TY - GEN
T1 - Concurrent science, engineering and technology (ConSEnT) for biomass feedstock production decision support
AU - Liao, Yung Chen
AU - Rodriguez, Luis
AU - Shastri, Yogendra
AU - Hansen, Alan
AU - Ting, K. C.
PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - Concurrent Science, Engineering, and Technology (ConSEnT) approach was used to develop and implement a web-based environment for supporting decision making on the planning, design, management, and operation of biomass feedstock production and provision systems. ConSEnT is suitable for integrating and utilizing computational resources, such as databases, models, and user interfaces, in a real-time fashion to share information and results of analysis. This web-based decision support system, BPSys, is programmed in Java and integrates the functions provided from various software packages, Apache Http Server, Apache Tomcat, Drupal, MySQL database, and JFreeChart. The graphical user interface (GUI) of BPSys is a Java applet embedded in a web page executed on users' local machines and works as a front end. The GUI provides users easy access to biomass production scenario building tools, simulation/optimization models, and various forms of analyses and output from the models. This decision support system allows researchers and users to contribute and test the latest information about biomass production systems in a concurrent fashion. BPSys users can logon to this system anywhere via web browsers and select different scenarios, retrieve latest attributes from the database, modify attributes, execute latest models and save results through the GUI.
AB - Concurrent Science, Engineering, and Technology (ConSEnT) approach was used to develop and implement a web-based environment for supporting decision making on the planning, design, management, and operation of biomass feedstock production and provision systems. ConSEnT is suitable for integrating and utilizing computational resources, such as databases, models, and user interfaces, in a real-time fashion to share information and results of analysis. This web-based decision support system, BPSys, is programmed in Java and integrates the functions provided from various software packages, Apache Http Server, Apache Tomcat, Drupal, MySQL database, and JFreeChart. The graphical user interface (GUI) of BPSys is a Java applet embedded in a web page executed on users' local machines and works as a front end. The GUI provides users easy access to biomass production scenario building tools, simulation/optimization models, and various forms of analyses and output from the models. This decision support system allows researchers and users to contribute and test the latest information about biomass production systems in a concurrent fashion. BPSys users can logon to this system anywhere via web browsers and select different scenarios, retrieve latest attributes from the database, modify attributes, execute latest models and save results through the GUI.
KW - Biomass feedstock production
KW - Decision support system
KW - System analysis
KW - System informatics
KW - Web-based
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:81255188410
SN - 9781618391568
T3 - American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers Annual International Meeting 2011, ASABE 2011
SP - 1850
EP - 1875
BT - American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers Annual International Meeting 2011, ASABE 2011
PB - American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers
T2 - American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers Annual International Meeting 2011
Y2 - 7 August 2011 through 10 August 2011
ER -