Developing a decision-making framework for optimal marine oil spill waste management and treatment
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This research explores estimating off-shore oily waste, considering waste-waste compatibility due to the heterogeneous nature of oily waste. Firstly, hyperparameters for Artificial Neural Networks (ANN), Support Vector Regression (SVR), and Improved Random Forest (IRF) models are optimized to develop a comprehensive oily waste estimation model incorporating liquid, solid, and total waste types. The results show that IRF is the most accurate model, with the lowest error indices and a higher correlation coefficient compared to ANN and SVR. This study then takes a step further to propose a waste allocation framework, which is tested using information on the Bella Bella oil spill incident in British Columbia. Incorporating treatment and receiving facilities' details, such as their location and capacity, the framework distinguishes all possible waste pathways for handling the waste from source to landfill. Genetic Algorithm (GA) is introduced to optimize waste transfer processes and successfully minimize transportation costs. The results show that the model can find the most optimized path to reduce transportation costs. The model's high customization, adaptability, and capacity to consider multiple nodes make it suitable for complex waste transfer networks, demonstrating its practicality in emergency situations. Efficiently allocating resources and ensuring cost-effective waste transportation while considering facility capacities and waste compatibility, the study holds practical implications for waste management practitioners, environmental authorities, and response teams.,
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
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