Fusion of conflicting information for improving representativeness of data used in LCAs

International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 480-490

  Gavankar, Sheetal ^a   Suh, Sangwon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Data fusion; Data quality; Data representativeness; Epistemic uncertainty; Life cycle assessment; Possibility theory

Indexed keywords

NANOMATERIAL;

ARTICLE; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; CONFLICT; DATA BASE; ENGINEERING; FINANCE; FUZZY SYSTEM; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; LIFE CYCLE ASSESSMENT; LINGUISTICS; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SOCIOLOGY;

EID: 84899108475     PISSN: 09483349     EISSN: 16147502     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11367-013-0673-2     Document Type: Article

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