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The institutional governance of many network industries has been undergoing fundamental developments over the last two decades driven by liberalization efforts and industry restructuring programs aiming at an improvement of the sector performance. Experien ...
Regulation of the European railway sector remains a central issue in the framework of the current liberalization process. From a regulatory perspective, the patchwork of national legislations and the delays in transposing and implementing the European Dire ...
In this paper we focus on risk and uncertainty caused by the (1) discretionary behavior of regulatory bodies and (2) the instruments and mechanisms implemented to regulate public services in general and the postal sector in particular. In previous articles ...
Systemic risks and hazards have become increasingly significant features of modern industrial society of which the network industries form a vital element. The idea of systemic risk, however, is much less prominent in the network industries compared to ban ...
The European railway sector is undergoing dramatic changes. During the still ongoing liberalization process most vertically-integrated railway operators have already been “unbundled”. The shift from integrated to disintegrated companies coupled with the in ...
The aim of this thesis is to understand the World as a full-fledged object, namely as the space of a society. This objective is at the same time necessary and problematic. It is necessary because the sudden end of the Cold War entailed the need of new conc ...
IRGC defines risk governance deficits as deficiencies (where elements are lacking) or failures (where actions are not taken or prove unsuccessful) in risk governance structures and processes. They hinder a fair and efficient risk governance process. The de ...
The paper studies a distributed implementation method for the BIP (Behavior, Interaction, Priority) component framework for modeling heterogeneous systems. BIP offers two powerful mechanisms for describing composition of components by combining interaction ...
This report comprises an overview of bioenergy developments and policies, a commentary on these developments which highlights some of the opportunities and risks of bioenergy, and presents the International Risk Governance Council’s risk governance guideli ...
We study the problem of distributed estimation over adaptive networks where a collection of nodes are required to estimate in a collaborative manner some parameter of interest from their measurements. The centralized solution to the problem uses a fusion c ...
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