Contribution of the Paraconsistent Tri-Annotated Logic to emergy accounting and decision making

Bonilla, Sílvia H.; Papalardo, Fábio; Tassinari, C.A.; Sacomano, José Benedito; Carvalho, Fábio Romeu de

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“…In other fields of application, studies such as Takahashi, Umeda, and Sawamura [48], developed a basic structure of argument (means of interaction) for Extended Generalized Annotated Logical Programs (EGAP), providing the theory of semantics and dialectical proof and proving the solidity, integrity, and equivalence of semantics well-reasoned. Bonilla et al [23] apply Paraconsistent Tri-Annotated Logic (PAL3v) in the analysis of a set of emergency indicators linked to ecological and environmental issues, aiming to assess sustainability and efficiency in minimizing the priority for the use of nonrenewable resources. Encheva, Tumin, and Kondratenk [49] added the PAL in a support system to select optimal decisions in transport logistics, having as the main criterion for decision the quality of cargo delivery.…”

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“…The expert opinion aggregation can become more challenging if the information provided by experts is contradictory. A family of so-called heterodox nonclassical logics, namely, Paraconsistent Logic (PL), whose main feature is the withdrawal of the principle of noncontradiction can aid in decision-making when the analyst is confronted with contradictory opinions [23].…”

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“…One of the techniques that belongs to such a family and deserves special attention is the Paraconsistent Annotated Logic (PAL) that allows a better decision-making when there are contradictory values or opinions through the attribution of favorable and unfavorable values (the degrees of belief and disbelief) in relation to any proposition, generating a logic that presents results in four states: true, false, inconsistent, and indeterminate [23][24][25]. The method has been applied in qualitative and quantitative approaches, such as logic programming for robotics, artificial intelligence and automation, analysis of environmental problems, decision-making in industrial quality and logistics, logical-philosophical reasoning, applied mathematics in decision-making in matters of medicine and law, and complexity of computational systems (mainly assisting in inconsistent data mining).…”

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PAL-VMEA: A Novel Method for Enhancing Decision-Making Consistency in Maintenance Management

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Decision-making regarding maintenance planning has become increasingly critical. In view of the need for more assertive decisions, methods, and tools based on failure analysis, performance indicators, and risk analysis have obtained great visibility. One of these methods, the Variation and Mode Effect Analysis (VMEA), is a statistically based method that analyses the effect of different sources of variations on a system. One great advantage of VMEA is to facilitate the understanding of these variations and to highlight the system areas in which improvement efforts should be directed. However, like many knowledge-based methods, the inherent epistemic uncertainty can be propagated to its result, influencing following decisions. To minimize this issue, this work proposes the novel combination of VMEA with Paraconsistent Annotated Logic (PAL), a technique that withdraws the principle of noncontradiction, allowing better decision-making when contradictory opinions are present. To demonstrate the method applicability, a case study analyzing a hydrogenerator components is presented. Results show how the proposed method is capable of indicating which are the failure modes that most affect the analyzed system, as well as which variables must be monitored so that the symptoms related to each failure mode can be observed, helping in decision-making regarding maintenance planning.

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“…To mitigate deteriorating environmental sustainability, measuring anthropogenic influence on the natural environment is the fundamental step to manage both humans and nature (Wackernagel, Onisto, and Bello et al 1999). Various environmental models have been suggested to quantify human's impact on the natural environment to assess environmental sustainability, such as net primary productivity (NPP) (Vitousek, Ehrlich, and Ehrlich et al 1986), material flow analysis (Fischer-Kowalski and Haberl 1998), pressure-state-response model (Wang and Liu 2019), emergy analysis (Bonilla et al, 2019), life cycle assessment (Castellani and Sala 2012), and ecological footprint (EF) (Wackernagel, Onisto, and Bello et al 1999). Among them, EF is one of the most widely used approaches (Mostafa 2010) and has been proved to be an effective tool to assess the impact of anthropogenic activity on the natural ecosystem (Wang et al 2018).…”

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Incorporating carbon sink of harvested wood products into ecological footprint accounting: model and case study

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2020

Ecosyst Health Sustain

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Ecological footprint (EF) accounting system is widely used in assessing environmental sustainability at various spatial scales. To improve the EF performance, a new EF calculation framework was established in this study, in which HWP is considered as carbon sinks and the model was then applied to the Yangtze River basin of China. Results showed that (1) carbon sink in the basin is about 2.99 Tg per year and it varies substantially across subbasins, which has a nonlinear relationship with net primary productivity; (2) available biocapacity calculated in the whole basin increases from 0.5068 to 0.5759 national ha (nha) per capita when incorporating the carbon sinks. In a few subbasins, the added biocapacity is even larger than the biocapacity estimated from the conventional approach; (3) the EF of the basin is 5.598 nha per capita and it is much larger than its biological carrying capacity (BC), indicating that ecological deficit is ubiquitous across the basin. If carbon sinks are considered, the ecological deficit would decrease by 3.2-14.3% for different regions in the basin. It is necessary to incorporate HWP and other potential terrestrial carbon sinks in the EF accounting, and more efforts are needed in improving carbon sink accuracy.

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“…Many scholars have used the emergy analysis method in studies assessing sustainability (Bonilla et al, ). Vega‐Azamar, Glaus, Hausler, Angélica Oropeza‐García, and Romero‐López () used emergy analysis to assess the urban environmental sustainability of the Island of Montreal, Canada and proposed suggestions for improving its environmental performance.…”

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Sustainable development and green gross domestic product assessments in megacities based on the emergy analysis method—A case study of Wuhan

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Globally, cities are generally facing challenges of sustainable development, and this is particularly true in megacities. To reveal the relationship between economy and ecology, green gross domestic product (GDP) represents the ideology and requirements of sustainable development. In this study, emergy analysis theory is introduced to the green GDP accounting system and to a sustainable development evaluation framework using Wuhan City from 1994 to 2015 as a case study. The results show that (a) the green GDP increases as traditional GDP grows year by year, indicating the improvement of the sustainability development of Wuhan. (b) In terms of green GDP contributing factors, the proportion of nonrenewable energy in traditional GDP decreased from 11.91% to 5.31%, reflecting remarkable progresses in the promotion of saving energy. (c) In terms of the sustainability dynamic assessment, result greater than one for the Emergy Sustainability Index implies the economic system of Wuhan following a trajectory of sustainable development, but the downward trend of the Environment Index of Sustainable Development in recent years indicates thatWuhan needs to improve its socioeconomic performance. Based on the emergy analysis, this study provides a theoretical framework for investigating and assessing the temporal characteristics of green GDP accounting, urban sustainability assessment, and inhibiting factors in the progress of sustainability. Empirical findings provide theoretical support and policy recommendations for the promotion of urban sustainable development.

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Contribution of the Paraconsistent Tri-Annotated Logic to emergy accounting and decision making

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PAL-VMEA: A Novel Method for Enhancing Decision-Making Consistency in Maintenance Management

PAL-VMEA: A Novel Method for Enhancing Decision-Making Consistency in Maintenance Management

Incorporating carbon sink of harvested wood products into ecological footprint accounting: model and case study

Sustainable development and green gross domestic product assessments in megacities based on the emergy analysis method—A case study of Wuhan

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