Fuzzy assessment of material recyclability and its applications

Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems: Theory and Applications

Volumn 55, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 21-38

  Phillis, Yannis A ^a   Kouikoglou, Vassilis S ^a   Zhu, Xiaomin ^b  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^b BEIJING JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Monotonic fuzzy systems; Recyclability

Indexed keywords

COMPOSITE COMPONENTS; FUZZY ASSESSMENTS; HIERARCHICAL NETWORKS; MATERIAL RECYCLABILITY; MONOTONIC FUZZY SYSTEMS; NON-METALS; RECYCLABILITY; RECYCLED MATERIALS; RECYCLING PROCESS; SEVERAL VARIABLES;

ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; FUZZY SYSTEMS; RECYCLING; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

FUZZY INFERENCE;

EID: 67349235115     PISSN: 09210296     EISSN: 15730409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10846-008-9290-x     Document Type: Article

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