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ISSN 1759-3433
CCP: 103
PROCEEDINGS OF THE THIRD INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SOFT COMPUTING TECHNOLOGY IN CIVIL, STRUCTURAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING
Edited by: Y. Tsompanakis
Paper 19

Developing Fuzzy Cognitive Maps for Modeling Regional Waste Management Systems

A. Buruzs1, R.C. Pozna2 and L.T. Kóczy3,4

1Department of Environmental Engineering, Széchenyi István University, Gyor, Hungary
2Department of Informatics, Széchenyi István University, Gyor, Hungary
3 Department of Telecommunications and Media Informatics,
Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary
4Department of Automation, Széchenyi István University, Gyor, Hungary

Full Bibliographic Reference for this paper
, "Developing Fuzzy Cognitive Maps for Modeling Regional Waste Management Systems", in Y. Tsompanakis, (Editor), "Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Soft Computing Technology in Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering", Civil-Comp Press, Stirlingshire, UK, Paper 19, 2013. doi:10.4203/ccp.103.19
Keywords: integrated waste management system on regional level, sustainability,.

Summary

Sustainable waste management systems necessarily include environmental, economic, social, institutional, legal and technical aspects. As a result of the incompleteness and multiple uncertainties occurring in sustainable waste management systems, we propose the use of fuzzy cognitive maps (FCM) to support the planning and decision making process. It is obvious that uncertainties involved with waste management represent vagueness rather than probability. Fuzzy sets and fuzzy logic are suitable to construct a formal description and a mathematically manageable model of systems and processes with such uncertainties. In the research described in this paper the FCM model of the Györ RWMS is established and implemented in such a structure that its parameters and weights were flexibly variable. By observation of the model and its time dependent behaviour we determined under what conditions the long-term sustainability of a regional waste management system could be ensured. In this paper, the interpretation of the results obtained by the FCM model for the actual waste management system are presented.

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