Well-being · Italian regions · Dynamic time warping · Fuzzy C-medoids model with exponential transformation

Well‑Being in the Italian Regions Over Time

In this paper, we define clusters of homogeneous Italian regions with respect to the evolution
over time of well-being. In particular, we identify three partitions of the Italian regions
based on the yearly time series of the economic, social and environmental dimensions of
the BES (equitable and sustainable well-being), in the period 2010–2016. The partitions
are obtained using a Dynamic Time Warping-based Fuzzy C-Medoids clustering model for
multivariate time series. The results show a territorial gap between northern and southern

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