Paper Info
Title
Design and evaluation of a model-driven decision support system for repurposing electric vehicle batteries
Abstract
The diffusion of electric vehicles suffers from immature and expensive battery technologies. Repurposing electric vehicle batteries for second-life application scenarios may lower the vehicles’ total costs of ownership and increases their ecologic sustainability. However, identifying the best – or even a feasible – scenario for which to repurpose a battery is a complex and unresolved decision problem. In this exaptation research, we set out to design, implement, and evaluate the first decision support system that aids decision-makers in the automobile industry with repurposing electric vehicle batteries. The exaptation is done by classifying decisions on repurposing products as bipartite matching problems and designing two binary integer linear programs that identify (a) all technical feasible assignments and (b) optimal assignments of products and scenarios. Based on an empirical study and expert interviews, we parameterize both binary integer linear programs for repurposing electric vehicle batteries. In a field experiment, we show that our decision support system considerably increases the decision quality in terms of hit rate, miss rate, precision, fallout, and accuracy. While practitioners can use the implemented decision support system when repurposing electric vehicle batteries, other researchers can build on our results to design decision support systems for repurposing further products.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.1057/s41303-017-0044-3
European Journal of Information Systems
Keywords
Field
DocType
model-driven decision support system, design science research, binary integer linear programming, bipartite matching problem, electric vehicle battery
Decision problem,Industrial engineering,Repurposing,Electric vehicle,Computer science,Simulation,Decision support system,Knowledge management,Electric-vehicle battery,Design science research,Decision quality,Automotive industry
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
27
2
1476-9344
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
4
0.37
22
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Benjamin Klör171.03
Markus Monhof2163.61
Daniel F. Beverungen321429.64
Sebastian Bräuer4142.96