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- Title
A Hybrid Recommender System to Improve Circular Economy in Industrial Symbiotic Networks.
- Authors
Gatzioura, Anna; Sànchez-Marrè, Miquel; Gibert, Karina
- Abstract
Recently, the need of improved resource trading has arisen due to resource limitations and energy optimization problems. Various platforms supporting resource exchange and waste reuse in industrial symbiotic networks are being developed. However, the actors participating in these networks still mainly act based on predefined patterns, without taking the possible alternatives into account, usually due to the difficulty of properly evaluating them. Therefore, incorporating intelligence into the platforms that these networks use, supporting the involved actors to automatically find resources able to cover their needs, is still of high importance both for the companies and the whole ecosystem. In this work, we present a hybrid recommender system to support users in properly identifying the symbiotic relationships that might provide them an improved performance. This recommender combines a graph-based model for resource similarities, while it follows the basic case-based reasoning processes to generate resource recommendations. Several criteria, apart from resource similarity, are taken into account to generate, each time, the list of the most suitable solutions. As highlighted through a use case scenario, the proposed system could play a key role in the emerging industrial symbiotic platforms, as the majority of them still do not incorporate automatic decision support mechanisms.
- Subjects
HYBRID systems; CASE-based reasoning; RECOMMENDER systems; WASTE recycling; POWER resources; INDUSTRIAL wastes
- Publication
Energies (19961073), 2019, Vol 12, Issue 18, p3546
- ISSN
1996-1073
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/en12183546