A knowledge-based approximate life cycle assessment system for evaluating environmental impacts of product design alternatives in a collaborative design environment

Advanced Engineering Informatics

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 147-154

  Park, Ji Hyung ^a   Seo, Kwang Kyu ^b  

^a Korea Institute of Science and Technology   (South Korea)

^b Sangmyung University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Artificial neural networks; Collaborative design environment; Design alternatives

Indexed keywords

COSTS; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; LIFE CYCLE; NEURAL NETWORKS; PRODUCT DESIGN; QUALITY CONTROL;

COLLABORATIVE DESIGN ENVIRONMENT; DESIGN ALTERNATIVES; DISTRIBUTED OBJECT-BASED MODELING AND EVALUATION (DOME) SYSTEM; KNOWLEDGE-BASED APPROXIMATE LIFE CYCLE ASSESSMENT SYSTEM (KALCAS);

KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS;

EID: 33645846279     PISSN: 14740346     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aei.2005.09.003     Document Type: Article

References (11)

1. Curran M.A. Environmental life-cycle assessment (1996), McGraw-Hill, New York
2. Park J-H, Seo K-K, Wallace D. Approximate life cycle assessment of classified products using artificial neural network and statistical analysis in conceptual product design. Proceedings of the second international symposium on environmentally conscious design and inverse manufacturing; 2001. p. 321-6.
3. Hartmut K, Virginia S. An approach to simplified environmental assessment by classification of products. Proceeding of the seventh CIRP international seminar on life cycle engineering; 2000. p. 163-9.
4. Sousa I., Eisenhard J.L., and Wallace D.R. Approximate life-cycle assessment of product concepts using learning systems. J Ind Ecol 4 4 (2000) 61-81
5. SETAC. Streamlined life-cycle assessment: a final report. SETAC North America; 1999.
6. Haykin S., and Simon S. Neural networks: a comprehensive foundation (1998), Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ
7. Oculus Technology. Advanced CO™ training manual; 2003.
8. Senin N, Borland N, Wallace DR. Distributed modeling of product design problems in a collaborative design environment. Proceedings of CIRP international design seminar: multimedia technologies for collaborative design and manufacturing; 1997. p. 192-7.
9. Borland N, Kaufmann H, Wallace DR. Integrating environmental impact assessment into product design. Proceedings of the DETC98, ASME design engineering technical conference; 1998. p. 13-6.
10. Pahng K.F., Senin N., and Wallace D.R. Distributed modeling and evaluation of product design problems. Comput Aided Des 30 6 (1998) 411-423
11. Siegel J. CORBA, fundamentals of programming (1996), Wiley, New York