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A Review of Fuzzy Cognitive Maps Research During the Last Decade
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This survey makes a review of the most recent applications and trends on fuzzy cognitive maps (FCMs) over the past decade, and summarizes the current state of knowledge of the topic of FCMs.Abstract:
This survey makes a review of the most recent applications and trends on fuzzy cognitive maps (FCMs) over the past decade. FCMs are inference networks, using cyclic digraphs, for knowledge representation and reasoning. Over the past decade, FCMs have gained considerable research interest and are widely used to analyze causal complex systems, which have originated from the combination of fuzzy logic and neural networks. FCMs have been applied in diverse application domains, such as computer science, engineering, environmental sciences, behavioral sciences, medicine, business, information systems, and information technology. Their dynamic characteristics and learning capabilities make them essential for a number of tasks such as modeling, analysis, decision making, forecast, etc. Overall, this paper summarizes the current state of knowledge of the topic of FCMs. It creates an understanding of the topic for the reader by discussing the findings presented in recent research papers. A survey on FCM studies concentrated on FCM applications on diverse scientific areas, where the FCMs emerged with a high degree of applicability, has also been done during the past ten years.read more
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Tools and methods in participatory modeling: Selecting the right tool for the job
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Using fuzzy cognitive mapping as a participatory approach to analyze change, preferred states, and perceived resilience of social-ecological systems
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A review on methods and software for fuzzy cognitive maps
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Fuzzy Cognitive Maps as Representations of Mental Models and Group Beliefs
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Development of a novel multiple-attribute decision making model via fuzzy cognitive maps and hierarchical fuzzy TOPSIS
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Fuzzy cognitive maps
TL;DR: A fuzzy causal algebra for governing causal propagation on FCMs is developed and it allows knowledge bases to be grown by connecting different FCMs.
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Genetic learning of fuzzy cognitive maps
TL;DR: This study proposes a novel learning method that is able to generate FCM models from input historical data, and without human intervention, based on genetic algorithms, and requires only a single state vector sequence as an input.
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Modeling complex systems using fuzzy cognitive maps
TL;DR: A mathematical description ofFCM is presented and a new methodology based on fuzzy logic techniques for developing the FCM is examined, and the applicability of FCM to model the supervisor of complex systems is discussed.
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Virtual worlds as fuzzy cognitive maps
Julie A. Dickerson,Bart Kosko +1 more
TL;DR: A simple but adaptive FCM is used to model an undersea virtual world of dolphins, fish, and sharks and changes their fuzzy causal web as causal patterns change and as actors act and experts state their causal knowledge.
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The potential of Fuzzy Cognitive Maps for semi-quantitative scenario development, with an example from Brazil
TL;DR: An example from the Brazilian Amazon shows that by including an integrated set of factors and feedbacks, Fuzzy Cognitive Maps can capture (future) dynamics of deforestation.