Publications

in the past years I produced a steady flow of publications including international peer-reviewed journals papers, conference proceedings and official reports. Moreover I presented my work in several international conferences and summer schools.

Here you can find the complete list of my publications, or click here for the list of my presentations.

27) “Towards a set of composite indicator to measure the Flexicurity concept: the dimension of Active Labour Market Policies.” - M.Mascherini - European Commission Institute for the Protection and Security of the Citizen. EUR REPORT EN (2009)

26) “Recommended practices in Global Sensitivity Analysis” – A.Saltelli, D.Vidoni, M.Mascherini - in Uncertainties in Environmental Modelling and Consequences for Policy Making (eds P.Baveye, J.Mysiak and M.Laba) – NATO Science for Peace and Security Series - Springer (2009)

25) ―The Characterization of Active Citizenship in Europe‖ – M.Mascherini and B.Hoskins – Proceedings of the Eurostat International Conference on New Technologies and Techniques in Statistics – Eurostat Publications (2009)

24) ―Learning Bayesian Networks representing influence relations among genes‖ – M.Mascherini – Proceedings of the International Conference on Computational Intelligence for Control, Modelling and Automation. IEEE Computer Society (2009, in press)

23) ―La partecipazione sociale in Europa: il caso dell’Europa Mediterranea‖ – M.Mascherini and D.Vidoni – Rivista della Società Italiana di Economia, Demografia e Statistica. (2009) in press.

22) ―Building a composite indicator to measure Actvie Citizenship in Europe‖ – M.Mascherini and B. Hoskins – Proceedings of the 3MC International Conference on Survey Methods in Multicultural, Multinational and Multiregional contexts. CSDI (2008)

21) ―Propuesta para medir la cohesion social europea a traves de sus sistemas educativos‖ – D.Vidoni e M.Mascherini in ―Politicas Educativas para la cohesion social.‖ – Fundacion Europea Sociedad y Educacion Publication (2008)

20) ―Towards a set of composite indicator to measure the Flexicurity concept: the dimension of Life Long Learning.‖ - M.Mascherini - European Commission Institute for the Protection and Security of the Citizen. EUR 23516 EN (2008)

19) ―MASTINO: Learning Bayesian Networks Using R.‖ – M. Mascherini, F. Frascati and F.M. Stefanini. Proceeding of COMPSTAT 2008 – International Conference on Computational Statistics – Springer (2008)

18) ―Measuring Active Citizenship through the development of a composite indicator‖ – M.Mascherini & B. Hoskins. – (2008) Social Indicator Research: 90(3) pp 458-485 – Springer.

17) ―The importance of social reality for Europe's economy an application to civil participation‖ M.Canoy, F.Lerais, M.Mascherini, A.Saltelli, D.Vidoni - Proceedings of the Second OECD World Forum on "Statistics, Knowledge and Policy, Istanbul – OECD publication (2008)

16) ―Retrieving expert opinion on weights for the Active Citizenship Composite Indicator‖- Mascherini, M. & Hoskins B. European Commission Institute for the Protection and Security of the Citizen EUR23515 EN.(2008)

15) ―The Characterization of the Participation in Europe: Evidences from the European Social Survey 2002‖ – M.Mascherini, A.Saltelli, D.Vidoni EUR Report EN, Institute for the Protection and Security of the Citizen; Ispra(VA), Italia 2007

14)―La qualificazione dei costi di implementazione degli Ias/Ifrs in Italia‖ – M.Sorrentino and M.Mascherini in ―Intangible assets. Principi contabili, modalità di reporting e tecniche di valutazione‖ - Giuseppe Fabbrini and Antonio Ricciardi . Franco Angeli Editore, Italia -2007.

13) ―Exploring eBusiness Readiness Indicators using Bayesian Networks‖ M.Mascherini – Classification and Data Analysis, book of short paper. Pp 595 -599 UOM edition, 2007

12) ―Using weak prior information on structures to learn Bayesian Networks‖. M.Mascherini and F.M. Stefanini, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, n.4962 Vol.1. pp 413—421 - Springer and Verlag, 2007.

11) ―An Additive model to normalize spotted arrays using spike controls‖. F.M. Stefanini, M.Mascherini, M.L.Brandi, C.Mavilia. Proceedings of the Conference of the Internationa Biometric Society (Italian Region), 2007.

10) ―Forth European Community Innovation Survey: Strengths and Weaknesses of European Countries‖ – F. Celikel-Esser, S.Tarantola, M.Mascherini. , EUR Report EN, Institute for the Protection and Security of the Citizen; Ispra(VA), Italia 2007

9) ―Measuring Active Citizenship in Europe‖ – B.Hoskins, J.Johesinghaus, M.Mascherini, G.Munda, M.Nardo, M.Saisana, D. Van Nijilen, D.Vidoni, E. Villalba Garcia. EUR Report 22530EN, Institute for the Protection and Security of the Citizen; Ispra(VA), Italia 2006

8) ―An econometric analysis of the impact of the eBusiness Readiness indicatorts on Labour Productivity growth and Multi-Factor Productivity‖ – M.Mascherini, EUR Report EN, Institute for the Protection and Security of the Citizen; Ispra(VA), Italia 2006

7) ―MASTINO: A Suite of R Functions to learn Bayesian Networks from data‖ – M.Mascherini, - Proceedings of UseR! International Conference of R Users, Vienna(Austria), 2006.

6) ―Encoding Structural Prior Information to Learn Bayesian Networks‖ – M.Mascherini and F.M. Stefanini, Working Paper del Dipartimento di Statistica ―G.Parenti‖ dell’Università degli Studi di Firenze; n°13, 2005.

5) ―M-GA: a Genetic Algorithm to search for the best conditional gaussian Bayesian Networks.‖ – M.Mascherini and F.M. Stefanini, Proceedings of the IEEE international conference on Computational Intelligence for Modelling, Control and Automation ; The IEEE Computational Intelligence Society 2005.

4) ―Database Quality Control‖ – M.Mascherini and C.Martelli, in ―The Statistical Information System of the Municipality of Florence‖ – L.Buzzigoli and al., Statistica per la Città, Comune di Firenze, 2006.

3) ―Eradication of Pseudomonas aeruginosain in Cystic Fibrosis Patients.‖ – G. Doring, G. Taccetti, S. Campana, F. Festini and M. MAscherini, European Respiratory Society Journal; 27(3), 2005.

2) ―Early eradication Therapy against Pseudomonas aeruginosain Cystic Fibrosis Patients‖ – Taccetti G., Festini F, Campana S, Mascherini M,Doring G. - European Respiratory Society Journal, (2005)

1) ―Birthweight for gestational age percentiles for Italian neonates‖ – Festini F., Procopio E., Taccetti G., Repetto T., Cioni M.L., Campana S., Mergni G., Mascherini M., Marinelli L., De Martino M. – Jounal of Maternal Fetal and Neonatal Medicine (2004):