Listar por autor "Polyzos, S."
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Analysis of agricultural land use transformations in greece: A multinomial logistic regression model at the regional level
Minetos, D.; Polyzos, S. (2009)In the past few decades, numerous structural changes regarding the socio-economic basis of most EU countries have been profound and critical. These processes of economic restructuring have resulted in significant land use ... -
Analyzing the location decisions of agro-industrial investments in Greece
Polyzos, S.; Tsiotas, D.; Niavis, S. (2015)This article examines empirically the factors determining the agro-industrial investments in Greece and their impact on tourism development. Firstly, the determinants influencing the spatial configuration, the socioeconomic ... -
Analyzing the Maritime Transportation System in Greece: a Complex Network Approach
Tsiotas, D.; Polyzos, S. (2014)Maritime networks of coastal and insular countries constitute fundamental transportation systems affecting the economy and the developmental dynamics of their countries. Under this perspective, the present article studies ... -
Comparative analysis of decision-making methodologies used in environmental planning
Bakopoulou, S.; Polyzos, S.; Kungolos, A. (2007)It is the objective of this study to analyze the methodologies used for the evaluation of alternative projects in the environmental planning procedure. There are many methodologies used for evaluation of a project or ... -
The contribution of ANN's simple perceptron pattern to inequalities measurement in Regional Science
Tsiotas, D.; Polyzos, S. (2013)The present paper presents a synthetic approach to the XOR operation structure combining the cognitive matter of different fields of scientific study in order to elect further utility of this operation for the inequalities ... -
Contribution of natural and socio-cultural resources in tourism development of Mainland Greek prefectures: A typology
Arabatzis, G.; Polyzos, S. (2008)Shortly after the Second World War, the considerable increase in tourist flows to Greece as well as to other countries, created the necessary conditions for tourism to become a major factor of economic and regional ... -
Deforestation processes in Greece: A spatial analysis by using an ordinal regression model
Minetos, D.; Polyzos, S. (2010)Forest land use changes in Greece have been the outcome of combining forces with mostly economic and institutional origin. Interactions between the major land uses have diachronically resulted in spatial patterns of great ... -
Determinant factors of tourist attractiveness of Greek prefectures
Polyzos, S.; Arabatzis, G. (2008)Tourism constitutes one of the most dynamic and rapidly developing sectors of the Greek economy, making a decisive contribution to the growth of many Greek regions. The increase in tourist flows to all regions of the country ... -
Determining the driving factors of Commuting: An empirical analysis from greece
Polyzos, S.; Tsiotas, D.; Minetos, D. (2013)Commuting refers to the act of daily traveling, between two locations, for employment purposes and suggests a multidimensional phenomenon in Regional Science, which is determined by social, economic, geographic and political ... -
Determining the tourism developmental dynamics of the greek regions, by using talc theory
Polyzos, S.; Tsiotas, D.; Kantlis, A. (2013)This paper utilizes the theoretical framework of the Tourism Area Life Cycle (TALC) model and applies an empirical analysis on the data for the period 1980-2009. The TALC multi-stage process is simulated to a logistic curve ... -
Driving factors and empirical analysis of urban sprawl in Greece
Polyzos, S.; Minetos, D.; Niavis, S. (2013)This paper aims at describing urban sprawl driven land use changes during the last decades in Greece as well as analyzing the major regional and economic development implications. Particular attention is given to the ... -
The egnatia motorway and the changes in interregional trade in Greece: An ex ante assessment
Polyzos, S. (2009)The Egnatia Motorway, located in the northern part of Greece, constitutes one of the most important, as well as ambitious, projects of the Trans-European Transport Networks programme (TETN) funded by the European Commission. ... -
Enterprises' locational decisions and interregional highways: an empiric investigation in Greece
Polyzos, S.; Sdrolias, L.; Koutseris, E. (2008)The interaction between transportation infrastructures and land uses constitutes one of the most basic phenomena in urban and rural areas. The construction of a highway improves mobility and thus increases the density and ... -
Evaluating port efficiency in the Mediterranean
Polyzos, S.; Niavis, S. (2013)During the last years, there was rapid development in the world port industry which is considered to have resulted from the increase of universal trade. The key to the development of each port is its adaptability to the ... -
Informal housing in Greece: Amultinomial logistic regression analysis at the regional level
Polyzos, S.; Minetos, D. (2013)This paper deals with the primary causes of informal housing in Greece as well as the observed differentiations in informal housing patterns across space. The spatial level of analysis is the prefectural administrative ... -
Introducing a new centrality measure from the transportation network analysis in Greece
Tsiotas, D.; Polyzos, S. (2015)This paper introduces a new centrality measure, nominated by the authors as mobility centrality (C (m) ), which arose during the study of the interregional road network in Greece. The proposed measure is constructed by the ... -
Introducing an inequalities index from the simple perceptron pattern in ANN: An unemployment inequalities application in regional economics
Tsiotas, D.; Polyzos, S. (2011)This article introduces a new inequalities index, which was inspired from the simple perceptron's pattern in the artificial neural networks (ANN) scientific field and nominated by the authors Modulus Perceptron Inequalities ... -
Investigation of farmers' willingness to pay for using recycled water for irrigation in Thessaly region, Greece
Bakopoulou, S.; Polyzos, S.; Kungolos, A. (2010)The objective of the present study was to investigate farmers' willingness to pay for using recycled water for irrigation purposes in Thessaly region, Greece. The method followed for the above analysis was the contingent ... -
MULTIVARIATE STATISTICAL METHODOLOGIES FOR TESTING HYPOTHESIS OF LAND-USE CHANGE AT THE REGIONAL LEVEL. A REVIEW AND EVALUATION
Minetos, D.; Polyzos, S. (2009)Various models of land-use and land-cover change have been developed for better understanding of existing relationships and interactions between human and natural phenomena. Most of these models concentrate on human behaviour ... -
An ordinal regression analysis of tourism enterprises' location decisions in Greece
Polyzos, S.; Minetos, D. (2011)This article investigates recent trends in tourism firms' location decisions in Greece in relation to the state policy on tourism investment incentives as well as specific factors concerning regional inherent and created ...