Partial ordering of life cycle inventory databases

International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment

Volumn 20, Issue 12, 2015, Pages 1673-1683

  Kuczenski, Brandon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Background; Cyclic dependency; Foreground; Graph theory; Inventory modeling; LCI database management; Partial ordering

Indexed keywords

CARBOXYLIC ACID;

ARTICLE; BIOFUEL PRODUCTION; CONSTRUCTION WORK; ELECTRICITY; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; FACTUAL DATABASE; GEOTHERMAL ENERGY; LIFE CYCLE ASSESSMENT; LIFE CYCLE INVENTORY DATABASE; PLANT HEIGHT; PLANT ROOT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL CONCEPTS; STRONGLY CONNECTED COMPONENT; TRAFFIC AND TRANSPORT; WASTE MANAGEMENT;

EID: 84947484952     PISSN: 09483349     EISSN: 16147502     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11367-015-0972-x     Document Type: Article

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