Browsing by Author "Matei, Ani"

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Artificial Internet of Things, Sensor-Based Digital Twin Urban Computing Vision Algorithms, and Blockchain Cloud Networks in Sustainable Smart City Administration
(MDPI, 2024-08-07) Matei, Ani; Cocoșatu, Mădălina
The aim of this paper is to synthesize and analyze existing evidence on interconnected sensor networks and digital urban governance in data-driven smart sustainable cities. The research topic of this systematic review is whether and to what extent smart city governance can effectively integrate the Internet of Things (IoT), Artificial Intelligence of Things (AIoT), intelligent decision algorithms based on big data technologies, and cloud computing. This is relevant since smart cities place special emphasis on the involvement of citizens in decision-making processes and sustainable urban development. To investigate the work to date, search outcome management and systematic review screening procedures were handled by PRISMA and Shiny app flow design. A quantitative literature review was carried out in June 2024 for published original and review research between 2018 and 2024. For qualitative and quantitative data management and analysis in the research review process, data extraction tools, study screening, reference management software, evidence map visualization, machine learning classifiers, and reference management software were harnessed. Dimensions and VOSviewer were deployed to explore and visualize the bibliometric data.
E-learning platforms supporting the educational effectiveness of distance learning programmes: a comparative study in administrative sciences
(Elsevier, 2013) Matei, Ani; Brosser, Luise
Over recent decades, the transformation of education through technology has created a more extensive tool for enhancing the Bologna process for increasing the quality, effectiveness and accessibility of higher education. In this context, literature supports the importance of Web platforms for education, in particular through comparative analysis, focusing on educational effectiveness and promoting quality education. Few studies have integrated the analysis with the economic issues. This paper aims to achieve a comparative study of Web platforms, in terms of raising the effectiveness of distance education, and the economic costs required to implement them. The research methodology is using, for the first time, an adapted version of cost-effectiveness analysis. Empirical research will be carried out on two platforms of e-learning - Learning Management System (LMS) and Moodle - used by our university to support distance education programs. The working hypothesis starts from the fact that open source software is cheaper than that developed internally, even if it does not fully meet the needs of the university.
Logical Pillars of the Public Decision. From the Logic of Cooperation to the Political Market
(Elsevier, 2013) Matei, Ani; Leoveanu, Andy Constantin
The logic of cooperation substantiates the strategic powers of the public agents and their coalitions, thus bringing contribution to understanding the political mechanisms which determine the public decision. The public bodies, derived from a process of political choice turn into account the logic of cooperation in view to establish own managerial structures. In most situations, the political cooperation will represent a consequence of negotiation, based on political programmes, their compatibility as well as the voting power of the actors/political agents. The political market will represent the support of political cooperation and public decision, thus contributing to understanding of social phenomena such as the political or electoral ones. The current paper aims to emphasise the logical mechanisms of public decision in the context of the necessity to create post electoral coalitions, aimed at maximization of the impact of political options of the electorate. The empirical examples will refer to the recent local elections in Bucharest Municipality. The main tool consists in the "voting power" of the political agents and the results will substantiate a theoretical framework aimed to highlight the logical and systemic connections of public decision with the political market. The research methods will take into consideration both documentation and theoretical analysis, empirical research, modelling and statistic interpretation.
Social Innovation in the Local Public Sector: A Cross-Regional Approach for Romania
(General Association of the Economists in Romania (AGER), 2015-12-10) Matei, Ani; Săvulescu, Carmen; Antonovici, Corina Georgiana
Social innovation could be understood as “new ideas (products, service and models) that, simultaneously meet needs and create new social relationships or collaboration” (Murray et al., 2010). For the local public sector, the social innovation gains endemic characteristics, connected to better use of local resources and human resources, as well as those concerning interregional or even cross-regional cooperation. For the time being, Romania undergoes a complex process of shifting to regional organization, which essentially involves important changes with genuine characteristics of social innovation. The most obvious aspects of social innovation are expressed by administrative innovation or systemic innovation. Of course, the innovation in the public services or processes for public service delivery becomes visible through citizen orientation, involvement of new material and financial resources. In this context, the current paper aims to emphasise the main characteristics of social innovation, determined by regionalization and administrative re-organizations. The cross-regional approach comprises interregional comparative studies and it highlights the instruments for evaluation of social innovation and their application in view to substantiate the comparative studies concerning the impact of social innovation. The research methodology comprises bibliographic syntheses, comparative studies as well as socio-innovative empirical researches.
Socio-Statistical Research on the Internalization of European Administrative Space Principles in the Romanian Public Administration
(MDPI, 2011-12) Matei, Ani; Matei, Lucica; Iancu, Diana Camelia
The authors propose an analysis of the public administration reform in Romania by assessing whether the Romanian civil servants perform their duties according to the regulations of the European Administrative Space. The paper offers a socio-statistic perspective on the internalization of the European Administrative Space principles, namely, the rule of law, openness towards citizens, and public administration responsibility in a Romanian context, after the European Union accession. Designed within the framework of modern theories of organizational sociology that see internalization as a process of organizational learning and change, and using a relevant sample of Romanian civil servants, the paper offers important and useful results for the future Romanian policies and strategies in an integrated European arena.
The EU Health Technology Assessment and the Open Method of Coordination: A Relation with Potential in the Context of Network Governance
(MDPI, 2021-05-19) Matei, Ani; Dumitru, Adrian Stelian; Antonovici, Corina Georgiana
The open method of coordination (OMC)-a tool which was formalized in the early 2000s-has generated the interest of both the researchers and practitioners in the context of the new EU governance. This article is examining the literature of both network governance and OMC, with the focus particularly on one main question: is OMC a useful instrument in health policies in order to achieve concrete results by outlining norms and legislation where EU exercise limited power? Analyzing a field in which the EU competence is limited-given the budgetary implications of medicines reimbursement-from the results of the existing collaboration within EUnetHTA, we will observe the added value in this particular case of the OMC application, and the possible consequences in shaping the supranational competences. Given that the EU, with some exceptions provided by the Treaties, may only exercise actions to support, coordinate or complement the action of the Member States in the health policy, the OMC proves to be a useful tool, both from the perspective of the Member States but especially of the supranational level.