Socio-Economic Planning Sciences

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Volume 96, issue C, 2024

Revisiting the small-world property of co-enrollment networks: A network analysis of hybrid course delivery strategies

Di Wu, Hanna Hamilton, Liam Jagrowski, Dima Nazzal and Lauren N. Steimle

The development planning of the Italian Mezzogiorno: A statistical-mathematical analysis by a Real Business Cycle model

Rosa Ferrentino and Luca Vota

An ellipse-based locating method for flexible deployment of emergency UAVs

Jinqiu Zhao, Le Yu and Binglei Xie

Efficiency analysis of the innovation-driven sustainable logistics industry

Mustapha D. Ibrahim, Miguel Alves Pereira and Paulo Caldas

Circular economy convergence across European Union: Evidence on the role policy diffusion and domestic mechanisms

Roberta Arbolino, Raffaele Boffardi, L. De Simone, G. Ioppolo and Alexandra Lopes

From resources to capital: Investigating the efficiency of forest ecosystem products value realization in China

Jia Lou, Guo-liang Yang, Lijian Song and Kai-di Liu

Scenario analysis of livestock-related PM2.5 pollution based on a new heteroskedastic spatiotemporal model

Jacopo Rodeschini, Alessandro Fassò, Francesco Finazzi and Alessandro Fusta Moro

Measuring sustainable performance of OECD countries considering CO2 emissions: A new optimistic-pessimistic distance friction Minimization Model

Habib Zare Ahmadabadi, Fatemeh Zamzam, Ali Emrouznejad, Alireza Naser Sadrabadi and Ali Morovati Sharifabadi

The efficiency of residency training and health outcomes in China: Based on two-stage DEA and cluster analysis

Guangwei Deng, Yongbin Pan, Chenpeng Feng and Liang Liang

Spatial correlation network and influencing factors analysis of supply efficiency of basic public service (SEBPS) in rust belt regions of China: An empirical study from Northeast China

Youmeng Ji, Xiangli Wu and Limin Wang

Designing a new robust solid waste recycling network under uncertainty: A case study about circular economy transition

Yilin Wang, Yankui Liu and Huili Pei

Defensive resource allocation in terrorism conflict management based on graph model with relative preferences

Yi Liu, Xia Chen, Jun Zhuang and Yucheng Dong

Logistics planning for direct temporary disaster housing assistance under demand uncertainty

Sheng-Yin Chen, Yongjia Song, Dustin Albright and Weichiang Pang

Equity and sustainability in the health care market: Socio-economic analysis of governance and reforms

Lucia Leporatti and Ching-to Ma

Spatial analysis of technical efficiency in the provision of local public goods: The case of Chilean mining municipalities

Cristóbal Vásquez-Quezada and Mauricio Oyarzo

A PLS-Hierarchical Path Modeling approach to analyze and address gender equality in the EU countries

Rosanna Cataldo, Clelia Cascella, Maria Gabriella Grassia, Carlo Natale Lauro and Viktoriya Voytsekhovska

Integrated sustainability perspective and spillover effects of social, environment and economic pillars: A case study using SEY model

Hao Huang and Faeze Akbari

Measuring business impacts on the sustainability of European-listed firms

D’Ecclesia, Rita Laura, Susanna Levantesi and Kevyn Stefanelli

A reassessment of graduation modeling for policy design

Matteo Corsi, Enrico di Bella and Luca Persico

Assessing airline efficiency with a network DEA model: A Z-number approach with shared resources, undesirable outputs, and negative data

Zijiang Yang, Hashem Omrani and Raha Imanirad

Technical efficiency and managerial ability in two-stage production processes with undesirable products: A case on Asian banks

Alireza Amirteimoori and Gang Kou

Machine learning embedded hybrid MCDM model to mitigate decision uncertainty in transport safety planning for OAS countries

Weijie Zhou, Hanrui Feng, Zeyu Guo, Huating Jia, Yue Li, Xinyue Luo, Siwei Ran, Hanming Zhang, Ziyu Zhou, Jiakai Yuan, Jiaxin Liu, Shijie Sun and Faan Chen

Integrating SEM, Wald test and ANOM to disentangle the effect of TMT functional background on strategic plans

Fabrizia Sarto, Sara Saggese, Emmadonata Carbone and Pasquale Sarnacchiaro

The economic impact of terrorism in South Asia

Chang Meng and Noorulhaq Ghafoori

Impact of political relationships on virtual land flow from China's food trade

Guohua Ni, Man Teng, Bin Su and Zhenling Chen

Towards spatially disaggregated cocaine supply chain modeling

Nicholas R. Magliocca, Ridvan Aksu, Kendra McSweeney, Hashir Tanveer, Kevin M. Curtin and Burcu Keskin

Regional development and intellectual capital: Unveiling the innovation-tradition dilemma

Pierluigi Toma and Patricia Laurens

What about QR codes on wine bottles? A statistical analysis of technology's influence on purchase decisions among Italian wine consumers

Nino Adamashvili, Alessia Spada, Mariantonietta Fiore and Caterina Tricase

Simulation of migration paths using agent-based modeling: The case of Syrian refugees en route to Turkey

Özlem Güngör, Dilek Günneç, Sibel Salman and Eda Yücel

Adaptable solutions for retail supply chain resilience in the post-COVID-19 era

Ifeyinwa Juliet Orji and Chukwuebuka Martinjoe U-Dominic

The impact of a low-carbon transport system policy on total factor carbon emission performance: Evidence from 283 cities in China

Li-juan Si, Hao-yu Cao and Jian Wang

Enhancing enterprise investment efficiency through artificial intelligence: The role of accounting information transparency

Xin Zhao, Guoqing Zhai, Vincent Charles, Tatiana Gherman, Hyoungsuk Lee, Tuan Pan and Yuping Shang

Multi-period emergency facility location-routing problems under uncertainty and risk aversion

Qing-Mi Hu, Yan Hu and Xiaoping Li

Optimizing public sector resources: A centralized DEA model for effective allocation of shared inputs

Sheng-Wei Lin and Wen-Min Lu

An optimization framework to provide volunteers with task selection autonomy and group opportunities

Milan Preet Kaur, Jennifer A. Pazour and Rosemonde Ausseil

Exploring the role of governance in determining public-private investment in energy: New empirical insights from ASEAN

Dong Peng, Umar Farooq, Mohammad Mahtab Alam and Khurshid Khudoykulov

Intergenerational transmission of disadvantages in the Italian labour market

Elena Fabrizi, Isabella Sulis, Annalisa Busetta and Giancarlo Ragozini

Are outstanding researchers also top teachers? Exploring the link between research quality and teaching quality

Paolo Coccorese, Dell’Anno, Roberto and Marialuisa Restaino

Evaluating the effects of digital finance on urban poverty

Zhimin Duan, Fangjie Yuan and Zhengjie Tian

A Kansei engineering-based decision-making method for offline medical service quality evaluation with multidimensional attributes

Yujia Liu, Xinru Ren, Feixia Ji, Changyong Liang and Jian Wu

Investigating water sustainability towards indicators: An empirical illustration using country-level data

Riccardo Ievoli, Rosa Vinciguerra and Adriana Bruno

Measurement and comparison of different dimensions of renewable energy policy implementation in the agricultural sector

Somayeh Dehhaghi, Shahla Choobchian and Hossein Azadi

Low-carbon route optimization model for multimodal freight transport considering value and time attributes

Xinghui Chen, Xinghua Hu and Haobing Liu

A hybrid MCDM framework for assessing urban competitiveness: A case study of European cities

Özcan Işık, Mohsin Shabir and Sarbast Moslem

I like participatory museums but, how much? Embedding demand-side value in assessing strategies

Jonathan Daniel Gómez-Zapata, María José Del Barrio-Tellado, Fátima Espinosa-Casero and Luis César Herrero-Prieto

Variable RTS in hierarchical network DEA: Enhancing efficiency in higher education systems

Siwei Xiao, Marios Kremantzis, Leonidas Sotirios Kyrgiakos, Aniekan Essien and George Vlontzos

Volume 95, issue C, 2024

Sustainable supply chain decision-making in the automotive industry: A data-driven approach

Hanieh Zareian Beinabadi, Vahid Baradaran and Alireza Rashidi Komijan

Hybrid model for evaluating the transformation of China’s resource-based cities

Song Pu and Chang Xia

A decision analytics approach for sustainable urbanization using q-rung orthopair fuzzy soft set-based Aczel–Alsina aggregation operators

Aurang Zeb, Waseem Ahmad, Muhammad Asif, Tapan Senapati, Vladimir Simic and Muzhou Hou

An investment evaluation and incentive allocation model for public-private partnerships in renewable energy development projects

Sobhan Mostafayi Darmian, Madjid Tavana and Samuel Ribeiro-Navarrete

Simultaneous inference for proportions in multivariate stratified random sampling without replacement for service quality control using multiple choice questions

Paolo Carmelo Cozzucoli

The performance of the Martini Index in terms of aggregativity: An application on EU KLEMS data

Andrea Marletta and Biancamaria Zavanella

Factor-Augmented Autoregressive Neural Network to forecast NOx in the city of Madrid

Gema Fernández-Avilés, Raffaele Mattera and Germana Scepi

Integrating multiple data sources to measure sustainable tourism in Italian regions

Fabrizio Antolini, Ivan Terraglia and Samuele Cesarini

Comparative clustering and visualization of socioeconomic and health indicators: A case of Kenya

Evans Kiptoo Korir

Real-time nowcasting the monthly unemployment rates with daily Google Trends data

Eduardo André Costa, Maria Eduarda Silva and Ana Beatriz Galvão

Integrated planning of emergency supply pre-positioning and victim evacuation

Wenjie Yang, Aakil M. Caunhye, Maolin Zhuo and Qingyi Wang

Unravelling the influence of formal and informal institutions on the duration of public concessions

Jorge Fleta-Asín, Fernando Muñoz and Carlos Sáenz-Royo

Service area delineation to support on-demand mobility for the transport disadvantaged

Alan T. Murray, Khaled Shammout, Randall Farwell, Kayla Huetten and Taylor Cox

Does the clusters of high-speed railway network match the urban agglomerations? A case study in China

Zhaojing Wang, Xianxing Ye and Xiaoping Ma

Does pro-environmental consumption contribute to subjective well-being? Empirical evidence from Italy

Rashad Mammadli and Chiara Gigliarano

Environmental performance of countries. Examining the effect of diverse institutional factors in a metafrontier approach

Cristian Barra and Pasquale Marcello Falcone

Financial constraints prediction to lead socio-economic development: An application of neural networks to the Italian market

G.G. Calabrese, G. Falavigna and Roberto Ippoliti

Optimal restoration of power infrastructure following a disaster with environmental hazards

Rachel Moglen, Benjamin D. Leibowicz, Alexis Kwasinski and Grant Cruse

A framework of index system for gauging the sustainability of iranian provinces by fusing analytical hierarchy process (AHP) and rough set theory (RST)

Faramarz Khosravi and Gokhan Izbirak

Semi-parametric approach for modelling overdispersed count data with application to Industry 4.0

S. Bonnini, M. Borghesi and M. Giacalone

Drivers of inflationary shocks and spillovers between Europe and the United States

Javier Sánchez García, Emilio Galdeano Gómez and Salvador Cruz Rambaud

Towards net zero healthcare transport operations in Indonesia: A total cost of ownership approach

Luluk Lusiantoro, Setyo Tri Windras Mara and Achmad Pratama Rifai

NEET status duration and socio-economic background

Elena Fabrizi and Antonella Rocca

The spatial effect of financial openness on high-quality economic development: Evidence from provincial-level data in China

Huan Zheng and Shaofan Wu

Sustainability and high-level corruption in healthcare procurement: Profiles of Italian contracting authorities

Simone Del Sarto, Michela Gnaldi and Niccolò Salvini

Relief item inventory planning under centralized and decentralized bilateral cooperation and uncertain transshipment quantities

Abdullah Coskun, F. Sibel Salman and Amirreza Pashapour

The robustification of distance-based linear models: Some proposals

Eva Boj and Aurea Grané

A stochastic programming model for free-floating shared bike redistribution considering bike gathering

Xiaozhou He and Qingyi Wang

On the road to sustainability: The role of board characteristics in driving ESG performance in Africa

Paolo Agnese, Francesca Romana Arduino, Emma Bruno and Gianfranco Antonio Vento

Outbreak and integration of social media in public health surveillance systems: A policy review through BERT embedding technique

Milena Lopreite, Michelangelo Misuraca and Michelangelo Puliga

DEA-driven risk management framework for oil supply chains

Adel Hatami-Marbini, John Otu Asu, Khalid Hafeez and Pegah Khoshnevis

Are listed banks only pretending to be more social?

Jose Torres-Pruñonosa, Leire San-Jose, Jose Antonio Clemente-Almendros and Jose-Luis Retolaza

Cultural heritage and economic development: measuring sustainability over time

Carla Galluccio and Francesca Giambona

Can cycling compensate the distributional inequity of public service facilities? Evidence from Shenzhen, China

Conghui Zhou and Jiangyan Chen

Between policy swings and financial shockwaves: Asymmetric impact of economic policy uncertainty on financial stability in high-volatility nations

Jie Wu, Zeeshan Rasool, Sajid Ali and Raima Nazar

Vaccination equilibrium: Externality and efficiency

Ching-to Ma

The formation of attendee loyalty at cultural festivals. What role for knowledge and authenticity?

Francesca Rivetti, Carla Rossi and Antonio Lucadamo

Reevaluating national innovation systems: An index based on dynamic-network data envelopment analysis

Abdel Latef Anouze, May Mohamed Al Khalifa and Odeh Rashed Al-Jayyousi

A new intuitionistic fuzzy scheme of data envelopment analysis for evaluating rural comprehensive health service centers

Ali Mahmoodirad, Dragan Pamucar and Sadegh Niroomand

Multidimensional statistical analysis of social inequalities in Italy

Paola Perchinunno, Samuela L'Abbate, Corrado Crocetta and Leonardo Salvatore Alaimo

Adopting the fuzzy approach to analyze food poverty in Italy: A study on vulnerable households using household budget survey data

Ilaria Benedetti, Federico Crescenzi, Tiziana Laureti and Luca Secondi

How did Internet usage affect life satisfaction before and after COVID-19? Mediating effects and heterogeneity analysis

Ying Jiang, Yong Xie and Qinglong Shao

Validating Benfordness on contaminated data

Marco Di Marzio, Stefania Fensore and Chiara Passamonti

An evolutionary game for analysis of implementation strategies in inter-regional diffusion of clean technology

Yong-cong Yang, Hui-ting Liu and Li-bing Liu

Evaluation of mitigation initiatives for simultaneous air pollution and municipal solid waste systems: A System Dynamics Approach

Lorena Espinoza Pérez, Andrea Espinoza Pérez and Óscar C. Vásquez

A new approach for assessing the probability of museum opening choices and its spatial continuity

Claudia Cappello, Sandra De Iaco and Sabrina Maggio

Cross-sectional and spatial panel data analysis of territorial economic cohesion in the European Union regions based on convergence approach: From 2 to 8 per cent?

Fernando Isla-Castillo, Anna Garashchuk and Pablo Podadera-Rivera

Sustainable propulsion technology selection in penultimate mile delivery using the FullEX-AROMAN method

Sara Bošković, Libor Švadlenka, Stefan Jovčić, Vladimir Simic, Momčilo Dobrodolac and Akram Elomiya

Exploring the territorial unevenness of one-person households and contextual factors of vulnerability: Evidence from the Italian context

Federico Benassi, Alessia Naccarato and Pierluigi Vellucci

Enhanced methodology to assess business research community serving extended realities movement

Shahryar Sorooshian

Religious involvement in the context of public moral standards and sustainable social development – A case study of Polish voivodeships

Katarzyna Pawlewicz and Adam Senetra

Evaluating the impact of a 24-hour economy on Ghana's economic landscape: A computable general equilibrium approach

Yakubu Abdul-Salam

Functional clustering of NPLs recovery curves

Alessandra Carleo and Roberto Rocci

Exploring the impacts of major events on the global oil and food markets

Guohua Ni, Man Teng, Zhenling Chen, Yunsong Wu, Wenjia He and Bin Su

Planning improvements through data envelopment analysis (DEA) benchmarking based on a selection of peers

Fernando Borrás, José L. Ruiz and Inmaculada Sirvent

Multi-class random forest model to classify wastewater treatment imbalanced data

Veronica Distefano, Monica Palma and Sandra De Iaco

Investors’ attention and network spillover for commodity market forecasting

Roy Cerqueti, Valerio Ficcadenti and Raffaele Mattera

Impact of high-speed rail on city attractiveness

Junmei Cheng and Zhenhua Chen

Impact of COVID-19 preventive measures on electricity demand: Evidence from Colombia

Laura Victoria Quintero Gutiérrez, John García Rendón and Alejandro Gutiérrez Gómez

The dynamic effects of oil supply shock on China: Evidence from the TVP-Proxy-VAR approach

Changchun Pan, Yuzhe Huang and Chien-Chiang Lee

Resilience optimization in disruption-prone sustainable reverse supply chains for lead-acid battery waste management in Brazil: A stochastic model for public and private policy formulation

Wesley Douglas Oliveira Silva, Marcele Elisa Fontana, Hugo Leonardo Belarmino, Natallya Levino and Pedro Carmona Marques

Comparative analysis of recent changes in the dietary behavior of Italian and US consumers: The made in Italy market and its factorial conceptualization

Maria Giovanna Onorati, d’Ovidio, Francesco D., Angela M. D'Uggento and Ernesto Toma

Aggregating judgments in non negotiable group decisions in transport systems

Pietro Amenta

Robust learning of staged tree models: A case study in evaluating transport services

Manuele Leonelli and Gherardo Varando

Predicting transit ridership using an agent-based modeling approach

Md Mahmudul Huque Chayan and Cinzia Cirillo

Measuring the impact of the 2008 and 2011 financial crises and the 2015 recovery on the unemployment rate in Italy

Lucio Masserini, Matilde Bini, Alessandro Zeli and Alessia Forciniti

Assessing the impact of carbon quota allocation in enhancing supply chain members emission reduction and advertising efforts

Ke Jiang, Die Wang, Liping Xu and Feng Wang

Spatial clusters for demand and supply of early childhood education and care services in Italy

Angela Andreella, Emanuele Aliverti, Federico Caldura and Stefano Campostrini

Assessing vehicle interdiction strategies on a complex transportation network: A simulation-based study

Sukanya Samanta, Goutam Sen, Jatin Uniyal and Soumya Kanti Ghosh

Impact of power outages depends on who loses it: Equity-informed grid resilience planning via stochastic optimization

Gizem Toplu-Tutay, John J. Hasenbein and Erhan Kutanoglu

The spatially differentiated impact of high-speed railway on accessibility and socio-economic development of developing regions: A study in southwest China

Rui Zhou, Yang Yu, Zi Wang, Liuyang Dong and Xunrui Luo

A new composite index to assess environmental consciousness using survey data and big data: Empirical evidence from European consumers

Ida D'Attoma and Marco Ieva

Exploring the nexus between ESG risk variations and investment preferences: Insights from sustainable ETFs during the COVID-19 era

Giovanni Catello Landi, Lorenzo Turriziani, Valerio Muto and Irene Ricciardi

Differentiated health insurance policy for coordinating healthcare referral in hierarchical healthcare systems with an internet diagnosis platform

Miao Yu, Zhi-Yu Li and Yu Zhao

The non-linear effect of income on the shadow economy

Maria Rosaria Alfano, Salvatore Capasso, Salvatore Ciucci and Nicola Spagnolo

Assessing tourism sustainability in European Union countries: A multi-directional benefit of the doubt composite indicator

Francesca Giambona, Alessandro Magrini and Elisa Fusco

WHO non-communicable diseases Global Monitoring Framework: Pandemic resilience in sub-Saharan Africa and Low-income Countries

Shimaa Elkomy and Tim Jackson

Matrix-based network data envelopment analysis: A common set of weights approach

Pejman Peykani, Fatemeh Sadat Seyed Esmaeili, Mir Saman Pishvaee, Mohsen Rostamy-Malkhalifeh and Farhad Hosseinzadeh Lotfi

Sample selection bias in non-traditional lending: A copula-based approach for imbalanced data

Raffaella Calabrese, Silvia Angela Osmetti and Luca Zanin

Workload balancing for the nurse scheduling problem: A real-world case study from a French hospital

Alaouchiche Yasmine, Ouazene Yassine, Yalaoui Farouk and Chehade Hicham

A mathematical framework of SMS reminder campaigns for pre- and post-diagnosis check-ups using socio-demographics: An in-silco investigation into breast cancer

Elizaveta Savchenko, Ariel Rosenfeld and Svetlana Bunimovich-Mendrazitsky

Strategic socioeconomic planning to address ecological footprints in an uncertain economic landscape

Juan Ma, Jubao Zhang, Sajid Ali, Raima Nazar and Muhammad Khalid Anser

An innovative patient clustering method using data envelopment Analysis–Discriminant analysis and artificial neural networks: A case study in healthcare systems

Saeed Yousefi, Reza Farzipoor Saen, Hadi Shabanpour and Kian Ghods

Stage stochastic incremental data envelopment analysis models and applications

Bo-wen Wei, Yi-yi Ma and Ai-bing Ji