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Towards an Interoperable Decision Support Platform for Eco-labeling Process

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Along with the rising concern of environmental performance, eco-labelling is becoming more popular. However, the complex process of eco-labelling demotivated manufacturers and service providers to be certificated. In this paper, we propose a decision support system aiming at further improvement and acceleration of the eco-labeling process in order to democratize a broader application and certification of eco-labels. This decision support system will be based upon a comprehensive knowledge base composed of various domain ontologies covering the whole life cycle of a product or service. Through continuous enrichment on the knowledge base in modular ontologies and by defing standard RDF and OWL format interfaces, the decision support system will stimulate domain knowledge sharing and have the interoperability to be applied into other practice.

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    https://www.blauer-engel.de/en.

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    http://www.globalecolabelling.net/.

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    http://www.w3.org/standards/semanticweb/.

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    http://www.w3.org/standards/semanticweb/data.

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  1. Laboratoire Génie de Production ENIT, Tarbes, France

    Da Xu, Hedi Karray & Bernard Archimède

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  1. Knowledge Raven Management GmbH, Berlin, Berlin, Germany

    Kai Mertins

  2. Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Caparica, Portugal

    Ricardo Jardim-Gonçalves

  3. Future Manufacturing Applied Research Ce, Coventry University, Coventry, United Kingdom

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  4. MEtRICs/Dep.Eng.Mecânica, Universidade do Minho, Guimaraes, Portugal

    João P. Mendonça

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Xu, D., Karray, H., Archimède, B. (2016). Towards an Interoperable Decision Support Platform for Eco-labeling Process. In: Mertins, K., Jardim-Gonçalves, R., Popplewell, K., Mendonça, J. (eds) Enterprise Interoperability VII. Proceedings of the I-ESA Conferences, vol 8. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-30957-6_19

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