Identification of the strategic factors for the development of a new ICT-based biomass tool: the case of the BIOMAS platform
by Christos Stefanis; Eleni Kamateri; Maria Partalidou; Stelios Gargas; Orestis Zafiris; Kostas Nasias
International Journal of Sustainable Agricultural Management and Informatics (IJSAMI), Vol. 2, No. 2/3/4, 2016

Abstract: The biomass integrated online marketplace system or shortly BIOMAS is the outcome of the respective EU-funded project that aims to exploit the benefits of ICT in order to boost the biomass market. This study presents a SWOT analysis from an ICT perspective in an attempt to highlight the great potential of the BIOMAS and identify the economic impacts from the development of such a biomass trading system. The architecture of BIOMAS is based on a web-based platform that consists of a biomass supply chain management component and a marketplace component combined with an auctioning mechanism for biomass products. The main novelty behind BIOMAS is the creation of an integrated, online system that will: 1) facilitate the interactions and establishing of agreements between stakeholders in the biomass and agricultural sector; 2) support biomass service and product integration into new forms; 3) facilitate the cooperation between different biomass stakeholders to provide advanced services.

Online publication date: Tue, 31-Jan-2017

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