The integration of two existing and widely accepted tools, Protégé Ontology Editor and Knowledge-Base Framework, and Prometheus Development Kit, into a common approach, aiming to include the principal stages of MAS development life cycle and offering a general sequence of steps facilitating application creation, is proposed in this paper. The approach is successfully being applied to situation ...

waste is a by-product of our daily activities, which poses a serious threat to societies all over the world. in this study, life cycle assessment (lca) methodology was used to determine municipal solid waste (msw) management strategy for minna, niger state, nigeria. three scenarios were modelled as alternatives to the current waste management system in minna. the baseline scenario was the exist...

ing the World As already mentioned, the WorldMarket of the agent-based model is actually a portal to an LCI database. This integration means that we can simulate a system in which we have a “lens” of complex dynamic behavior where agents interact with a static definition of the world. One Davis et al., Integration of LCA Into Agent-Based Modeling 321 R E S E A R C H A N D A N A LYS I S can furt...

Algaculture has the potential to be a sustainable option for nutrient removal at wastewater treatment plants. The purpose of this study was to compare the environmental impacts of three likely algaculture integration strategies to a conventional nutrient removal strategy. Process modeling was used to determine life cycle inventory data and a comparative life cycle assessment was used to determi...

Sustainability requires emphasizing the importance of environmental causes and effects among design knowledge from heterogeneous stakeholders to make a sustainable decision. Recently, such causes and effects have been well developed in ontological representation, which has been challenged to generate and integrate multiple domain knowledge due to its domain specific characteristics. Moreover, i...