Costruzione di un Sistema Informativo Geografico Digitale per analisi ambientali

Questo lavoro ha come obiettivo l’utilizzo del Geographical Information System (GIS) per effettuare analisi di sicurezza, monitoraggio e valutazioni di impatto ambientale. Oggi, la totalità delle operazioni GIS possono essere svolte con software open source e in questa sedi si è scelto di utilizzare il GIS GRASS (Geographic Resources Analysis Support System) disponibile nei termini della GNU public license (GPL), mostrando l’usabilità e le notevoli potenzialità di tale software, nonché la qualità dei prodotti ottenibili, mai inferiori ai prodotti e agli strumenti messi a disposizione dai più radicati e diffusi programmi proprietari. Nel capitolo 4, vedremo l’applicazione all’analisi delle conseguenze di ipotetici incidenti, durante le operazioni di dismissione dell’impianto di processamento del combustibile nucleare, di Bosco Marengo (AL). Nel capitolo 5, vedremo applicazioni nel campo del monitoraggio della qualità dell’aria tramite analisi di immagini satellitari.

Operational research applied to regional healthcare system

In this thesis we focus on optimization and simulation techniques applied to solve strategic, tactical and operational problems rising in the healthcare sector. At first we present three applications to Emilia-Romagna Public Health System (SSR) developed in collaboration with Agenzia Sanitaria e Sociale dell'Emilia-Romagna (ASSR), a regional center for innovation and improvement in health. Agenzia launched a strategic campaign aimed at introducing Operations Research techniques as decision making tools to support technological and organizational innovations. The three applications focus on forecast and fund allocation of medical specialty positions, breast screening program extension and operating theater planning. The case studies exploit the potential of combinatorial optimization, discrete event simulation and system dynamics techniques to solve resource constrained problem arising within Emilia-Romagna territory. We then present an application in collaboration with Dipartimento di Epidemiologia del Lazio that focuses on population demand of service allocation to regional emergency departments. Finally, a simulation-optimization approach, developed in collaboration with INESC TECH center of Porto, to evaluate matching policies for the kidney exchange problem is discussed.

3D Surveying and Data Management towards the Realization of a Knowledge System for Cultural Heritage

The research activities involved the application of the Geomatic techniques in the Cultural Heritage field, following the development of two themes: Firstly, the application of high precision surveying techniques for the restoration and interpretation of relevant monuments and archaeological finds. The main case regards the activities for the generation of a high-fidelity 3D model of the Fountain of Neptune in Bologna. In this work, aimed to the restoration of the manufacture, both the geometrical and radiometrical aspects were crucial. The final product was the base of a 3D information system representing a shared tool where the different figures involved in the restoration activities shared their contribution in a multidisciplinary approach. Secondly, the arrangement of 3D databases for a Building Information Modeling (BIM) approach, in a process which involves the generation and management of digital representations of physical and functional characteristics of historical buildings, towards a so-called Historical Building Information Model (HBIM). A first application was conducted for the San Michele in Acerboli’s church in Santarcangelo di Romagna. The survey was performed by the integration of the classical and modern Geomatic techniques and the point cloud representing the church was used for the development of a HBIM model, where the relevant information connected to the building could be stored and georeferenced. A second application regards the domus of Obellio Firmo in Pompeii, surveyed by the integration of the classical and modern Geomatic techniques. An historical analysis permitted the definitions of phases and the organization of a database of materials and constructive elements. The goal is the obtaining of a federate model able to manage the different aspects: documental, analytic and reconstructive ones.

El derecho fundamental de acceso a la información pública

Tanto en Italia como en España las personas han reivindicado que el ordenamiento jurídico reconozca un verdadero derecho de todos a acceder a la información pública de manera libre. En parte, esto ha sido así por la desafección de los ciudadanos con el sistema político que los ha llevado a reivindicar un rol más preponderante en los procesos de toma de decisiones públicas y a exigir una mayor eficiencia en la lucha contra la corrupción en el sector público. Con el libre acceso a la información pública se favorecen ambas cosas, ya que la información que posee el sector público resulta valiosísima para que los ciudadanos puedan enjuiciar de manera crítica «cómo se toman las decisiones que les afectan, cómo se manejan los fondos públicos o bajo qué criterios actúan nuestras instituciones» -apartado I del preámbulo de la LTAIBG-. Tradicionalmente, el derecho a acceder a los documentos públicos ha sido una cuestión vinculada al procedimiento administrativo y su ejercicio quedaba circunscrito a ser parte en el procedimiento. Este derecho ha sido el modelo seguido para la creación del derecho de acceso a la información público, aunque nace desvinculado del procedimiento administrativo en la medida en que tiene un fundamento democrático del que carece el derecho de acceso en el procedimiento administrativo. En esta tesis doctoral estudiamos las normas que han hecho posible que en Italia y España se cree este nuevo derecho político en el siglo XXI y su fundamento democrático. Concretamente, en Italia han sido el Decreto Legislativo 33/2013 y el Decreto Legislativo 97/2016 y en España la LTAIBG, las normas que han configurado este nuevo derecho.