Cohesion and balance in a human resource allocation problem

Collaborative work appears between intelligent agents of different types. The problem discussed occurred when many construction workers were taken to Germany from Romania to work in construction projects. Managers have to make independent groups of workers from some categories, like carpenters, brick layers, etc. To discover their collaborative attitudes they use the scoring method, where every worker scores the others from different trades. The objectives are to form groups of workers with high compatibility value and to have a high compatibility value for the worst group, too. The problem becomes more interesting if software collaborative groups or specialized intelligent agents are involved. One has to prospect also the level of knowledge overlap between the trade groups of agents. This paper resumes to the problem of construction workers so as there is no overlap between the trades and the level of knowledge is not in the universe of discourse. We propose a Greedy and a genetic algorithm approach and we compare these methods

Conference News: Social Policy in Mineral-Rich Countries

This document is part of a digital collection provided by the Martin P. Catherwood Library, ILR School, Cornell University, pertaining to the effects of globalization on the workplace worldwide. Special emphasis is placed on labor rights, working conditions, labor market changes, and union organizing.UNRISD_SocialPolicyInMineralRichCountries.pdf: 189 downloads, before Oct. 1, 2020

New Budget, New Regulations, New Strategies : the 2006 Reform of EU Cohesion Policy

Examines the reform of EU cohesion policy in 2006

THE EQUITY OF THE FINANCIAL ALLOCATIONS IN THE EUROPEAN UNION

In order to increase the degree of absorption of the post adherence funds it isrecomanded to use some general methods that must be implemented at the level of thedecisional structure in our country.Among these one must mention: the clear definition of the list of eligible expenditures and thegeneral rules of eligibility, the reduction of bureaucracy and the numerous formal aspects ,the quick promotion of eligibility guides for all the operational programs, the enhancement ofthe income level among the employees in the public administration sector for the purpose ofbalancing the cost and advantages related to the jobs involved in the management ofstructural funds and the loyalization of the employees, the enhancement of the degree ofresponsability of the local authorities in order to enhance the investments intended for theeconomical relaunching on a local area and the identification of viable posibilities for co-financing both for the public sector as well as for the privat one.financial alocation, absorption degree, structural funds, The European Union

Ex post evaluation of the management and implementation of cohesion policy 2000-06 (ERDF)

This report has been drafted by the European Policies Research Centre (University of Strathclyde) as part of an ex post evaluation of the management and implementation systems for Cohesion policy, 2000-06, which has been commissioned by DG REGIO and which is being managed by EPRC and Metis (Vienna) under European Commission contract no: 2007.CE.16.0.AT.034. The report provides an overview of the main features of management and implementation systems across the EU25 in the 2000-06 period (2004-06 for the EU10) and has been drafted by Professor John Bachtler, Laura Polverari and Frederike Gross, with assistance from Dr Sara Davies and Ruth Downes. The research is based on studies of individual countries undertaken by EPRC together with national experts from each of the EU25 Member States. The authors are grateful for helpful comments from the DG REGIO Evaluation Unit and Geographical Units, in particular Anna Burylo, Veronica Gaffey and Kai Stryczynski. Any errors or omissions remain the responsibility of the authors

Panel I: Connecting 2nd Law Analysis with Economics, Ecology and Energy Policy

The present paper is a review of several papers from the Proceedings of the Joint European Thermodynamics Conference, held in Brescia, Italy, 1–5 July 2013, namely papers introduced by their authors at Panel I of the conference. Panel I was devoted to applications of the Second Law of Thermodynamics to social issues—economics, ecology, sustainability, and energy policy. The concept called Available Energy which goes back to mid-nineteenth century work of Kelvin, Rankine, Maxwell and Gibbs, is relevant to all of the papers. Various names have been applied to the concept when interactions between the system of interest and an environment are involved. Today, the name exergy is generally accepted. The scope of the papers being reviewed is wide and they complement one another well

Market correctives, market palliatives and the new politics of European industrial and regional development

This paper argues that the New Economy paradigm and the interests of the more advanced EU Member states dominate current thinking on EU industrial and regional policy. European integration is driving a political economy of regionalism that—far more than traditional divisions between labour and capital—decisively defines the contours of “economic interests” in the New Europe and has the most significant impact on EU, national and subnational policy approaches. The New Economy paradigm is driving a radical shift in EU policy from cohesion or redistribution toward innova-tion promotion and affects distributional struggles at the EU, national and subnational levels. This shift has important implications for future EU in-dustrial and regional development policy goals. On the one hand, shifting strategies pose significant challenges at the national and subnational levels. While political decentralization dominates current discourse, national gov-ernments—in particular perhaps in the New Member states (NMS’s)—are more likely to favour centralized control over national and regional spend-ing priorities. On the other hand, seemingly at the expense of the NMS’s, the increasing concentration of EU funding on a large number of less ad-vanced economies is eroding the policy’s traditional support basis