Using ANN model to determine future waste characteristics in order to achieve specific waste management targets -case study of Serbia

Journal of Scientific and Industrial Research

Volumn 70, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 513-518

  Batinic, Bojan ^a   Vukmirovic, Srdan ^a   Vujic, Goran ^a   Stanisavljevic, Nemanja ^a   Ubavin, Dejan ^a   Vukmirovic, Goran ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOVI SAD   (Serbia)

Author keywords

Forecasting; Neural networks; Waste quantity and composition

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; DECISION MAKING; EUROPEAN UNION; FORECASTING METHOD; NUMERICAL MODEL; TRANSITION ZONE; WASTE MANAGEMENT;

SERBIA;

EID: 79960035422     PISSN: 00224456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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