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LCA is a methodology for evaluating and improving environmental impacts; it is well established in a theoretical way, however, has some practical problems such as 1) difficulties of transparent information acquisition from real-fields, 2) difficulty of transparent information exchange in value-chain, 3) difficulty of LCA methodology itself. Therefore, it is hard to get reliable LCI database reflecting the real situation, and derive the reliable LCA results. In this study, we propose the u-LCA concept for solving problems using ubiquitous computing technologies. To specify this, we develop the u-LCA conceptual framework by considering practical LCA problems as well as UbiDMR paradigm.
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Cha, JM., Suh, SH. (2011). Developing a Conceptual Framework for UT based LCA. In: Hesselbach, J., Herrmann, C. (eds) Glocalized Solutions for Sustainability in Manufacturing. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-19692-8_102
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