi-group SDSS for Scenario Simulations....Pages 398-413
Methods and Techniques for Integrated Mesoscale and Microscale Analysis of Urban Thermal Behavior: The Case of Bari (Italy)....Pages 414-429
“Scrapping” of Quarters and Urban Renewal: A Geostatistic-Based Evaluation....Pages 430-445
Spatial Multicrierial Evaluation of Soil Consumption as a Tool for SEA....Pages 446-458
The Economic Effect of Sale of Italian Public Property: A Relevant Question of Real Estate Appraisal....Pages 459-470
Web Potential to Promote Equity Planning Practices....Pages 471-482
Classical and Bayesian Goodness-of-fit Tests for the Exponential Model: A Comparative Study....Pages 483-497
Predictive Models for Mutation Carriers in Brugada Syndrome Screening....Pages 498-511
Outlier Detection and Robust Variable Selection for Least Angle Regression....Pages 512-522
Forecasting Household Packaging Waste Generation: A Case Study....Pages 523-538
Distributions Families in Counting Bacteria for Compound Sampling....Pages 539-551
Item Response Models in Computerized Adaptive Testing: A Simulation Study....Pages 552-565
Accommodating Maternal Age in CRIB Scale: Quantifying the Effect on the Classification....Pages 566-579
Joint Modelling for Longitudinal and Time-to-Event Data: Application to Liver Transplantation Data....Pages 580-593
Performance Comparison of Screening Tests for POAG for T2DM Using Comp2ROC Package....Pages 594-605
Degradation Prediction Model for Friction in Highways....Pages 606-614
Design and Deployment of a Dynamic-Coupling Tool for EFDC....Pages 615-624
Taking Account of Uncertain, Imprecise and Incomplete Data in Sustainability Assessments in Agriculture....Pages 625-639
Variables Selection for Ecotoxicity and Human Toxicity Characterization Using Gamma Test....Pages 640-652
A Multiobjective Model for Biodiesel Blends Minimizing Cost and Greenhouse Gas Emissions....Pages 653-666
An Integrated Approach for Exploring Opportunities and Vulnerabilities of Complex Territorial Systems....Pages 667-681
Air Pollution Mapping Using Nonlinear Land Use Regression Models....Pages 682-690
Towards Prospective Life Cycle Assessment: How to Identify Key Parameters Inducing Most Uncertainties in the Future? Application to Photovoltaic Systems Installed in Spain....Pages 691-706
A New Approach to Optimization with Life Cycle Assessment: Combining Optimization with Detailed Process Simulation....Pages 707-720
The Role of Boundary Conditions in Water Quality Modeling....Pages 721-733
A Sequential Data Preprocessing Tool for Data Mining....Pages 734-746
Delivering User Stories for Implementing Logical Software Architectures by Multiple Scrum Teams....Pages 747-762
Monitoring the Professional Evolution of Graduates with Multiagent Systems....Pages 763-778
Topic-Based Data Merging and Routing Scheme in Many-to-Many Communication for WSNs....Pages 779-794
A Physical-Geometric Approach to Model Thin Dynamical Structures in CAD Systems....Pages 795-808
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