6 papers
How do you know you won't like it if you've (never) tried it? Preference discovery and data design
Sebastiano Della Lena, Alessio Muscillo, Paolo Pin
Consumers discover their preferences through experience, yet the sequence and composition of those experiences are often designed by firms, digital platforms, or policymakers. We i…
The Rise and Fall of Ideas' Popularity
Piero Mazzarisi, Alessio Muscillo, Claudio Pacati +1
In the dynamic landscape of contemporary society, the popularity of ideas, opinions, and interests fluctuates rapidly. Traditional dynamical models in social sciences often fail to…
Circular City Index: An Open Data analysis to assess the urban circularity preparedness of cities to address the green transition -- A study on the Italian municipalities
Alessio Muscillo, Simona Re, Sergio Gambacorta +5
We present a circularity transition index based on open data principles and circularity of energy, material, and information. The aim of the Circular City Index is to provide data…
A note on (matricial and fast) ways to compute Burt's structural holes
Alessio Muscillo
In this note I derive simple formulas based on the adjacency matrix of a network to compute measures associated with Ronald S. Burt's structural holes (effective size, redundancy,…
Covid19: unless one gets everyone to act, policies may be ineffective or even backfire
Alessio Muscillo, Paolo Pin, Tiziano Razzolini
The diffusion of COVID19 is calling governments and public health authorities to interventions that limit new infections and contain the expected number of critical cases and death…
Spreading of an infectious disease between different locations
Alessio Muscillo, Paolo Pin, Tiziano Razzolini
The endogenous adaptation of agents, that may adjust their local contact network in response to the risk of being infected, can have the perverse effect of increasing the overall s…