Publications
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In Press:
| Alfarone I,, & Merlone U. (2022). The show must go on: Pandemic consequences on musicians’ job insecurity perception, Psychology of Music |
2022:
| Merlone U. & Lupano, M., (2022). Third party funding: The minimum claim value. European Journal of Operational Research, 296(2), pp 738 -747 |
| Merlone U. & Szidarovszky, F., (2022). Cournot oligopoly when the competitors operate under capital constraints, Chaos Solitons and Fractals, vol:160 112154 |
2021:
| Dal Forno A., Gronchi G., & Merlone, U., (2021). Binary choices dynamics with quantum decision. Journal of Mathematical Psychology, 101, article 102509 |
| Dal Forno A., & Merlone, U., (2021). Envy effects on conflict dynamics in supervised work groups. Decisions in Economics and Finance, 44(2), pp.755-779 |
2020:
| Gregori M., & Merlone U. (2020). Comparing operational terrorist networks. Trends in Organized Crime, 23(3), pp 263-288 | |
| Russo, S., Roccato, M., & Merlone U. (2020).Actual Threat, Perceived Threat, and Authoritarianism: An Experimental Study. Spanish Journal of Psychology, 23 e3. | |
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Merlone U., Sandbank, D.R., & Szidarovszky, F., (2020). Agent behavior and transitions in N-person social dilemma games. in Szidarovszky, F., & Bischi G.I. (Eds.) Games and Dynamics in Economics: Essays in Honor of Akio Matsumoto, pp. 205-229, Springer-Verlag, London. |
2019:
| Gardini, L., Dal Forno, A., & Merlone, U., (2019). Memory effects on binary choices with impulsive agents: Bistability and a new BCB structure. Chaos 29(121), Article number 5120472 | |
| Merlone U. (2019). Imparare a cooperare... e farlo fino al fondo. Giornale Italiano di Psicologia 46(4), pp. 853-857 |
2018:
| Bischi, G.I., Merlone, U., & Pruscini, E. (2018). Evolutionary dynamics in club goods binary games, , |
2017:
| Bischi G.I., &, Merlone U. (2017). Evolutionary minority games with memory. Journal of Evolutionary Economics. 27(5), pp. 859-875 |
2016:
| Romano A., Merlone U., Mosso C. & Spadaro G (2016). On the role of group size in social dilemmas. Psicologia Sociale. 11(1), pp. 3-17 | |
| Merlone U., & van Geert P. A dynamical model of proximal development: multiple implementations. in Bischi, G. I., Panchuck, A. & Radi, D. (Eds.) Qualitative Theory of Dynamical Systems, Tools and Applications for Economic Modelling - Lectures Given at the COST Training School on New Economic Complex Geography at Urbino, Italy, 17-19 September 2015 Springer-Verlag, London. pp.305 324 |
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| Merlone, U., Manassero, E. & Zara, G., The lingering effects of past crimes over future criminal carees, In T. M. K. Roeder, P. I. Frazier, R. Szechtman, E. Zhou, T. Huschka, and S. E. Chick, editors, Proceedings of the 2015 Winter Simulation Conference, December 11-14 2016, Washington, D.C. |
2015:
| Merlone, U.,(2015) Negoziare in modo efficace, il Mulino, Bologna. | |
| Ausloos M., Dawid H., & Merlone U., (2015) Spatial interactions in agent-based modeling. in Commendatore P. , Kayam, S.S. & Kubin I. (Eds.) Complexity and Geographical Economics - Topics and Tools, pp. 353-377 Springer-Verlag, London. | |
| Avrutin, V., Dibak C., Dal Forno, A. & Merlone, U., (2015) Dynamics of a 2D Piecewise Linear Braess Paradox Model: Effect of the Third Partition. International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos, Vol. 25, No.11, 35 pages. | |
| Dal Forno, A., Merlone, U., & Avrutin, V., (2015) Dynamics in Braess paradox with non-impulsive commuters. Discrete Dynamics in Nature and Society, Vol.2015, Article ID 345795, 12 pages. | |
| Merlone, U., & Szidarovszky, F., (2015) Dynamic oligopolies with contingent workforce and investment costs. Mathematics and Computers in Simulation, Vol.108, pp.144-154. | |
| Review of West, B. J., Turalska, M. and Grigolini, P. (2014) Networks of Echoes: Imitation, Innovation and Invisible Leaders (Computational Social Sciences). Berlin: Springer-Verlag, The Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation, Vol. 18, No. 3, June 2015. |
2014:
| Dal Forno A., & Merlone, U., (2014). Leaders emergence in artificial populations: the role of networks. Quality & Quantity, Vol. 48, No.5, pp. 1853-1865. | |
| Merlone, U., & Radi, D., (2014). Reaching consensus on rumors. Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, Vol. 406, pp.260-271. |
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| Merlone, U., & Pilotto, D., Dollar Cost Averaging vs Lump Sum: Evidence from investing simulations on real data,, In A. Tolk, S. D. Diallo, I. O. Ryzhov, L. Yilmaz, S. Buckley, and J. A. Miller, editors, Proceedings of the 2014 Winter Simulation Conference, December 7-10 2014, Savannah. |
2013:
| Merlone U., (2013). Incentives in Organizations of Operating Systems: Can Economics and Psychology Coexist in Human Resources Management?. in Giannoccaro, I. (Ed.) Behavioral issues in Operations Management: New trends in design, management, and methodologies. pp. 141-157 Springer-Verlag, London. |
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| Dal Forno, A., & Merlone U., (2013). Chaotic Dynamics in Organization Theory. in Bischi, G. I., Chiarella, C. & Sushko, I. (Eds.) Global Analysis of Dynamic Models in Economics and Finance. pp. 185-204 Springer-Verlag, London. |
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| Merlone, U., Sandbank, D. R., & Szidarovszky, F., (2013). Equilibria analysis in social dilemma games with Skinnerian agents. Mind & Society, Vol. 12, No. 2, pp. 219-233. | |
| Dal Forno A., & Merlone, U., (2013). Complex dynamics in supervised work groups. Communications in Nonlinear Science and Numerical Simulation, Vol.18, No.7, pp.48-58. | |
| Dal Forno A., & Merlone, U., (2013). Border-collision bifurcations in a model of Braess paradox. Mathematics and Computers in Simulation, Vol.87, pp.1-18. | |
| Dal Forno A., & Merlone, U., (2013). Nonlinear dynamics in work groups with Bion's basic assumptions. Nonlinear Dynamics, Psychology, and Life Sciences, Vol.17, No.2, April, pp.295-315. |
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| Dal Forno, A., & Merlone, U., Replicating Human Interaction in Braess Paradox, In R. Pasupathy, S.H. Kim, A. Tolk, R. Hill, and M. E. Kuhl, editors, Proceedings of the 2013 Winter Simulation Conference, December 8-11 2013, Washington. |
2012:
| Maggi, L., Merlone, U. & Tonelli, G., (2012). Gli scacchi nella formazione del personale aziendale: idee, esperienze e prospettive. In G. Sgrò (a cura), A scuola con i re, Alpes, Roma. | |
| Dal Forno, A., Gardini, L., & Merlone, U., (2012). Ternary choices in repeated games and border collision bifurcation , Chaos Solitons and Fractals, Vol 45, No.3, pp.294–305. |
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| Merlone, U., Sandbank, D. R., & Szidarovszky, F., (2012). Systematic approach to N-person social dilemma games: classification and analysis, International Game Theory Review, Vol.10, No.3. | |
| Dal Forno, A., & Merlone, U., Grounded theory based agents, In C. Laroque, J. Himmelspach, R. Pasupathy, O. Rose, and A. M. Uhrmacher, editors, Proceedings of the 2012 Winter Simulation Conference, December 9-12 2012, Berlin. |
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| Review of Salerno, J., Yang, S. J., Nau, D. & Chai, S.K. (eds.) (2011). Social Computing, Behavioral-Cultural Modeling and Prediction: 4th International Conference, SBP 2011, College Park, MD, USA, March 29-31, 2011., Berlin: Springer-Verlag, The Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation, Vol. 15, No. 2, March 2012. |
2011:
| Bischi G. I., & Merlone, U., (2011). An Adaptive Dynamic Model of Segregation. In Puu, T., & Panchuck A., (Eds.), Nonlinear Economic Dynamics, pp.191-205,Nova Science Publishers, New York. |
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| Gardini, L., Merlone, U., & Tramontana, F., (2011). Inertia in binary choices: Continuity breaking and big-bang bifurcation points, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Vol. 80, No. 1 pp.153-167. |
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| Matsumoto, A., Merlone, U., & Szidarovszky, F., (2011). Some Notes on Applying the Herfindahl-Hirschman Index., Applied Economics Letters, 19, pp.181-184. |
2010:
| Bischi G. I., & Merlone, U., (2010). Global Dynamics in Adaptive Models of Collective Choice with Social Influence. In Naldi, G., Pareschi, L., & Toscani, G., (Eds.), Mathematical Modeling of Collective Behavior in Socio-Economic and Life Sciences, pp.223-244, Birkhauser, Boston. | |
| Matsumoto, A., Merlone, U., & Szidarovszky, F., (2010). Cartelising Groups in Dynamic Oligopoly with Antitrust Thresold, Australian Economic Papers, Vol. 49, No 4, pp.289-300. | |
| Dal Forno, A., & Merlone, U., (2010). Incentives and Individual Motivation in Supervised Work Groups, European Journal of Operational Research, Vol. 207, pp.878-885. | |
| Dal Forno, A., & Merlone, U., (2010). Effort Dynamics in Supervised Work Groups, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Vol. 75, No. 3 pp.413-425. | |
| Bischi G. I., & Merlone, U., (2010). Binary choices in small and large groups: A unified model, Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, Vol. 389, No. 4, pp.843-853. | |
| Matsumoto, A., Merlone, U., & Szidarovszky, F., (2010). Dynamic Oligopoly with Partial Cooperation and Antitrust Thresold, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Vol. 73, No 2, pp.259-272. | |
| Dal Forno, A., & Merlone, U., (2010). Dinamiche complesse in un modello di gruppo di lavoro supervisionato, Sistemi intelligenti, 2010(1), Aprile, pp.5-22. | |
| Merlone, U., (2010). Appunti di Matematica Finanziaria con una Introduzione alle Scienze Manageriali, Edizioni Accademia Europea, Torino. |
2009:
| Dal Forno, A., & Merlone, U., (2009). Network dynamics when selecting work team members. In Naimzada, A. K., Stefani, S., Torriero, A. (Eds.), Networks, Topology and Dynamics Theory and Applications to Economics and Social Systems, pp.229-240, Series: Lecture Notes in Economics and Mathematical Systems, Vol.613, Springer Verlag. |
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| Dal Forno, A., & Merlone, U., (2009). Social Entrepreneurship Effects on the Emergence of Cooperation in Networks. In Goldstein, J. A., Hazy, J. K., \amp; Silberstang, J. (Eds.), Complexity Science and Social Entrepreneurship: Adding Social Value through Systems Thinking, pp.427-442, ISCE Publishing, Mansfield, MA. | |
| Bischi, G. I., & Merlone, U., (2009). Global Dynamics in Binary Choice Models with social Influence. Journal of Mathematical Sociology, Vol.33, No.4, pp.277-302. |
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| Dal Forno A., & Merlone, U., (2009). Social Entrepreneurship Effects on the Emergence of Cooperation in Networks. Emergence: Complexity and Organization, Vol.11, No.4, pp.48-58. | |
| Bischi, G. I., Gardini, L., & Merlone, U., (2009). Periodic Cycles and Bifurcation Curves for One-Dimensional Maps with two Discontinuities. Journal of Dynamical Systems and Geometric Theories, Vol.7, No.2 November, pp.101-124. | |
| Bischi, G. I., Gardini, L., & Merlone, U., (2009). Impulsivity in binary choices and the emergence of Periodicity. Discrete Dynamics in Nature and Society, Vol.2009, Article ID 407913. |
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| Dal Forno A., & Merlone, U., (2009). Optimal Efforts in Heterogeneous Agents Population with Global and Local Interactions. Cubo, a Mathematical Journal, Vol.11, No.2, pp. 15-36. |
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| Dal Forno A., & Merlone, U., (2009). Individual Incentives in Supervised Work Groups: from Human Subject Experiments to agent based simulation. International Journal of Internet and Enterprise Management, Vol. 6, No.1, pp. 4-22. |
2008:
| Matsumoto A., Merlone U., Szidarovszky F., (2008). Cartelizing Groups in Dynamic Linear Oligopoly with Antitrust Threshold, International Game Theory Review, vol. 10, no.4, pp. 399-419,(Numero speciale in onore di J. F. Nash Jr.). | |
| Merlone, U., Sonnessa, M., & Terna, P., (2008). Horizontal and Vertical Multiple Implementations in a Model of Industrial Districts, Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulations, Vol.11, No.5. | |
| Curti, P., & Merlone, U., (2008). Collezione Esercizi di Matematica per le Applicazioni Economiche e Finanziarie, Edizioni Accademia Europea, Torino. |
2007:
| Dal Forno, A., & Merlone U., (2007). The Emergence of Effective Leaders: An Experimental and Computational Approach. In Hazy, J. K., Goldstein, J. A., & Lichtenstein, B. B., (Eds.) Complex Systems Leadership Theory New Perspectives from Complexity Science on Social and Organizational Effectiveness, ISCE Publishing, Mansfield (MA), pp.231-252. | |
| Dal Forno, A., & Merlone U., (2007). The Evolution of Coworkers Networks An Experimental and Computational Approach. In Edmonds, B., Hernández Iglesias, C., & Troitzsch, K. G., (Eds.) Social Simulation: Technologies, Advances and New Discoveries,Information Science Reference, Hershey (PA), pp.280-293. | |
| Merlone, U., Szidarovszky, F., & Szylagyi, M. N., (2007). Finite Neighborhood Games with Binary Choices, Mathematica Pannonica, Vol. 18, No.2, pp. 205-217. |
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| Merlone, U., (2007). Shareholdings Interlocks: Profit Formulations and Cartelizing Effects, Journal of Interdisciplinary Mathematics, Vol.10, No.1, pp.99-117. |
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| Dal Forno, A., & Merlone, U., (2007). Incentives in Supervised Teams: an Experimental and Computational Approach, Journal of Social Complexity, Vol.3, No.1, pp.37-52. |
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| Review of Shiflet, A. B. & Shiflet, G. W. (2006) Introduction to Computational Science: Modeling and Simulation for the Sciences, Princeton University Press: Princeton, NJ, The Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation, Vol. 10, No. 2, March 2007. | |
| Merlone, U., (2007). Elementi di Matematica per le Applicazioni Economiche e Finanziarie con Analisi Non Standard, Edizioni Accademia Europea, Torino. |
2006:
| Merlone, U., & Terna, P., (2006). Population Symbiotic Evolution in a Model of Industrial Districts in Rennard, J.P. (Ed.), Handbook of Research on Nature Inspired Computing for Economics and Management, Idea Group Reference, Hershey (Pa), (2006), pp.301-316. | |
| Dal Forno A., & Merlone, U., (2006). The Emergence of Effective Leaders: An Experimental and Computational Approach Emergence: Complexity and Organization, Vol. 8, No.4, Special Issue: Complexity & Leadership, pp.36-51. | |
| Merlone, U., Sonnessa, M., & Terna, P., (2005). Industrial Districts: Multiple Implementations of Population Symbiotic Evolution. In Proceedings of the First World Congress on Social Simulation, August 21-25 2006, Kyoto. | |
| Dal Forno, A., & Merlone, U. (2005). Building Grounded Agents: the lesson from Glaser and Strauss. In Proceedings of the First World Congress on Social Simulation, August 21-25 2006, Kyoto. | |
| Merlone, U. (2006). Il mobbing e la System Dynamics. Personale e Lavoro, 493 Anno XLII-n.3, Giugno, pp.19-26. | |
| Merlone, U. & Sloane, N. J. A. (2006). Integer sequence A114043, on The On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences, February the 22nd , 2006. |
2005:
| Dal Forno, A., & Merlone, U. (2005). Network Dynamics when Selecting Work Team Members: A Comparison between Experimental and Computational Results. In Conference Proceedings of NAACSOS 2005, June 26-28, Notre Dame, Indiana. | |
| Cerruti, U., Giacobini, M., & Merlone, U. (2005). A New Framework to Analyze Evolutionary 2x2 Symmetric Games. In G. Kendall & S. Lucas (Eds.) IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence and Games, Colchester, United Kingdom, April 4-6 2005, pag. 218-224, IEEE Press, Piscataway, New Jersey. |
2004:
| Dal Forno A., & Merlone, U. (2004). From Classroom Experiments to Computer Code. Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulations, Vol.7 , No.3. | |
| Dal Forno A., & Merlone, U. (2004). Personnel turnover in organizations: an agent-based simulation model. Nonlinear Dynamics, Psychology, and Life Sciences, Vol.8, No.2, pp.205-230. |
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| Dal Forno, A., & Merlone, U. (2005). Modular Pyramidal Hierarchies and Social Norms. An Agent Based Model. In Conference Proceedings of NAACSOS 2004, June 27 - 29, Pittsburgh PA. |
2003:
| Dal Forno A., & Merlone, U. (2003). Modular Pyramidal Hierarchies and Social Norms. An Agent Based Model., Industry And Labor Dynamics, The Agent-Based Computational Economics Approach, Proceedings of the Wild@Ace 2003 Workshop Torino, Italy, 3–4 October 2003, pp.244-255, World Scientific, Singapore. |
2002:
| Merlone U., (2002). Incentives and Computing Systems for Team-Based Organizations: A Mathematical and Economic Analysis, Organization Science, Vol.13, No.6, pp.734-736. | |
| Dal Forno A., & Merlone, U. (2002). A multi-agent simulation platform for modeling perfectly rational and bounded-rational agents in organizations, Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulations, Vol.5, No.2. |
2001:
| Merlone U., (2001). Cartelizing Effects of Horizontal Shareholding Interlocks, Managerial and Decision Economics, Vol.22, No 2, pp.333-337. | |
| Dal Forno A., & Merlone, U. (2001). ncentive Policy and Optimal Effort: Equilibria in Heterogeneous Agents Population. Quaderni del Dipartimento di Statistica e Matematica Applicata alle Scienze Umane “Diego de Castro”, Università degli Studi di Torino. |
2000:
| Merlone U., (2000). The optimal solution method applied to a non linear programming problem with exponential objective function, Journal of Information & Optimization Sciences, Vol.21, No 2, pp.305-321. | |
| Merlone U., (2000). Taeg, anno commerciale e anno civile: alcune approssimazioni, Giornale dell’Istituto Italiano degli Attuari, vol. LXIII, pp.47-55. | |
| Merlone, U. (1999). MBS, default and social welfare Proceedings of V Congreso Nacional y III Hispano-Italiano de Matematica Financiera y Actuarial, Bilbao 26-28 Aprile. | |
| Merlone, U. (2000). Soluzione di alcune generalizzazioni di problemi di programmazione frazionaria mediante il metodo delle soluzioni ottime di livello. Quaderni del Dipartimento di Statistica e Matematica Applicata alle Scienze Umane “Diego de Castro”, Università degli Studi di Torino. |
1999:
| Merlone, U. (1999). Horizontal shareholding interlocks with relaxed hypotheses. Atti del ventitreesimo convegno A.M.A.S.E.S., Rende. | |
| Merlone, U. (1999). Error Extimations in a class of concave separable problems. Quaderni del Dipartimento di Statistica e Matematica Applicata alle Scienze Umane “Diego de Castro”, Università degli Studi di Torino. | |
| Merlone, U. (1999). TRM Approach in Loans. Atti del Secondo Convegno Italo-Spagnolo di Matematica Finanziaria, Napoli 1-3 Luglio 1999, La Città del Sole, Napoli, pp.403-418. |
1998:
| Merlone, U. (1998). Financial laws, arbitrage and algebraic structures. In Cruz Rambaud, S., & Ventre, A., (Eds.) First Spanish-Italian Meeting on financial Mathematics, Universidad de Almería, Servicio de Publicaciones, Almería, Spagna, pp.335-343. | |
| Merlone, U. (1998). Il Problema dell’estinzione anticipata di un impiego. Atti del ventiduesimo convegno A.M.A.S.E.S., Bozzi Editore, Genova |
1995:
| Cervesato, E., & Merlone, U. (1995). Stima Bayesiana dei Coefficienti Beta: un’applicazione al mercato Italiano. Giornale degli Economisti e Annali di Economia, Ottobre-Dicembre, pp.533-554. |
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| Merlone, U. & Redaelli, G. (1995). Matematica generale. Etas Libri, Milano. |
1994:
| Merlone, U. (1994). GAPV, investimenti scalabili e politiche finanziarie ottime. Atti del diciottesimo convegno A.M.A.S.E.S., Pitagora Editrice, Bologna. |
1993:
| Merlone, U. (1993). Analisi statistiche nel riconoscimento degli intervalli. In G. Haus & I. Pighi (Eds.), X Colloquio di Informatica Musicale, Milano, 2-4 dicembre 1993, pp.59-62. | |
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Merlone, U. (1993). Scelte dinamiche ottime d’investimento. Atti del diciassettesimo convegno A.M.A.S.E.S., Istituto Italiano degli Studi Filosofici, Napoli, pp.403-418. |
1992:
| Merlone, U. (1992). “Modelli di leva finanziaria generalizzata”, Il Risparmio, N.2, marzo-aprile 1992. |
1991:
| Merlone, U. (1991). Il criterio del tasso di reimpiego, un’analisi critica. Atti del quindicesimo convegno A.M.A.S.E.S., Grado. |