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A Conceptual Framework of Intelligent System for Environmental Life Cycle Costing

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The Environmental Life Cycle Costing (ELCC) is a novel technique used to calculate all the costs associated with the existence of a product or a service, including the external environmental costs which are not included in a traditional Life Cycle Costing (LCC). The aim of the chapter was to develop a conceptual framework of the Intelligent System for ELCC calculations based on the analysis of the methodology of ELCC calculation in selected papers from recent years. The conducted analysis showed that there are many differences in ELCC calculating methodology and that there is a need to unify it with the use of an integrated information system in order to create the possibility to compare the ELCCs of different products or services.

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The project is financed by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education in Poland under the programme “Regional Initiative of Excellence” 2019–2022 project number 015/RID/2018/19 total funding amount 10,721,040.00 PLN.

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  1. Wroclaw University of Economics and Business, Komandorska 118/120, 53-345, Wrocław, Poland

    Ewa Walaszczyk, Marcin Hernes, Alicja Dolińska, Andrzej Dudek, Krzysztof Nowosielski, Zdzisław Kes, Katarzyna Kuziak & Łukasz Łysik

  2. Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, Førde, Norway

    Marcin Fojcik

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Walaszczyk, E. et al. (2020). A Conceptual Framework of Intelligent System for Environmental Life Cycle Costing. In: Hernes, M., Rot, A., Jelonek, D. (eds) Towards Industry 4.0 — Current Challenges in Information Systems. Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol 887. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-40417-8_5

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