Giacomo Buonanno

This paper presents an agent-based model (ABM) of a sustainability game in which each agent is powered by a Large Language Model (LLM). The simulation model explores how LLM-based agents manage the tension between short-term competitive advantage and long-term ecological sustainability. By embedding agents in a resource-constrained environment—featuring renewable and non-renewable assets, military conflict, and shared environmental limits—the paper investigates whether and under what conditions LLMs can adopt sustainable behaviors. Several experimental scenarios are evaluated with different strategies endowed to agents, also varying the number of agents, the connectivity of the relationship network and forecast length. Results show that LLM agents can more likely achieve sustainable collective outcomes when unguided or when provided with explicitly sustainable strategies. Also, explicit strategies significantly influence system dynamics—occasionally leading to ecological collapse or aggressive domination. Findings suggest that even shallow behavioral priors can steer LLM-based agents toward or away from sustainability, and that tests of this kind may serve as valuable tools for assessing alignment and coordination in multi-agent LLM systems. Moreover, the results provide insight to confirm that LLM-enhanced ABMs could be used in sustainability issues.

Visual objects made of multiple views, e.g., dashboards and small multiples, are taking the scene in information communication and visual patterns design, but still vague are the studies that try to abstract away from characterizing them at the level of their single charts, and rather focus on their structural characteristics and the resulting interactions with their multi-view ensemble seen as a whole. In this paper, we are proposing this unified view through a multi-dimensional wheel, on the strand of Cairo’s wheel made for infographics, devised for the identification, the analysis, and the evaluation of design patterns for multiple views.

Information and Communication Technology (ICT) pervasiveness is changing the visitors’ expectation in the fruition of cultural heritage assets (e.g. artefacts, buildings, monuments). While owners of such assets have to face new challenges in the protection, conservation, management and active promotion of places they are responsible for, pervasive ICT systems (e.g. mobile devices and the Internet-of-Things) show significant opportunities as facilitators of innovative ways to engage visitors and measure their experience during the visit. New ICT based tools enable new data-driven business models that effectively aid the sustainable revitalization and valorization of Cultural Heritage. This paper aims at investigating how cultural heritage owners could digitalize the visiting process, measure the engagement of visitors with digital tools and turn data collected during the visits into value for their business model. In particular, results achieved by the AMAmI (Ancient and Modern, Ambient Intelligence) Project will be presented: a multi-site real world experimentation of the adoption of digital tools (proximity technologies, mobile, sensors, user-location-based content delivery platforms and big data analytics systems) to deliver an Ambient Intelligence enabled user experience and thus strengthen the management policies of cultural heritage assets. Two case studies with different management model and physical environment will be discussed and compared: MAGA Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art sited in Gallarate and Masnago Castle Museum of Modern Art sited in Varese.

Advanced manufacturing technologies such as Additive Manufacturing (AM) are rapidly revolutionizing business processes within European and Italian SMEs. A clear example is represented by the success of 3D printers that are achieving a huge impact on the market from both the companies and the customers’ point of view. This paper aims at investigating how manufacturing and logistic processes have changed drastically in the last years according to the introduction of the above-mentioned advanced manufacturing technologies. Recent academic literature is focusing on the integration of any advanced technology with other infrastructures and technologies already implemented in a company. By considering 3D printing adoption, both in the product design and in the production management processes, it turns out to be necessary a proper integration with other technologies such as the software used to design a product (CAD) and the manufacturing control cameras adopted to control the production process. At the same time, a proper strategic alignment has to be assured between the implementation of advanced manufacturing technologies and the company innovation strategy. Consistency and coherence among all the strategic decisions must be guaranteed in order to create and increase the company business value. Furthermore, the acquisition of new assets, either tangible (e.g. 3D printers) or intangible (e.g. know how), has to be properly integrated with other tangible and intangible resources in order to combine them in the best way, so that the goal of gaining a sustainable competitive advantage would be reached.

Radio Frequency Identification technologies (RFId) have the potential to reshape entire supply chains by univocally track down goods at item or part level and dramatically improve the efficiency of business process. Despite the hype and the momentum RFId application are gaining, researches in the IS field are still lacking. In particular, the interorganizational dimension of these applications poses great organizational challenges, involving collaboration and trust among multiple partners, and IS development, requiring systems interoperabilityThe proposed case study investigatesthe adoption effects of RFId technologies in thefashion industry to contain the gray market and branded productscounterfeiting. Conclusions are drawn upon the analysis of the technical assessment, the business process impacts, the Interorganizational Information System (IOS) creation and the price andperformance evaluation.

Interorganizational Information Systems (IOIS) will play a relevant role in shaping competition in the next years. Even though companies have become extremely efficient in managing information and logistics inside their boundaries, communication and coordination among partners is still far from effective. Both obsolete technologies and very scarce ICT supported interorganizational process are found in practice. In a global market where the entire supply chain is involved in company success, the proper design and implementation of an IOS is becoming mandatory. SMEs, and in particular those inside industrial aggregations, could greatly benefit from IOIS implementation, however a widely accepted IOS adoption theory is still lacking. Focusing on the description of an industrial aggregation this paper proposes a framework, its implementation and a field test on 70 companies belonging to an industrial district, to understand the relationships among aggregation’s main players. The analysis of the results proved that this approach offers useful insight for the comprehension of the aggregation and suggest its use as a pre-design IOIS tool.

Radio Frequency Identification technologies (RFId) have the potential to reshape entire supply chains. The ability to univocally track down goods at an item or part level could dramatically improve the efficiency of business process. moreover, even if generally compared to barcode, RFId applications provide an extended flexibility being able to provide a standard, common platform on winch users can build their applications. However, the future of this technology is not yet clear. RFId technological components are continuously being innovated, "real life" business cases are very limited and generally centered on huge retailers' trials, standards are being defined and literature on the subject is scarce. This paper is a first proposal for a comprehensive framework to asses the main aspects of RFId adoption in terms of cost and benefits drowning its basis form interorganizational literature.

Lo sviluppo e la diffusione delle tecnologie dell'informazione e della comunicazione (TIC) stanno rapidamente e significativamente modificando l'operatività delle aziende. Mentre le grandi aziende possono dedicare risorse economiche e umane al fine di orientare strategicamente e organicamente il loro business nel nuovo scenario, le piccole aziende hanno spesso delle difficoltà nell'interpretare questi cambiamenti, con la conseguenza di non riuscire a sfruttare al meglio le opportunità che ne conseguono. Risulta perciò interessante analizzare il ruolo che le TIC svolgono nelle piccole e medie imprese (PMI), in modo da far emergere, dal quadro della situazione attuale, le tendenze evolutive in atto e le scelte che si dimostrano più efficaci per un impiego strategico delle TIC nelle PMI. Questo documento presenta i risultati principali del progetto TICePMI a cura del centro di ricerca CETIC dell'Università Cattaneo, attraverso un'indagine svolta su un campione di circa 370 aziende, (di cui l'85% PMI) tra la seconda metà del 2002 e la primavera del 2003.