| Biography | |
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 Dr. Mi Zhou Hefei University of Technology, China |
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| Title: Research on life cycle assessment based on the evidential reasoning approach | |
| Abstract: Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) is a tool to assess the environmental impacts and resources used throughout a products life cycle, i.e., from raw material acquisition, via production and use phases, to waste management. Assessment on the life cycle of products is the great demand of sustainable development in the future, especially for complex products. Here, LCA is conducted on electronic car and fuel car based on some data and investigations, and evidential reasoning (ER) approach is applied to integrate the values of different attributes in the assessment structure. Meanwhile, marching learning is applied to transform the comments on the website from consumers to belief degrees. The ER approach which considers both reliabilities and weights of experts is designed to aggregate the assessments from multiple sources in the LCA process. Entropy-based weight assignment model is used to generate the weights of attributes in the LCA process. Deviated interval and fixed interval attributes are introduced into ER based MADM approach and the transformation rules from the assessment values of deviated interval attributes to belief degrees in the ER structure are studied. | |
| Biography: Mi Zhou, now as an associated professor in Hefei University of Technology, was graduated from Management Science and Engineering, Hefei University of Technology in 2009 for the doctor’s degree. He has come to the University of Manchester from 2012-2013 as an academic visitor. His research interest is mainly on decision science and technology, especially in uncertain assessment, life cycle assessment, evidential reasoning approach and machine learning. He has published more than 30 papers, among which 8 SCI indexed papers (4 JCR Q1, 1 ESI highly cited), 10 EI indexed. He has managed several projects, such as National Natural Science Foundation of China, Natural Science Foundation of Anhui province, Anhui Province Philosophy and Social Science Planning Youth Project, Social Science Research Project of Anhui Educational Institute of China. He is also the reviewer of several journals such as ‘knowledge-based systems’, “Journal of cleaner production’, ‘Computers and industrial engineering’, and so on. He is also the senior member of ‘Chinese Society of Optimization, Overall Planning and Economical Mathematics’, and director of intelligent decision making and game branch of ‘Chinese Society of Optimization, Overall Planning and Economical Mathematics’. | |
