A monotonic fuzzy system for assessing material recyclability

Conference Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics

Volumn 4, Issue , 2005, Pages 3426-3431

  Kouikoglou, Vassilis S ^a   Phillis, Yannis A ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Monotonic fuzzy system; Recycling

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; INFERENCE ENGINES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; RECYCLING; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

INFERENCE STAGES; MATERIAL RECYCLABILITY; MONOTONIC FUZZY SYSTEM; RECYCLING RATE;

FUZZY CONTROL;

EID: 27944472224     PISSN: 1062922X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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