title: Identification of material flow systems.
abstract: Material Flow Analysis (MFA) has become an important instrument in environmental science and pollution research. In this paper, we look at the MFA problem as a particularly structured system identification problem. Special emphasis is given to the linear, static case, where we describe a procedure for reconciliating the flow measurements and for estimating the unmeasured flows and the transfer coefficients by taking into account a priori restrictions such as balance equations.
authors.affiliation: Institute for Econometrics, Operations Research and System Theory, Division for Econometrics and System Theory, University of Technology, Argentinierstr. 8, A-1040, Vienna, Austria.
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Bauer
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Deistler
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Gleiss
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Glenck
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Matyus