Assessing renewables-to-electricity systems: A fuzzy expert system model

Energy Policy

Volumn 34, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 1357-1366

  Kaminaris, S D ^a   Tsoutsos, T D ^b,c   Agoris, D ^d   Machias, A V ^a  

^a NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^c Centre for Renewable Energy Sources   (Greece)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Expert systems; Fuzzy logic; Fuzzy sets theory; Life cycle analysis; Renewable energy; Renewable energy sources to electricity systems assessment

Indexed keywords

DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; EXPERT SYSTEMS; FUZZY SETS; KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION; LIFE CYCLE;

FUZZY EXPERT SYSTEM MODEL; LIFE CYCLE ANALYSIS;

RENEWABLE ENERGY RESOURCES;

ELECTRICITY GENERATION; FUZZY MATHEMATICS; MODELING; RENEWABLE RESOURCE;

EID: 33645077898     PISSN: 03014215     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.enpol.2004.08.054     Document Type: Article

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