Using Fuzzy Cognitive Maps approach to identify integrated waste management system characteristics

Author

Buruzs, Adrienn ; Koczy, Laszlo T. ; Hatwagner, Miklos F.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Environ. Eng., Szechenyi Istvan Univ., Györ, Hungary

fYear

2014

fDate

5-7 Nov. 2014

Firstpage

141

Lastpage

147

Abstract

This paper outline how Fuzzy Cognitive Maps (FCM) can be applied as a tool in integrated waste management systems. FCM is a soft systems methodology for exploiting and analyzing human perceptions of a given system. During the research, the driving forces and impacts in the changes of waste management systems have been analyzed. Several types of FCM are known, and the authors´ intention was to apply the FCM type III to describe the causality relations among the factors of the integrated waste management systems (IWMS).

Keywords

fuzzy set theory; waste management; FCM approach; FCM type III; IWMS; causality relations; fuzzy cognitive maps; human perceptions analysis; integrated waste management system characteristics identification; soft systems methodology; Biological system modeling; Evolutionary computation; Fuzzy cognitive maps; Sociology; Time series analysis; Waste management; caualisty; fuzzy cognitive map; integrated waste management system; self reflexive;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Cognitive Infocommunications (CogInfoCom), 2014 5th IEEE Conference on

Conference_Location

Vietri sul Mare

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CogInfoCom.2014.7020435

Filename

7020435