Agent-based life cycle assessment for switchgrass-based bioenergy systems

Resources, Conservation and Recycling

Volumn 103, Issue , 2015, Pages 171-178

  Bichraoui Draper, Najet ^a,b   Xu, Ming ^b   Miller, Shelie A ^b   Guillaume, Bertrand ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE TECHNOLOGIE DE TROYES   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Agent based modeling; Biofuel; Complex adaptive systems; Life cycle assessment; Switchgrass

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE SYSTEMS; AGRICULTURE; AUTONOMOUS AGENTS; BIOFUELS; BIOMASS; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; CROPS; DECISION MAKING; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; ETHANOL; PLANTS (BOTANY); SOFTWARE AGENTS; SUPPLY CHAINS;

AGENT-BASED MODEL; COMPLEX ADAPTIVE SYSTEMS; EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES; LIFE CYCLE ASSESSMENT (LCA); LIFE-CYCLE INFORMATION; MODELING METHODOLOGY; SOCIO-ECONOMIC FACTOR; SWITCHGRASS;

LIFE CYCLE;

EID: 84947495121     PISSN: 09213449     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.resconrec.2015.08.003     Document Type: Article

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