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On the efficiency of the new Italian Senate and the role of 5 Stars Movement: Comparison among different possible scenarios by means of a virtual Parliament model
A. Pluchino, A. Rapisarda, C. Garofalo +2
The recent 2013 Italian elections are over and the situation that President Napolitano will have to settle soon for the formation of the new government is not the simplest one. Aft…
Agent-based simulation of pedestrian behaviour in closed spaces: a museum case study
Alessandro Pluchino, Cesare Garofalo, Giuseppe Inturri +2
In order to analyse the behaviour of pedestrians at the very fine scale, while moving along the streets, in open spaces or inside a building, simulation modelling becomes an essent…
Accidental Politicians: How Randomly Selected Legislators Can Improve Parliament Efficiency
A. Pluchino, C. Garofalo, A. Rapisarda +2
We study a prototypical model of a Parliament with two Parties or two Political Coalitions and we show how the introduction of a variable percentage of randomly selected independen…
Efficient Promotion Strategies in Hierarchical Organizations
Alessandro Pluchino, Andrea Rapisarda, Cesare Garofalo
The Peter principle has been recently investigated by means of an agent-based simulation and its validity has been numerically corroborated. It has been confirmed that, within cert…
The Peter Principle Revisited: A Computational Study
Alessandro Pluchino, Andrea Rapisarda, Cesare Garofalo
In the late sixties the Canadian psychologist Laurence J. Peter advanced an apparently paradoxical principle, named since then after him, which can be summarized as follows: {\it '…