The circular semiosis of Giorgio Prodi

Pietro Giorgio Lovaglio

In this paper we propose a methodology for the estimation of Customer Satisfaction (CS) conceived as a Latent variable (LV) specified in the American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI) structural model. The current proposal puts forward: the approaches of structural equations based on LISREL (Joreskog, 1978), since it involves the dual problem of indeterminacy of the latent scores and the norma...

Giorgio Pochetti

Cooperation ∗ Giorgio Gallo

After a discussion on the relevance of ethics in Operations Research, two approaches to the ethical discourse, one based on rules and the other based on principles and values, are analyzed. Then, two ethical principles, which can help O.R. researchers and practitioners in their activity are discussed in some detail. The first is the “responsibility principle”, proposed in a more general context...

The Legislative Activity of the Government in Figures: The Prodi I, Berlusconi II, Prodi II and Berlusconi IV Executives Compared

This article evaluates the legislative activity of the fourth Berlusconi government, eighteen months after it took office, against other ‘majoritarian’ governments of the most recent past, namely Prodi I and II and Berlusconi II. It considers the overall volume of legislative activity of the four executives and the types of measures they sought to promote in Parliament (with particular attentio...

Some Considerations on Artificial Semiosis

Meaning is a central problem in intelligent systems design. Most approaches in literature still adopt a strict symbolic definition of meaning, which usually results in deficiencies such as the symbol grounding problem. The objective of this research is to come up with a computational model of the emergence of meaning in autonomous agents based on the pragmatic notion of sign as defined by Charl...