This proceedings volume contains selected papers presented at the 2014 International
Conference on Informatics, Networking and Intelligent Computing, held in Shenzhen, China …

Polygonal designs are useful in survey sampling in terms of balanced sampling plans
excluding contiguous or adjacent units, when neighboring units in a population provide …

Due to the increasing availability of georeferenced microdata in several fields of research,
surveys can benefit greatly from the use of the most recent spatial sampling methods. These …

This article proposes a new linear integer programming approach to obtain polygonal
designs for given number of treatments v, block size k, concurrence of treatments separated …

This chapter focuses on geo-referenced administrative data, such as, in particular,
population and business registers in Italy. It describes the attention on problems related to …

Stufken (1993) first introduced cyclic polygonal designs (CPDs)(in terms of cyclic balanced
sampling plans excluding adjacent units (CBSAs)) for joint distance α≥ 2. Wei (2002) first …

Polygonal designs, a class of partially balanced incomplete block designs with regular
polygons, are useful in survey sampling in terms of balanced sampling plans excluding …

Linear integer programming is a widely used optimization technique to solve various real life
problems. The purpose of this article is to present some innovative applications of linear …

The rapid uptake of administrative and transactions data use in official, scientific and
commercial applications in the last decade, as well as the impact of the “Big Data …

Geographically distributed observations have characteristics and peculiarities that should be
appropriately considered when we are designing a survey. In fact, traditional sampling …