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Fuzzy Cognitive Maps

Advances in Theory, Methodologies, Tools and Applications

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  • Contains the theory of fuzzy cognitive mapping and for the first time a methodology of constructing and linking fuzzy cognitive maps to be used in management and business process reengineering for performance measurement purposes
  • Contains a software tool that can be used for designing and simulating FCMs that can be linked and simulated as an integrated project
  • Written by experts in the field

Part of the book series: Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing (STUDFUZZ, volume 247)

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Table of contents (17 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

  2. Expert-Based and Computational Methods for Developing Fuzzy Cognitive Maps

    • Wojciech Stach, Lukasz Kurgan, Witold Pedrycz
    Pages 23-41
  3. The FCM Designer Tool

    • Aguilar Jose, José Contreras
    Pages 71-87
  4. Fuzzy Cognitive Networks: Adaptive Network Estimation and Control Paradigms

    • Thodoris L. Kottas, Yiannis S. Boutalis, Manoli A. Christodoulou
    Pages 89-134
  5. Modeling of Operative Risk Using Fuzzy Expert Systems

    • Santiago Medina Hurtado
    Pages 135-159
  6. Fuzzy Cognitive Maps in Banking Business Process Performance Measurement

    • George Xirogiannis, Michael Glykas, Christos Staikouras
    Pages 161-200
  7. Software Reliability Modelling Using Fuzzy Cognitive Maps

    • Panagiotis Chytas, Michael Glykas, George Valiris
    Pages 217-230
  8. Fuzzy Cognitive Networks for Maximum Power Point Tracking in Photovoltaic Arrays

    • Thodoris L. Kottas, Athanasios D. Karlis, Yiannis S. Boutalis
    Pages 231-257
  9. Fuzzy Cognitive Maps Applied to Computer Vision Tasks

    • Gonzalo Pajares, María Guijarro, P. Javier Herrera, José J. Ruz, Jesús M. de la Cruz
    Pages 259-289
  10. Classifying Patterns Using Fuzzy Cognitive Maps

    • G. A. Papakostas, D. E. Koulouriotis
    Pages 291-306
  11. Back Matter

About this book

This important edited volume is the first such book ever published on fuzzy cognitive maps (FCMs). Professor Michael Glykas has done an exceptional job in bringing together and editing its seventeen chapters. The volume appears nearly a quarter century after my original article “Fuzzy Cognitive Maps” appeared in the International Journal of Man-Machine Studies in 1986. The volume accordingly reflects many years of research effort in the development of FCM theory and applications—and portends many more decades of FCM research and applications to come. FCMs are fuzzy feedback models of causality. They combine aspects of fuzzy logic, neural networks, semantic networks, expert systems, and nonlinear dynamical systems. That rich structure endows FCMs with their own complexity and lets them apply to a wide range of problems in engineering and in the soft and hard sciences. Their partial edge connections allow a user to directly represent causality as a matter of degree and to learn new edge strengths from training data. Their directed graph structure allows forward or what-if inferencing. FCM cycles or feedback paths allow for complex nonlinear dynamics. Control of FCM nonlinear dynamics can in many cases let the user encode and decode concept patterns as fixed-point attractors or limit cycles or perhaps as more exotic dynamical equilibria. These global equilibrium patterns are often “hidden” in the nonlinear dynamics. The user will not likely see these global patterns by simply inspecting the local causal edges or nodes of large FCMs.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Aegean, Chios, Greece

    Michael Glykas

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Hardcover Book USD 169.99
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