Developing a fuzzy decision support system to determine the location of a landfill site

Waste Management and Research

Volumn 27, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 641-651

  Alves, Maria C M ^a   Lima, Beatriz S L P ^a   Evsukoff, Alexandre G ^a   Vieira, Ian N ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Decision support system; Fuzzy logic; Site location; Solid waste landfill; Waste management

Indexed keywords

CONVENTIONAL APPROACH; ECONOMIC DATA; FUZZY DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; LANDFILL SITE; LINGUISTIC ASSESSMENT; LINGUISTIC VARIABLE; MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE; MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE LANDFILLS; QUALITATIVE KNOWLEDGE; SITE LOCATION; SOLID WASTE LANDFILL;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; DECISION MAKING; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; DECISION THEORY; FUZZY SETS; LAND FILL; LINGUISTICS; RESEARCH; SOLID WASTES; WASTE DISPOSAL;

FUZZY LOGIC;

DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; FUZZY MATHEMATICS; LANDFILL; MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE; WASTE MANAGEMENT;

ARTICLE; BRAZIL; CASE STUDY; CITY PLANNING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; ECONOMIC ASPECT; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FUZZY LOGIC; LAND USE; LANDFILL; LEGAL ASPECT; MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SOCIAL ASPECT; SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT;

BRAZIL; CITIES; DECISION SUPPORT TECHNIQUES; FUZZY LOGIC; REFUSE DISPOSAL; WASTE MANAGEMENT;

BRAZIL; PETROPOLIS; RIO DE JANEIRO [BRAZIL]; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 70349512784     PISSN: 0734242X     EISSN: 10963669     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0734242X09103832     Document Type: Article

References (21)

1. Barlishen, K.D. & Baetz, B.W. (1996) Development of a decision support system for municipal solid waste management systems planning. Waste Management & Research, 14, 71-86.
2. Chang, N.B. & Wang, S.F. (1996) The development of an environmental decision support system for municipal solid waste management. Computers, Environment and Urban System, 20, 201-212.
3. Chang, N.B. & Chen, W.C. (2000) Fuzzy controller design for municipal incinerators with the aid of genetic algorithms and genetic programming techniques. Waste Management & Research, 18, 341-351.
4. Chang, N.B. & Wei, Y.L. (2000) Siting recycling drop-off stations in an urban area by genetic algorithm-based fuzzy multi-objective nonlinear programming modeling. Fuzzy Sets and Systems, 114, 133-149.
5. Chang, N.B., Shoemaker, C.A. & Schuler, R.E. (1996) Solid waste management system analysis with air pollution and leachate impact limitations. Waste Management and Research, 14, 463-481.
6. Chang, N.B., Chen, Y.L. & Wang, S.F. (1997) A fuzzy interval multi-objective mixed integer programming approach for the optimal planning of metropolitan solid waste management system. Fuzzy Sets and Systems, 89, 35-60.
7. Chang, N.B., Chang, Y.H. & Chen, H.W. (2009) Fair fund distribution for a municipal incinerator using a GIS-based fuzzy analytical hierarchical process. Journal of Environmental Management, 90, 441 - 454.
8. Chang, N.B., Parvathinathan, G. & Breeden, J.B. (2008) Combining GIS with fuzzy multiple attribute decision making for landfill sitting in a fast growing urban region. Journal of Environmental Management, 87, 139-153.
9. Chen, W.C., Chang, N.B. & Chen, J.C. (2002) GA-based neural-fuzzy controller design for municipal incinerators. Fuzzy Sets and System, 129, 343-369.
10. Cho, K.T. (2003) Multicriteria decision methods: An attempt to evaluate and unify. Mathematical and Computer Modelling, 37, 1099-1119.
11. Dubois, D., Prade, H. & Testemale, C. (1988) Weighted fuzzy pattern matching. Fuzzy Sets and Systems, 28, 313-331.
12. Evsukoff, A.G., Branco, A.C.S. & Gentil, S. (1997) A knowledge acquisition method for fuzzy expert systems in diagnosis problems. In: Proc. IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems, FUZZ-IEEE-97, Barcelona, July.
13. Ferreira, S.R.M.; Jucá, J.F.T.; Melo, V.L.A.; Mariano, M.O.H. & Neto, J.P.F. (2002) Estudos Geo-Ambientais para Escolha da Área e Implantação do Sistema Integrado de Destinação Final dos Resíduos Sólidos do Município de Rio Formoso, PE, Brasil. [Geo-Environmental Research for Location of a New Area for Solid Waste Disposal in the Municipality of Rio Formoso, Pernambuco, Brazil]. In Proc. 10th Brazilian Congress on Engineering and Environmental Geology, Ouro Preto, Brazil.
14. Gemitzi, A., Vassilios A.T., Voudrias, E., Petalas, C. & Stravodimos, G. (2007) Combining geographic information system, multicriteria evaluation techniques and fuzzy logic in siting MSW landfills. Environmental Geology, 51, 797-811.
15. Haastrup, P., Maniezzo, V., Mattarelli, M., Mazzeo Rinaldi, F., Mendes, I. & Paruccini, M. (1998) A decision support system for urban waste management. European Journal of Operational Research, 109, 330-341.
16. Jucá, J.F.T. (2003) Destinação Final de Resíduos Sólidos no Brasil: Situação Atual e Prespectivas. [Final disposal of urban solid waste in Brazil - actual situation and perspective]. In: Proc. of Fifth Brazilian Conference of Environmental Geotechnics, Porto Alegre, Brazil.
17. Koo, J.K., Shin H.S. & Yoo H.C. (1991) Multi-objective siting planning for a regional hazardous waste treatment center. Waste Management & Research, 9, 205-218.
18. MacDonald, M.L. (1996) A multi-attribute spatial decision support system for solid waste planning. Computers, Environment and Urban Systems, 20, 1-17.
19. NBR 13896-97 ABNT. Non-Hazardous Solid Waste Landfill - Criteria for Design, Implementation and Operation. (in Portuguese). Brazilian Association of Technical Norms ABNT, São Paulo, Brazil.
20. PNSB - Research for National Basic Sanitation, 2000, http://www.ibge.gov.br (in Portuguese).
21. Yager, R.R. (1988) On ordered weighted averaging aggregation operators in multi-criteria decision making. IEEE Transactions on Systems Man and Cybernetics, 18, 183-190.