A Study on the Evaluation System of Green ICT Products

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This paper aims to provide a comprehensive evaluation system of green ICT products, in order to help improve ICT product innovation. Firstly, the impacts that ICT products have brought to the environment and society are analyzed. Secondly, based on the previous research on the green product evaluation system, and with the consideration of characteristics of ICT products, a framework of the evaluation system is established by selecting indicators covering three criteria---- environmental impact, technological utility and human pleasure. And then fuzzy analytical hierarchy process is used to quantify and normalize qualitative indicators and calculate the weights of criteria and indicators. Finally, the evaluation system is applied to a home computer as an example to verify the validity of it.

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Advanced Materials Research (Volumes 403-408)

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4061-4067

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November 2011

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