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1. Genetic-programming-based multi-objective optimization of strategies for home energy-management systems

Author:
Zupančič, Jernej; Filipič, Bogdan; Gams, Matjaž
Source:
Energy 2020 v.203 pp. 117769
ISSN:
0360-5442
Subject:
decision support systems,   etc   ; algorithms; energy; trees;     Show all 4 Subjects
Abstract:
... Home energy-management systems can optimize performance either by computing the next step dynamically – online, or rely on a precomputed strategy used to introduce the next decision – offline. Further, such systems can optimize based on only one or several objectives. In this paper, the multi-objective optimization of offline strategies for home energy-management systems is addressed. Two approach ...
DOI:
10.1016/j.energy.2020.117769

2. Dynamic sustainability requirements of stakeholders and the supply portfolio

Author:
Chowdhury, Md Maruf Hossan; Paul, Sanjoy Kumar; Sianaki, Omid Ameri; Quaddus, Mohammed A.
Source:
Journal of cleaner production 2020 v.255 pp. 120148
ISSN:
0959-6526
Subject:
decision support systems,   etc   ; clothing; models; stakeholders; Bangladesh;     Show all 5 Subjects
Abstract:
... Extant literature on sustainability in procurement and supplier selection suffers from a number of deficiencies. First, studies pertaining to the dynamic nature of stakeholders’ expectations of sustainability and its impact on determining a supply portfolio have not been studied before. Second, there is a genuine lack of study linking the stakeholders’ sustainability requirements, firm procurement ...
DOI:
10.1016/j.jclepro.2020.120148

3. Site selection framework of fishing photovoltaic hybrid project under interval-valued intuitionistic fuzzy environment

Author:
Geng, Shuai; Lin, Lijun; Zhang, Lin; Liu, Xingmin; Huang, Zhijun
Source:
Journal of cleaner production 2020 v.252 pp. 119774
ISSN:
0959-6526
Subject:
decision support systems,   etc   ; decision making; fish farms;     Show all 3 Subjects
Abstract:
... The main objective of this paper is to propose a decision-making framework for FPHP to evaluate and select the optimal site to achieve the win-win situation. In order to achieve this goal, this study proposed a decision index system which consist of 5 attributes, 12 criteria and 29 sub-criteria. The novelty of this decision index system is that it not only considers the site selection requirements ...
DOI:
10.1016/j.jclepro.2019.119774

4. Multicriteria Decision Model to Establish Maintenance Priorities for Wells in a Groundwater System

Author:
de Sousa Pereira, Leydiana; Morais, Danielle Costa
Source:
Water resources management 2020 v.34 no.1 pp. 377-392
ISSN:
0920-4741
Subject:
decision support systems,   etc   ; groundwater; models; planning; wells;     Show all 5 Subjects
Abstract:
... When exploiting groundwater, it is common to have problems with wells since maintenance activities can interrupt not only the production of water but also its distribution. Planning maintenance activities is a challenge that involves multiple agents, several criteria, and subjective variables. Therefore, this paper proposes a decision model based on a multicriteria approach to prioritize maintenan ...
DOI:
10.1007/s11269-019-02457-8

5. Decision analysis for the emission-limited manufacturer with option contracts under demand uncertainty

Author:
Wang, S.Y.; Choi, S.H.
Source:
Journal of cleaner production 2020 v.258 pp. 120712
ISSN:
0959-6526
Subject:
decision support systems,   etc   ; markets; models; multipliers; prices; profitability; purchasing; uncertainty;     Show all 8 Subjects
Abstract:
... Emission options have been introduced to relieve the emission-dependent manufacturers’ low-carbon pressure and contribute to the long-run success of the Emission Trading Scheme (ETS). Yet few research works have studied the manufacturer’s behaviors and performance with/without emission options to achieve sustainability. This paper seeks to bridge this research gap and investigate the manufacturer’ ...
DOI:
10.1016/j.jclepro.2020.120712

6. Farm-level decision support tools: A review of methodological choices and their consistency with principles of sustainability assessment

Author:
Arulnathan, Vivek; Heidari, Mohammad Davoud; Doyon, Maurice; Li, Eric; Pelletier, Nathan
Source:
Journal of cleaner production 2020 v.256 pp. 120410
ISSN:
0959-6526
Subject:
decision support systems,   etc   ; compliance; decision making; models; sustainable development;     Show all 5 Subjects
Abstract:
... In response to the recognized importance of agri-food systems for sustainable development, a variety of sustainability assessment methods for agri-food production have been developed. These sustainability assessment methods vary in their scope, target audience, selection of sustainability themes and indicators, aggregation and time requirements. This review paper focuses on farm-level sustainabili ...
DOI:
10.1016/j.jclepro.2020.120410

7. Crow Algorithm for Irrigation Management: A Case Study

Author:
Banadkooki, Fatemeh Barzegari; Adamowski, Jan; Singh, Vijay P.; Ehteram, Mohammad; Karami, Hojat; Mousavi, Sayed Farhad; Farzin, Saeed; EL-Shafie, Ahmed
Source:
Water resources management 2020 v.34 no.3 pp. 1021-1045
ISSN:
0920-4741
Subject:
decision support systems,   etc   ; algorithms; case studies; irrigation management; irrigation water;     Show all 5 Subjects
Abstract:
... This study employed a new evolutionary algorithm namely, the crow algorithm (CA), to optimize reservoir operation and minimize irrigation water deficit. Comprehensive analysis have been carried out between the proposed CA algorithm and other algorithms such as Prticle Swarm optimization (PSO), Shark Algorithm (SA), Genetic Algorithm (GA), and Weed Algorithm (WA). In addition, in order to select th ...
DOI:
10.1007/s11269-020-02488-6

8. Explaining the political nature of environmental impact assessment (EIA): A neo-Gramscian perspective

Author:
Bond, Alan; Pope, Jenny; Fundingsland, Monica; Morrison-Saunders, Angus; Retief, Francois; Hauptfleisch, Morgan
Source:
Journal of cleaner production 2020 v.244 pp. 118694
ISSN:
0959-6526
Subject:
decision support systems,   etc   ; decision making; economic development; environmental assessment; politics;     Show all 5 Subjects
Abstract:
... Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) is a mandatory decision-support tool in every country of the world, developed 50 years ago to ensure the consideration of the environmental consequences of development decisions prior to approval decisions being made. Specifically, the aim of developing an EIA system was to make decision-making affecting the environment more accountable, through the use of obj ...
DOI:
10.1016/j.jclepro.2019.118694

9. Energy efficiency optimisation in industrial processes: Integral decision support tool

Author:
Bonilla-Campos, Iñigo; Nieto, Nerea; del Portillo-Valdes, Luis; Manzanedo, Jaio; Gaztañaga, Haizea
Source:
Energy 2020 v.191 pp. 116480
ISSN:
0360-5442
Subject:
decision support systems,   etc   ; business enterprises; energy efficiency; manufacturing;     Show all 4 Subjects
Abstract:
... Assessing and improving energy efficiency in manufacturing processes is a crucial issue for companies who wish to become competitive. In addition, there are high margins of technical energy efficiency improvement for practically each sector and kind of industry. There are many Energy Efficiency Measures (EEM)s and tools in the literature to assess energy efficiency. To fit an EEM to a specific pro ...
DOI:
10.1016/j.energy.2019.116480

10. Holistic methodological framework for the characterization of urban sustainability and strategic planning

Author:
Feleki, Eleni; Vlachokostas, Christos; Moussiopoulos, Nicolas
Source:
Journal of cleaner production 2020 v.243
ISSN:
0959-6526
Subject:
decision support systems,   etc   ; arithmetics; funding; planning; urban development; Greece;     Show all 6 Subjects
Abstract:
... In the past decades several attempts were made for the ad-hoc application of systems of indicators as decision-support tools towards sustainable urban development. The selected systems’ results are often questioned, either for the suitability of the selected system per se, or for its ability to characterize effectively urban sustainability. In the attempt to satisfy the demanding needs of indicato ...
DOI:
10.1016/j.jclepro.2019.118432

11. Gas–Liquid Flow Regime Prediction in Minichannels: A Dimensionless, Universally Applicable Approach

Author:
Haase, Stefan; Bauer, Tobias; Graf, Eric
Source:
Industrial & engineering chemistry process design and development 2020 v.59 no.9 pp. 3820-3838
ISSN:
1520-5045
Subject:
decision support systems,   etc   ; chemical engineering; mass transfer; prediction;     Show all 4 Subjects
Abstract:
... Apparatus containing micro- or minichannels are seen as promising tools to intensify several chemical engineering processes. For gas–liquid systems, the apparatus should operate in the Taylor flow regime due to its excellent mass transfer coefficients and low back-mixing. The presence of the regime depends on several geometric and operational parameters as well as material properties. To the best ...
DOI:
10.1021/acs.iecr.9b03756

12. Superpixel-enhanced deep neural forest for remote sensing image semantic segmentation

Author:
Mi, Li; Chen, Zhenzhong
Source:
ISPRS journal of photogrammetry and remote sensing 2020 v.159 pp. 140-152
ISSN:
0924-2716
Subject:
decision support systems,   etc   ; equipment performance; neural networks; remote sensing;     Show all 4 Subjects
Abstract:
... Semantic segmentation plays an important role in remote sensing image understanding. Great progress has been made in this area with the development of Deep Convolutional Neural Networks (DCNNs). However, due to the complexity of ground objects’ spectrum, DCNNs with simple classifier have difficulties in distinguishing ground object categories even though they can represent image features effective ...
DOI:
10.1016/j.isprsjprs.2019.11.006

13. Scenario processes for socio-environmental systems analysis of futures: A review of recent efforts and a salient research agenda for supporting decision making

Author:
Elsawah, Sondoss; Hamilton, Serena H.; Jakeman, Anthony J.; Rothman, Dale; Schweizer, Vanessa; Trutnevyte, Evelina; Carlsen, Henrik; Drakes, Crystal; Frame, Bob; Fu, Baihua; Guivarch, Celine; Haasnoot, Marjolijn; Kemp-Benedict, Eric; Kok, Kasper; Kosow, Hannah; Ryan, Mike; van Delden, Hedwig
Source:
The Science of the total environment 2020 v.729 pp. 138393
ISSN:
0048-9697
Subject:
decision support systems,   etc   ; citizen participation; decision making; models; stakeholders; systems analysis; uncertainty;     Show all 7 Subjects
Abstract:
... This paper reviews the latest research on scenarios including the processes and products for socio-environmental systems (SES) analysis, modeling and decision making. A group of scenario researchers and practitioners participated in a workshop to discuss consolidation of existing research on the development and use of scenario analysis in exploring and understanding the interplay between human and ...
DOI:
10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.138393

14. Application of classification trees for improving optical identification of common opaque minerals

Author:
Domínguez-Olmedo, Juan L.; Toscano, Manuel; Mata, Jacinto
Source:
Computers & geosciences 2020 v.140 pp. 104480
ISSN:
0098-3004
Subject:
decision support systems,   etc   ; Internet; artificial intelligence; computers; microscopy; minerals; phylogeny; reflectance; uncertainty;     Show all 9 Subjects
Abstract:
... The recognition of opaque minerals by polarized reflected-light microscopy is a challenging task due to the use of certain qualitative properties that may lead to ambiguities in their identification. The use of a decision tree may simplify and guide the evaluation of these properties for reaching a proper mineral identification. Improvements of such classification trees can contribute to employ fe ...
DOI:
10.1016/j.cageo.2020.104480

15. Machine learning approaches for estimation of sediment settling velocity

Author:
Zhu, Senlin; Hrnjica, Bahrudin; Dai, Jiangyu; Sivakumar, Bellie
Source:
Journal of hydrology 2020 v.586 pp. 124911
ISSN:
0022-1694
Subject:
decision support systems,   etc   ; artificial intelligence; gravel; models; planning; sand; sediment transport; specific gravity; viscosity; watersheds;     Show all 10 Subjects
Abstract:
... Sediment settling velocity (SSV) is one of the most important parameters in sediment transport studies. Accurate estimation of SSV is, thus, of great significance for river basin planning and management. Many factors influence SSV in highly complex and nonlinear ways, which make accurate estimation of SSV a very challenging task. To better estimate SSV, in the present study, three machine learning ...
DOI:
10.1016/j.jhydrol.2020.124911

16. Application of decision trees and fuzzy inference system for quality classification and modeling of black and green tea based on visual features

Author:
Bakhshipour, Adel; Zareiforoush, Hemad; Bagheri, Iraj
Source:
Journal of food measurement & characterization 2020 v.14 no.3 pp. 1402-1416
ISSN:
2193-4126
Subject:
decision support systems,   etc   ; black tea; cameras; color; computer vision; fuzzy logic; green tea; pruning; texture; trees;     Show all 10 Subjects
Abstract:
... A fuzzified decision tree (DT)-based computer vision system was developed in this study for classification of common Iranian teas. Images of different tea categories, including five green tea and five black tea classes were captured using a CCD camera. In total, 83 image-based information (including 18 colour, 13 texture, and 52 wavelet-based features) were extracted from the images and introduced ...
DOI:
10.1007/s11694-020-00390-8

17. Knowledge extraction from trained ANN drought classification model

Author:
Vidyarthi, Vikas Kumar; Jain, Ashu
Source:
Journal of hydrology 2020 v.585 pp. 124804
ISSN:
0022-1694
Subject:
decision support systems,   etc   ; atmospheric precipitation; decision making; drought; evaporation; hydrology; monitoring; neural networks;     Show all 8 Subjects
Abstract:
... Artificial neural networks (ANNs) are one of the most widely used techniques for solving a variety of problems including classification and function approximation type of problems. However, the use of ANNs in hydrology is limited to academics and research; and hydrologists/policymakers are skeptical to use the ANNs in operational hydrology, especially where a premium is placed on the comprehensibi ...
DOI:
10.1016/j.jhydrol.2020.124804

18. A fuzzy cognitive mapping-system dynamics approach to energy-change impacts on the sustainability of small and medium-sized enterprises

Author:
Pereira, Inês P.C.; Ferreira, Fernando A.F.; Pereira, Leandro F.; Govindan, Kannan; Meidutė-Kavaliauskienė, Ieva; Correia, Ricardo J.C.
Source:
Journal of cleaner production 2020 v.256 pp. 120154
ISSN:
0959-6526
Subject:
decision support systems,   etc   ; cognition; decision making; energy efficiency; fuzzy logic; governance; small and medium enterprises; Portugal;     Show all 8 Subjects
Abstract:
... Although large firms have already begun addressing energy efficiency issues and adopting “cleaner” types of energy, companies with fewer resources, such as small and medium-sized enterprises, are more reluctant to implement these measures. Given that strategies leading to energy sustainability have become a key aspect of business competitiveness, decision makers in small and medium-sized enterpris ...
DOI:
10.1016/j.jclepro.2020.120154

19. A decision analysis approach to electronics standard development informed by life cycle assessment using influence diagrams

Author:
Garvey, Therese; Meyer, David E.; Gonzalez, Michael A.; Dyson, Brian; Carriger, John F.
Source:
Journal of cleaner production 2020 v.254 pp. 120036
ISSN:
0959-6526
Subject:
decision support systems,   etc   ; case studies; decision making; electronics; environmental impact; life cycle assessment; stakeholders;     Show all 7 Subjects
Abstract:
... Life cycle assessment (LCA) provides holistic information on systems including the trade-offs between environmental impacts and the drivers of such impacts. Coupling life cycle assessment with a decision analysis (DA) method can help ensure that a life cycle assessment is focused on pertinent decision performance measures. In this paper, a framework integrating life cycle assessment with a decisio ...
DOI:
10.1016/j.jclepro.2020.120036

20. A perspective on novel cascading algal biomethane biorefinery systems

Author:
Bose, Archishman; O'Shea, Richard; Lin, Richen; Murphy, Jerry D.
Source:
Bioresource technology 2020 v.304 pp. 123027
ISSN:
0960-8524
Subject:
decision support systems,   etc   ; anaerobic digestion; biogas; biomass; biorefining; energy; methane; microalgae; photosynthesis; profitability;     Show all 10 Subjects
Abstract:
... Synergistic opportunities to combine biomethane production via anaerobic digestion whilst cultivating microalgae have been previously suggested in literature. While biomethane is a promising and flexible renewable energy vector, microalgae are increasingly gaining importance as an alternate source of food and/or feed, chemicals and energy for advanced biofuels. However, simultaneously achieving, g ...
DOI:
10.1016/j.biortech.2020.123027