Data mining approaches for life cycle assessment

Proceedings of the 2011 IEEE International Symposium on Sustainable Systems and Technology, ISSST 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages

  Sundaravaradan, Naren ^a   Marwah, Manish ^b   Shah, Amip ^b   Ramakrishnan, Naren ^a  

^a State University   (United States)

^b HEWLETT PACKARD LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Data mining; environmental factors; environmental management; green design

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATED DATA MINING; DATA MINING PROBLEMS; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS; GREEN DESIGNS; IMPACT FACTOR; LIFE-CYCLE ASSESSMENTS; SUB-PROBLEMS;

ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; LIFE CYCLE;

DATA MINING;

EID: 79960702574     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ISSST.2011.5936863     Document Type: Conference Paper

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