Data mining approaches for life cycle assessment

To reduce the cost associated with screening lifecycle assessments (LCAs), we propose treating LCA as a data mining problem and automating the process of assigning impact factors to inventory components. We describe three sub-problems involved in automating LCA and provide illustrative case studies for each. The results from an automated data mining approach are comparable to those obtained from the more laborious manual LCA process.

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