Disrupting the Ecosystem: Shifting the Paradigm in Circular Economy with Business Analytics
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Economic and Business Aspects of Sustainability".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 June 2023) | Viewed by 2243
Special Issue Editors
Interests: process mining; machine learning; geospatial analytics
Interests: machine learning; network analytics; marketing analytics
Interests: machine learning; marketing analytics; social network analytics
Interests: statistical data science; actuarial sciences; fraud and anomaly detection; reserving; high-dimensional analysis; robust statistics; deep learning
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
All across the globe, policy makers, organizations, customers, and the general public are becoming increasingly aware of the necessity of sustainable development. The concept of a circular economy forms a cornerstone towards reaching this goal, describing a closed loop in which products, raw materials, and intermediate goods lose their value as little as possible through means of reducing their use, as well as increasing reuse and recycling. Obviously, this gives rise to a lot of synergies across different scientific fields, including economy, engineering, management, political sciences, and many others. In this Special Issue of Sustainability, we invite works that zoom into the possible relationships between business analytics and the circular economy, from a broad perspective, including managerial systems and applied viewpoints. This includes, amongst others, the application of machine learning and predictive modelling towards supporting and improving sustainable supply chains, product design, production process improvements, applications of analytics in the domain of renewable energy and predictive maintenance, and analytics for footprint reduction. Contributions exploring a holistic angle focusing on the relationship between business analytics and the circular economy are also welcomed.
We look forward to receiving your contributions.
Prof. Dr. Seppe vanden Broucke
Prof. Dr. María Óskarsdóttir
Prof. Dr. Matthias Bogaert
Prof. Dr. Tim Verdonck
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- circular economy
- sustainability
- renewable energy
- supply chain
- modular products
- recycling
- natural capital use
- machine learning
- artificial intelligence
- predictive modelling
- recommender systems
