TY - GEN
T1 - An application of fuzzy logic to strategic environmental assessment
AU - Gavanelli, Marco
AU - Riguzzi, Fabrizio
AU - Milano, Michela
AU - Sottara, Davide
AU - Cangini, Alessandro
AU - Cagnoli, Paolo
PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) is used to evaluate the environmental effects of regional plans and programs. SEA expresses dependencies between plan activities (infrastructures, plants, resource extractions, buildings, etc.) and environmental pressures, and between these and environmental receptors. In this paper we employ fuzzy logic and many-valued logics together with numeric transformations for performing SEA. In particular, we discuss four models that capture alternative interpretations of the dependencies, combining quantitative and qualitative information. We have tested the four models and presented the results to the expert for validation. The interpretability of the results of the models was appreciated by the expert that liked in particular those models returning a possibility distribution in place of a crisp result.
AB - Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) is used to evaluate the environmental effects of regional plans and programs. SEA expresses dependencies between plan activities (infrastructures, plants, resource extractions, buildings, etc.) and environmental pressures, and between these and environmental receptors. In this paper we employ fuzzy logic and many-valued logics together with numeric transformations for performing SEA. In particular, we discuss four models that capture alternative interpretations of the dependencies, combining quantitative and qualitative information. We have tested the four models and presented the results to the expert for validation. The interpretability of the results of the models was appreciated by the expert that liked in particular those models returning a possibility distribution in place of a crisp result.
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U2 - 10.1007/978-3-642-23954-0_30
DO - 10.1007/978-3-642-23954-0_30
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:80052984649
SN - 9783642239533
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 324
EP - 335
BT - AI*IA 2011
T2 - 12th International Conference of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence, AI*IA 2011
Y2 - 15 September 2011 through 17 September 2011
ER -