scholarly journals A Review of Waste Management Decision Support Tools and Their Ability to Assess Circular Biowaste Management Systems

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (10) ◽  
pp. 3720 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eldbjørg Blikra Vea ◽  
Veronica Martinez-Sanchez ◽  
Marianne Thomsen
Keyword(s):  
Decision Support ◽  
Waste Management ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Sustainability Assessment ◽  
Resource Scarcity ◽  
Environmental Benefits ◽  
Management Systems ◽  
Management Decision ◽  
Decision Support Tools ◽  
Support Tools

The circular economy concept offers a number of solutions to increasing amounts of biowaste and resource scarcity by valorising biowaste. However, it is necessary to consistently address the environmental benefits and impacts of circular biowaste management systems (CBWMS). Various decision support tools (DST) for environmental assessment of waste management systems (WMS) exist. This study provides a review of life cycle assessment based WMS-DSTs. Twenty-five WMS-DSTs were identified and analysed through a shortlisting procedure. Eight tools were shortlisted for the assessment of their applicability to deliver sustainability assessment of CBWMS. It was found that six tools model key properties that are necessary for assessing the environmental sustainability of CBWMSs, including waste-specific modelling of gaseous emissions, biogas generation or bioproduct composition. However, only two tools consider both waste-specific heavy metals content in bioproducts and the associated implications when applied on soil. Most of the shortlisted tools are flexible to simulate new technologies involved in CBWMS. Nevertheless, only two tools allow importing directly new background data, which is important when modelling substitution of new bioproducts developed in emerging biowaste refineries.

New Technologies in Personalized Decision Support to Enhance Patient Choice

2012 ◽  
pp. 220-235 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nananda F. Col
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factors ◽  
Decision Support ◽  
Individual Differences ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Prediction Models ◽  
Decision Aids ◽  
Behavioral Risk ◽  
Decision Support Tools ◽  
Support Tools ◽  
Average Patient

Medical decisions are difficult when there are two or more reasonable options and each option has good and bad features that different people may value differently because of differences in health, risk factors, preferences, or values. Personalized decision support tools are being developed in many areas, but two particularly promising areas are patient decision aids and Risk Prediction Models (RPMs). These personalized decision support tools can help patients and/or providers make better decisions about preventing, managing, or treating disease, taking into consideration specific aspects of an individual patient that distinguish them from an ’average’ patient or the population at large. Decision aids tend to focus on individual differences in preferences and values, whereas RPM’s focus on individual differences in clinical, biological, and behavioral risk factors. There are tremendous opportunities with both approaches, and both have been shown to be able to improve clinical judgment and decision making. Decision support tools are needed that provide personalized service that addresses important individual differences in biology, values, and preferences, and that targets the provider-patient dyad.

scholarly journals Decision Support Tools for Selecting Organisational Improvement Initiatives: a Review

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (3.7) ◽  
pp. 153
Author(s):  
Musli Mohammad ◽  
Ligesh Manni Vattiyan ◽  
Mohd Shahir Yahya
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Decision Support ◽  
Management Systems ◽  
Decision Support Tools ◽  
Decision Matrix ◽  
Future Studies ◽  
Support Tools ◽  
Improvement Team

Decision support tools are used in many organisations to support organisational decision making activities. However, very limited studies have been found focussing on the decision support tools for selecting organisational improvement initiatives. Improvement initiatives are approaches, management systems, tools and/or techniques that can be used for managing and improving organisations, such as Lean, ISO9001 and Improvement Team. Four existing decision support tools were reviewed and compared. All four decision support tools consist of decision matrix, rating and ranking to assist in selecting appropriate improvement initiative. Finally, several potential future studies have been proposed.  

Web-Based Expert Geographical Information System for Advanced Transportation Management Systems

2000 ◽  
Vol 1719 (1) ◽  
pp. 200-208 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kaan Özbay ◽  
Shirsendu Mukherjee
Keyword(s):  
Decision Support ◽  
Real Time ◽  
Support System ◽  
Support Systems ◽  
Management Systems ◽  
Incident Management ◽  
Decision Support Tools ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Transportation Management ◽  
Support Tools

The Internet is fast becoming the standard environment for client-server applications that involve multiple users. The proliferation of Internet-based application development tools opens new doors to transportation researchers who work in real-time decision support system development. In the 1990s, one of the most important problems in advanced transportation management systems research was the development of better incident management systems. Although the incident management process has been well studied, the development of real-time decision support systems that can be used by all the involved agencies remains a challenging area of transportation engineering research. Existing incident management systems are developed on various traditional computing platforms, including UNIX and Windows. However, with the advent of the World Wide Web and Internet-based programming tools such as Java, it is possible to develop platform independent decision support tools for the incident management agencies. Web-based support tools offer an invaluable opportunity to develop next-generation online decision support tools for real-time traffic management. The applicability of Web-based tools to the development of online decision support systems for incident management is explored and demonstrated, and a prototype incident management decision support system (DSS) that has most of the capabilities of similar UNIX-based DSS support systems is developed and tested. Briefly described are the implementation and development of a prototype wide-area incident management system using Web-based tools.

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